Claude Rains
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens. It is a retelling of the Biblical account about Jesus of Nazareth, from the Nativity through to the Ascension. With an ensemble cast, it is Claude Rains' final film role.
Starring: May Robson•Marion Davies•Richard Chamberlain•Louis Calhern•Gladys Cooper•Anne Shirley•Jean Arthur•Bela Lugosi•Ed Wynn•Kay Francis
Twilight of Honor (1963)
Twilight of Honor, released in the UK as The Charge is Murder, is a 1963 film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. Twilight of Honor is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by Henry Denker. Like the 1959 cour...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Fredric March•Paul Muni•Anita Louise•Robert Montgomery
The Lost World (1960)
The Lost World is a 1960 De Luxe Color and CinemaScope fantasy adventure film directed by Irwin Allen and loosely based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot of the film revolves around the exploration of a plateau in Venezuela inhabited by cannibals, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and giant spiders. The cast includes C...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Humphrey Bogart•Miriam Hopkins•Bette Davis•Jackie Cooper
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an American musical film that became the first television film when it first aired on NBC on November 26, 1957. It preempted that evening's telecasts of The Nat King Cole Show and The Eddie Fisher Show. Based on the famous poem of the same name by Robert Browning and using the music of Edvard Grieg, arranged by Pete Kin...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Ralph Bellamy•Gloria Stuart
Rope of Sand (1949)
Rope of Sand is a 1949 adventure-suspense film noir directed by William Dieterle, produced by Hal Wallis, and starring Burt Lancaster and three stars from Wallis's Casablanca - Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. The film introduces Corinne Calvet and features Sam Jaffe, John Bromfield, and Kenny Washington in supporting roles. The picture ...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Dooley Wilson•Otto Kruger
Song of Surrender (1949)
Song of Surrender is a 1949 drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Wanda Hendrix and Claude Rains.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Henry Travers
The Unsuspected (1947)
The Unsuspected is a 1947 American mystery film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Ted North, Constance Bennett, Joan Caulfield, and Hurd Hatfield. The film was based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. The screenplay was co-written by Bess Meredyth, who was married to director Curtiz.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Brian Aherne
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Angel on My Shoulder is a 1946 American fantasy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Paul Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Rains. The plot involves a deal between the devil and a dead man.
Starring: David McCallum•Richard Chamberlain•Ida Lupino
Deception (1946)
Deception is a 1946 American film noir drama released by Warner Brothers and directed by Irving Rapper. The film is based on the 1927 play Monsieur Lamberthier by Louis Verneuil. The screenplay was written by John Collier and Joseph Than. It stars Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, who had also appeared together in the highly successful N...
Starring: Joey Heatherton•Richard Chamberlain•Dooley Wilson
Notorious (1946)
Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr.•Fay Bainter•Richard Chamberlain•Brenda Marshall
Strange Holiday (1945)
Strange Holiday is a 1945 American movie directed by Arch Oboler. Claude Rains features as a man who returns from a fishing vacation to find America controlled by fascists.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Peter Lorre
This Love of Ours (1945)
This Love of Ours is a 1945 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Merle Oberon, Claude Rains, Charles Korvin and Carl Esmond. The film's composer, Hans J. Salter, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1946. This drama from Universal Pictures was later remade as Never Say Goodbye (1956) and the French ...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Ian Hunter
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Starring: Joey Heatherton•Richard Chamberlain
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passage to Marseille, also known as Message to Marseille, is a 1944 American war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe.
Starring: Priscilla Lane•Richard Chamberlain•Evelyn Keyes•Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 American romantic horror film directed by Arthur Lubin, loosely based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and its 1925 film adaptation starring Lon Chaney. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film stars Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, and was composed by Edward Ward.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Henry Stephenson•Lana Turner
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, es...
Starring: Priscilla Lane•Richard Chamberlain•Evelyn Keyes•Brenda Marshall•Dooley Wilson•Ingrid Bergman
Moontide (1942)
Moontide is a 1942 American romantic drama with elements of a thriller. It was produced by Mark Hellinger and directed by Archie Mayo, who took over direction after the initial director Fritz Lang left the project early in the shooting schedule. The screenplay was written by John O'Hara and Nunnally Johnson (uncredited), based on the 1940 novel Moo...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Anne Baxter•Richard Ainley
Now, Voyager (1942)
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.
Starring: Paul Henreid•Joey Heatherton•Richard Chamberlain•Dooley Wilson
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a 1941 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes.
Starring: Van Johnson•Richard Chamberlain•Angela Lansbury
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role. Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskaya star in supporting roles. The title character has had a great deal of influen...
Starring: Barbara Bates•Audrey Totter•Richard Chamberlain•Wanda Hendrix•José Ferrer
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Lady with Red Hair (1940) is an American historical drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains and Richard Ainley. Released by Warner Brothers it stars Hopkins as the nineteenth century actress Mrs. Leslie Carter. Future star Alexis Smith made her screen debut in a small role.
