The story has been adapted for the screen many times, and the role of Quasimodo has been played by an accomplished roster of actors, including Lon Chaney Sr., Charles Laughton, Anthony Hopkins ...

Charles Laughton was born in 1899, ... It had certainly cost him a great deal: often, as with Quasimodo, he was in pain. More importantly, the emotional centre of his life had shifted.

Victor Hugo’s tale still resonates with audiences, and film versions from 1923 and 1939 would make for a captivating double feature.

Charles Laughton, as the witty and urbane Quasimodo, chews up all the scenery within reach in this 1939 version of Victor Hugo’s much-filmed novel. With Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell ...

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 ...

Laughton’s manager acquired the rights to “The Night of the Hunter,” a novel by first-time author Davis Grubb, mere months before it became a bestseller in 1954.

In the 1939 movie version, Charles Laughton’s Quasimodo defies the laws of physics by swinging down from the cathedral on a rope and rescuing Maureen O’Hara’s Esmerelda from the ...

Charles Laughton always took great pride in having discovered' Maureen O'Hara (who had debuted opposite him in Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn) and there's a genuine affinity between them in RKO's ...

Quasimodo, the lonely hunch-backed bell-ringer of Notre Dame cathedral, falls in love with Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy. Show more A classic of the cinema, with Charles Laughton under grotesquely ...

Jamaica Inn. Season 2024 Episode 39 | 1h 34m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. 1939 - Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. 11/23/2024 | Rating NR ...