Claude Rains's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

William Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was a British and American character actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. The birth-card coordinate for November 10 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1951 Best Actor in a Play (Darkness at Noon) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1951 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Darkness at Noon as Rubashov

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Claude Rains's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Claude Rains. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Claude Rains in the public record

He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and is considered one of the screen's great character stars who played cultured villains during the Golden Age of Hollywood. The son of a stage actor, Rains began acting onstage in his native London in the 1900s. He became a leading thespian on the West End, and an acting teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He moved to the United States in the late 1920s and became a successful Broadway star, before making his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933). He went on to play prominent roles in such big-screen productions as The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Wolf Man (1941), Casablanca (1942), Kings Row (1942), Phantom of the Opera (1943) and Notorious (1946). In 1951, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Darkness at Noon.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Claude Rains (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Claude Rains, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

He became a leading thespian on the West End, and an acting teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: teacher.

Also on the record

1. He continued to work as a prominent character actor in films, notably as Mr.
2. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and his final role in the Biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
3. In 1960, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.
4. Richard Chamberlain described him as "one of the finest actors of the 20th century," while Bette Davis considered him one of her favorite co-stars.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Bernadette Peters — 1986 Best Actress in a Musical (Song and Dance); 1999 Best Actress in a Musical (Annie Get Your Gun)
• Carole Shelley — 1979 Best Actress in a Play (The Elephant Man)
• David Wayne — 1954 Best Actor in a Play (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
• Hugh Jackman — 2004 Best Actor in a Musical (The Boy from Oz)
• John Rubinstein — 1980 Best Actor in a Play (Children of a Lesser God)
• Jonathan Groff — 2024 Best Actor in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along)
• Martin Short — 1999 Best Actor in a Musical (Little Me)
• Mercedes Ruehl — 1991 Best Actress in a Play (Lost in Yonkers)
• Norbert Leo Butz — 2005 Best Actor in a Musical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); 2011 Best Actor in a Musical (Catch Me If You Can)
• Richard Burton — 1961 Best Actor in a Musical (Camelot)
• Tammy Grimes — 1970 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
• Tommy Tune — 1983 Best Actor in a Musical (My One and Only)
• 3 more leading winners share this card.

FAQ

What is Claude Rains's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. November 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Claude Rains's dates come from?

Birth date 1889-11-10 is the day-precision date on Claude Rains's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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