Starring: Charlton Heston•Richard Chamberlain•Lori Nelson
Saturday's Children (1940)
Saturday's Children is a 1940 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley, and Claude Rains. It is a third-time remake of the original Maxwell Anderson play with a previous version released in 1935 under the title Maybe It's Love.
Starring: Fernando Lamas•Richard Chamberlain•Telly Savalas
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the launch of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing ...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Jill St. John•Martin Landau
Daughters Courageous (1939)
Daughters Courageous is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn and featuring the Lane Sisters: Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane and Priscilla Lane. Based on the play Fly Away Home by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White, the film was directed by Michael Curtiz. It was released by Warner Bros. on June 23, 1939.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Joan Blackman•Telly Savalas
Juarez (1939)
Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, John Huston, and Wolfgang Reinhardt is based on the 1934 biography The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the 1925 play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel.
Starring: David McCallum•Joey Heatherton•Richard Chamberlain•May Robson
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foste...
Starring: Marion Davies•Richard Chamberlain•Lionel Atwill
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the film The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933). The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia. Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.
Starring: Jean Arthur•Richard Chamberlain•Kay Francis•Telly Savalas•Joan Bennett•Fredric March
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a epic 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. The film is particularly noted for its...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Olivia de Havilland•Jill St. John
Four Daughters (1938)
Four Daughters is a 1938 American romance film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a charming young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. His cynical, bitter musician friend comes to help orchestrate his latest composition and complicates matters even mor...
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Jackie Cooper•Telly Savalas
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Gold is Where You Find It is a 1938 American Western Technicolor film that gives a fictionalized account of a true event — an ecological disaster whose effects are still felt in California today. Directed by Michael Curtiz and starring George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, and Claude Rains, with a screenplay by Warren Duff and Robert Buckner based on ...
Starring: George Brent•Richard Chamberlain•Olivia de Havilland
White Banners (1938)
White Banners is a 1938 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson.
Starring: Dick Powell•Richard Chamberlain•Joan Blackman
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
The Prince and the Pauper is a 1937 film adaptation of the 1881 novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles, and Claude Rains and has been described as "a kids' fantasy."
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Jill St. John•Otto Kruger
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Stolen Holiday is a 1937 film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kay Francis, Claude Rains and Ian Hunter. It is loosely based on the Stavisky Affair, a French political scandal. A Russian con artist worms his way into the upper reaches of French society, but is finally exposed, with tragic consequences.
Starring: Henry Travers•Richard Chamberlain•Kathleen Burke
They Won't Forget (1937)
They Won't Forget is a 1937 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, and Lana Turner, in her feature debut. It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in the Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real-life case: the trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank...
Starring: Brian Aherne•Richard Chamberlain•Donald Woods
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Hervey Allen's 1933 historical novel, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent as an infant, Anthony comes of age in th...
Starring: Ann Sheridan•Margo•Richard Chamberlain•Douglass Montgomery•Olivia de Havilland•Edmund Gwenn•Louis Hayward•Ian Hunter•E. E. Clive•James Stewart
Hearts Divided (1936)
Hearts Divided is a 1936 American musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It stars Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple. The film was a remake of the 1928 Glorious Betsy, which was in turn based on the play Glorious Betsy by Rida Johnson Young. In real ...
Starring: Gale Sondergaard•(•Richard Chamberlain
The Last Outpost (1935)
The Last Outpost is a 1935 American adventure film directed by Charles Barton and Louis J. Gasnier and written by Charles Brackett, Frank Partos and Philip MacDonald. It is based on F. Britten Austin's novel The Drum. The film stars Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Margaret Swope and Billy Bevan. The film wa...
Starring: Fay Bainter•Richard Chamberlain•Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 American melodrama film directed by Stuart Walker and based on the unfinished 1870 novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Henry Stephenson•Lana Turner
Crime Without Passion (1934)
Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Claude Rains. It is the first of four pictures written, produced and directed by Hecht and MacArthur for Paramount Pictures. Sixty to seventy percent of the film was directed by cinematographer Lee Garmes.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain•Priscilla Lane
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is a 1934 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Jean Bart and Samuel Ornitz. The film stars Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley, Henry O'Neill and Henry Armetta. The film was released on December 24, 1934, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Dead End Kids•Gloria Dickson•Richard Chamberlain
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Invisible Man is a 1933 American science fiction horror film directed by James Whale based on H. G. Wells' 1897 novel The Invisible Man, produced by Universal Pictures, and starring Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains and William Harrigan. The film involves a Dr. Jack Griffin (Rains) who is covered in bandages and has his eyes obscured by dark glasses,...
Starring: Gloria Stuart•Richard Chamberlain•Henry Travers