#actor claude rains

[goryhorroor]

more legendary faces of horror

#wanted to make another post for the older horror actors since sometimes they're overlooked #horror #horror movies #max schreck #obviously the first vampire is going here #peter lorre #elsa lanchester #john agar #he was the man of scifi horror #vera miles #the first final girl is going on the list #claude rains #fay wray #i call her the monster horror icon #dwight frye #anthony perkins #evelyn ankers #moviesedit #horroredit #filmedit

[pinewood-to-hollywood]

Claude Rains in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935).

#claude rains #the mystery of edwin drood #horror #universal horror #1930s #english actors

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

77. Angel On My Shoulder (1946)

#angel on my shoulder #angel on my shoulder (1946) #claude rains #paul muni #2023filmgifs #my gifs #you mean there were people other than claude rains in that fillum? #gosh #this took me like four hours to watch #cos i wanted to gif like ALL of his scenes #i swear he got gayer and campier as the film went on #also i'm starting to think archie mayo is a terrible director #cos the good actors in his films #are good despite all the bad acting around them

[cladriteradio]

Here are 10 things you should know about Claude Rains, born 133 years ago today. He was an actor's actor, and we'll never say no to watching a movie he appears in.

#Claude Rains #old movies #character actors #Oscar nominees #classic film #classic movies #classic Hollywood #Golden Age of Hollywood #classic Broadway #classic TV #classic television

[bluerosering]

Laura Palmer x 1921 Times theatre review quoted in Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice by David J. Skal and Jessica Rains

#twin peaks #laura palmer #me when im so brave quoting things that are quoting things #oh also me when you remember a film and your own memories in the same way #i dont think jacoby is the scummiest of the men who lust after laura #but i think he does see her as a specimen in a grotesque way that other characters do not share #but idk

[yestergaze]

British actor and Warner Brothers star, Claude Rains probably most remembered today for his role in "Casablanca".

1889-1967

#claude rains

[vintagesffantasyactors]

As promised, now that we're a few days out from the final submissions deadline, here is a list of all the actors who have been submitted and will be in the bracket so far! If you submitted someone and they aren't on this list, there is a chance I felt they fell into that category of not really having a super strong connection to sci fi/fantasy generally and where the roles noted for them weren't necessarily roles that they're very well known for, or in a couple of cases there were people submitted where the work listed for them was all post 2000. But there were only a very small handful of actors like that; I think almost everyone submitted should be on here.

The final deadline for submissions will still be April 27th. I'll make another post before the polls start with the finalized list of actors for the tournament.

The current list of actors is below:

