Laurence Olivier
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-05-22 (82 years old)
Deathday
1989-07-11
Place of Birth
Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
Also known As
Лоуренс Оливье
Sir Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier
Лоуренс Олівʼє
لارنس الیویه
Laurence Olivier
Biography
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM 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 We...
Acting
1940
as Maxim de Winter
1960
as Marcus Licinius Crassus
1972
as Andrew Wyke
1976
as Szell
1939
as Heathcliff
1985
as Self
1981
as Zeus
1965
as Supt. Newhouse
1984
as Admiral Hood
2000
as Self (archive footage)
2004
as Dr. Totenkopf (archive footage)
1977
as Dr. Jan Spaander
1969
as Field Marshal Sir John French
1979
as Julius
1937
as Michael Ingolby
1941
as Johnnie, the Trapper
1957
as The Regent
1969
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
1948
as Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
1944
as King Henry
1979
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1969
as Edgar
1983
as Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
1966
as Mahdi
1989
as The Old Soldier
1976
as Professor James Moriarty
1955
as Richard III
1952
as George Hurstwood
1980
as Cantor Rabinovitch
1941
as Lord Horatio Nelson
1940
as Mr. Darcy
1939
as Tony McVane
1938
as Everard Logan
1936
as Orlando
1965
as Othello
1978
as Ezra Lieberman
1971
as Count Witte
1984
as Clifford Mortimer
1940
as Larry Durrant
1968
as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev
1983
as King Lear
1985
as Rudolf Hess
1960
as Archie Rice
1952
as Police Constable 94-B
2023
as Self (archive footage)
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
as Graham Weir
1959
as Gen. Burgoyne
1978
as Loren Hardeman
1931
as Julian Rolfe
2002
as Self (archive footage)
1953
as Narrator
1975
as Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones
1963
as Priest
1981
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1969
as Mr. Creakle
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1941
as Narrator (voice)
1976
as Narrator
1936
as Vincent Lunardi
1976
as Harry
1934
as Captain Ivan Ignatoff
1932
as Nicholas 'Nick' Allen
1931
as Lieutenant Ned Nichols
1969
as Presenter
1933
as Nicholas Randall
2011
as Hamlet (archive footage)
2021
as Self (archive footage)
1986
as Self (from The Prince and the Showgirl [1957]) (archive footage)
1943
as Ivan Kouznetsoff
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1973
as Shylock
2001
as Self (archive footage)
1973
as James Tyrone Sr.
1961
as Maxim de Winter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970
as Dr. Ivan Chebutikin
1977
as Doc Delaney
1976
as Big Daddy
1953
as MacHeath
1942
as Narrator
1972
as Duke of Wellington
1984
as Henry Breasley
1974
as Self
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1944
as Narrator (voice)
1933
as Clive Dering
1992
as Self (archival footage)
1985
as Self
1983
as Dr. Anthony Wainwright
1968
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1953
as Narrator
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Sir Joseph
1999
as Self (archive footage)
1944
as Self
1930
as Peter Bille
1930
as The Boy
1931
as Straker
1978
as Antonio
1940
1940
1988
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1981
1966
as Self - Interviewee
2000
as Richard III (archive footage)
1991
as Superintendent Newhouse (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1986
as Self
1963
as Dr. Astrov
1965
as Self - Host
1983
as Joe Halpern
1990
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2010
as Self (archive footage)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1959
as Charles Strickland
1971
as Narrator
1982
as Self
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1940
as Elyot Chase
1950
as Maxim de winter
Production
1944
as Director
1948
as Director
1948
as Screenplay
1957
as Director
1957
as Producer
1955
as Director
1976
as Producer
1976
as Producer
1970
as Director
1944
as Writer
1976
as Producer
1948
as Producer
1953
as Producer
1978
as Executive Producer
1978
as Producer
1955
as Screenplay
1963
as Director
1976
as Director
1955
as Producer
1977
as Creative Producer
1944
as Producer
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