Laurence Olivier

• Films directed by Laurence Olivier

  • Henry V (1944 film)
  • Richard III (1955)
  • The Prince and the Showgirl
  • Hamlet (1948 film)
  • Three Sisters (1970 film)

• Best British Actor BAFTA Award winners (11)

  • John Gielgud
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Alec Guinness
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Kenneth More
  • Kenneth More
  • Paul Scofield
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Peter Sellers
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Richard Burton
  • Trevor Howard
  • more...

• Actors awarded British knighthoods (63)

  • Anthony Quayle
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Felix Aylmer
  • Michael Caine
  • Michael Caine
  • Alan Bates
  • Alec Guinness
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Antony Sher
  • Augustus Harris
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Bernard Miles
  • Bob Hope
  • Brian Rix, Baron Rix
  • C. Aubrey Smith
  • Charles Hawtrey (stage actor)
  • Charles Wyndham (actor)
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Christopher Lee
  • David Jason
  • Derwent Hall Caine
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Donald Sinden
  • Donald Wolfit
  • Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • Frank Benson (actor)
  • George Alexander (actor)
  • Gerald du Maurier
  • Godfrey Tearle
  • Henry Irving
  • Henry Lytton
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  • Ian Holm
  • Ian McKellen
  • Jimmy Savile
  • John Clements
  • John Gielgud
  • John Hare (actor)
  • John Martin-Harvey
  • John Mills
  • Johnston Forbes-Robertson
  • Lewis Casson
  • Michael Gambon
  • Michael Hordern
  • Michael Redgrave
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Nigel Playfair
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Noël Coward
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Rex Harrison
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Robert Helpmann
  • Robert Stephens
  • Roger Moore
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Sean Connery
  • Seymour Hicks
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Squire Bancroft
  • Stanley Baker
  • Tom Courtenay
  • more...

• BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor

  • Edward Fox (actor)
  • John Gielgud

• Royal National Theatre Company members

  • Joan Plowright
  • Colin Blakely
  • Frank Finlay
  • John Gielgud
  • Derek Jacobi

• English theatre directors

  • Charles laughton
  • Terry Hands
  • Colley Cibber

• BAFTA winners (people) (11)

  • Archie Rice
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Claire bloom
  • William Wyler
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Ralph Richardson
  • John Gielgud
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Frank Finlay
  • Edward Fox (actor)
  • Michael Caine
  • more...

• Shakespearean actors

  • Sybil Thorndike
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Ralph Richardson
  • John Gielgud
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Kenneth Branagh

• Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama

  • John Laurie
  • Claire bloom

• LGBT directors

  • John Gielgud
  • Charles laughton

• English film directors

  • Stuart Burge
  • Basil Dearden
  • Charles laughton

• Emmy Award winners

  • Jean Simmons
  • John Gielgud
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Kenneth Branagh

• Knights Bachelor

  • Felix Aylmer
  • Ralph Richardson
  • John Gielgud
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Michael Caine

• English stage actors (24)

  • Jill Esmond
  • Esmond Knight
  • Basil Sydney
  • Leslie Banks
  • Dorothy Tutin
  • Dorothy Tutin
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Flora Robson
  • Brenda de Banzie
  • Gladys Cooper
  • Leanne Jones
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Ralph Richardson
  • John Gielgud
  • Jean Simmons
  • Joan Plowright
  • Claire bloom
  • Sybil Thorndike
  • Charles laughton
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Colley Cibber
  • Frank Finlay
  • Edward Fox (actor)
  • more...

• English film actors (27)

  • Harcourt Williams
  • Judi Bowker
  • Renee Asherson
  • Laurence naismith
  • Jill Esmond
  • Jill Esmond
  • Felix Aylmer
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Esmond Knight
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Basil Sydney
  • Jean Simmons
  • Joan Plowright
  • Leslie Banks
  • Claire bloom
  • Dorothy Tutin
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Sybil Thorndike
  • Charles laughton
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Flora Robson
  • Brenda de Banzie
  • Gladys Cooper
  • Frank Finlay
  • Edward Fox (actor)
  • Michael Caine
  • more...

• London Films productions (36)

  • Fire over england
  • That hamilton woman
  • The Divorce of Lady X
  • 21 Days
  • A Kid for Two Farthings (film)
  • A Kid for Two Farthings (film)
  • An Ideal Husband (1947 film)
  • Anna Karenina (1948 film)
  • Dark Journey (film)
  • Elephant Boy (film)
  • Hobson's Choice (1954 film)
  • Jungle Book (1942 film)
  • Knight Without Armour
  • Men of Tomorrow
  • Odd Man Out
  • Perfect Strangers (1945 film)
  • Rembrandt (film)
  • Richard III (1955)
  • Smiley (film)
  • Storm in a Teacup (film)
  • The Belles of St Trinian's
  • The Captain's Paradise
  • The Deep Blue Sea (film)
  • The Drum (1938 film)
  • The Fallen Idol (film)
  • The Four Feathers (1939 film)
  • The Heart of the Matter (film)
  • The Iron Petticoat
  • The Lion Has Wings
  • The Private Life of Don Juan
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)
  • The Sound Barrier
  • The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)
  • The Third Man
  • The Winslow Boy (1948 film)
  • Wedding Rehearsal
  • more...

• Actress Damehoods (29)

  • Anna Neagle
  • Celia Johnson
  • Cicely Courtneidge
  • Diana Rigg
  • Dorothy Tutin
  • Dorothy Tutin
  • Edith Evans
  • Eileen Atkins
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Ellen Terry
  • Flora Robson
  • Gladys Cooper
  • Gracie Fields
  • Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
  • Helen Mirren
  • Joan Plowright
  • Judi Dench
  • Judith Anderson
  • Julie Andrews
  • Lilian Braithwaite
  • Madge Kendal
  • Maggie Smith
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Marie Tempest
  • May Whitty
  • Pat Evison
  • Peggy Ashcroft
  • Sybil Thorndike
  • Thora Hird
  • Wendy Hiller
  • more...

