In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson cuts the career of larger-than-life English actor Charles Laughton into conveniently bite-sized, dismissible chunks, noting that many of ...

The Strange Door, though, is all about Charles Laughton, whose lip-smacking portrayal of the villain, Sire Alain de Maletroit, is one of his fruitiest. Few directors could rein in Laughton when he’d ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Charles Laughton: Arts and ...

Classic Hollywood during the studio system era (roughly 1925-55) is associated with glamorous images of beautiful women and handsome men like Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, and Errol Flynn, ...

Charles Laughton thinks that the modern world has been brought up to look rather than to listen. This week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers ...

AT the moment the item of actual interest to us movie people is the screen appearance of Charles Laughton. When he crossed over from London to give us “Payment Deferred” last fall he contributed one ...