1899 - 1962
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American actor. He 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 2,599,264 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Charles Laughton is the 374th most popular actor (down from 340th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Actor.
Charles Laughton was a British actor who was most famous for playing Quasimodo in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Among actors, Charles Laughton ranks 374 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: 368
1952 - Present
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 369
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 370
1931 - Present
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 371
1908 - 1942
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 372
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 373
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 374
1923 - 1985
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 375
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 376
1934 - 1993
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 377
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 378
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 379
1888 - 1972
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 380
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 538 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: 532
1942 - 2014
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 533
1852 - 1934
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 534
1944 - 2012
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 535
1844 - 1900
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 536
1628 - 1688
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 537
1899 - 1962
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 538
1950 - Present
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 539
1718 - 1779
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 540
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 541
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 542
1100 - 1159
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 543
1875 - 1938
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 544
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