• English-language films (14)

  • Q Planes
  • Term of Trial
  • The Demi-Paradise
  • Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
  • The Ballad of Little Jo
  • The Ballad of Little Jo
  • A Little Romance
  • Jack and Sarah
  • Dracula (1979)
  • Bunny Lake is Missing
  • The Prince and the Showgirl
  • Richard III (1955)
  • That hamilton woman
  • The Divorce of Lady X
  • Fire over england
  • more...

• Naturalized citizens of the United States

  • Eileen Herlie
  • Merle Oberon
  • Joan Fontaine
  • Jean Simmons
  • William Wyler
  • Charles laughton

• American film actors

  • Robert Z. Leonard
  • Harry Hamlin
  • Florence Bates
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Joan Fontaine
  • Charles laughton

• Century (16)

  • Michael Parkinson
  • Ronald Pickup
  • Royal National Theatre
  • The Boys from Brazil (film)
  • The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
  • The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The South Bank Show
  • Richard III (1955 film)
  • That Hamilton Woman
  • John Gielgud
  • Joan Plowright
  • Henry V (1944 film)
  • Claire Bloom
  • 21 Days
  • Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • Eileen Atkins
  • more...

• Career overview (25)

  • AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Clash of the Titans (1981 film)
  • Clash of the Titans (1981 film)
  • Golden Globe Award
  • King Lear
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Marathon Man (film)
  • Othello
  • Otto Preminger
  • Prince Hamlet
  • Rebecca (1940 film)
  • Richard III of England
  • Romeo Montague
  • Sleuth (1972 film)
  • Spartacus (1960 film)
  • The Entertainer (play)
  • Twelfth Night
  • Richard III (1955 film)
  • Henry V (1944 film)
  • Hamlet (1948 film)
  • Royal National Theatre
  • The Boys from Brazil (film)
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • more...

• Early career (17)

  • 1946
  • As You Like It (1936 film)
  • Central School of Speech and Drama
  • Henry V (play)
  • James Agee
  • James Agee
  • Journey's End
  • London
  • Private Lives
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Yellow Ticket
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Fire Over England
  • John Gielgud
  • Henry V (1944 film)
  • King Lear
  • Othello
  • Twelfth Night
  • more...

• Later career (18)

  • Academy Award
  • Charlton Heston
  • Derek Jarman
  • Inchon (film)
  • John Mortimer
  • John Mortimer
  • Khartoum (film)
  • Muhammad Ahmad
  • Rudolf Hess
  • Thames Television
  • The Shoes of the Fisherman
  • War Requiem (film)
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)
  • King Lear
  • Marathon Man (film)
  • Royal National Theatre
  • Sleuth (1972 film)
  • The Boys from Brazil (film)
  • more...

• War (11)

  • Arms and the Man
  • David Niven
  • Entertainments National Service Association
  • Falstaff
  • Fleet Air Arm
  • Fleet Air Arm
  • Michael Munn
  • Noël Coward Theatre
  • Peer Gynt
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Richard III (play)
  • Ralph Richardson
  • more...

• Post-war years (8)

  • John Merivale
  • Peter Finch
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Joan Plowright
  • David Niven
  • David Niven
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Richard III (play)
  • Twelfth Night
  • more...

• Sexuality

  • Carrie (1952 film)
  • Danny Kaye
  • Henry Ainley
  • Joan Plowright
  • David Niven

• 1952–1975 (10)

  • Lloyd Nolan
  • Maurice Evans (actor)
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Peter Falk
  • Robert Cummings
  • Robert Cummings
  • Thomas Mitchell (actor)
  • William Holden
  • Paul Scofield
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Trevor Howard
  • more...

• 1976–2000 (9)

  • Michael Moriarty
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Peter Strauss
  • Powers Boothe
  • Raúl Juliá
  • Raúl Juliá
  • Richard Crenna
  • Robert Morse
  • Stanley Tucci
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • more...

• 1961-1980 (8)

  • Omar Sharif
  • Oskar Werner
  • Peter Firth
  • Richard Benjamin
  • Robert Duvall
  • Robert Duvall
  • Timothy Hutton
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Richard Attenborough
  • more...

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie

  • Marlon Brando
  • Michael A. Goorjian
  • Richard Kiley
  • Scott Jacoby
  • Tom Hulce
  • Vincent Gardenia
  • Peter O'Toole

• 1941–1960

  • Paul Lukas
  • Ray Milland
  • Ronald Colman
  • Yul Brynner
  • Marlon Brando
  • William Holden

• 1980-1989

  • Neil Diamond
  • Prince (musician)
  • Rob Lowe
  • Steve Forrest (actor)
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • William Shatner

• Artistic director

  • Nicholas Hytner
  • Richard Eyre
  • Trevor Nunn
  • Peter Hall (director)

• See also (20)

  • Actors
  • Laurence Olivier Awards
  • Olivier Awards
  • Laurence Olivier Presents
  • British actors
  • British actors
  • The Society of London Theatre
  • Mary Kerridge
  • The Boys from Brazil (novel)
  • Oliver
  • Norman Wooland
  • Marathon Man
  • Vernon Dobtcheff
  • Filmfare Best Music Director Award
  • 1989
  • Entertainers
  • John Burgoyne
  • L.O.P
  • Letchworth
  • List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Olivier
  • On Acting
  • more...

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