Born: 1-Jul-1899
Birthplace: Victoria Hotel, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
Died: 15-Dec-1962
Location of death: Hollywood, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Remains: Buried, Court of Remembrance, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, CA

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Island of Lost Souls

Military service: British Army (WWI, gassed)

Father: Robert Laughton
Mother: Elizabeth Conlon
Wife: Elsa Lanchester (actress, m. 1929, she states in her autobiography that he is gay)

    High School: Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England (a Jesuit school)

    Naturalized US Citizen 1950
    Oscar for Best Actor 1934 for The Private Life of Henry VIII
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 1750 Vine St.

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    The Night of the Hunter (19-Feb-1955)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Advise and Consent (6-Jun-1962)
    Spartacus (6-Oct-1960)
    Under Ten Flags (1960)
    Witness for the Prosecution (Dec-1957)
    Hobson's Choice (19-Apr-1954)
    Young Bess (21-May-1953)
    Salome (13-Feb-1953)
    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (27-Dec-1952)
    O. Henry's Full House (19-Sep-1952)
    The Blue Veil (26-Oct-1951)
    The Man on the Eiffel Tower (19-Jan-1950)
    The Bribe (3-Feb-1949)
    The Big Clock (9-Apr-1948)
    Arch of Triumph (17-Feb-1948)
    The Paradine Case (31-Dec-1947)
    Captain Kidd (22-Nov-1945)
    The Suspect (Dec-1944)
    The Canterville Ghost (22-May-1944)
    This Land Is Mine (17-Mar-1943)
    Forever and a Day (21-Jan-1943)
    Stand by for Action (31-Dec-1942)
    Tales of Manhattan (5-Aug-1942)
    It Started with Eve (26-Sep-1941)
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1-Sep-1939)
    Jamaica Inn (15-May-1939)
    Sidewalks of London (18-Oct-1938)
    Rembrandt (6-Nov-1936)
    Mutiny on the Bounty (8-Nov-1935)
    Les Misérables (3-Apr-1935)
    Ruggles of Red Gap (19-Feb-1935)
    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (8-Sep-1934)
    The Private Life of Henry VIII (17-Aug-1933)
    Island of Lost Souls (12-Jan-1933)
    The Sign of the Cross (3-Dec-1932)
    If I Had a Million (2-Dec-1932)
    The Old Dark House (20-Oct-1932)
    Devil and the Deep (12-Aug-1932)
    Piccadilly (1-Jun-1929)

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