Claude Rains

Acting

1933 — 1962 · 32 films

Lived

10 November 1889 — d. 1967

From

Clapham, London, England, UK

Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, perhaps his most famous performance, Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).