Claude Rains actor
- All known tv series 15
- Total known movies 77
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 Drinkwaters play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwrights major hit Abraham Lincoln, and traveled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaws The Apple Cart and in the dramatizations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Bucks 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 Whales 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.
Captain Louis Renault
Movie 1943
Alexander Sebastian
Movie 1946
Sir John Talbot
Movie 1966
King Herod
Movie 1965
Prof. George Edward Challenger
Movie 1960
Frederick Lannington
Movie 1950
Nick
Movie 1946
Professor Benson
Movie 1961
Alexander Hollenius
Movie 1946
Dr. Jaquith
Movie 1942
Lee Gentry
Movie 1934
Sir John Talbot
Movie 1941
Victor Grandison
Movie 1947
Movie 1936
Nutsy
Movie 1942
Earl of Hertford
Movie 1937
Job Skeffington
Movie 1944
Kees Popinga
Movie 1952
Arthur 'Fred' Martingale
Movie 1949
Clarkis
Movie 1920
Maximus
Movie 1935
Mr. Jordan
Movie 1941
District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
Movie 1937
Howard Justin
Movie 1949
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1983
John Jasper
Movie 1935
John Stevenson
Movie 1935
Emperor Louis Napoleon III
Movie 1939
Paul Ward
Movie 1938
John Stevenson
Movie 1945
Philippe Rambeau
Movie 1959
Jim Masters
Movie 1939
Adam Lemp
Movie 1941
Paul Verin
Movie 1934
Mayor of Hamelin
Movie 1957
Mr. Henry Halevy
Movie 1940
Art Harper
Movie 1963
Napoleon Bonaparte
Movie 1936
Stefan Orloff
Movie 1937
Capt. Henrik Skalder
Movie 1951
Haym Salomon
Movie 1939
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2013
Erique Claudin (archive footage)
Movie 2000
Self
Movie 1936
Self
Movie 1937
Claude Rains (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Self
Movie 1946
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1996
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1988
Jacob Marley (voice) (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Mr. Brink
Movie 1957
Self
Movie 1942
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2007
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1999
Judge Dan Haywood
Movie 1959
John Winfield Weston
Tv 1958
Self
Tv 1948
Tv 1962
Alexander Longford
Tv 1959
Judge Dan Haywood
Tv 1956
Dr. Jack Griffin/The Invisible Man
Tv 1995