Bruce Campbell

Tom Baker

Leonard Nimoy

Alex Winter

Mandy Patinkin

Gene Wilder

Jeff Goldblum

Danny John-Jules

Ricardo Montalban

Miloš Kopecký

Tim Curry

William Russell

William Forward

Michael O'Hare

Richard Biggs

Ed Wasser

Michael J Fox

Alec Guinness

Keanu Reeves

Colm Meaney

Clancy Brown

Jeff Conaway

Haruo Nakajima

Paul Darrow

Peter Jurasik

Stephen Furst

Scott Bakula

Andreas Katsulas

René Auberjonois

Armin Shimerman

Donald Sutherland

Kurt Russell

Christopher Lloyd

Jerry Doyle

Fredric March

Alexander Siddig

Bill Pullman

Arnold Vosloo

Keir Dullea

Lionel Jeffries

Buster Crabbe

Boris Karloff

DeForest Kelley

Laurence Fishburne

Ray Bolger

Jeffrey Combs

Andrew Robinson

Michael Dorn

Peter MacNicol

Richard Dean Anderson

Kyle McLachlan

Sam Neill

Mark Hamill

LeVar Burton

James Spader

Peter Weller

John de Lancie

Bruce Boxleitner

Avery Brooks

Jonathan Frakes

Patrick Stewart

Patrick McGoohan

Charlton Heston

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wesley Snipes

Billy Dee Williams

Bela Lugosi

Val Kilmer

David Bowie

Dick Van Dyke

Doug Jones

Oded Fehr

David Duchovny

Jerry O'Connell

Mitch Pileggi

Michael Shanks

Nicholas Lea

James Doohan

George Takei

Leslie Nielsen

Warwick Davis

Vladimir Korenev

Walter Koenig

Garrett Wang

Rutger Hauer

Rick Moranis

Will Smith

Harrison Ford

Gareth Thomas

William Shatner

Ben Browder

Claude Rains

Tim Russ

Colin Clive

Brent Spiner

Peter Davison

Michael York

Nicol Williamson

James Marsters

Frazer Hines

Nicholas Courtney

Cary Elwes

Chris Sarandon

Lance Henriksen

Bill Paxton

Christopher Reeve

Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing

Raul Julia

Brendan Fraser

Rod Serling

Paul McGann

Anthony Stewart Head

Karl Urban

James Stewart

Mark Goddard

Guy Williams

Alan Rickman

Gary Conway

Vincent Price

Edward James Olmos

John Philip Law

Kerwin Matthews

Patrick Troughton

Ken Marshall

Patrick Swayze

Peter Capaldi

Andre the Giant

Cesar Romero

David Boreanaz

Alan Napier

Roger Delgado

Georges Méliès

Harry Hamlin

Duncan Regehr

Joe Morton

Ernie Hudson

#not a poll #sffantasy mens tournament #announcements

[filminghere]

I was tagged by @norashelley, as well as @chantalstacys and @marciabrady (on my main) to post my to share my nine favorite first watches of 2023 (I know January's almost over alksdjfa). Thank you to all three of you for tagging me! I look forward to doing this every year :). I didn't watch that many new films in 2023 and most of the ones I watched were pretty darn bad lol. These were definitely the nine I enjoyed best, in chronological order.

💖 One Way Passage (1932), dir. Tay Garnett | A super well-directed film that's very somber in a good way. Bill Powell is also probably the most charming actor I've ever seen. 💖 Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich | I just casually watched this on an airplane because I don't usually care much for 30s musicals or the kinds of characters I see Fred Astaire usually play, but I really loved him in this. I also don't usually like misunderstandings (a huge part of the plot is one big misunderstanding), but the film handled in it in such a comedic and engaging way. 💖 Daughters Courageous (1939), dir. Michael Curtiz | Literally the perfect romance movie made for me minus the absolutely heartbreaking ending :(. 💖 Mr. Skeffington (1944), dir. Vincent Sherman | I really love watching Old Hollywood romantic melodramas haha. Bette Davis and Claude Rains never fail to entertain, and this movie was also way sadder than I expected it to be (in a good way). 💖 Mrs. Parkington (1944), dir. Tay Garnett | A historical romance story made for me :'). Greer Garson is also perfect in everything, and I was so shocked to see Walter Pidgeon play such a domineering yet likable character. He did it so well. 💖 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), dir. Albert Lewin | I enjoyed watching this movie more than reading the book 😅. Very well-directed. The cinematography is a work of art, and I love how so many things are conveyed visually instead of through words. 💖 Marty (1955), dir. Delbert Mann | I'd say that this is the only movie on this list that knocked me off my feet because it's so darn good. So beautifully understated and lowkey in its tone and subject and so tight in terms of acting and pacing. 💖 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), dir. Henry Selick | Yes, I've gone this many years of my life without ever having seen this movie in full, and it was very good! I'm very impressed with how pleasant, likable, and simple it is. I love that it doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. It's so lovely and earnest. 💖 The Most Reluctant Convert (2021), dir. Norman Stone | I don't usually like movies with long monologues or dialogue, but Max McLean is a very engaging actor, and I like the extensive use of long shots. I also really enjoyed the scenery and sets; they're very pretty.

Tagging @sonnet77, @valsemelancolique, @glamourofyesteryear, @audreytotter, and anyone who wants to do it!

#long post #tag game #personal #one way passage #top hat #daughters courageous #mr skeffington #mrs parkington #the picture of dorian gray #marty #the nightmare before christmas #the most reluctant convert

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

Still reading the Claude Rains' biography, but a couple things I wanted to mention...

