Charles Laughton Woman" (1933) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malayan jungle. Then came "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father (although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer); "Les Misérables" (1935) as Inspector Javert; one of his most famous screen roles in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian; and "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America. He signed to play Micawber in "David Copperfield" (1934), but after a few
William Stack legal drama "A Free Soul", in a small role. The film stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, and Clark Gable. 1932 would see him in another small role, that of a doctor in "Payment Deferred", starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan. In "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" (1933), starring Warner Oland in the title role, Stack had the minor part of Jack Eagan. Small roles followed in the 1934 films "The Fountain", starring Ann Harding, "Manhattan Melodrama", starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy, "Wonder Bar", starring Al Jolson, and "Chained", starring Gable and Joan Crawford. Before he appeared