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Charles Laughton

1899 - 1962

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Charles Laughton (; 1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British and American actor. He was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. Over his career he received an Academy Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He earned a motion star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Laughton is the 571st most popular actor (down from 505th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 629th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Actor.

Charles Laughton was a British actor who was most famous for playing Quasimodo in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Among actors, Charles Laughton ranks 571 out of 13,578. Before him are Jennifer Connelly, James Gandolfini, Jacques Perrin, Vyjayanthimala Bali, Pamela Anderson, and Carroll O'Connor. After him are Sylva Koscina, Lee Strasberg, Cillian Murphy, Linda Hunt, Emmy Göring, and Bette Midler.

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Among people born in 1899, Charles Laughton ranks 43. Before him are Ferhat Abbas, Erwin Bowien, Gloria Swanson, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Charles Best, and Emma Morano. After him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Jean Moulin, James Cagney, Lucio Fontana, P. L. Travers, and Ramon Novarro. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Laughton ranks 26. Before him are Fritz Kreisler, Michael Curtiz, Vasily Stalin, Natalia Goncharova, Bruno Walter, and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. After him are Alfred Cortot, Ronald Fisher, Shunroku Hata, Georgios Papanikolaou, Hans Lammers, and Therese Neumann.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Laughton ranks 804 out of 8,785. Before him are Malcolm Young (1953), John Surtees (1934), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), Julian Barnes (1946), Annie Lennox (1954), and Michael Powell (1905). After him are Dua Lipa (1995), Oliver Smithies (1925), Martin Evans (1941), Ian Paice (1948), Ronald Fisher (1890), and Wentworth Miller (1972).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Charles Laughton ranks 89. Before him are Ray Stevenson (1964), Richard Griffiths (1947), Bill Nighy (1949), Gerard Butler (1969), Derek Jacobi (1938), and Jean Simmons (1929). After him are Wentworth Miller (1972), Stephen Graham (1973), Brian Cox (1946), Sean Bean (1959), Glenda Jackson (1936), and Thandie Newton (1972).

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