~An old guy in a restaurant actually inquired about the book, commenting on what a good actor he was and saying he thought he was great in "The Thin Man", before quickly correcting himself to say: "The Invisible Man". Though he almost seemed confused as to why I was reading it (presumably because I'm so much younger than him...) and asked if I was interested in Classic Hollywood. I said yes, and that Claude is one of my favorite actors, which also surprised him. Maybe he was pleasantly surprised that people under the age of 40 are fans of films made 85 years ago.

~I read through the Phantom section...not much mentioned about it that I didn't already know, except for a brief aside that kind of broke my heart. Apparently, the Phantom burn makeup was actually relatively similar to what burns from mustard gas look like. Meaning that Claude Rains most likely experienced looking like that for a time.

They also mentioned how the unmasking scene is slightly out-of-focus, mostly because Claude didn't want to shoot much in the makeup at all...but it's funny, I actually like that it goes in and out of focus.

I also love that the cover photo of the book is a promo shot from Phantom.

#claude rains

[filmnoirfoundation]

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss, A WOMAN’S FACE, DECEPTION, CRY VENGEANCE, proto-noirs, the prevalence of the amnesia trope in film noir, and more. We wind with a discussion of film noir posters. Sorry folks, no cats this week.  

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This week’s questions:

When you do Grand Lake intro and outro shoots, what kind of crew do you have or is it self-inflicted? Jay and Connie, Ann Arbor

I have heard you mention several times on your show that were plans to make a film version of Dashiell Hammett's book RED HARVEST. But you also added that this film was never made for various reasons. Does a screenplay of that film exist and can it be purchased? Loren, Chicago

Can you think of an actor/actress with a noir performance that surprised you given the films or TV you had seen them in before? Ryan from Rhode Island

 It seems that many classic noir actors and actresses were able to parlay their fame into popular TV series in the 1950s and '60's.  Do either of you have a favorite TV show in that regard? Joe, Redondo Beach CA

Before film noir became a thing in the 1940s, there were other films that had strong noir elements, either in style or content or both. What are some of the best and/or most influential proto-noirs? Kathleen from Chicago

I just recently saw A WOMAN'S FACE. I thought it was excellent and Ms. Crawford was superb in the role of Anna Holm.  Eddie, would you consider it a film noir and if so, would you consider showing it on NOIR ALLEY? Richard, New York

I just watched DECEPTION (1946) for the first time. What an amazing film with the main performances by Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, but especially from Claude Rains. I wanted to know your thoughts on the film, but especially the ending. For me, it was a total letdown. Marty, Fond du Lac, WI 

What are your favorite noir movies that use amnesia as a major plot device? Why did it become so popular? Ciao, Andy

After reading Sharon Knolle's article "Hard Luck Dogs: How Animals Reveal The Tender Heart of Noir" in Noir City issue 17. One of my favorite dog cameos is a dachshund that wanders into a shot and appears to be begging the camera operator for a snack in CRY VENGEANCE. I was wondering if you might have some insights or thoughts on this fun noir film.  Any info would be greatly appreciated. James in Atlanta

Film noir movie posters are great to look at. All the ones I’ve come across seem to have pulp influences.  What started that? Was it pulp paperbacks or magazines? We’re all noir movie posters of the time (40’s and 50’s) generally the same in this regard or were there any more subtle styles? Eddie: I remember you mentioning that you purchased a bunch of old movie posters. Which turned out to be your favorite? Steve in Exeter New Hampshire

#noirvember #film noir #film noir foundation #noir city #eddie muller #anne hockens #red harvest #proto-noir #a woman's face #deception 1946 #cry vengeance #film noir posters #livestream

[oneinathousand]

*Me looking at the announcement for Suicide Squad Isekai*: Yeah, I'm not surprised they'd make Joker a sexy anime bad boy type, the other designs look fine - WAIT, THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE CLAYFACE???

