Year |
Title |
Role |
Director |
Co-stars |
Notes and awards |
1928 |
Blue Bottles |
Burglar |
Ivor Montagu |
Elsa Lanchester |
Filmed in England |
Daydreams |
Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence |
Ivor Montagu |
Elsa Lanchester |
Filmed in England |
The Tonic |
Father of the Family |
Ivor Montagu |
Elsa Lanchester |
Filmed in England |
1929 |
Piccadilly |
A Nightclub Diner |
Ewald André Dupont |
Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, Cyril Ritchard |
Filmed in England |
Comets |
Himself |
Sasha Geneen |
Elsa Lanchester |
Filmed in England |
1930 |
Wolves |
Captain Job |
Albert de Courville |
Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen |
Filmed in England |
1931 |
Down River |
Captain Grossman |
Peter Godfrey |
Jane Baxter |
Filmed in England |
1932 |
Devil and the Deep |
Commander Charles Sturm |
Marion Gering |
Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant |
|
The Old Dark House |
Sir William Porterhouse |
James Whale |
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart |
|
Payment Deferred |
William Marble |
Lothar Mendes |
Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Veree Teasdale, Ray Milland |
|
If I Had A Million |
Phineas V. Lambert |
multipleI |
Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, George Raft, Jack Oakie |
|
The Sign of the Cross |
Emperor Nero |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Ian Keith |
|
Island of Lost Souls |
Dr. Moreau |
Erle C. Kenton |
Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke |
|
1933 |
The Private Life of Henry VIII |
King Henry VIII |
Alexander Korda |
Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Donat |
Filmed in England
Academy Award for Best Actor |
White Woman |
Horace H. Prin |
Stuart Walker |
Carole Lombard, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Percy Kilbride |
|
1934 |
The Barretts of Wimpole Street |
Edward Moulton-Barrett |
Sidney Franklin |
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander |
|
1935 |
Ruggles of Red Gap |
Marmaduke Ruggles |
Leo McCarey |
Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams |
|
Les Misérables |
Inspector Javert |
Richard Boleslawski |
Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, John Beal, Frances Drake |
|
Mutiny on the Bounty |
Captain William Bligh |
Frank Lloyd |
Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actor |
1936 |
Rembrandt |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
Alexander Korda |
Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester |
Filmed in England |
1938 |
Vessel of Wrath |
Ginger "Ted" Wilson |
Erich Pommer |
Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton |
Produced by Laughton
Filmed in England
Released in the United States as The Beachcomber |
St. Martin's Lane |
Charles Staggers |
Tim Whelan |
Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler, Tyrone Guthrie |
Produced by Laughton
Filmed in England
Released in the United States as Sidewalks of London |
1939 |
Jamaica Inn |
Sir Humphrey Pengallan |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, |
Produced by Laughton
Filmed in England; |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Quasimodo |
William Dieterle |
Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien |
|
1940 |
They Knew What They Wanted |
Tony Patucci |
Garson Kanin |
Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Frank Fay |
|
Year |
Title |
Role |
Director |
Co-stars |
Notes and awards |
1941 |
It Started with Eve |
Jonathan Reynolds |
Henry Koster |
Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee |
|
1942 |
The Tuttles of Tahiti |
Jonas Tuttle |
Charles Vidor |
Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen |
|
Tales of Manhattan |
Charles Smith |
Julien Duvivier |
Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda |
|
Stand By for Action |
Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Marilyn Maxwell |
|
1943 |
Forever and a Day |
Bellamy (Dexter's Butler) |
multipleII |
Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young, Ray Milland, Jessie Matthews, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Elsa Lanchester |
|
This Land is Mine |
Albert Lory |
Jean Renoir |
Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith |
|
The Man From Down Under |
Jocko Wilson |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Binnie Barnes, Donna Reed, Richard Carlson |
|
1944 |
The Canterville Ghost |
Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost |
Jules Dassin
Norman Taurog |
Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Una O'Connor, Reginald Owen |
|
The Suspect |
Philip Marshall |
Robert Siodmak |
Ella Raines, Henry Daniell |
|
1945 |
Captain Kidd |
Captain William Kidd |
Rowland V. Lee |
Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Reginald Owen, Gilbert Roland |
|
1946 |
Because of Him |
John Sheridan |
Richard Wallace |
Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges |
|
1947 |
Leben des Galilei |
Galileo Galilei |
Ray McCarey |
Hugo Haas |
Collaborated on the translation of the play by Bertolt Brecht. A 30-minute 'short'. |
The Paradine Case |
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Ethel Barrymore |
|
1948 |
On Our Merry Way (originally A Miracle Can Happen) |
Reverend John B. Dunne |
King Vidor |
James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard |
Scenes cut in American release; replaced by Lamour sequence |
Arch of Triumph |
Ivon Haake |
Lewis Milestone |
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern, Michael Romanoff, J. Edward Bromberg |
|
The Big Clock |
Earl Janoth |
John Farrow |
Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson |
|
The Girl from Manhattan |
The Bishop |
Alfred E. Green |
Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Ernest Truex, Hugh Herbert |
|
1949 |
The Bribe |
J.J. Bealer |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Vincent Price, John Hodiak |
|
The Man on the Eiffel Tower |
Inspector Jules Maigret |
Burgess Meredith
Charles Laughton
Irving Allen |
Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Jean Wallace |
Anscocolor |
Year |
Title |
Role |
Director |
Co-stars |
Notes and awards |
1951 |
The Blue Veil |
Fred K. Begley |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Jane Wyman, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead |
|
The Strange Door |
Sire Alain de Maletroit |
Joseph Pevney |
Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Michael Pate |
|
1952 |
O. Henry's Full House |
Soapy (The Cop and the Anthem) |
multipleIII |
Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen |
|
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd |
Capt. William Kidd |
Charles Lamont |
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke |
SuperCinecolor |
1953 |
Salome |
King Herod |
William Dieterle |
Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Charles Laughton |
Technicolor |
Young Bess |
King Henry VIII |
George Sidney |
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Kay Walsh |
Technicolor |
1954 |
Hobson's Choice |
Henry Horatio Hobson |
David Lean |
John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales |
Filmed in England |
1955 |
The Night of the Hunter |
— |
Charles Laughton |
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves |
Directed by Laughton |
1957 |
Witness for the Prosecution |
Sir Wilfrid Robarts |
Billy Wilder |
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama |
1960 |
Sotto dieci bandiere |
Admiral Russell |
Duilio Coletti |
Van Heflin, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker |
Filmed in Italy
Released in the United States as Under Ten Flags |
Spartacus |
Sempronius Gracchus |
Stanley Kubrick |
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov |
Super Technirama 70
Technicolor |
1962 |
Advise & Consent |
Sen. Seabright Cooley |
Otto Preminger |
Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney |
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |