As a young child, he played with his family's orchestra, touring Cuba and Panama.
[1] He joined the Oklahoma City Symphony in 1937, hired through the WPA at the minimum age of 15.
[2] Laughton appeared regularly on the Al Pearce Show, a weekly radio broadcast, beginning in 1942.
[3][4] Laugton performs as Cary Grant's hands and arms during the harp-playing scene in The Bishop's Wife.
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