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  Claude Rains
Claude Rains (born November 10, 1889 in London, England, died May 30, 1967, in Laconia, New Hampshire) was an English actor.
It was ironic that Rains' first Hollywood role was as the star of a movie in which he did not appear until the very end.
Claude Rains is interred in the Red Hill Cemetery, Moultonborough, New Hampshire.
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 Claude Rains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rains was born William Claude Rains (known as 'Willie') in Camberwell, London on November 10, 1889.
Rains served in the First World War; he was involved in a gas attack that left him almost blind in one eye for the rest of his life.
Rains died from an internal haemorrhage, in Laconia, New Hampshire.
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 Claude Rains - Biography - Moviefone
The son of British stage actor Frederick Rains, Claude Rains gave his first theatrical performance at age 11 in Nell of Old Drury.
In 1946, Rains became the first film actor to demand and receive one million dollars for a single picture; the role was Julius Caesar, and the picture Caesar and Cleopatra.
In his last two decades, Claude Rains made occasional forays into television (notably on Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and continued to play choice character roles in big-budget films like Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
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 Claude Rains St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Rains is known for his subtle nuances in style, his perfect diction, and his mellifluous voice as he skillfully created memorable characters on stage, screen, television, and radio for nearly 50 years.
Even though Rains was not particularly good looking, and at 5'6" was rather short--he possessed a commanding air, a seemingly inbred impeccable manner, and a sly humor, all of which resulted in a presence more imposing than his slight physical build implied.
Rains began his career at age ten as a callboy in the British theatre and was encouraged to take voice lessons and overcome his speech problems.
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 Amazon.com: The Invisible Man: Video: Claude Rains,Gloria Stuart,William Harrigan,Henry Travers,Una O'Connor,Forrester ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Claude Rains as The Invisible Man, Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley, William Harrigan as Dr. Arthur Kemp, Henry Travers as Dr. Cranley, Una O'Connor as Jenny Hall, Forrester Harvey as Herbert Hall, Holmes Herbert as Chief of Police, E.E. Clive as Const.
Lane, Claude Rains as The Invisible Man, Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley, William Harrigan as Dr. Arthur Kemp, Henry Travers as Dr. Cranley, Una O'Connor as Jenny Hall, Forrester Harvey as Herbert Hall, Holmes Herbert as Chief of Police, E.E. Clive as Const.
Claude Rains does such a wonderful role when you consider that for most of the film he is denied a physical presence on the screen.
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 Rains, Claude (1889-1967) Biography | sjpc_04_package.xml
The words "unique actor" and "consummate professional" are overused in the entertainment industry, but they describe perfectly Claude Rains, an exceptional character actor of the Golden Age of Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
Even though Rains was not particularly good looking, and at 5′6″ rather short, he possessed a commanding air, a seemingly inbred impeccable manner, and a sly humor, all of which resulted in a presence more imposing than his slight physical build implied.
Rains could suggest thoughts without words, but when he did speak his tone revealed, without affectation, the complexity of his character or set the mood for the scene.
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Since his passing in 1967, Claude Rains' popularity has withstood the test of time and even after some thirty-plus years, his work is still very much in evidence through video, television and movie house revivals.
Claude Rains was born on November 10, 1889 in the Camberwell section of London.
Although Rains was brilliant in portraying these types of characters, Tinseltown eventually took notice of his great skills as an actor and began to feature him in a variety of roles.
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 Claude Rains - Moviefone
Trivia: On the DVD short documentary, Claude Rains' daughter tells of a time when the two went to see this movie in the theater years after it was made.
Rains was born William Claude Rains (known as 'Willie') in Camberwell,...
Claude Rains - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Claude Rains Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 The Sublime Claude Rains - Biography
William Claude Rains was born in London, England November 10, 1889.
Claude made his stage debut at the age of eleven in Nell of Old Drury.
By the 1940's Rains became one of a select group of secondary actors who are stars in their own right.
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 Claude Rains - MovieActors.com
Claude Rains passed away on May 30, 1967 in Laconia, New Hampshire of intestinal hemorrhage.
Rains was almost blind in one eye due to injury from a gas attack during WWI.
Claude made his screen debut yet he didn't appear on-screen until just a few seconds before the final fade-out.
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 Claude Rains - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Claude Rains - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Claude, Albert (1899-1983), Belgian-born American cell biologist and winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries...
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Davis is in love with composer Claude Rains, but suddenly encounters the man she's loved in the past (Paul Henreid) - and the vicious triangle is set up.
Rains is insanely jealous and hurt by her sudden marriage and attempts revenge: he threatens to tell Henreid everything.
Rains seems to be having a great time as the flamboyant, manipulative composer, biting into the dialogue and exploiting it for all its worth.
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 Claude Rains | Biography (1889-1967)
Claude Rains was born on the 10th November 1889 in London, UK.
During the 1920s, Rains was a member of the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; among his pupils were a young sprout named Laurence Olivier and a lovely lass named Isabel Jeans, who became the first of Rains' six wives.
Skeffington (1944), the Nazi husband of Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), and, best of all, the cheerfully corrupt Inspector Renault in Casablanca (1942).
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 Claude Rains — Infoplease.com
Casablanca (1942) - Casablanca (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and...
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 Lanny on Learning Technology: Being Claude Rains
Rains as Louis is nothing if not fun – mischievous and scheming, taken with his own amusements.