From the hat and suit it seems like this is might be Basil Karlo, the first Clayface, or perhaps Matt Hagen combined with Karlo's fashion sense. If this is supposed to be Karlo, then for some reason they're giving him a design that reminds me of the villain from Demon Slayer that people joke looks like Michael Jackson, idk I've never watched/read it. It's... an interesting choice compared to this:

For some reason this makes me more peeved than the Joker design, though maybe it's because I have a nostalgic fondness for the old-school actors in early horror movies that Karlo was made to reference like Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, etc. But I do like to imagine that this version intentionally uses his clay powers to make himself look like an anime character.

#suicide squad isekai #clayface #batman

[upstartgeek]

still thinking about how i saw somebody made a wonderful collage of their favorite classic horror performances and they put claude raines invisible man next to christopher lee dracula and all i could think was "there's about 8 feet of height difference between these actors"

#christopher could throw him 😭

[ashton-slashton]

motion, stillness, and alternate for lily!

Ooo this will be fun!!

Motion: How Lily moves depends entirely on mood, dress, and occasion. Despite his bulky appearance, Lily is a very energetic man who likes to keep moving when he's not too busy brooding about something or another. He also moves as a man who perhaps isn't entirely aware of his strength. I've taken this directly from Claude Rains himself, in how he moved in his films and how he was described in his biography. Apparently, he was outstandingly strong, and had impeccable posture. When in uniform, of course, his movement is a bit stilted, but he always moves with a certain poise and drama, at least when he's not actually working (in which case it's all fast fast fast and a lot of muscle!)

Stillness: Even though he likes to keep in motion, Lily does often find himself in the stillness of his cabin, or at the dinner table, in which his motion is limited. However, he's got to have something in his hands at all times or else he'll explode. Whether it's a glass or a cigarette, or his own hands clasped together, he's got to have something! He's prone to fidgeting. Claude Rains would sometimes fidget with his fingers and hands as a means of timing himself, it helped him to remember his lines. He also speaks with his hands, gestures and motions. Even in stillness, there is motion! Sometimes he can get carried away though, lost in his brooding...

Alternate: Given that putting Lily in The Terror WAS the alternative to his original story (one that I honestly may never finish, but it's a pleasant thought), this is sort of a funny question! But even so, I have put Lily in SO many scenarios. He's been a scared, agoraphobic single father trying to find love in the 1980s after a vicious divorce scandal. He's been a vampire who adopted young victims of vampirism, giving them a place to coalesce in their illness. He's been a lonely lighthouse keeper, disgraced by the navy for the crime of being queer. He's been the captain of a tramp trade ship in the late 1960s, in love with one of his crew. He's been an actor, a musician, a businessman, a teacher, a sailor. He's even been a space pirate! He tends to dress similarly in all these stories, big coats and nice but antiquated suits. Scarves and windswept hair that he can't seem to tame. He's always fundamentally the same each time: an anxious man full of love for life but too scared to live it fully. He needs the extra push from an outside source. Or maybe he just needs love.

(Picture here from about 2018)

#ae: lily mcneil #fc: lily mcneil #asks #terrorposting #the terror #amc the terror

[hotvintagepoll]

wait wait wait. mad scientists of the shadow realm? does that mean there are hot vintage actors turned mad scientists (or already mad scientists before or during their acting careers) or that there are residents of the shadow realm unrelated to this poll? if it’s the first, I would love some speculative names <3

this is getting REAL lore-heavy and more than a little RPF, but in my mind the hotties who are sent to the realm are an amalgamation of their real life personas and their movie characters—so of course Fredric March and Peter Cushing and Claude Rains have mad science abilities, because they played those roles onscreen. Sort of the inverse of Dammit Jim I’m A Doctor Not a Bricklayer—more like Golly James! I’m an actor so therefore I’m everything!

#asks #silly times #shadow realm #to be clear I don’t usually roll w RPF. but I feel like it’s so obvious here that these are cartoon versions of these men #and done with love + respect for their real selves. so we play with their jpegs like dolls for fun

[clauderains]

When you look up the term character actor on wikipedia the first image you see is a picture of Claude Rains.

