Claude Rains
Name
William Claude Rains
Birthplace
Camberwell, London
Birth date
10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967
Occupation
Actor
Notable Films
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 46 years.
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), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).
In 1946, he played a refugee Nazi agent opposite Cary Grant and Casablanca co-star Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.