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Claude Rains. Actor. Self. “Often we’d secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn’t that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to – and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I’ve just shot!”.
Jan 13, 2024 · The Wolf Man. Lon Chaney, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy. 38 votes. As a classic horror film exploring the fear of losing one's humanity, The Wolf Man tells the story of a man cursed with lycanthropy. Rains effectively portrays Sir John Talbot, the tragic hero's well-meaning but ultimately powerless father.
Claude Rains was born William Claude Rains on 10 November, 1889, in Camberwell, London, the son of British stage actor Frederick Rains. Claude chose to follow in the family tradition and first appeared onstage at the age of eleven in 'Nell of Old Drury'. He grew up in the theatrical world and worked his way up from call boy to stage manager.
Nov 7, 2008 · Books. Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice. David J. Skal, Jessica Rains. University Press of Kentucky, Nov 7, 2008 - Performing Arts - 304 pages. The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews. Given his childhood speech impediments and his ...
Claude Rains Claude Rains 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, a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca.
Jul 30, 2020 · Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart in ‘The Invisible Man’ (1933) (Rex) C laude Rains was very short. When he appeared in Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock had to stand him on a box for some of ...
Apr 3, 2019 · William Claude Rains, known as Willie to his family, was born November 10, 1889 to Frederick and Emily Eliza Cox at 26 Tregothnan Road in Clapham, or, as he described it, ?the wrong side of the River Thames?. In their poverty the Rains family suffered much hardship. Emily gave birth to twelve children, but only three survived into adulthood.
