In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson cuts the career of larger-than-life English actor Charles Laughton into conveniently bite-sized, dismissible chunks, noting that many of ...

Charles Laughton’s love of the theater took a quarter-century to find its outlet. He was born in 1899 in the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of ...

AFTER the Old Vic season had finished, Charles and I went to Hollywood once more, and again at short notice. In fact, it seems that whenever we have gone to or come from Hollywood we have never had ...

There is a wealth of charm, humor and fine characterization in David Lean's picture [of Harold Brighouse's play] made under the Korda banner. The period comedy, with a Lancashire setting, is ...

Some have tried and all have failed to recreate the magic of the 1957 film version of Agatha Christie’s did-he-do-it? Witness for the Prosecution. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

In 1955, when “The Night of the Hunter” opened to mixed reviews and poor box office, the film was already a throwback: steeped in the luxuriant gloom of German Expressionism and the heightened poetics ...

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 ...