Claude Rains

Biografía

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 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".

Filmografía de Claude Rains

1999

• Monstruo a La Luz De La Luna: La Saga Inmortal Del Hombre Lobo

  Personaje: Self (archive footage)

  Película

1963

• Acusación de asesinato (A cualquier precio)

  Personaje: Art Harper

  Película

1961

• El planeta de los hombres verdes

  Personaje: Professor Benson

  Película

1959

• Esta tierra es mia

  Personaje: Philippe Rambeau

  Película
• Judgment at Nuremberg

  Personaje: Judge Dan Haywood

  Película

1956

• Lisboa

  Personaje: Aristides Mavros

  Película

1952

• El expreso de París

  Personaje: Kees Popinga

  Película

1951

• Cargamento blindado

  Personaje: Capt. Henrik Skalder

  Película

1950

• Donde habita el peligro

  Personaje: Frederick Lannington

  Película
• La montaña trágica

  Personaje: Paul Delambre

  Película

1949

• Song of Surrender

  Personaje: Elisha Hunt

  Película
• Soga de arena

  Personaje: Arthur 'Fred' Martingale

  Película
• Amigos apasionados

  Personaje: Howard Justin

  Película

1947

• Sin sombra de sospecha

  Personaje: Victor Grandison

  Película

1946

• Engaño

  Personaje: Alexander Hollenius

  Película

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Cuántos años tiene Claude Rains?

Claude Rains tiene 135 años. Nació el 9 de Noviembre de 1889.

¿Dónde nació Claude Rains?

Claude Rains nació en Clapham, Londres, Inglaterra, UK