Claude Rains actor
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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
Film 1943
Alexander Sebastian
Film 1946
Sir John Talbot
Film 1966
King Herod
Film 1965
Prof. George Edward Challenger
Film 1960
Frederick Lannington
Film 1950
Nick
Film 1946
Professor Benson
Film 1961
Alexander Hollenius
Film 1946
Dr. Jaquith
Film 1942
Lee Gentry
Film 1934
Sir John Talbot
Film 1941
Victor Grandison
Film 1947
Film 1936
Nutsy
Film 1942
Earl of Hertford
Film 1937
Job Skeffington
Film 1944
Kees Popinga
Film 1952
Arthur 'Fred' Martingale
Film 1949
Clarkis
Film 1920
Maximus
Film 1935
Mr. Jordan
Film 1941
District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
Film 1937
Howard Justin
Film 1949
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1983
John Jasper
Film 1935
John Stevenson
Film 1935
Emperor Louis Napoleon III
Film 1939
Paul Ward
Film 1938
John Stevenson
Film 1945
Philippe Rambeau
Film 1959
Jim Masters
Film 1939
Adam Lemp
Film 1941
Paul Verin
Film 1934
Mayor of Hamelin
Film 1957
Mr. Henry Halevy
Film 1940
Art Harper
Film 1963
Napoleon Bonaparte
Film 1936
Stefan Orloff
Film 1937
Capt. Henrik Skalder
Film 1951
Haym Salomon
Film 1939
Self (archive footage)
Film 2013
Erique Claudin (archive footage)
Film 2000
Self
Film 1936
Self
Film 1937
Claude Rains (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1938
Self
Film 1946
Self (archive footage)
Film 1996
Self (archive footage)
Film 1988
Jacob Marley (voice) (uncredited)
Film 1935
Mr. Brink
Film 1957
Self
Film 1942
Self (archive footage)
Film 2007
Self (archive footage)
Film 1999
Judge Dan Haywood
Film 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
