Charles Laughton Net Worth

Charles Laughton Net Worth is
$15 Million

Charles Laughton Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor and director.Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death; they had no children. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making a big impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on some of the most notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII.Among Laughton's biggest film-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed the acclaimed thriller The Night of the Hunter.Laughton has been seen by some actors as one of the greatest performers of his generation. Sir Daniel Day-Lewis has cited him as one of his inspirations, saying "He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time. He had something quite remarkable. His generosity as an actor, he fed himself into that work. As an actor, you cannot take your eyes off him."

Date Of Birth	July 1, 1899, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died	December 15, 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth	Victoria Hotel, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Height	5' 8" (1.73 m)
Profession	Actor, Writer, Soundtrack
Spouse	Elsa Lanchester (m. 1929–1962)
Star Sign	Cancer

Title	Salary
Island of Lost Souls (1932)	$2,250 per week

#	Quote
1	[on Gary Cooper] I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In truth, that boy hasn't the least idea how well he acts.
2	Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.
3	I have a face that would stop a sundial.
4	[on Robert Mitchum] All the tough talk is blind. He's a literate, gracious, kind man and he speaks beautifully - when he wants to. Bob would make the best Macbeth of any actor living.
5	Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.
6	It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant, I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.
7	I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
8	They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

#	Fact
1	After George Arliss he became the second British actor to win an Academy Award, but was the first to win for a British film (The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)).
2	Was Karen Dotrice's godfather.
3	During the filming of "Jamaica Inn" (1939), he allegedly became captivated by his teenage co-star Maureen O'Hara, who was introduced in the film, and even spoke about wanting to adopt her. His wife, Elsa Lanchester, later dismissed this as a passing whim and suggested that O'Hara had exploited his kindness in her ambition to get ahead (her first Hollywood film, later that same year, starred Laughton). Lanchester never tried to hide her dislike of O'Hara, famously saying of her that "she always looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else!"; in her memoirs, O'Hara made her dislike of Lanchester equally clear.
4	Is one of 13 actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a real-life king. The others in chronological order are Robert Morley for Marie Antoinette (1938), Basil Rathbone for If I Were King (1938), Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955), José Ferrer for Joan of Arc (1948), Yul Brynner for The King and I (1956), John Gielgud for Becket (1964), Peter O'Toole for Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Kenneth Branagh for Henry V (1989), Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (1994), and Colin Firth for The King's Speech (2010).
5	He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
6	Had appeared with his wife Elsa Lanchester in seven films: The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), Rembrandt (1936), The Beachcomber (1938), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Forever and a Day (1943), The Big Clock (1948) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
7	He has two roles in common with Derek Jacobi: (1) Laughton played the Roman Emperor Claudius in I, Claudius (1937) while Jacobi played him in I, Claudius (1976) and (2) Laughton played Gracchus in Spartacus (1960) while Jacobi played him in Gladiator (2000).
8	He played the Roman Emperor Nero in The Sign of the Cross (1932) and his great-uncle and predecessor Claudius in I, Claudius (1937).
9	Won an Oscar for playing King Henry VIII of England. Years later, Robert Shaw would be nominated for playing the role, making them the first pair of actors to receive an Oscar nomination for playing the same part. A couple of years later Richard Burton would also be nominated for portraying Henry VIII making it the only part to get nominated for 3 Oscars. The first pair to actually win was Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro for playing Don Vito Corleone in the first two Godfather films. Other pairs included: José Ferrer (who won) and Gérard Depardieu (nominated) for playing Cyrano de Bergerac, Jason Robards and Leonardo DiCaprio (both nominated) for playing Howard Hughes, John Wayne (won) and Jeff Bridges (nominated) for playing Rooster Cogburn, and Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella (both nominated) for playing former President Richard Nixon.
10	He was, so far, the only actor to receive an Academy Award for playing King Henry VIII of England.
11	He played a Navy Captain whose crew mutinies against him in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Appropriately, he went on to direct another story about a Captain with a mutinous crew, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial".
12	Was the first choice to play Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (1938) which he turned down, however. Leslie Howard was cast instead.
13	He and his wife were both active in liberal politics.
14	He was diagnosed with cancer of the gall bladder in January 1962 after being hospitalized with a collapsed vertebrae following a fall in the bath. Over the course of his final eleven months, his weight dropped to just ninety pounds.
15	He was close friends with Burgess Meredith.
16	In later years, he was frequently accused by the critics of having a tendency to ham, although he remained a popular star.
17	Was the original choice to play the role of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). He turned down the role, saying he did not know how to play it convincingly as he did not understand the motivations of the character. He said he only understood the character after seeing the completed film and Alec Guinness' performance.
18	Was director-writer Billy Wilder's first choice to play the character of Moustache in Irma la Douce (1963). Laughton, who had been directed to a Best Actor Oscar nomination by Wilder in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) in 1958, agreed to play the role, but died before principal photography commenced.
