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He was a Tony Award –winning actor and a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rains was one of the screen's great character stars who played cultured villains. [1] [2] Early life. William Claude Rains was born on 10 November 1889 at 26 Tregothnan Road in Clapham, London. [3] .
Photoplay Awards. 1943 Winner Photoplay Award. Best Performances of the Month (February) Casablanca. Shared with: Paul Henreid · Ingrid Bergman · Humphrey Bogart.
- November 10, 1889
- May 30, 1967
- The Invisible Man (1933) Rains made a spectacular American film debut in this sci-fi horror classic that has a little bit of comedy thrown in too. Based on the H.G.
- Casablanca (1942) When people think of this Best Picture classic, it is Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa who come to mind, in one of the most celebrated cinematic love stories of all time.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The films that withstand the test of time not only have the great leading actors of the generation, but are generally surrounded by the best character actors of the time as well.
- Notorious (1946) Rains received his fourth and final Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for this film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Devlin (Cary Grant) is a spy who uses beautiful Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) to infiltrate a group of exiled Nazis in Argentina.
Rains embraced the innovative TV playhouse circuit with nearly 20 roles. As a favored 'Alfred Hitchcock' alumnus, he starred in five Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) suspense dramas into the 1960s. And he did not shy away from episodic TV either with some memorable roles that still reflected the power of Claude Rains as consummate actor -- for ...
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- Clapham, London, England, UK
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- Laconia, New Hampshire, USA
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Claude Rains - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1951) and more awards. William Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 46 years.
Nov 10, 2019 · Tour our photo gallery of the 15 greatest Claude Rains films, ranked worst to best, including 'Casablanca,' 'The Invisible Man,' 'Notorious'.
Claude Rains. Actor: Casablanca. William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury."
