Charles Laughton Highway at 14954 Corona Del Mar in Pacific Palisades. The property suffered a landslide in 1944, alluded to by Bertolt Brecht in his poem "Garden in Progress". Laughton was a Democrat and supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election. Charles Laughton died on 15 December 1962 from renal cancer. His body was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Laughton won the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Ruggles of Red Gap" in 1935. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Laughton has a star on the Hollywood
Charles Laughton appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's "Le Médecin malgré lui", the first English actor to appear at that theatre, where he acted the part in French and received an ovation. Laughton commenced his film career in Britain while still acting on the London stage. He also took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, "Daydreams", "Blue Bottles" and "The Tonic" (all 1928) which had been specially written for her by H.G. Wells and were directed by Ivor Montagu. He made a brief appearance as a disgruntled diner in another