Charles Laughton Biography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

In 1955, director Charles Laughton crafted one of the darkest, strangest fairytales ever to come out of Hollywood.

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, ...