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Charles Laughton Acting Filmography (73)

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014·Self (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014·Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009·Self (archive footage)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999·Self (archive footage)
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994·Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991·actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982·(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982·Self (archive footage)
The Horror Show
1979·(archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972·Self (archive footage)
The Epic That Never Was
1969·Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
Advise & Consent
1962·Senator Seabright Cooley
Spartacus
1960·Sempronius Gracchus
Under Ten Flags
1960·Admiral Russell
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960·Rabbi Adam Heller
Witness for the Prosecution
1957·Sir Wilfrid
Hobson's Choice
1954·Henry Horatio Hobson
Salome
1953·King Herod
Young Bess
1953·King Henry VIII
O. Henry's Full House
1952·Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952·Capt. William Kidd
The Strange Door
1951·Sire Alain de Maletroit
The Blue Veil
1951·Fred K. Begley
The Bribe
1949·J.J. Bealer
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949·Inspector Jules Maigret
The Art Director
1949·Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arch of Triumph
1948·Ivon Haake
The Big Clock
1948·Earl Janoth
The Girl from Manhattan
1948·The Bishop
On Our Merry Way
1948·Reverend
The Paradine Case
1947·Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Leben des Galilei
1947·Galileo Galilei
Because of Him
1946·John Sheridan
The Suspect
1945·Philip Marshall
Captain Kidd
1945·Captain Kidd
The Canterville Ghost
1944·Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
Forever and a Day
1943·Bellamy
This Land Is Mine
1943·Albert Lory
The Man from Down Under
1943·Jocko Wilson
Tales of Manhattan
1942·Charles Smith
Stand by for Action
1942·Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942·Jonas
It Started with Eve
1941·Jonathan Reynolds
They Knew What They Wanted
1940·Tony Patucci
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940·Self
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939·The Hunchback Quasimodo
Jamaica Inn
1939·Sir Humphrey Pengallan
St. Martin's Lane
1938·Charles Staggers
Vessel of Wrath
1938·Ginger Ted
I, Claudius
1937·Claudius
Rembrandt
1936·Rembrandt van Rijn
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935·Captaine Bligh
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935·Marmaduke Ruggles
Les Misérables
1935·Inspector Emile Javert
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934·Edward Moulton-Barrett
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933·Henry VIII
White Woman
1933·Horace H. Prin
The Clerk
1933·Phineas V. Lambert
Island of Lost Souls
1932·Dr. Moreau
The Old Dark House
1932·Sir William Porterhouse
Payment Deferred
1932·William Marble
The Sign of the Cross
1932·Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
Devil and the Deep
1932·Cmdr. Charles Sturm
If I Had a Million
1932·Phineas V. Lambert
Down River
1931·Captain Grossman
Comets
1930·Himself
Wolves
1930·Captain Job
Piccadilly
1929·A Continental Visitor
Blue Bottles
1928·Burglar
Daydreams
1928·Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
The Tonic
1928·Father of the Family