Charles Laughton

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1899

Active to

1962

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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor and director. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making a big impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. 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 Li

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5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 28,416x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 22,885x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,013x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,944x

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Quotes

• “I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In truth, that boy hasn't the least idea how well he acts.”
• “They can't censor the gleam in my eye.”
• “Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.”
• “[I have a face that would] stop a sundial and frighten small children into fits.”
• “I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”
• “Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.”

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Official website

charleslaughton.freeservers.com/main.htm

Image

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Height

172

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