credits of
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and he appeared in his first film. In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company. There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later played on film. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars. His own parts there included the title role in Othello (1965) and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1970). Among Olivier's films are Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director: Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1955). His later films included The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Sleuth (1972), Marathon Man (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence (1960), Long Day's Journey into Night (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and King Lear (1983). Olivier's honours included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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December 14th, 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self (archive footage) | 4.5 | |
June 22nd, 2024 | The Bannfoot Ferry | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
June 2nd, 2023 | Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story | Self (archive footage) | 6.4 | |
March 26th, 2021 | Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 4.5 | |
January 3rd, 2021 | Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent | Self (archive footage) | 7.4 | |
July 27th, 2018 | Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
May 2nd, 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
December 14th, 2015 | Jornal Português (1938-1951) | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
July 15th, 2012 | Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies | TBD | 7 | |
June 18th, 2012 | Marilyn despite herself | TBD | 8 | |
May 15th, 2012 | Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe | Self (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
November 1st, 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Hamlet (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
May 5th, 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) | 6.6 | |
September 1st, 2008 | Marilyn, dernières séances | Self(archive footage) | 7 | |
October 15th, 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
September 17th, 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Dr. Totenkopf (archive footage) | 5.9 | |
July 9th, 2004 | The Prince, The Showgirl and Me | TBD | TBD | |
May 10th, 2004 | The Body of Marilyn Monroe | archive footage | 8 | |
September 13th, 2001 | Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
August 1st, 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
March 29th, 2000 | The Filth and the Fury | Richard III (archive footage) | 6.9 | |
January 23rd, 1999 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 7.8 | |
October 5th, 1993 | Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One | Self | TBD | |
October 28th, 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Superintendent Newhouse (archive footage) (uncredited) | 8 | |
October 22nd, 1990 | Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self (archive footage) | 8.5 | |
January 6th, 1989 | War Requiem | The Old Soldier | 6.3 | |
October 1st, 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 8.2 | |
March 8th, 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
May 1st, 1986 | Directed by William Wyler | Self | TBD | |
April 19th, 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | archive footage | 7.4 | |
January 1st, 1986 | Marilyn Monroe | archive footage | 10 | |
October 18th, 1985 | Wild Geese II | Rudolf Hess | 4.9 | |
March 10th, 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 8 | |
January 19th, 1985 | To Be Hamlet | Self | TBD | |
May 4th, 1984 | The Bounty | Admiral Hood | 6.7 | |
April 19th, 1984 | A Voyage Round My Father | Clifford Mortimer | 7.4 | |
April 1st, 1984 | The Ebony Tower | Henry Breasley | TBD | |
December 19th, 1983 | A Talent for Murder | Dr. Anthony Wainwright | 6.4 | |
November 11th, 1983 | The Jigsaw Man | Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith | 5 | |
August 23rd, 1983 | Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson | Joe Halpern | 3.8 | |
April 3rd, 1983 | King Lear | King Lear | 6.7 | |
February 25th, 1983 | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7 | |
October 24th, 1982 | Laurence Olivier: a life | Self | 10 | |
August 16th, 1982 | Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | TBD | 6 | |
June 12th, 1981 | Clash of the Titans | Zeus | 6.9 | |
May 4th, 1981 | Inchon | Gen. Douglas MacArthur | 3.9 | |
January 1st, 1981 | At the Haunted End of the Day | Self | TBD | |
December 17th, 1980 | The Jazz Singer | Cantor Rabinovitch | 5.9 | |
July 20th, 1979 | Dracula | Prof. Abraham Van Helsing | 6.4 | |
April 27th, 1979 | A Little Romance | Julius | 6.8 | |
October 5th, 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman | 6.7 | |
February 2nd, 1978 | The Betsy | Loren Hardeman | 4.6 | |
January 15th, 1978 | Daphne Laureola | Sir Joseph | 7.5 | |
January 1st, 1978 | Saturday, Sunday, Monday | Antonio | 7 | |
December 31st, 1977 | Come Back, Little Sheba | Doc Delaney | 7 | |
