Charles Laughton
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DOB
1 July 1899, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
1 July 1899, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
DOD
15 December 1962, Hollywood, California, USA (cancer of the gall bladder)
15 December 1962, Hollywood, California, USA (cancer of the gall bladder)
Height
5' 8"
5' 8"
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Filmography
Actor:
1. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) .... Man in...2. That's Action (1977) .... Himself
3. Head (1968) .... Himself, Actor in clip from...
4. Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963) .......
5. Advise & Consent (1962) .... Senator...
Trivia
- Interred at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Court of Remembrance.
- In the 1928 play "Alibi" he became the first actor to play Agatha Christies detective Hercule Poirot.
- Robert Mitchum once stated that Laughton was the best director he had ever worked for, ironic in that Laughton never directed another movie after Night of the Hunter, The (1955) with Mitchum.
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