Psychiatrist Rains shares a luncheon of Freudian frankfurters with Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

Rains's performance as the long-suffering title character in Mr. Skeffington (1944), another tour de force with Bette Davis, earned the actor his third Academy Award nomination (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

As Captain Louis Renault, with Conrad Veidt, in Casablanca (1943) (David J. Skal collection).

Poster art for Phantom of the Opera (1943) (David J. Skal collection).

Rains as Erique Claudin, a.k.a. the Phantom (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

Rains's burn makeup, created by Jack Pierce (courtesy of Ronald V. Borst/Hollywood Movie Posters).

Rains's fourth marriage, to Frances Propper, proved his most enduring union.

Sharing a script with his only child, Jessica, later an actress in her own right.

With Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra (1946) (David J. Skal collection).

George Bernard Shaw, Rains, and director Gabriel Pascal.

With Paul Muni in Angel on My Shoulder (1946) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

Murdered by Bette Davis in Deception (1946) (David J. Skal collection).

As a Nazi mama's boy: Rains with Leopoldine Konstantin in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

Rains with David Lean and Ann Todd on the set of The Passionate Friends (1949) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

In Song of Surrender (1949) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

The main house at Stock Grange, Rains's Pennsylvania homestead.

Rains with one of his favorite steers.

Rains's triumphant return to Broadway in Darkness at Noon (1951).

Broadway, 1954: T. S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk. Left to right: Richard Newton, Joan Greenwood, Ina Claire, Rains.

With Clint Eastwood in Rawhide episode “Incident of Judgment Day” (1962).

With Keir Dullea and Richard Conte in “The Outpost” for DuPont Show of the Week (1962) (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

Arch Oboler's Night of the Auk (1956).

With space helmet sans faceplate in Battle of the Worlds (1960) (David J. Skal collection).

With fifth wife, Agi Jambor.

With sixth and final wife, Rosemary McGroarty, and her son, Schuyler (courtesy of Donna Tattle).

With Peter O'Toole in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

With David Lean on the set of The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), with inscription to Rains from Lean.

Rains's final publicity portrait, by Roddy McDowall (courtesy of Roddy McDowall).

Claude Rains's headstone at Red Hill Cemetery, near Sandwich, New Hampshire.