- Naissance
- Décédé(e)30 mai 1967 · Laconia, New Hampshire, ÉTATS-UNIS (hémorragie intestinale)
- Nom de naissanceWilliam Claude Rains
- Surnom
- Willy Wains
- Taille5′ 6″ (1,68 m)
- Claude Rains est né le 10 novembre 1889 à Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Casablanca (1942), Robin des Bois (1938) et Les enchaînés (1946). Il était marié à Rosemary McGroarty Clark, Agi Jambor, Frances Propper, Beatrix Thomson, Marie Hemingway et Isabel Jeans. Il est mort le 30 mai 1967 dans le New Hampshire, États-Unis.
- Conjoints(es)Rosemary McGroarty Clark(août 1960 - 31 décembre 1964) (son décès)Agi Jambor(4 novembre 1959 - 29 juillet 1960) (divorcé)Frances Propper(8 avril 1935 - 1956) (divorcé, 1 enfant)Beatrix Thomson(novembre 1924 - 8 avril 1935) (divorcé)Marie Hemingway(1920 - 1920) (divorcé)Isabel Jeans(1913 - 1918) (divorcé)
- Enfants
- ParentsEmily Eliza Rains
- Acted with his derisive, bulging eyes
- Unmistakable baritone voice
- Often played sophisticated, sometimes ambiguously moral men
- The first time his daughter ever saw Rains in a film was in 1950 when he took her to see L'homme invisible (1933) in a small theater in Pennsylvania. They sat in the back, and Rains told her all about the making of the film as it played. The other people in the theater were not watching the movie, but rather watching Rains explain to his daughter how he made the film.
- He did not just memorize his own lines, but the entire script.
- He designed his own tombstone. It reads: "All things once/Are things forever,/Soul, once living,/lives forever.".
- Rains, his wife Frances, and daughter Jennifer lived on a farm in Pennsylvania. When people asked Jennifer what her father did for a living, she would tell them he was a farmer.
- Rains was almost blind in one eye because of an injury received in a gas attack during World War I.
- Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!
- I learn the lines and pray to God.
- [on his versatility] I can play the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker.
- Casablanca (1943) - $4,000 per week
- Hearts Divided (1936) - $4,000 per week
- Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) - $10,000
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