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Claude Rains
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 Invisible Man, the corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and perhaps his...
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Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen. Neither Michael Curtiz, who assisted with the direction, nor...
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. The movie was adapted by Sidney Buchman...
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 drama film, directed by Sam Wood, that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and...
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...
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Notorious
Notorious (1946) is a thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
Alicia Huberman (Ingrid...
Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera (1943) is a Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward.
The auditorium set, a replica of...
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
When Richard the...
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a 1933 horror film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The Invisible Man, published in 1897, as adapted by R. C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, whose work was considered unsatisfactory and who was taken off...
The Lost World
The Lost World is a 1960 science fiction adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen. The plot of the film revolves around the exploration of a mysterious flat mountain (seeTepui) in the heart...
The Passionate Friends
The Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean. The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel, a 1913 story by H. G. Wells It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with...
The Unsuspected
The Unsuspected (1947) is a film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. The black-and-white film was directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a novel written by Charlotte Armstrong, and released by Warner Brothers.
The story...
The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man is a 1941 monster horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Béla Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title...
They Won't Forget
They Won't Forget is a 1937 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy (who was uncredited). It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in The Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real life case: the trial and subsequent lynching...
Daughters Courageous
Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters (Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla), with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page. It also starred John Garfield and Claude Rains. Based on the play Fly Away Home by Dorothy...
Angel on My Shoulder
Angel on My Shoulder (1946) is a American fantasy film about a deal between the Devil and a dead man. It was an independent production, produced by Charles R. Rogers and David W. Siegel, directed by Archie Mayo, written by Harry Segall and Roland...
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film about a beautiful woman whose many suitors, and self-love, distract her from returning the affections of her husband, Job Skeffington. It also makes a point about Skeffington's status as a Jew in 1914 high...
Four Daughters
Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. It stars the Lane...
Battle of the Worlds
Pianeta degli uomini spenti, Il (Battle of the Worlds) is an Italian science-fiction film released in 1961. An English-dubbed version was released in the United States in 1963. The film was directed by Antonio Margheriti and starred Claude Raines,...
They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama crime film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan.
Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield) is...
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 film starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh, produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal from the 1901 play by George Bernard Shaw. The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (John Bryan).
Cleopatra...
Passage to Marseille
Passage to Marseille is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie ...
Deception
Deception is a 1946 film noir made by First National Pictures-Warner Bros.. It was directed by Irving Rapper. The film is based on the play Monsieur Lamberthier by Louis Verneuil. The screenplay was written by John Collier and Joseph Than.
It stars...
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk (1940) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn in a story about an English privateer defending his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael...
Rope of Sand
Rope of Sand was a 1948 adventure film directed by William Dieterle, produced by Hal B. Wallis, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Corinne Calvet, Sam Jaffe, and John Bromfield.
Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.
Prouty borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold...
White Banners
White Banners is a 1938 Warner Brothers drama motion picture starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson.
Directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the...
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant, also known as The Evil Mind, is a 1934 drama film made in the UK, starring Claude Rains, Fay Wray, and Jane Baxter, and directed by Maurice Elvey. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ernst Lothar.
Rains plays Maximus (...
Twilight of Honor
Twilight of Honor is a 1963 film starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. Twilight of Honor is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by...
The White Tower
The White Tower is a 1950 mountain film starring Alida Valli as a woman determined to conquer the mountain that killed her father, and Glenn Ford as the mountaineer who loves her. It is based on the novel of the same name by James Ramsey Ullman.
Where Danger Lives
Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow. The film was actress Faith Domergue's film debut. At the time, she was the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees.
Margo (Faith Domergue) is the wife of Frederick Lannington ...
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) is a crime drama film, released in the United Kingdom with an all-European cast, including Claude Rains in the lead role. Rains plays the role of Kees Popinga, who is infatuated with a Parisian girl Michele...
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is a 1937 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles, and Claude Rains.
The second theme of the final movement of Erich Wolfgang...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) was the third film adaptation and first sound film version of Charles Dickens's unfinished novel of the same name. It starred Claude Rains in the role of the villainous John Jasper. Filmed by Universal Pictures, it...
Stolen Holiday
Stolen Holiday is a 1937 film loosely based on the Stavisky Affair, a French political scandal. A Russian con artist worms his way into the upper reaches of French society, but is finally exposed, with tragic consequences.
In 1931 Paris, Nicole...
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Liberty is a 1939 short drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. It won an Academy Award in 1940 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Build Thy House
Build Thy House is a British silent film, directed by Fred Goodwins in 1920. It is noted for being the first film role of Claude Rains.
Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
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Sealed Cargo
Sealed Cargo is a 1951 war film about a fisherman, played by Dana Andrews, who gets tangled up with Nazis and their U-boats. It was based on the novel The Gaunt Woman by Edmund Gilligan.
In 1943, at the height of the World War II Battle of the...
