
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.

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

Laurence Olivier: a life

The World at War

Night of 100 Stars II

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Brideshead Revisited

レベッカ

Peter the Great

ナザレのイエス

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

キャロル・バーネット・ショー

探偵スルース

A Voyage Round My Father

スパルタカス

ハムレット

Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent

ロミオとジュリエット

The Last Days of Pompeii

バニー・レークは行方不明

遠すぎた橋

This Happy Breed

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Omnibus

ゴールデングローブ賞

マラソンマン

嵐が丘

Richard III

That Hamilton Woman

A Queen Is Crowned

Discovering Hamlet

The Merchant of Venice

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Come Back, Little Sheba

アカデミー賞

Laurence Olivier Presents

49th Parallel

Pride and Prejudice

ニコライとアレクサンドラ

Love Among the Ruins

The Filth and the Fury

タイタンの戦い

空軍大戦略

The Dick Cavett Show

リトル・ロマンス

Nothing Like a Dame

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

The Shoes of the Fisherman

バウンティ/愛と反乱の航海

ブラジルから来た少年

素晴らしき戦争

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France

The Gentleman Tramp

The Devil's Disciple

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

King Lear

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

黄昏

The Magic Box

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

王子と踊子

Dracula

Khartoum

The Demi-Paradise

Wagner

シャーロック・ホームズの素敵な挑戦

The Entertainer

Fire Over England

War Requiem

Othello

Words for Battle

ABC Stage 67

Talking Pictures

21 Days

Perfect Understanding

Term of Trial

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Daphne Laureola

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

スカイキャプテン ワールド・オブ・トゥモロー

Q Planes

The Divorce of Lady X

A Talent for Murder

The Jazz Singer

Westward Passage

Great Performances

Lady Caroline Lamb

The Dance of Death

Male of the Species

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

David Copperfield

The Mike Douglas Show

Moscow Nights

As You Like It

The Jigsaw Man

Wild Geese II

The Rehearsal

The Volunteer

The Yellow Ticket

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

The Betsy

Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony

Friends and Lovers

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Conquest of the Air

Lost Empires

The Beggar's Opera

The Collection

Uncle Vanya

Three Sisters

Inchon

Male of the Species

To Be Hamlet

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

The Power and the Glory

Revisiting Brideshead

Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love

Malta G.C.

The Ebony Tower

No Funny Business

The Bannfoot Ferry

The Temporary Widow

Too Many Crooks

Potiphar's Wife

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Jornal Português (1938-1951)

At the Haunted End of the Day

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

Directed by William Wyler

The Moon and Sixpence

Private lives

Rebecca

Couples mythiques du cinéma