Laurence Harvey
Gender: Male
Born: 1st October 1928
Died: 25th November 1973
Nationality: England, South Africa
Movies: BUtterfield 8, Darling, Room at the Top, The Alamo, The Manchurian Candidate, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Romeo and Juliet, A Dandy in Aspic, WUSA, A Walk on the Wild Side, The Outrage, The Silent Enemy, Night Watch, King Richard and the Crusaders, Expresso Bongo, Life at the Top, Of Human Bondage, Three Men in a Boat, I Am a Camera, Storm Over the Nile, The Good Die Young, Scarlet Thread, There Is Another Sun, The Running Man, Summer and Smoke, The Deep, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Rebus, A Girl Named Tamiko, Walk on the Wild Side, The Spy with a Cold Nose, The Black Rose, The Magic Christian, After the Ball, The Ceremony, Man on the Run, Kampf um Rom I, I Am a Camera, A Killer Walks
Laurence Harvey (1 October 1928 – 25 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films.
Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, but his birth name was actually Zvi Mosheh Skikne. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber and Ella Skikne, a Lithuanian Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania. Aged five he emigrated with his family to South Africa, where he was known as "Harry Skikne".
He grew up in Johannesburg, and was in his teens when he served with the entertainment unit of the South African Army during World War II. After moving to London, England, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he became known as Larry. After learning his craft at RADA, he began to perform on stage and film, where he adopted the stage name "Laurence Harvey", taken either from the shop name Harvey Nichols or from Harvey's Bristol Cream.
He made his cinema debut in the British film House of Darkness (1948), but only established himself in British cinema when he appeared with Rex Harrison and George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) and as Romeo in Renato Castellani's
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