Laurence Olivier

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As You Like It (1936): Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sir Felix Aylmer…; Early cinematic adaptation of the bard's comedy is stagey and very mannered, but boasts an exceptional cast with a young Olivier a stand out.
Fire Over England (1937): Dir. William K. Howard
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Dame Flora Robson, Raymond Massey…; The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as the backdrop for this lavish drama. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval…
Divorce Of Lady X (1939): Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson…; Sprightly Technicolor story has Olivier playing a barrister who falls in love with the woman he thinks his client will soon be divorcing.
Twenty One Days (21 Days Together) (1940): Dir. Basil Dean
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks…; Laurence Olivier plays a playboy embroiled in the death of an attractive model's blackmailer in this curious pre–war melodrama, from the…
Carrie (1952): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins…; Tough–minded and unusual "male melodrama" follows middle aged restauranteer Olivier's descent from riches to rags when he falls for Jones'…
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…; Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all. Both a finely…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…; Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
American Film Theatre - Three Sisters (1970): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright…; Three sisters stuck in the Russian provinces pine for distant Moscow in this comprehensively faithful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's famous 19th…
Long Day's Journey into Night (1971): Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. Laurence Olivier; A made–for–television National Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's classic play, which won Laurence Olivier an Emmy for best actor.
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972): Dir. Robert Bolt
Feat. Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain…; Playwright Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) debuts as dir. with this intelligent account of the titular Englishwoman. Managing to rock early 19th…
Love Among the Ruins (1975): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Blakely…; Nicely polished period TV–movie, with barrister Olivier defending aging beauty Hepburn, who is being sued by a gigolo for 'abandonment'. Of…
Seven Percent Solution, The (1976): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…; Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
Laurence Olivier Presents (TV Series) (1976-1978): Feat. Laurence Olivier, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner…; A British television anthology series made by Granada Television, consisting of six plays that starred Laurence Olivier (with the exception of Hindle…
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…; Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
Little Romance, A (1979): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Arthur Hill…; Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
Dracula (1979): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence…; Elegant variation on the Bram Stoker classic tones down the horror elements and amps up the eroticism with Langella an exceptional Count.
Jazz Singer, The (1980): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier; Tepid updating of the 1927 Al Jolson film, this has singer–songwriter Neil Diamond debut as a... er, songwriter, who must choose between…
Wagner (1983): Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…; Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
Bounty, The (1984): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier…; Robert Bolt’s (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) version of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ tale of Fletcher Christian’s (Mel Gibson) mutiny…
Jigsaw Man, The (1984): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George…; Squandered reteaming of SLEUTH adversaries Olivier and Caine finds the latter, playing a double agent, evading the manhunt of British and Russian spy…
Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986): Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif…; Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
Ebony Tower, The (1987): Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi…; Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie…; Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006): Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier…; Exemplary presentation traces the life and works of groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne, whose 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' changed the…

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