1899 - 1962
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Laughton has received more than 2,020,813 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Charles Laughton is the 375th most popular actor (down from 341st in 2019), the 539th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Actor.
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Among actors, Charles Laughton ranks 375 out of 10,030. Before him are Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Chow Yun-fat, Monica Vitti, Carole Lombard, and Danny Glover. After him are Anne Baxter, James Woods, Bill Bixby, Charles Dance, James Cromwell, and Maurice Chevalier.
1942 - 2014
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 369
1952 - Present
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 370
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 371
1931 - Present
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 372
1908 - 1942
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 373
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 374
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 375
1923 - 1985
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 376
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 377
1934 - 1993
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 378
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 379
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 380
1888 - 1972
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 381
Among people born in 1899, Charles Laughton ranks 23. Before him are Erich Kästner, Paul-Henri Spaak, Béla Guttmann, Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, and Miguel Ángel Asturias. After him are Paul Hermann Müller, Gloria Swanson, Alfred Schütz, Gustav Heinemann, Cevdet Sunay, and George Cukor. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Laughton ranks 22. Before him are Stuart Sutcliffe, Michael Curtiz, Hans Luther, Vasily Stalin, Fritz Kreisler, and Natalia Goncharova. After him are C. Wright Mills, René Coty, Therese Neumann, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Bruno Walter, and Georgios Papanikolaou.
1899 - 1974
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 17
1899 - 1972
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 18
1899 - 1981
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 19
1899 - 1961
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 20
1899 - 1972
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 21
1899 - 1974
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 22
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 23
1899 - 1965
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 24
1899 - 1983
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 25
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 26
1899 - 1976
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 27
1899 - 1982
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 28
1899 - 1983
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 29
1940 - 1962
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 16
1886 - 1962
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 17
1879 - 1962
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 18
1921 - 1962
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 19
1875 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 20
1881 - 1962
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 21
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 22
1916 - 1962
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 23
1882 - 1962
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 24
1898 - 1962
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 25
1889 - 1962
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 26
1876 - 1962
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 27
1883 - 1962
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 28
Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Laughton ranks 539 out of 6,924. Before him are A. S. Neill (1883), Bob Hoskins (1942), Alice Liddell (1852), Tony Scott (1944), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), and John Bunyan (1628). After him are Richard Branson (1950), Thomas Chippendale (1718), John Wallis (1616), Charles Dance (1946), Pope Adrian IV (1100), and Marie of Romania (1875).
1883 - 1973
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 533
1942 - 2014
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 534
1852 - 1934
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 535
1944 - 2012
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 536
1844 - 1900
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 537
1628 - 1688
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 538
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 539
1950 - Present
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 540
1718 - 1779
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 541
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 542
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 543
1100 - 1159
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 544
1875 - 1938
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 545
Among actors born in United Kingdom, Charles Laughton ranks 56. Before him are Emma Thompson (1959), Wentworth Miller (1972), John Cleese (1939), Daniel Craig (1968), Kate Winslet (1975), and Bob Hoskins (1942). After him are Charles Dance (1946), Jonathan Pryce (1947), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Jean Simmons (1929), and Robbie Coltrane (1950).
1959 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 50
1972 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 51
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 52
1968 - Present
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 53
1975 - Present
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 54
1942 - 2014
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 55
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 56
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 57
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 58
1966 - Present
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 59
1969 - Present
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 60
1929 - 2010
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 61
1950 - Present
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 62