Olivia de Havilland

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1916-07-01 (104 years old)

Deathday

2020-07-26

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Olivia de Havilland

Biography

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 - July 25, 2020) was a British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to British parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved with their mother to California in 1919. They were brough...

Acting

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Melanie Hamilton

1940

Santa Fe Trail

as Kit Carson Holliday

1964

1979

The Fifth Musketeer

as Anne d'Autriche

1982

Murder Is Easy

as Honoria Waynflete

1977

Airport '77

as Emily Livingston

1943

Princess O'Rourke

as Princess Maria

1949

The Heiress

as Catherine Sloper

1964

Lady in a Cage

as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard

1942

In This Our Life

as Roy Timberlake

1936

Anthony Adverse

as Angela Guiseppe

1948

The Snake Pit

as Virginia Stuart Cunningham

1946

The Dark Mirror

as Terry Collins / Ruth Collins

1962

Light in the Piazza

as Meg Johnson

1935

Captain Blood

as Arabella Bishop

1941

1938

Four's a Crowd

as Lorri Dillingwell

1978

The Swarm

as Maureen Schuester

1939

Dodge City

as Abbie Irving

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

as Emmy Brown

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1943

Government Girl

as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard

1946

Devotion

as Charlotte Brontë

1946

To Each His Own

as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris

1942

The Male Animal

as Ellen Turner

1941

1955

Not as a Stranger

as Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh

1952

My Cousin Rachel

as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley

1959

Libel

as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon

1958

The Proud Rebel

as Linnett Moore

1970

The Adventurers

as Deborah Hadley

1937

It's Love I'm After

as Marcia West

1939

Wings of the Navy

as Irene Dale

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Self - Actress (also archive footage)

1938

Out Where the Stars Begin

as Serena Ferris (archive footage)

1935

Alibi Ike

as Dolly Stevens

1937

The Great Garrick

as Germaine de la Corbe

1972

The Screaming Woman

as Laura Wynant

1937

Call It a Day

as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton

1955

That Lady

as Ana de Mendoza

1939

Raffles

as Gwen

1982

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

1935

The Irish in Us

as Lucille Jackson

1940

My Love Came Back

as Amelia Cornell

1938

1938

Hard to Get

as Margaret "Maggie" Richards

1988

The Woman He Loved

as Aunt Bessie Merryman

1946

The Well Groomed Bride

as Margie Dawson

1966

Noon Wine

as Ellie Thompson

1972

Pope Joan

as Mother Superior

1937

A Day at Santa Anita

as Olivia de Havilland (uncredited)

1935

A Dream Comes True

as Herself (uncredited)

1988

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Self - Cast Member in 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

1969

The Extraordinary Seaman

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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