Frederick William Rains (28 January 1860 – 3 December 1945) was a British actor and film director.
[1] His father, also called Alfred Rains, was a coachbuilder.
On 27 October 1884, at St Michael's Church, Lambeth, he married Emily Eliza Cox.
They had several children, including the Hollywood actor Claude Rains (born 1889).
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