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Children. Jessica Rains (b. Parent(s)Fred Rains (father)Emily Rains (nee Cox) (mother)William Claude Rains (1. November 1. 88. 9 – 3. May 1. 96. 7) was an English film and stage actor whose career spanned 4. After his American film debut as Dr.
Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1. The Wolf Man (1. 94. Casablanca and Kings Row (both 1. Notorious (1. 94.
Lawrence of Arabia (1. He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a four- time nominee for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, but never won. Rains was considered to be "one of the screen's great character stars"[1] who was, according to the All- Movie Guide, "at his best when playing cultured villains".[2]During his lengthy career he was greatly admired by many of his contemporaries such as Bette Davis, Vincent Sherman, Ronald Neame and Albert Dekker, all of whom became close family friends. Rains also inspired many younger actors such as John Gielgud, Charles Laughton and Richard Chamberlain. Early life[edit]William Claude Rains was born on 1.
November 1. 88. 9 in Camberwell, London. Watch Full Free Episodes Of Rick And Morty there. His parents were Emily Eliza (née Cox) and the stage actor Frederick William Rains.[3] He lived in the slums of London, and, in his own words, on "the wrong side of the river Thames"[4] Rains was one of twelve children, all but three dying of malnutrition when still infants.
His mother took in boarders in order to support the family. According to his daughter, he grew up with "a very serious Cockney accent and a speech impediment"[5] which took the form of a stutter, which caused him to call himself "Willie Wains". His native accent was so strong that his daughter could not understand a word he said when he used it to sing old Cockney songs to her or purposely used it to playfully annoy her. Rains left school after the second grade to sell papers so that he could bring the pennies and halfpennies home for his mother. He sang in the Palm Street Church choir, which also brought him a few pence to take home. Rains in his Captain's uniform during WWIDue to his father being an actor, the young Rains would spend time in theatres and was surrounded by actors and stagehands. It was here where he could watch actors up close as well as the day- to- day running of a theatre.
Rains made his stage debut at the age of 1. Sweet Nell of Old Drury[6] at the Haymarket Theatre, so that he could run around onstage as part of the production. He then slowly worked his way up in the theatre, becoming a call boy (being the one telling actors when they were due on stage) at His Majesty's Theatre and later prompter, stage manager, understudy, and then from smaller parts with good reviews to larger, better parts. A 2. 3- year- old Rains in one of his early theatre roles, 1.
Rains decided to go to America in 1. New York theatres, but with the outbreak of World War I the following year, he returned to England to serve in the London Scottish Regiment,[7] alongside fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, and Herbert Marshall. At one time, he was involved in a gas attack which resulted in his losing 9. By the end of the war, he had risen from the rank of Private to that of Captain. After the war had ended, Rains remained in England, where he continued to develop his acting talents. These talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Tree told Rains that in order to succeed as an actor he would have to get rid of his Cockney accent and speech impediment. With this in mind, Tree paid for the elocution books and lessons that Rains needed to help him change his voice. Rains eventually shed his accent and speech impediment after practicing every day. His daughter, Jessica, when describing her father's voice, said, "The interesting thing to me was that he became a different person. He became a very elegant man, with a really extraordinary Mid- Atlantic accent.
It was his voice, nobody else spoke like that, half American, half English and a little Cockney thrown in." Soon after he became recognised as one of the leading stage actors in London. Aged 2. 9, he played the role of Clarkis in his one (and only) silent film, a British film titled Build Thy House (1. During his early years, Rains also taught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), where John Gielgud and Charles Laughton were some of his students. In an interview for Turner Classic Movies, Gielgud fondly remembered Rains: "I learnt a great deal about acting from this gentleman.
Claude Rains was one of my teachers at RADA. In fact he was one of the best and most popular teachers there. He was extremely attractive and needless to say, all the girls in my class were hopelessly in love with him. He had piercing dark eyes and a beautifully throaty voice, although he had, like Marlene Dietrich, some trouble with the letter 'R'. He lacked inches and wore lifts to his shoes to increase his height. Jetsons Full Episodes Online Free.
Stocky but handsome, Rains had broad shoulders and a mop of thick brown hair which he brushed over one eye. But by the time I first met him in the 1.
London. I found him enormously helpful and encouraging to work with. I was always trying to copy him in my first years as an actor, until I decided to imitate Noël Coward instead."Rains began his career in London theatre, achieving success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow- up to the same playwright's Abraham Lincoln. He also portrayed Faulkland in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, presented at London's Lyric Theatre in 1. Rains returned to New York in 1. Broadway roles. He moved to Broadway in the late 1. George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart and the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph and Pearl S.
Buck's novel The Good Earth (as a Chinese farmer). Although he had played the single supporting role in the silent, Build Thy House (1. Rains came relatively late to film acting and while working for the Theatre Guild, he was offered a screen test with Universal Pictures in 1. His screen test for A Bill of Divorcement (1. New York representative of RKO was a failure but, according to some accounts, led to him being cast in the title role of James Whale's The Invisible Man (1.
His agent, Harold Freedman, was a family friend of Carl Laemmle, who controlled Universal Studios at the time, and Whale himself had been acquainted with Rains in London and was keen to cast him in the role.[1. According to Rains' daughter, this was the only of his films he ever saw. He also did not go to see the rushes of the day's filming "because he told me, everytime he went he was horrified by his huge face on the huge screen, that he just never went back again."Rains signed a long term contract with Warner Bros.
November 1. 93. 5 with Warner able to exercise the right to loan him to other studios and Rains having a potential income of up to $7. He played the villainous role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1.