Right before writing this column this morning, I watched the magnificent 1935 MGM version of Mutiny on the Bounty starring ...

In 1947 Charles Laughton's career, if not quite on the skids, was definitely in the doldrums. Long acclaimed as Hollywood's foremost character actor, he had made only one film of any artistic ...

Charles and I, Beatrix Lehmann, Alex Korda, and Alice Gachet, the five of us, got into a taxi and returned to our hotel and held a postmortem. We were wide-awake with relief, although we all had ...

Laughton had become a star playing Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), won the Best Actor Oscar the next year for The Private Life of Henry VIII, and would get another nomination ...

Wiki Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

Laughton’s work as an actor was well-recognized in his time, given he was active throughout the 1930s (including winning an Oscar for 1932’s The Private Life of Henry VIII) and into the early ...

With “The Night of the Hunter,” however, director Charles Laughton offers an invigorating break from such equivocating. The film—which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year—features ...