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.

Filmes indisponível de Claude Rains

Casablanca

Captain Louis Renault

Filme 1943

Notorious

Alexander Sebastian

Filme 1946

The Wolf Man

Sir John Talbot

Filme 1966

The Greatest Story Ever Told

King Herod

Filme 1965

The Lost World

Prof. George Edward Challenger

Filme 1960

Where Danger Lives

Frederick Lannington

Filme 1950

Angel on My Shoulder

Nick

Filme 1946

Battle of the Worlds

Professor Benson

Filme 1961

Deception

Alexander Hollenius

Filme 1946

Now, Voyager

Dr. Jaquith

Filme 1942

Crime Without Passion

Lee Gentry

Filme 1934

The Wolf Man

Sir John Talbot

Filme 1941

The Unsuspected

Victor Grandison

Filme 1947

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

Filme 1936

Moontide

Nutsy

Filme 1942

The Prince and the Pauper

Earl of Hertford

Filme 1937

Mr. Skeffington

Job Skeffington

Filme 1944

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

Kees Popinga

Filme 1952

Rope of Sand

Arthur 'Fred' Martingale

Filme 1949

Build Thy House

Clarkis

Filme 1920

The Clairvoyant

Maximus

Filme 1935

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Mr. Jordan

Filme 1941

They Won't Forget

District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin

Filme 1937

The Passionate Friends

Howard Justin

Filme 1949

Breakdowns of 1941

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Filme 1941

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Filme 1983

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

John Jasper

Filme 1935

The Last Outpost

John Stevenson

Filme 1935

Juarez

Emperor Louis Napoleon III

Filme 1939

White Banners

Paul Ward

Filme 1938

Strange Holiday

John Stevenson

Filme 1945

This Earth Is Mine

Philippe Rambeau

Filme 1959

Daughters Courageous

Jim Masters

Filme 1939

Four Mothers

Adam Lemp

Filme 1941

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Paul Verin

Filme 1934

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Mayor of Hamelin

Filme 1957

Saturday's Children

Mr. Henry Halevy

Filme 1940

Twilight of Honor

Art Harper

Filme 1963

Hearts Divided

Napoleon Bonaparte

Filme 1936

Stolen Holiday

Stefan Orloff

Filme 1937

Sealed Cargo

Capt. Henrik Skalder

Filme 1951

Sons of Liberty

Haym Salomon

Filme 1939

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Self (archive footage)

Filme 2013

The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

Erique Claudin (archive footage)

Filme 2000

Breakdowns of 1936

Self

Filme 1936

Breakdowns of 1937

Self

Filme 1937

Breakdowns of 1938

Claude Rains (archive footage) (uncredited)

Filme 1938

Blow-Ups of 1946

Self

Filme 1946

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1996

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1988

Scrooge

Jacob Marley (voice) (uncredited)

Filme 1935

On Borrowed Time

Mr. Brink

Filme 1957

Breakdowns of 1942

Self

Filme 1942

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Self (archive footage)

Filme 2007

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1999

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judge Dan Haywood

Filme 1959

Série de TV indisponível de Claude Rains

Naked City

John Winfield Weston

Tv 1958

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

Sam Benedict

Tv 1962

Rawhide

Alexander Longford

Tv 1959

Playhouse 90

Judge Dan Haywood

Tv 1956

Svengoolie

Dr. Jack Griffin/The Invisible Man

Tv 1995