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Birth Name: William Claude Rains

Born: 10 November 1889 Died: 30 May 1967

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 6"


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Claude Rains Videos

Movie Legends - Claude Rains V2

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TCM Tribute to Claude Rains

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Description: Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer. Rains came relatively late to film acting and his first screen test was a failure, but his distinctive voice won him the title role in James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933) when someone accidentally overheard his screen test b ... (more)
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5. Dr. Kildare (2002)
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Academy Awards nominated performances I've seen (446 person items)

" 1947 - NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role CLAUDE RAINS as Alexander Sebastian in NOTORIOUS 1946 | dir: Alfred Hitchcock 1944 - NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role CLAUDE RAINS as Captain Louis Renault in CASABLANCA 1942 | dir: Michael Curtiz 1940 - NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role CLAUDE RAINS as Senator Joseph Harrison "Joe" Paine in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939 | dir: Frank Capra "


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Oscars 1943 Winners (My Version) (23 movies items)

"Best Supporting Actor! Winner: Claude Rains, Casablanca! Nominees: William Bendix - Wake Island Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver"