Biography
William Claude Rains was a British and American character actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and is considered one of the screen's great character stars who played cultured villains during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Awards & recognition
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1951
- Donaldson Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1947 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1945 · nominated
Show all 7 awards →
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1940 · nominated
Filmography38 titles
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Notorious
Forever and a Day
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Invisible Man
Now, Voyager
Kings Row
Rawhide
The Sea Hawk
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
The Wolf Man
The Passionate Friends
The Ed Sullivan Show
Mr. Skeffington
The Prince and the Pauper
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
The Unsuspected
Deception
Passage to Marseille
Four Daughters
Angel on My Shoulder
Juarez
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Where Danger Lives
Daughters Courageous
They Made Me a Criminal
Caesar and Cleopatra
Phantom of the Opera
Scrooge
The Clairvoyant
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
The Lost World
Naked City
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Battle of the Worlds