Charles Laughton was a British-American actor. He was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death.
Promotional portrait of Charles Laughton for The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
From the trailer for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Laughton in The Suspect (1944)
As Henry VIII in Young Bess (1953)
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.
Lanchester in 1935
Colin Clive, Lanchester, Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Universal's art director Karoly Grosz designed this offbeat 1935 advertisement featuring Lanchester and Boris Karloff
Lanchester in the 1940s