From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: fourteen Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner. Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from the title role in Shakespeare's Othello and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in Marathon Man and the kindly but determined Nazi-hunter in The Boys from Brazil. A High church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage, Olivier became determined early on to master Shakespeare, and eventually came to be regarded as one of the foremost Shakespeare interpreters of the 20th century. He continued to act until the year before his death in 1989. Olivier played more than 120 stage roles: Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo, Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, and Archie Rice in The Entertainer. He appeared in nearly sixty films, including William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War, and A Bridge Too Far, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth, John Schlesinger's Marathon Man, Daniel Petrie's The Betsy, Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans, and his own Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III. He also preserved his Othello on film, with its stage cast virtually intact. For television, he starred in The Moon and Sixpence, John Gabriel Borkman, Long Day's Journey into Night, Brideshead Revisited, The Merchant of Venice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and King Lear, among others. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Olivier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, at number 14 on the list. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Olivier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-03 |
Movie | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-02 |
Movie | Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2018-07-27 |
Movie | Trumbo | Crassus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-10-27 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Hamlet (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
Movie | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-05 |
Movie | Jornal Português (1938-1951) | Self (archive footage) | 2005-12-12 |
Movie | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Dr. Totenkopf (archive footage) | 2004-09-17 |
Movie | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self (archive footage) | 2002-08-16 |
Movie | The Filth and the Fury | Richard III (archive footage) | 2000-03-29 |
Movie | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | 2000-08-01 |
Movie | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-23 |
Movie | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Superintendent Newhouse (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
Movie | War Requiem | The Old Soldier | 1989-01-06 |
Movie | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self (archive footage) | 1988-03-08 |
Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from The Prince and the Showgirl [1957]) (archive footage) | 1986-04-19 |
Series | Peter the Great | King William III of Orange | 1986-02-02 |
Movie | Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 |
Series | Lost Empires | Harry Burrard | 1986-10-24 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
Movie | Wild Geese II | Rudolf Hess | 1985-10-18 |
Movie | The Bounty | Admiral Hood | 1984-05-04 |
Movie | The Ebony Tower | Henry Breasley | 1984-04-01 |
Movie | A Voyage Round My Father | Clifford Mortimer | 1984-04-19 |
Series | The Last Days of Pompeii | Gaius | 1984-05-06 |
Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Doctor Christian Szell (Archive Footage) | 1984-10-26 |
Movie | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 1983-04-03 |
Movie | The Jigsaw Man | Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith | 1983-11-11 |
Series | Wagner | Pfeuffer | 1983-10-03 |
Movie | A Talent for Murder | Dr. Anthony Wainwright | 1983-12-19 |
Movie | Inchon | Gen. Douglas MacArthur | 1981-05-04 |
Series | Brideshead Revisited | Alexander Flyte, Lord Marchmain | 1981-10-12 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Zeus | 1981-06-12 |
Movie | The Jazz Singer | Cantor Rabinovitch | 1980-12-17 |
Movie | A Little Romance | Julius | 1979-04-27 |
Movie | Dracula | Prof. Abraham Van Helsing | 1979-07-20 |
