Death
Charles Laughton died 15 December 1962, after a battle with renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer), aged 63. He was cremated and the remains interred in a crypt in the Court of Remembrance courtyard at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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