They both received Academy Award nominations for their performances in Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) — Laughton for Best Actor, and Lanchester for Best Supporting Actress — but neither won.

She then had another substantial part when she appeared again with her husband in the screen version of Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) for which both received Academy Award nominations-she for the second time as Best Supporting Actress, and Laughton, also for the second time, for Best Actor.

Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda took an interest and gave her a small but prominent role, under the name Merle Oberon, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ) opposite Charles Laughton.

Lanchester's husband Charles Laughton played Henry VIII and won an Academy Award for his portrayal.

Charles Laughton won the 1933 Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance as Henry.

Ruggles of Red Gap was adapted as a radio play on the July 10, 1939 episode of Lux Radio Theater, the December 17, 1945 episode of The Screen Guild Theater and the June 8, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, all with Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles reprising their film parts.

Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926.

His association with director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII ( loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII ), for which Laughton won an Academy Award.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come to the Stable ( 1949 ) and Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ), the last of twelve films in which she appeared with Laughton.

The company's releases included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Rembrandt ( 1936 ), both of which starred Charles Laughton and were directed by Korda.

His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Charles Laughton was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Actor.

For example, in 1935 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were each nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for Mutiny on the Bounty.

" On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years, said " Laughton was a total actor.

Notable more recent productions of Measure for Measure are Charles Laughton as Angelo at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933, Peter Brook's 1950 staging at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with John Gielgud as Angelo, and a 1976 New York Shakespeare Festival production featuring Meryl Streep as Isabella and John Cazale as Angelo.

McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered Mutiny on the Bounty, and Ford won Best Director.

" Selznick let him go, and Laughton recommended comedian and Dickens scholar W. C. Fields for the part, who was borrowed from Paramount Pictures.

Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.

Laughton played a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine ( 1943 ), by Jean Renoir, in which he engaged himself most actively ; in fact, while Renoir was still working on an early script, Laughton would talk about Alphonse Daudet's story " The Last Lesson ", which suggested to Renoir a relevant scene for the film.

However, an original print of A Miracle Can Happen was sent abroad for dubbing before the Laughton sequence was deleted, and in this form it was shown in Spain as Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro.

While Laughton is most remembered for his film career, he continued to work in the theatre, as when, after the success of The Private Life of Henry VIII he appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933 as Macbeth, Lopakin in The Cherry Orchard, Prospero in The Tempest and Angelo in Measure for Measure.

Laughton won the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap in 1935.

* Rooting for Laughton: Laughtonians of the world, unite!

* Call him Jack ... Thank you for introducing me to Charles Laughton and to Life with a capital L!

All his other titles became extinct except for the Pelham Baronetcy of Laughton and the barony of Pelham of Stanmer, which were passed on to his first cousin once removed, Thomas Pelham ( for further history of these titles, see the Earl of Chichester ).

Laughton had to make the moment invisible: to act as if nobody was actually waiting for anything.

Her next role was in St. Martin's Lane ( 1938 ) with Charles Laughton.

Laughton would later reprise the same role in 1953 in the film Young Bess, opposite Jean Simmons as his daughter, Elizabeth.

Charles Laughton was originally cast in the role of Mr. Micawber, and was authentically made-up with a bald cap, since Dickens describes the character as hairless.

Laughton played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world premiere of Sean O ' Casey's The Silver Tassie in 1928 in London.

Laughton turned out other memorable performances during that first Hollywood trip, repeating his stage role as a murderer in Payment Deferred, playing H. G. Wells ' mad vivisectionist Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls, and the meek raspberry-blowing clerk in the brief segment of If I Had a Million, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy only when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role ( Quasimodo ) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), with Jamaica Inn co-star O ' Hara.

In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom ( The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version ).

Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York.

Laughton had previously included several Bible readings when he played the title role in the film Rembrandt.

In 1959 she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( in the title role ), Albert Finney and Edith Evans.

The Old Dark House ( with Charles Laughton ) and the starring role in The Mask of Fu Manchu quickly followed.

The role went to Charles Laughton.

Losey had co-directed the original U. S. production of Galileo with the author himself as the other co-director ( and Charles Laughton, who had worked on the translation / adaptation, had had the lead role, taken in the film by Topol ).

In 1946, after playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, including a role alongside Charles Laughton in the cheaply made production Captain Kidd ( 1945 ), Scott appeared in Abilene Town, a UA release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning up a lawless town.

She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ).

She played a comical role in the 1948 thriller, The Big Clock, in which Laughton starred as a murderous, megalomaniac press tycoon.

Laughton was so pleased with O ' Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), which was to be filmed at RKO Studios in Hollywood that same year.

It ran for 250 performances with Charles Laughton in the role of Poirot.

The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. ( 1923 ) and Charles Laughton ( 1939 ), as well as the 1996 Disney animated adaptation.

There have been four Broadway revivals, in 1928 at the Guild Theatre, 1956 at the Martin Beck Theatre and then the Morosco Theatre starring Glynis Johns, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Eli Wallach, Burgess Meredith, and Charles Laughton, who also directed, in 1980 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and 2001 at the American Airlines Theatre, with Cherry Jones in the title role.

Five years later in 1936 he played in a revival of the play, this time taking the bigger role of ' Slightly ', alongside the celebrated husband-wife partnership of Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton ( playing Peter and Hook respectively ).

In the popular film made by Hitchcock in 1939 with the pirate's story line, the heroine ’ s role of a young girl who encounters the gangsters in the Jamaica Inn as “ Lady Vanishes ” was played by Maureen O ’ Hara in her debut appearance while the main role of the ugly and fierce leader of the pirates was played by Laughton.