Claude Rains

<p> The career of Claude Rains is often and unfairly overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff Lugosi Chaney and Rathbone but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world's foremost character actors. <I>The Invisible Man</I> ironically made him quite the visible star. In his own inimitable way Rains later <I>became</I> John Jasper (in <I>Mystery of Edwin Drood</I>) Louis Renault (<I>Casablanca</I>) Julius Caesar (<I>Caesar and Cleopatra</I>) and Mr. Dryden (<I>Lawrence of Arabia</I>).</p><p> While concentrating on Rains' more than fifty films this book also comprehensively examines his work in other media: the stage radio television and recordings. His only child Jessica in the foreword provides a brief biography of her father. There are many rare photographs.</p>