Editing Charles Laughton (section)

==Television==
[[File:Ernie Ford Charles Laughton The Ford Show 1961.JPG|thumb|With [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]] in a guest appearance on ''[[The Ford Show]]'' (1961)]]
Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when [[Elvis Presley]] made his first of three appearances on [[CBS]]'s ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', which garnered 60.7&nbsp;million viewers ([[Ed Sullivan]] was recuperating from a car accident). That same year, Laughton hosted the first of two programmes devoted to classical music entitled "Festival of Music", and telecast on the [[NBC]] [[television anthology series]] ''[[Producers' Showcase]]''. One of his last performances was on ''[[Checkmate (American TV series)|Checkmate]]'', in which he played a missionary recently returned from China. He threw himself into the role, travelling to China for several months to better understand his character.<ref>Booklet/Insert, "The Best of 'Checkmate'", Timeless Media Group</ref>