#I find this so amusing #have I mentioned this before? I can't remember #cr*

[vintagesffantasyactors]

Submissions are now officially closed! Thank you to everyone who sent one in! In the end, we have a grand total of 163 different actors for the tournament.

The full list of actors can be found below. People who have been added since the last list was posted are all at the bottom.

I'll be getting to work on the match-ups; I'm gonna aim to hopefully have the polls start going out by the end of the week. I'll make another announcement before the first polls go up.

Until then, here's the list!

Bruce Campbell

Tom Baker

Leonard Nimoy

Alex Winter

Mandy Patinkin

Gene Wilder

Jeff Goldblum

Danny John-Jules

Ricardo Montalban

Miloš Kopecký

Tim Curry

William Russell

William Forward

Michael O'Hare

Richard Biggs

Ed Wasser

Michael J Fox

Alec Guinness

Keanu Reeves

Colm Meaney

Clancy Brown

Jeff Conaway

Haruo Nakajima

Paul Darrow

Peter Jurasik

Stephen Furst

Scott Bakula

Andreas Katsulas

René Auberjonois

Armin Shimerman

Donald Sutherland

Kurt Russell

Christopher Lloyd

Jerry Doyle

Fredric March

Alexander Siddig

Bill Pullman

Arnold Vosloo

Keir Dullea

Lionel Jeffries

Buster Crabbe

Boris Karloff

DeForest Kelley

Laurence Fishburne

Ray Bolger

Jeffrey Combs

Andrew Robinson

Michael Dorn

Peter MacNicol

Richard Dean Anderson

Kyle McLachlan

Sam Neill

Mark Hamill

LeVar Burton

James Spader

Peter Weller

John de Lancie

Bruce Boxleitner

Avery Brooks

Jonathan Frakes

Patrick Stewart

Patrick McGoohan

Charlton Heston

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wesley Snipes

Billy Dee Williams

Bela Lugosi

Val Kilmer

David Bowie

Dick Van Dyke

Doug Jones

Oded Fehr

David Duchovny

Jerry O'Connell

Mitch Pileggi

Michael Shanks

Nicholas Lea

James Doohan

George Takei

Leslie Nielsen

Warwick Davis

Vladimir Korenev

Walter Koenig

Garrett Wang

Rutger Hauer

Rick Moranis

Will Smith

Harrison Ford

Gareth Thomas

William Shatner

Ben Browder

Claude Rains

Tim Russ

Colin Clive

Brent Spiner

Peter Davison

Michael York

Nicol Williamson

James Marsters

Frazer Hines

Nicholas Courtney

Cary Elwes

Chris Sarandon

Lance Henriksen

Bill Paxton

Christopher Reeve

Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing

Raul Julia

Brendan Fraser

Rod Serling

Paul McGann

Anthony Stewart Head

Karl Urban

James Stewart

Mark Goddard

Guy Williams

Alan Rickman

Gary Conway

Vincent Price

Edward James Olmos

John Philip Law

Kerwin Matthews

Patrick Troughton

Ken Marshall

Patrick Swayze

Peter Capaldi

Andre the Giant

Cesar Romero

David Boreanaz

Alan Napier

Roger Delgado

Georges Méliès

Harry Hamlin

Duncan Regehr

Joe Morton

Ernie Hudson

Bruce Willis

Conrad Veidt

Sam J Jones

Lani Tupu

Michael Keaton

Kevin McCarthy

Jason Carter

Brad Dourif

Colin Baker

Harold Ramis

Dean Jones

David Warner

David Tomlinson

Christopher Walken

Ted Raimi

Jonathan Harris

Jason Isaacs

Edward Van Sloan

Dwight Frye

Malcolm McDowell

Craig Charles

Jason Miller

Tony Todd

Dean Cain

Kiefer Sutherland

Adam West

#not a poll #announcements #sffantasy men full contestants list #adding an extra tag just to note I miscounted by one there are in fact *163* actors which is now updated in the post itself