Claude Rains

William Claude Rains () adalah aktor film dan teater berkebangsaan Inggris yang kariernya membentang selama 46 tahun. Dia dikenal karena telah banyak memerankan film-film Hollywood seperti The Invisible Man (1933), pernah berperan juga sebagai ilmuwan, raja yang korup, dan senator di film The Wolf Man (1941), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) dan Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Mr Dryden di Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dan Kapten Renault di Casablanca (1942).Shadily, Hassan.Ensiklopedia Indonesia. Jakarta:Ichtiar Baru Van Hoeve.

Rains lahir di Camberwell, London. Ia lahir dari seorang ibu bernama Emily Eliza (née Cox) dan seorang ayah yang juga aktor panggung dan film bernama Frederick William Rains. Rains memulai debutnya sebagai aktor panggung pada usia 11 tahun dalam drama Nell from Old Drury. International Stars at War Rains made his stage debut at the age of 11 in the play Nell of Old Drury.

Bakat akting nya diakui oleh Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, pendiri Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Selanjutnya Tree dibayar untuk mengajarkan Rains cara untuk menjadi aktor yang sukses. Kemudian, Rains mengajar di RADA, dan di antara murid-muridnya terdapat aktor terkenal bernama John Gielgud.

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 Tahun Judul Peran Sutradara Pemain lainnya Catatan 1920 Build Thy House Clarkis  Henry Ainley Film debut 1933 The Invisible Man Dr. Jack Griffin / The Invisible Man  Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor 1934 Crime Without Passion Lee Gentry , Charles MacArthur Margo, Whitney Bourne 1934 The Man Who Reclaimed His Head Paul Verin  Lionel Atwill, Joan Bennett 1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood John Jasper  Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners 1935 The Clairvoyant Maximus  Fay Wray 1935 The Last Outpost John Stevenson , Charles Barton Cary Grant 1935 Scrooge Jacob Marley Henry Edwards Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran Uncredited 1936 Hearts Divided Napoleon Bonaparte  Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton 1936 Anthony Adverse Marquis Don Luis  Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Gale Sondergaard 1937 Stolen Holiday Stefan Orloff  Kay Francis, Ian Hunter 1937 The Prince and the Pauper Earl of Hertford  Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch 1937 They Won't Forget Dist. Atty. Andrew J. "Andy" Griffin  Gloria Dickson, Lana Turner 1938 White Banners Paul Ward  Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, Kay Johnson 1938 Gold is Where You Find It Colonel Christopher "Chris" Ferris  George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Tim Holt Technicolor 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood Prince John , William Keighley Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone Technicolor 1938 Four Daughters Adam Lemp  Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield 1939 They Made Me a Criminal Det. Monty Phelan  John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, May Robson 1939 Juarez Emperor Louis Napoleon III  Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, John Garfield 1939 Sons of Liberty Haym Salomon  Gale Sondergaard Technicolor; two-reel short 1939 Daughters Courageous Jim Masters  Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine  Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Thomas Mitchell Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1939 Four Wives Adam Lemp  Eddie Albert, Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield 1940 Saturday's Children Mr. Henry Halevy  John Garfield, Anne Shirley 1940 The Sea Hawk Don José Alvarez de Córdoba  Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Henry Daniell, Flora Robson, Alan Hale Sepia tone (sequence) 1940 Lady with Red Hair David Belasco  Miriam Hopkins, Laura Hope Crews 1941 Four Mothers Adam Lemp  Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Mr. Jordan  Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Everett Horton 1941 The Wolf Man Sir John Talbot  Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya 1942 Kings Row Dr. Alexander Tower  Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn 1942 Moontide Nutsy  Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell 1942 Now, Voyager Dr. Jaquith  Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper 1942 Casablanca Capt. Louis Renault  Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1943 Forever and a Day Ambrose Pomfret (sequence with Rains) Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith 1943 Phantom of the Opera Erique Claudin / The Phantom of the Opera  Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster Technicolor 1944 Passage to Marseille Captain Freycinet  Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine 1944 Mr. Skeffington Job Skeffington  Bette Davis, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1945 This Love of Ours Joseph Targel  Merle Oberon 1945 Caesar and Cleopatra Julius Caesar  Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson Technicolor 1946 Strange Holiday John Stevenson  Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew 1946 Notorious Alexander Sebastian  Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1946 Angel on My Shoulder Nick  Paul Muni, Anne Baxter 1946 Deception Alexander Hollenius  Bette Davis, Paul Henreid 1947 The Unsuspected Victor Grandison  Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield 1949 The Passionate Friends Howard Justin  Ann Todd, Trevor Howard 1949 Rope of Sand Arthur "Fred" Martingale  Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre 1949 Song of Surrender Elisha Hunt  Wanda Hendrix, Macdonald Carey 1950 The White Tower Paul DeLambre  Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oskar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke, Lloyd Bridges Technicolor 1950 Where Danger Lives Frederick Lannington  Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan 1951 Sealed Cargo Captain Skalder  Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges 1953 The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By Kees Popinga  Märta Torén, Marius Goring Technicolor 1956 Lisbon Aristides Mavros  Ray Milland, Maureen O'Hara TrucolorNaturama 1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin The Mayor of Hamelin  Van Johnson, Lori Nelson Technicolor 1959 This Earth Is Mine Philippe Rambeau  Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire TechnicolorCinemaScope 1960 The Lost World Professor George Edward Challenger  Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Richard Haydn Deluxe colorCinemaScope 1961 Battle of the Worlds Professor Benson  Bill Carter Colour 1962 Lawrence of Arabia Mr. Dryden  Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Arthur Kennedy, José Ferrer TechnicolorSuper Panavision 70 1963 Twilight of Honor Art Harper  Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Joey Heatherton, Linda Evans 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told Herod the Great  Max von Sydow, plus many cameos Final film

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