Claude Rains
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 |
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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 |