Charles Laughton filmography

These are the films of Charles Laughton:

Filmography

Unless otherwise stated the films are U.S. productions in black and white.

1928–1940

Year	Title	Role	Director	Co-stars	Notes and awards
1928	The Tonic	Father of the Family	Ivor Montagu	Elsa Lanchester	Filmed in England Short, (film debut)
	Daydreams	Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence	Ivor Montagu	Elsa Lanchester	Filmed in England Short
	Blue Bottles	Burglar	Ivor Montagu	Elsa Lanchester	Filmed in England Short
1929	Piccadilly	A Nightclub Diner	Ewald André Dupont	Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, Cyril Ritchard	Filmed in England
1930	Comets	Himself	Sasha Geneen	Elsa Lanchester	Filmed in England
1930	Wolves	Captain Job	Albert de Courville	Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen	Filmed in England
1931	Down River	Captain Grossman	Peter Godfrey	Jane Baxter	Filmed in England
1932	Devil and the Deep	Commander Charles Sturm	Marion Gering	Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant
	The Old Dark House	Sir William Porterhouse	James Whale	Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart
	Payment Deferred	William Marble	Lothar Mendes	Maureen O'Sullivan, Veree Teasdale, Ray Milland
	If I Had A Million	Phineas V. Lambert	multiple^I	Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, George Raft, Jack Oakie
	The Sign of the Cross	Emperor Nero	Cecil B. DeMille	Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Ian Keith
	Island of Lost Souls	Dr. Moreau	Erle C. Kenton	Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke
1933	The Private Life of Henry VIII	King Henry VIII	Alexander Korda	Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Donat	Filmed in England Academy Award for Best Actor
1933	White Woman	Horace H. Prin	Stuart Walker	Carole Lombard, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Percy Kilbride
1934	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Edward Moulton-Barrett	Sidney Franklin	Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander
1935	Ruggles of Red Gap	Marmaduke Ruggles	Leo McCarey	Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams
	Les Misérables	Inspector Javert	Richard Boleslawski	Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, John Beal, Frances Drake
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Captain William Bligh	Frank Lloyd	Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actor
1936	Rembrandt	Rembrandt van Rijn	Alexander Korda	Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester	Filmed in England
1937	I, Claudius	Claudius	Josef von Sternberg	Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, Merle Oberon	Unfinished and abandoned
1938	Vessel of Wrath	Ginger "Ted" Wilson	Erich Pommer	Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton	Produced by Laughton Filmed in England Released in the United States as The Beachcomber
1938	St. Martin's Lane	Charles Staggers	Tim Whelan	Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler, Tyrone Guthrie	Produced by Laughton Filmed in England Released in the United States as Sidewalks of London
1939	Jamaica Inn	Sir Humphrey Pengallan	Alfred Hitchcock	Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks	Produced by Laughton Filmed in England;
1939	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Quasimodo	William Dieterle	Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien
1940	They Knew What They Wanted	Tony Patucci	Garson Kanin	Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Frank Fay

^I Directed by James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog

1941–1949

Year	Title	Role	Director	Co-stars	Notes and awards
1941	It Started with Eve	Jonathan Reynolds	Henry Koster	Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee
1942	The Tuttles of Tahiti	Jonas Tuttle	Charles Vidor	Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen
	Tales of Manhattan	Charles Smith	Julien Duvivier	Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda
	Stand By for Action	Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas	Robert Z. Leonard	Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Marilyn Maxwell
1943	Forever and a Day	Bellamy (Dexter's Butler)	multiple^II	Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young, Ray Milland, Jessie Matthews, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Elsa Lanchester
	This Land is Mine	Albert Lory	Jean Renoir	Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith
	The Man From Down Under	Jocko Wilson	Robert Z. Leonard	Binnie Barnes, Donna Reed, Richard Carlson
1944	Passport to Destiny	Sergeant Major Henry Albert Muggins (photo)	Ray McCarey	Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert	Uncredited
	The Canterville Ghost	Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost	Jules Dassin Norman Taurog	Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Una O'Connor, Reginald Owen
	The Suspect	Philip Marshall	Robert Siodmak	Ella Raines, Henry Daniell
1945	Captain Kidd	Captain William Kidd	Rowland V. Lee	Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Reginald Owen, Gilbert Roland
1946	Because of Him	John Sheridan	Richard Wallace	Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges
1947	The Paradine Case	Judge Lord Thomas Horfield	Alfred Hitchcock	Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Ethel Barrymore
1947	Leben des Galilei	Galileo Galilei	Ray McCarey	Hugo Haas	Collaborated on the translation of the play by Bertolt Brecht. A 30-minute 'short'. Short
1948	A Miracle Can Happen (replaced by On Our Merry Way)	Reverend John B. Dunne	King Vidor	James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard	Laughton's scenes cut in American release; replaced by Lamour sequence
	Arch of Triumph	Ivon Haake	Lewis Milestone	Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern, Michael Romanoff, J. Edward Bromberg
	The Big Clock	Earl Janoth	John Farrow	Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson
	The Girl from Manhattan	The Bishop	Alfred E. Green	Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Ernest Truex, Hugh Herbert
1949	The Bribe	J.J. Bealer	Robert Z. Leonard	Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Vincent Price, John Hodiak
1949	The Man on the Eiffel Tower	Inspector Jules Maigret	Burgess Meredith Charles Laughton Irving Allen	Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Jean Wallace	Anscocolor

^II Directed by René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox

1951–1962

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Co-stars	Notes and awards
1951	The Blue Veil	Fred K. Begley	Curtis Bernhardt	Jane Wyman, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead
1951	The Strange Door	Sire Alain de Maletroit	Joseph Pevney	Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Michael Pate
1952	O. Henry's Full House	Soapy	Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Jean Negulesco and Henry Koster	Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen	(segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952	Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd	Capt. William Kidd	Charles Lamont	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke	SuperCinecolor
1953	Salome	King Herod	William Dieterle	Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel	Technicolor
1953	Young Bess	King Henry VIII	George Sidney	Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Kay Walsh	Technicolor
1954	Hobson's Choice	Henry Horatio Hobson	David Lean	John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales	Filmed in England
1955	The Night of the Hunter	—	Charles Laughton	Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves	Directed by Laughton
1957	Witness for the Prosecution	Sir Wilfrid Robarts	Billy Wilder	Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
1960	Sotto dieci bandiere	Admiral Russell	Duilio Coletti	Van Heflin, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker	Filmed in Italy Released in the United States as Under Ten Flags
1960	Spartacus	Sempronius Gracchus	Stanley Kubrick	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov	Super Technirama 70 Technicolor
1962	Advise & Consent	Sen. Seabright Cooley	Otto Preminger	Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor (final film role)

References

Charles Laughton at IMDb
Charles Laughton at the TCM Movie Database
Charles Laughton at the Internet Broadway Database
Charles Laughton at the BFI's Screenonline

v t e Charles Laughton filmography
Director	The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950, uncredited) The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Producer	Vessel of Wrath (1938) St. Martin's Lane (1938, co-writer) Jamaica Inn (1939)