Grammy Award (1962) • Academy Award (1934) • Academy Award (1934): Actor in a Leading Role • Grammy Award (1963): Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (Other than Comedy)
"The Suspect" (1944) • "If I Had a Million" (1932) • "Studio 57" (1958) • "Hobson's Choice" (1954) • "The Strange Door" (1951) • "The Bribe" (1949) • "The Tuttles of Tahiti" (1942) • "The Big Clock" (1948) • "Vessel of Wrath" (1938) • "Les Misérables" (1935) • "The Sign of the Cross" (1932) • "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" (1949) • "Salome" (1953) • "Arch of Triumph" (1948) • "Island of Lost Souls" (1932) • "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" (1952) • "The Canterville Ghost" (1944) • "The Private Life of Henry VIII." (1933) • "O. Henry's Full House" (1952) • "Payment Deferred" (1932) • "Tales of Manhattan" (1942) • "Rembrandt" (1936) • "The Man from Down Under" (1943) • "Devil and the Deep" (1932) • "It Started with Eve" (1941) • "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) • "Young Bess" (1953) • "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934) • "They Knew What They Wanted" (1940) • "The Blue Veil" (1951) • "Playhouse 90" (1960) • "Wagon Train" (1960) • "Spartacus" (1960) • "White Woman" (1933) • "Forever and a Day" (1943) • "The Old Dark House" (1932) • "The Paradine Case" (1947) • "Stand by for Action" (1942) • "Captain Kidd" (1945) • "Advise & Consent" (1962) • "Down River" (1931) • "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) • "Checkmate" (1961) • "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) • "The Girl from Manhattan" (1948) • "Sotto dieci bandiere" (1960) • "This Land Is Mine" (1943) • "Because of Him" (1946) • "On Trial" (1959) • "Jamaica Inn" (1939) • "General Electric Theater" (1957–1959) • "Ford Star Jubilee" (1956) • "St. Martin's Lane" (1938) • "I, Claudius" (1937) • "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935) • "Wolves" (1930)
Movies/Tv Shows (Directed)
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955)
Movies/Tv Shows (Writing/Creator)
"Festival" (1964) • "Galileo" (1975)
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