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8 results found for '"Charles Laughton"' in Person.

  • Speak the Speech (1964 Radio)

    Series
    There is a Play Tonight: Plays of Shakespeare in Performances
    Producer
    John Powell (2)

    Second in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1959 Television, Video)

    Director
    Peter Hall
    Producer
    Hubbell Robinson

    A version made for American television, but not transmitted, of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton as Bottom and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1959 Television)

    Director
    Fletcher Markle; Peter Hall

    A televised recording (although never transmitted) for NBC of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The production is prefaced by a short Prologue...

  • This is Charles Laughton (1953 Television)

    Producer
    Gregory Paul

    Television series of filmed classics. Charles Laughton recites from the Bible and other texts, reads poetry, tells stories and jokes including a reading from Twelfth Night (II iv).

  • Kraft Music Hall, The [12/02/1948] (1948 Radio)

    Series
    Kraft Music Hall, The

    Radio variety show. In this edition the guest, Charles Laughton, coaches the series host Al Jolson in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The jokes revolve around Laughton’s British accent and...

  • Orson Welles’s Almanac [15/03/1944] (1944 Radio)

    Series
    Orson Welles’s Almanac
    Director
    Orson Welles

    Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes an enactment of the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar with Welles as Brutus and Charles Laughton as Cassius.

  • Macbeth (1934 Radio)

    Producer
    Tyrone Guthrie

    Broadcast version of Shakespeare’s play performed by the Old Vic Company produced by Tyrone Guthrie. With Charles Laughton and Flora Robson as the Macbeths. Dennis Arundell narrates. Music by Herbert Menges.

  • Island of Lost Souls (1932 Film)

    Producer
    Erle C. Kenton

    Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...