But somehow the pressures of the job or the removal from actual teaching transforms the instructional designer in a way that is detrimental to the job.
I don’t have a full answer, but having the imagery of Claude Rains as the ideal endpoint seems a useful conception to me.
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 Claude Rains - Reviews on RateItAll
Claude Rains was a phenomenal actor and one of my all time favorites.
Rains established himself as a character actor, playing a variety of roles and was most adapt at playing distinquished villians.
Claude never seems to be playing just a different version of himself.
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 They Said It About Claude Rains
Quotes about Claude's acting in a specific movie can be found by going to that particular film from my CR movie index page.
Claude Rains found this difficult to adapt to.
Claude Rains, after the actor Claude Rains, whom I admire very much and wish to emulate.
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 Claude Rains News
Like the famed prefect captured so splendidly by Claude Rains in 'Casablanca,' we are shocked, yes, shocked to learn that the 49ers were quietly talking...
One of actor Claude Rains's most memorable "appearances" was in the 1933 classic "The Invisible Man," based on the H.G. Wells novel about a scientist whose invisibility formula has a dangerous side effect: it...
One of the memorable scenes from the classic movie "Casablanca" is when actor Claude Rains, playing a police inspector, walks into a makeshift casino.
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A four-time Oscar-nominated supporting actor of the first degree, Claude Rains came to film in middle age after a highly successful career on the British stage.
Also in 1939, Rains reprised his role of musician father to four musical daughters (played by Priscilla, Rosemary, and Lola Lane and Gale Page) in DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS, the dramatic sequel to the 1938 romance FOUR DAUGHTERS.
Among Rains' most memorable films from his years at Warner Bros. in the early 1940s was
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The here concerns a scientist (Rains) who has discovered a drug that will make him invisible--but fails to realize that the drug has sinister side effects: it also induces madness.
This is a perfect example of a film that used just enough special effects, in the right way, to make the audience forget for a brief time that this was in fact a film...
Jaffers, Dudley Digges as Chief detective, Harry Stubbs as Insp.
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 Claude Rains Biography, Photos, News for Claude Rains | TVGuide.com
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 All Things Claude! The Claude Rains Web Site
On the 70-plus pages on this site you will see hundreds of photographs featuring Claude Rains from his movies, plays, publicity shots, etc. -- the large majority scanned in from my private collection.
Most of these photographs can be clicked on to get to a much larger version.
Enjoy your visit, and please don't hesitate to post your stories, comments, opinions or Claude Rains tidbits on the Claude Rains Message Board.
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 Amazon.ca: Caesar And Cleopatra: DVD: Claude Rains,Vivien Leigh,Gabriel Pascal,Stewart Granger,Flora Robson,Francis L. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The talent of Leigh and Rains are wasted on this thing.
Claude Rains is Ceasar as I want him to be -and believe he was.
I love the bits of wisdom that GBS sprinkles throughout the script, e.g.,"There's a Roman who knows how to make men love him!" Vivien Leigh is a believable princess of Egypt.
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 Meredy's Claude Rains Trivia Mania
To download FREE Claude Rains wallpaper left click on the thumbnail below and a large image [800 x 600] will load in a separate window.
Right click your mouse on the [800 x 600] image and choose "set as wallpaper" or "save as" and choose a directory in which to place your wallpaper.
Please visit my Claude Rains tribute site The Sublime Claude Rains.
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 The Sublime Claude Rains
Charismatic Claude Rains is, in my opinion, one of the finest actors never to have won an Academy Award.
Whether he was playing treacherous Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood, sympathetic Dr. Jacquith in Now, Voyager, or The Invisible Man, you can guarantee the character was well-portrayed.
Among these special features are two documentaries hosted by Lauren Bacall; interviews with Stephen Bogart and Ingrid Bergman's daughters, Pia Lindstom and Isabella Rossellini; ten minutes of newly-found deleted scenes and outtakes; TV and radio shows inspired by the film; a cartoon take-off; scoring sessions; audio program; vintage trailers and more.
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 Amazon.com: Reviews for Lawrence of Arabia: DVD: Peter O'Toole,Claude Rains,Norman Rossington,Donald Wolfit,Fernando ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Claude Rains (Louie from Casablanca) is also in the film.
As much as I agree with the reviews that point to the wonderful balance of spectacle and intimate biography, I've recently discovered something else about this film: running deeply - though quite subtly - throughout it is the insightful story of how the Middle East became what it is today.
The scenes between Jack Hawkins and Claude Rains (and, later, Alec Guinness) show how the English and the French carved up the area for their own interests, with the complicity of the most powerful of the tribal/social leaders (e.g., Guinness, as Prince Feisal).
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 Claude Rains Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers, William Harrigan, Holmes Herbert, E E Clive, Dudley Digges, Walter Brennan, John Carradine.
Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, H B Warner.
Starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Fay Helm, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leyland Hodgson.
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»Claude Rains - Photographs of Rains and his grave, brief biography, information on cause of death, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave.
»Meredy's Claude Rains Trivia Page - Trivia questions about Rains' career.
Like a mighty sword forged in fire for a twisted King by his army of filthy flsmiths, Plum Duff was brought into the great music arena in 1991....
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Rains was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in this film.
Renault has many crowd-pleasing lines in the film, but his "Round up the usual suspects" is one of the most satisfying punchlines in cinema history.
Rains was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the third time, and Davis as Best Actress for the seventh (with two previous wins), in the 1944 Academy Awards.
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