Claude Rains

actor

Nazione: United Kingdom

Genere: M

Compleanno: 1889-11-10

Morto: 1967-05-30

Biografia
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".

Attore:

  1. 1. L'uomo invisibile (1933), film
    ...
    Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man
  2. 2. Scrooge (1935), film
    ...
    Jacob Marley
  3. 3. L'uomo che vide il futuro (1935), film
    ...
    Maximus
  4. 4. Il principe e il povero (1937), film
    ...
    Earl of Hertford
  5. 5. Vendetta (1937), film
    ...
    Andy Griffin
  6. 6. La leggenda di Robin Hood (1938), film
    ...
    Prince John
  7. 7. Mr. Smith va a Washington (1939), film
    ...
    Senator Joseph Paine
  8. 8. Hanno fatto di me un criminale (1939), film
    ...
    Detective Monty Phelan
  9. 9. Il conquistatore del Messico (1939), film
    ...
    Napoleon III
  10. 10. Lo sparviero del mare (1940), film
    ...
    Don José Alvarez de Cordoba
  11. 11. L'inafferrabile signor Jordan (1941), film
    ...
    Mr. Jordan
  12. 12. L'uomo lupo (1941), film
    ...
    Sir John Talbot
  13. 13. Casablanca (1942), film
    ...
    Captain Louis Renault
  14. 14. Perdutamente tua (1942), film
    ...
    Dr. Jaquith
  15. 15. Ondata d'amore (1942), film
    ...
    Nutsy
  16. 16. Il fantasma dell'opera (1943), film
    ...
    Erique Claudin
  17. 17. Il giuramento dei forzati (1944), film
    ...
    Capt. Freycinet
  18. 18. La signora Skeffington (1944), film
    ...
    Job Skeffington
  19. 19. Cesare e Cleopatra (1945), film
    ...
    Caesar
  20. 20. Strange Holiday (1945), film
    ...
    John Stevenson
  21. 21. Notorious - L'amante perduta (1946), film
    ...
    Alexander Sebastian
  22. 22. L'infernale avventura (1946), film
    ...
    Nick
  23. 23. Il prezzo dell'inganno (1946), film
    ...
    Alexander Hollenius
  24. 24. L'alibi di Satana (1947), film
    ...
    Victor Grandison
  25. 25. Sogno d'amanti (1949), film
    ...
    Howard Justin
  26. 26. La corda di sabbia (1949), film
    ...
    Arthur Martingale
  27. 27. La torre bianca (1950), film
    ...
    Paul Delambre
  28. 28. Where Danger Lives (1950), film
    ...
    Frederick Lannington
  29. 29. Il vascello misterioso (1951), film
    ...
    Capt. Skalder
  30. 30. Illusione (1952), film
    ...
    Kees Popinga
  31. 31. Lisbona (1956), film
  32. 32. The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (1957), film
    ...
    Mayor of Hamelin
  33. 33. Mondo perduto (1960), film
    ...
    Prof. George Edward Challenger
  34. 34. Il pianeta degli uomini spenti (1961), film
    ...
    Prof. Benson
  35. 35. Lawrence d'Arabia (1962), film
    ...
    Mr. Dryden
  36. 36. La più grande storia mai raccontata (1965), film
    ...
    King Herod
  37. 37. Provaci ancora, Sam (1972), film
    ...
    Captain Louis Renault (archive footage)
  38. 38. Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996), film
    ...
    Alexander Sebastian (clip from Notorious (1946)) (
  39. 39. Sunset over Mulholland Drive (2019), film
    ...
    Captain Louis Renault (archive footage)

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