June 15th, 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Dr. Jan Spaander | 7.2 | |
December 6th, 1976 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | 5 | |
October 24th, 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Professor James Moriarty | 6.2 | |
October 10th, 1976 | The Gentleman Tramp | Narrator | 7.1 | |
October 8th, 1976 | Marathon Man | Dr. Christian Szell | 7.2 | |
October 6th, 1976 | The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People | Self | 7 | |
April 12th, 1976 | Love Among the Ruins | Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones | 7 | |
January 1st, 1976 | The Collection | Harry | 4.8 | |
January 1st, 1974 | The Rehearsal | Self | 5.4 | |
October 7th, 1973 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | 8.5 | |
March 10th, 1973 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone Sr. | 7 | |
December 10th, 1972 | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke | 7.7 | |
November 22nd, 1972 | Lady Caroline Lamb | Duke of Wellington | 5.9 | |
November 29th, 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Count Witte | 7 | |
January 1st, 1971 | Tree of Life | Narrator | TBD | |
April 1st, 1970 | Three Sisters | Dr. Ivan Chebutikin | 4.1 | |
December 1st, 1969 | David Copperfield | Mr. Creakle | 5.6 | |
September 15th, 1969 | Battle of Britain | Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding | 6.9 | |
August 1st, 1969 | The Dance of Death | Edgar | 6.7 | |
March 10th, 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Field Marshal Sir John French | 6.7 | |
January 3rd, 1969 | Male of the Species | Presenter | 5.5 | |
November 14th, 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | Piotr Ilyich Kamenev | 6.8 | |
April 2nd, 1968 | Romeo and Juliet | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 7.4 | |
December 31st, 1966 | Great Acting: Laurence Olivier | Self - Interviewee | 10 | |
November 30th, 1966 | The Legend of Marilyn Monroe | TBD | 6.7 | |
June 9th, 1966 | Khartoum | Mahdi | 6.3 | |
December 15th, 1965 | Othello | Othello | 6.4 | |
October 3rd, 1965 | Bunny Lake Is Missing | Newhouse | 7.2 | |
January 1st, 1965 | Olivier Talks About Othello | Self - Host | TBD | |
November 20th, 1963 | Uncle Vanya | Dr. Astrov | 5.5 | |
May 31st, 1963 | The Power and the Glory | Priest | 9 | |
August 16th, 1962 | Term of Trial | Graham Weir | 6.1 | |
October 13th, 1960 | Spartacus | Marcus Licinius Crassus | 7.5 | |
July 25th, 1960 | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | 6.2 | |
October 30th, 1959 | The Moon and Sixpence | Charles Strickland | 7 | |
August 20th, 1959 | The Devil's Disciple | Gen. Burgoyne | 6.6 | |
June 13th, 1957 | The Prince and the Showgirl | The Regent | 6.4 | |
December 13th, 1955 | Richard III | Richard III | 7.2 | |
August 24th, 1953 | The Beggar's Opera | MacHeath | 5.1 | |
June 2nd, 1953 | A Queen Is Crowned | Narrator | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 1953 | The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci | Narrator | TBD | |
July 17th, 1952 | Carrie | George Hurstwood | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 1952 | The Magic Box | Police Constable 94-B | 6.5 | |
November 6th, 1950 | Rebecca | Maxim de winter | TBD | |
December 10th, 1948 | Hamlet | Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost | 7.4 | |
November 24th, 1944 | Henry V | King Henry | 6.7 | |
May 28th, 1944 | This Happy Breed | Narrator (voice) | 7.1 | |
January 10th, 1944 | The Volunteer | Self | 5 | |
November 18th, 1943 | The Demi-Paradise | Ivan Kouznetsoff | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1942 | Malta G.C. | Narrator | 7 | |
November 24th, 1941 | 49th Parallel | Johnnie, the Trapper | 7 | |
April 3rd, 1941 | That Hamilton Woman | Lord Horatio Nelson | 7.2 | |
January 24th, 1941 | Words for Battle | Narrator (voice) | 6.6 | |
October 13th, 1940 | Private lives | Elyot Chase | TBD | |
July 31st, 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 6.5 | |
July 26th, 1940 | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Darcy | 6.9 | |
May 29th, 1940 | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 6 | |
March 23rd, 1940 | Rebecca | Maxim de Winter | 7.9 | |
January 7th, 1940 | 21 Days | Larry Durrant | 6.1 | |
April 7th, 1939 | Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 7.2 | |
February 21st, 1939 | Q Planes | Tony McVane | 6 | |
January 15th, 1938 | The Divorce of Lady X | Everard Logan | 5.9 | |
March 5th, 1937 | Fire Over England | Michael Ingolby | 6.2 | |
September 2nd, 1936 | As You Like It | Orlando | 5.4 | |
December 23rd, 1934 | Moscow Nights | Captain Ivan Ignatoff | 5.9 | |
March 30th, 1933 | No Funny Business | Clive Dering | 10 | |
January 15th, 1933 | Perfect Understanding | Nicholas Randall | 6.6 | |
May 27th, 1932 | Westward Passage | Nicholas 'Nick' Allen | 6.3 | |
December 1st, 1931 | The Conquest of the Air | Vincent Lunardi | 5.4 | |
October 30th, 1931 | The Yellow Ticket | Julian Rolfe | 5.1 | |
October 3rd, 1931 | Friends and Lovers | Lieutenant Ned Nichols | 4.9 | |
March 28th, 1931 | Potiphar's Wife | Straker | 8 | |
August 1st, 1930 | Too Many Crooks | The Boy | 9 | |
July 13th, 1930 | The Temporary Widow | Peter Bille | 7 |