Laurence Olivier
Gender: Male
Born: 22nd May 1907
Died: 11th July 1989
Nationality: United Kingdom, England
TV programs: Brideshead Revisited, Laurence Olivier Presents, The Moon And Sixpence, Love Among the Ruins, Wagner, The World at War, Lost Empires, Jesus of Nazareth
Movies: A Bridge Too Far, A Little Romance, As You Like It, Battle of Britain, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Clash of the Titans, Dance of Death, Dracula, Fire Over England, Forty-Ninth Parallel, Hamlet, Henry V, Inchon, Khartoum, Lady Caroline Lamb, Oh! What a Lovely War, Othello, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, Richard III, Sleuth, Spartacus, That Hamilton Woman, The Beggar's Opera, The Betsy, The Bounty, The Boys from Brazil, The Devil's Disciple, The Divorce of Lady X, The Entertainer, The Jazz Singer, The Magic Box, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Rehearsal, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Three Sisters, Wuthering Heights, Marathon Man, The Devil's Disciple, Love Among the Ruins, King Lear, The Demi-Paradise, Term of Trial, Q Planes, 21 Days, Lost Empires, Carrie, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Uncle Vanya, Wild Geese II, Terror in the Aisles, War Requiem, David Copperfield, Perfect Understanding, Daphne Laureola, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Temporary Widow, William Walton: At the Haunted End of the Day, The Best of British Cinema: 5 Decades of Classic British Films, Long Day's Journey into Night
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. One of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, he was the youngest actor to be knighted and the first to be elevated to the peerage. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Actor Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he
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