19	Was the first actor to play Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, in the aborted film version of Robert Graves' I, Claudius (1937). Production was suspended after Laughton's co-star Merle Oberon, playing his wife Messalina, was involved in an automobile accident in which she crashed through the car's windshield and sustained cuts to her face. The decision was made to shut down the production and the costs were reimbursed to producer Alexander Korda's London Films by Lloyds of London.
20	Had appeared on the cover of the March 31, 1952 issue of Time magazine, which was reporting on his tour of the stage production of the "Don Juan in Hell" episode from George Bernard Shaw's 1903 play "Man and Superman". The famous episode, which is part of the third act of the four-act drama, has often been played as its own show. In Laughton's production, he played the character of The Devil. According to the Time cover story, entitled "The Happy Ham", the touring show had already raked in a gross profit in excess of $1 million ($1.00 equaling approximately $8.00 in 2008 money, when factored for inflation) by the time he was due to make his third appearance in the show in New York City, at the time the article appeared. The article also reported that during a hiatus in the tour, Laughton launched a separate, six-week-long solo tour in which he gave readings from "Aesop's Fables", the Bible and Charles Dickens. The solo tour grossed $164,000, or which his share was $90,000. The article quoted Laughton as saying, "Contrary to what I'd been told in the entertainment industry, people everywhere have a common shy hunger for literature.".
21	Laughton was originally cast as Micawber in David Copperfield (1935), but resigned after two days of shooting. It was said at the time that "he looked as though he were about to molest the child" (played by Freddie Bartholomew).
22	He was twice was the Mystery Guest on the popular television quiz show What's My Line (1951).
23	He had always wanted to play Lear in the stage production of "King Lear" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, but he passed away before the play was ever staged. However, he did play Lear on the stage.
24	He was shooting a Hollywood version of the H.G. Wells novel "The History of Mr. Polly", playing the title role, when war broke out in 1939 and production was abandoned.
25	Became an agnostic after his experiences as a soldier during World War I.
26	He was very disappointed by the commercial failure of The Night of the Hunter (1955).
27	Was the stand-in for Ed Sullivan for Elvis Presley's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in 1956. His wife Elsa Lanchester later had a small role in Elvis' movie Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).
28	Served during World War I. In spite of having Public School education and Officer Training (in Stonyhurst College's OTC), he chose to join the Army as a private in 1917. He served with the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Regiment, and later with 7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment in the Western Front. Shortly before the armistice he became a casualty due to mustard gas.
29	In a memoir written after his death, Laughton's widow, Elsa Lanchester, stated they never had children because he was homosexual. However, according to Maureen O'Hara, Laughton once told her that not having children was his biggest regret, and that it was because Elsa could not bear children as a result of an botched abortion she had early in her career while performing burlesque. Lanchester admitted becoming pregnant by Laughton and aborting the child in her autobiography.
30	Discovered actress Maureen O'Hara at age 18 and immediately signed her under contract as his protégée.
31	He greatly disliked children. Because of his disdain for them and the fact that he had to work with them in The Night of the Hunter (1955), most of the scenes with the children were directed by star Robert Mitchum, who had three children of his own.
32	In the opening scene of It Started with Eve (1941), an assistant newspaper editor comments that if Jonathan Reynolds Sr. had lived two centuries earlier, he would have made a great pirate - "Captain Kidd himself". Three years later, Laughton, who played Jonathan Reynolds Sr., played the title role in Captain Kidd (1945) and again in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952).
33	After making Island of Lost Souls (1932), Laughton humorously claimed that he could not go to a zoo for the rest of his life. He based the appearance of his character, Dr. Moreau, on his dentist. His character had to use a whip in the film to tame his "creations", but Laughton already knew how to use one, having learned from a London street performer for an earlier stage role.
34	Was an acquaintance of Rev. Felton H. Griffin, a pioneering Alaska minister who founded the Alaska Baptist Convention in the 1940s. Griffin was an avid hunter and fisherman, and on occasion, he flew Laughton to his cabin at Coal Lake, Alaska for weekend retreats.
35	A highly regarded drama teacher, whose students included Albert Finney and William Phipps, Laughton would play Billie Holiday records for his students as an illustration of vocal inflection techniques.
36	Gave highly successful one-man reading tours for many years, his material ranging from the Bible to Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums".
37	Although he directed only one film, The Night of the Hunter (1955), Laughton was a prolific stage director, staging the original Broadway productions of George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" (in which he also appeared), Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" and Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body".
38	Became a United States citizen in 1950.
39	For the film Advise & Consent (1962), Laughton based his character of Sen. Seab Cooley on real-life Mississippi Sen. John C. Stennis, and went so far as to have Stennis read the character's lines into a tape recorder so he could get Stennis' accent and rhythms the way he wanted them.
40	Robert Mitchum once stated that Laughton was the best director he had ever worked for, ironic in that Laughton never directed another movie after The Night of the Hunter (1955) with Mitchum.
41	In the 1928 play "Alibi", he became the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot.
42	Following his death, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles, California, in the Court of Remembrance.

