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|title=Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor

|author=Simon Callow

|publisher=Vintage

|date=November 2012

|summary=A biography of the once popular but now semi-forgotten actor, equally known in his time for his theatre and film work. Callow’s study of one of his heroes is sympathetic without being sycophantic.

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Once a towering presence on stage and screen, the star of fifty films and forty plays, Charles Laughton seems largely forgotten these days. As an actor of a younger generation and keen admirer of his work, Callow is well placed to bring him back to the fore. He notes in his preface that the man has increasingly slipped out of public consciousness, and even within his own profession he is virtually unknown to anybody under the age of forty.