Movie | Saturday, Sunday, Monday | Antonio | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | Daphne Laureola | Sir Joseph | 1978-01-15 |
Movie | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman | 1978-10-05 |
Movie | The Betsy | Loren Hardeman | 1978-02-02 |
Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Nicodemus | 1977-03-27 |
Movie | A Bridge Too Far | Dr. Jan Spaander | 1977-06-15 |
Movie | Come Back, Little Sheba | Doc Delaney | 1977-12-31 |
Movie | The Collection | Harry | 1976-01-01 |
Movie | Marathon Man | Szell | 1976-10-08 |
Movie | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Professor James Moriarty | 1976-10-24 |
Movie | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | 1976-12-06 |
Movie | The Gentleman Tramp | Narrator | 1976-10-10 |
Movie | Love Among the Ruins | Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones | 1975-03-06 |
Movie | The Rehearsal | Self | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone Sr. | 1973-03-10 |
Movie | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | 1973-10-07 |
Series | The World at War | Narrator | 1973-10-31 |
Movie | Lady Caroline Lamb | Duke of Wellington | 1972-11-22 |
Movie | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke | 1972-12-10 |
Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Count Witte | 1971-11-29 |
Movie | Three Sisters | Dr. Ivan Chebutikin | 1970-04-01 |
Movie | The Dance of Death | Edgar | 1969-01-01 |
Movie | Male of the Species | Presenter | 1969-01-03 |
Movie | David Copperfield | Mr. Creakle | 1969-12-01 |
Movie | Oh! What a Lovely War | Field Marshal Sir John French | 1969-03-10 |
Movie | Battle of Britain | Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding | 1969-09-15 |
Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1968-04-02 |
Movie | The Shoes of the Fisherman | Piotr Ilyich Kamenev | 1968-11-14 |
Movie | Khartoum | Mahdi | 1966-06-09 |
Movie | Great Acting: Laurence Olivier | Self - Interviewee | 1966-12-31 |
Movie | Bunny Lake Is Missing | Supt. Newhouse | 1965-10-03 |
Movie | Othello | Othello | 1965-12-15 |
Movie | The Power and the Glory | Priest | 1963-05-31 |
Movie | Uncle Vanya | Dr. Astrov | 1963-11-20 |
Movie | Term of Trial | Graham Weir | 1962-08-16 |
Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Maxim de Winter (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
Movie | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | 1960-07-25 |
Movie | Spartacus | Marcus Licinius Crassus | 1960-10-13 |
Movie | The Devil's Disciple | Gen. Burgoyne | 1959-08-20 |
Movie | The Prince and the Showgirl | The Regent | 1957-06-13 |
Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1955-12-13 |
Movie | The Beggar's Opera | MacHeath | 1953-08-24 |
Movie | A Queen Is Crowned | Narrator | 1953-06-02 |
Movie | The Magic Box | Police Constable 94-B | 1952-01-01 |
Movie | Carrie | George Hurstwood | 1952-07-17 |
Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost | 1948-12-10 |
Movie | The Volunteer | Self | 1944-01-10 |
Movie | This Happy Breed | Narrator (voice) | 1944-05-28 |
Movie | Henry V | King Henry | 1944-11-24 |
Movie | The Demi-Paradise | Ivan Kouznetsoff | 1943-11-18 |
Movie | That Hamilton Woman | Lord Horatio Nelson | 1941-04-03 |
Movie | 49th Parallel | Johnnie, the Trapper | 1941-11-24 |
Movie | 21 Days Together | Larry Durrant | 1940-01-07 |
Movie | Rebecca | Maxim de Winter | 1940-03-23 |
Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
Movie | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 1940-07-31 |
Movie | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Darcy | 1940-07-26 |
Movie | Q Planes | Tony McVane | 1939-02-21 |
Movie | Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 1939-04-07 |
Movie | The Divorce of Lady X | Everard Logan | 1938-01-15 |
Movie | Fire Over England | Michael Ingolby | 1937-03-05 |
Movie | As You Like It | Orlando | 1936-09-02 |
Movie | The Conquest of the Air | Vincent Lunardi | 1936-12-01 |
Movie | Moscow Nights | Captain Ivan Ignatoff | 1935-11-05 |
Movie | Perfect Understanding | Nicholas Randall | 1933-01-15 |
Movie | Westward Passage | Nicholas 'Nick' Allen | 1932-05-27 |
Movie | Potiphar's Wife | Straker | 1931-03-28 |
Movie | Friends and Lovers | Lieutenant Ned Nichols | 1931-10-03 |
Movie | The Yellow Ticket | Julian Rolfe | 1931-10-30 |
Movie | The Temporary Widow | Peter Bille | 1930-07-13 |
Movie | Too Many Crooks | The Boy | 1930-08-01 |