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Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Advise & Consent	1962		Senator Seabright Cooley
Checkmate	1961	TV Series	Reverend Wister
Wagon Train	1960	TV Series	Colonel Albert Farnsworth
Spartacus	1960		Gracchus
Under Ten Flags	1960		Admiral Russell
Playhouse 90	1960	TV Series	Rabbi Adam Heller
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial	1959	TV Series
General Electric Theater	1957-1959	TV Series	M. Hamel / Henry Denry / Edwin Kensington
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1959	TV Movie	Nick Bottom
Studio 57	1958	TV Series	Charles Claxton
Witness for the Prosecution	1957		Sir Wilfrid Roberts
Ford Star Jubilee	1956	TV Series	Narrator
Hobson's Choice	1954		Henry Hobson
Young Bess	1953		King Henry VIII
Salome	1953		King Herod
This Is Charles Laughton	1953	TV Series	Host (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd	1952		Capt. William Kidd
O. Henry's Full House	1952		Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
The Strange Door	1951		Sire Alain de Maletroit
The Blue Veil	1951		Fred K. Begley
The Man on the Eiffel Tower	1949		Inspector Jules Maigret
The Bribe	1949		J.J. Bealer
The Girl from Manhattan	1948		The Bishop
The Big Clock	1948		Earl Janoth
Arch of Triumph	1948		Ivon Haake
On Our Merry Way	1948		Reverend John B. Dunne (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
Leben des Galilei	1947	Short	Galileo Galilei
The Paradine Case	1947		Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Because of Him	1946		John Sheridan
Captain Kidd	1945		Capt. William Kidd
The Suspect	1944		Philip
The Canterville Ghost	1944		Sir Simon de Canterville The Ghost
Passport to Destiny	1944		Photo of Sergeant Major Henry Albert Muggins (uncredited)
The Man from Down Under	1943		Jocko Wilson
This Land Is Mine	1943		Albert Lory
Forever and a Day	1943		Bellamy - Dexter's Butler
Stand by for Action	1942		Rear Adm. Stephen Thomas
Tales of Manhattan	1942		Charles Smith
The Tuttles of Tahiti	1942		Jonas
It Started with Eve	1941		Jonathan Reynolds
They Knew What They Wanted	1940		Tony Patucci
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1939		The Hunchback Quasimodo
Jamaica Inn	1939		Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Sidewalks of London	1938		Charles Staggers
The Beachcomber	1938		Ginger Ted' Wilson
I, Claudius	1937		Claudius
Rembrandt	1936		Rembrandt
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935		Bligh
Les Misérables	1935		Inspector Javert
Ruggles of Red Gap	1935		Ruggles
The Barretts of Wimpole Street	1934		Edward Moulton-Barrett
White Woman	1933		Horace H. Prin
The Private Life of Henry VIII.	1933		Henry VIII
Island of Lost Souls	1932		Dr. Moreau
The Sign of the Cross	1932		Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
If I Had a Million	1932		Phineas V. Lambert
Payment Deferred	1932		William Marble
The Old Dark House	1932		Sir William Porterhouse
Devil and the Deep	1932		Cmdr. Charles Sturm
Down River	1931		Captain Grossman
Wolves	1930		Captain Job
Piccadilly	1929		A Nightclub Diner
Blue Bottles	1928	Short	Burglar
Daydreams	1928	Short	Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
The Tonic	1928	Short	Father of the Family

