Claude Rains

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Información personal

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 134 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Clapham, London, England, UK

Fecha de nacimiento: 09 de noviembre de 1889


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Biografía de Claude Rains

Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, perhaps his most famous performance, Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).

Rains was born William Claude Rains in Camberwell, London on November 10, 1889. He grew up, according to his daughter, with "a very serious cockney accent and a speech impediment". His father was British stage actor Frederick Rains, and the young Rains made his stage debut at 11 in Nell of Old Drury.

His acting talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Tree paid for the elocution lessons Rains needed in order to succeed as an actor. Later, Rains taught at the institution, teaching John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, among others.

Rains served in the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment, with fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Herbert Marshall. Rains was involved in a gas attack that left him nearly blind in one eye for the rest of his life. However, the war did aid his social advancement and, by its end, he had risen from the rank of Private to Captain.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and traveled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatizations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

Rains came relatively late to film acting and his first screen test was a failure, but his distinctive voice won him the title role in James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933) when someone accidentally overheard his screen test being played in the next room. Rains later credited director Michael Curtiz with teaching him the more understated requirements of film acting, or "what not to do in front of a camera".

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Filmografía de Claude Rains

Fecha de Estreno Título Personaje
2000 El Espectro De La Opera: Un Fantasma Desenmascarado Erique Claudin (archive footage)
1966 The Wolf Man Sir John Talbot
1963 Acusación de asesinato (A cualquier precio) Art Harper
1962 Lawrence de Arabia Mr. Dryden
1961 El planeta de los hombres verdes Professor Benson
1960 El Mundo Perdido Prof. George Edward Challenger
1959 Esta tierra es mia Philippe Rambeau
1957 El flautista de Hamelín Mayor of Hamelin
1957 On Borrowed Time Mr. Brink
1956 Lisboa Aristides Mavros
1952 El expreso de París Kees Popinga
1951 Cargamento blindado Capt. Henrik Skalder
1950 Donde habita el peligro Frederick Lannington
1950 La montaña trágica Paul Delambre
1949 Song of Surrender Elisha Hunt
1949 Soga de arena Arthur 'Fred' Martingale
1949 Amigos apasionados Howard Justin
1947 Sin sombra de sospecha Victor Grandison
1946 Engaño Alexander Hollenius
1946 El Diablo y yo Nick
1946 Encadenados Alexander Sebastian
1945 César y Cleopatra Julius Caesar
1945 This Love of Ours Joseph Targel
1945 Strange Holiday John Stevenson
1944 El señor Skeffington Job Skeffington
1944 Pasaje para Marsella Captain Freycinet
1943 El fantasma de la Ópera Erique Claudin
1943 Casablanca Captain Louis Renault
1942 La extraña pasajera Dr. Jaquith
1942 Marea de luna Nutsy
1942 Abismo de pasión Alexander Tower
1941 El hombre lobo Sir John Talbot
1941 El difunto protesta Mr. Jordan
1941 Four Mothers Adam Lemp
1940 Lady with Red Hair David Belasco
1940 El halcón del mar Don José Alvarez de Cordoba
1940 Saturday's Children Mr. Henry Halevy
1939 Four Wives Adam Lemp
1939 Caballero sin espada Joseph Paine
1939 Daughters Courageous Jim Masters
1939 Juárez Emperor Louis Napoleon III
1939 Sons of Liberty Haym Salomon
1939 Han hecho de mí un criminal Det. Monty Phelan
1938 Cuatro hijas Adam Lemp
1938 White Banners Paul Ward
1938 Robin de los bosques Prince John
1938 En busca del oro Colonel Ferris
1937 Ellos no olvidarán District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
1937 El príncipe y el mendigo Earl of Hertford
1937 Stolen Holiday Stefan Orloff
1936 El caballero Adverse Marquis Don Luis
1936 Hearts Divided Napoleon Bonaparte
1935 La última avanzada John Stevenson
1935 The Clairvoyant Maximus
1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood John Jasper
1934 El hombre que volvió por su cabeza Paul Verin
1934 Crime Without Passion Lee Gentry
1933 El hombre invisible Dr. Jack Griffin
1920 Build Thy House Clarkis
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