Charles Laughton

Martin's Lane (US Title Sidewalks of London) about London street entertainers which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison; and Jamaica Inn with Maureen O'Hara and Robert Newton about Cornish smugglers based on Daphne du Maurier's novel and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s. Laughton appeared in two comedies with Deanna Durbin It Started with Eve (1941) and Because of Him (1946). G.

His film career took him to Hollywood but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on some of the most notable British films of the era including The Private Life of Henry VIII. In his later career he took up stage directing notably in the Caine Mutiny Court Martial and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell in which he also starred. In 1927 he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester with whom he lived and worked until his death.