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Claude Rains

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Nacimiento
10 de noviembre de 1889 · Clapham, London, England, UK
Fallecimiento
30 de mayo de 1967

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Claude Rains (November 10, 1889 – May 30, 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 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 Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and traveled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatizations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's 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 Whale's 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".

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Casablanca
Película · 1943 · ★ 8,1
Póster de Lawrence de Arabia
Lawrence de Arabia
Película · 1962 · ★ 8,0
Póster de Encadenados
Encadenados
Película · 1946 · ★ 7,7
Póster de Caballero sin espada
Caballero sin espada
Película · 1939 · ★ 7,8
Póster de El hombre invisible
El hombre invisible
Película · 1933 · ★ 7,5
Póster de Robin de los Bosques
Robin de los Bosques
Película · 1938 · ★ 7,5
Póster de El hombre lobo
El hombre lobo
Película · 1941 · ★ 7,0
Póster de Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Serie · 1955 · ★ 7,8
Póster de La extraña pasajera
La extraña pasajera
Película · 1942 · ★ 7,4
Póster de El fantasma de la ópera
El fantasma de la ópera
Película · 1943 · ★ 6,2
Póster de La historia más grande jamás contada
La historia más grande jamás contada
Película · 1965 · ★ 6,4
Póster de El halcón del mar
El halcón del mar
Película · 1940 · ★ 7,2

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