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show	1957-1961	TV Series performer - 3 episodes
Startime	1960	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd	1952	performer: "Meet Captain Kidd"
The Canterville Ghost	1944	"Gertie from Bizerte" 1943, uncredited
Tales of Manhattan	1942	performer: "Bacchanale Moderne" - uncredited
One in a Million	1936	"Horror Boys of Hollywood" 1936
The Old Dark House	1932	performer: "The Roast Beef of Old England" - uncredited

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Galileo	1975	English translation of play
Festival	1964	TV Series English Translation of Play - 1 episode
Galileo	1961	TV Movie english adaptation
The Night of the Hunter	1955	screenplay contributor - uncredited
Leben des Galilei	1947	Short translation
Sidewalks of London	1938	writer

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Jamaica Inn	1939	producer - uncredited
Sidewalks of London	1938	producer - uncredited
The Beachcomber	1938	producer

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Night of the Hunter	1955
The Man on the Eiffel Tower	1949	uncredited

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ford Star Jubilee	1955	TV Series director - 1 episode

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk	2014	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself (film) / Himself
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show	1957-1961	TV Series	Himself - Actor / Singer
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	1959-1961	TV Series	Himself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1958-1960	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Startime	1960	TV Series	Himself - Co-Host
What's My Line?	1956-1960	TV Series	Himself - Mystery Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show	1949-1960	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest Host
The Eddie Fisher Show	1957-1958	TV Series	Himself
The George Gobel Show	1957-1958	TV Series	Himself
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series	Himself
Chelsea at Nine	1957	TV Series	Himself
Washington Square	1956	TV Series	Himself
The Jimmy Durante Show	1956	TV Series	Himself - Actor
Producers' Showcase	1956	TV Series	Himself - Host
Christmas Eve with Charles Laughton	1955	TV Movie	Himself
The Jackie Gleason Show	1953	TV Series	Himself
This Is Charles Laughton	1953	TV Series	Himself - Host
News of the Day	1952	Documentary short	Himself
The Colgate Comedy Hour	1952	TV Series	Himself - Actor
The Kate Smith Evening Hour	1951	TV Series	Himself
The Ed Wynn Show	1950	TV Series	Himself
The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue	1949	TV Series	Himself
The Cavalcade of Academy Awards from 1928-1939	1940	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 11	1935	Documentary short	Himself
Comets	1930		Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance		Documentary pre-production	Himself
Time to Remember	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	2009	TV Series documentary	Sir William Porterhouse
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	2009	TV Movie documentary
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Naked Archaeologist	2008	TV Series documentary	Captain Kidd
Strictly Courtroom	2008	TV Movie documentary	Sir Wilfrid Robarts (uncredited)
Spisok korabley	2008	Documentary	Bligh
Ciclo Agatha Christie	2006	TV Series documentary	Himself
Biography	2001	TV Series documentary	Himself
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'	1999	Video documentary short
Universal Horror	1998	TV Movie documentary
American Masters	1995	TV Series documentary
Moving Pictures	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood	1995	TV Mini-Series documentary	Henry VIII / A Nightclub Diner
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld	1994	TV Movie documentary
The Our Gang Story	1994	Video documentary	Himself
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	1991	Documentary	actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (uncredited)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic	1990	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Best of Gleason 3	1989	TV Movie	Himself
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	1983	Documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	1982		The Fat One Who Sweats a Lot
The Horror Show	1979	TV Movie documentary
Hollywood Greats	1978	TV Series documentary
That's Action	1977	Documentary	Himself
The Great Radio Comedians	1972	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Night Gallery	1971	TV Series	Dr. Moreau in 'Island of Lost Souls' clips
Film Review	1968	TV Mini-Series	Quasimodo
The Epic That Never Was	1965	TV Movie documentary	Claudius
The Ed Sullivan Show	1958-1963	TV Series	Himself
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Himself
MGM Parade	1955	TV Series	Captain William Bligh
History Brought to Life	1950	Documentary short	Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)
The Art Director	1949	Documentary short	Himself - edited from 'The Big Clock' (uncredited)
Some of the Best	1943	Documentary	Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2007	OFTA Film Hall of Fame	Online Film & Television Association	Acting
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
1958	David	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
1936	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actor	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
1934	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Leading Role	The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1963	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actor	Advise & Consent (1962)
1959	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actor	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
1958	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
1958	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor - Drama	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
1936	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

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Charles Laughton Net Worth

Charles Laughton Net Worth is
$15 Million