Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989)

English actor and director

* May 22, 1907 Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
 as Laurence Kerr Olivier
 July 11, 1989 Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK



Vintage magazines

Le film complet, nr. 2345, 7-12 1939
Mon Film, nr. 30, 19-2 1947

Articles by Laurence Olivier

On Acting, in: Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998


Books with substantial mentioning of Laurence Olivier

John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume Two
New York, NY, 2002

Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill
The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, From Day of the Fight to Eyes Wide Shut
New York NY, 2002

John Dileo 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary Alternate Oscars Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

Siegfried Melchinger
Schauspieler, 36 Portraits
Frankfurt am Main - Wien - Zürich, 1966

Friederike Mat (ed.) Unsere Filmlieblinge Friederike Mat (ed.)
Unsere Filmlieblinge, Ein Bilderbuch
Wien, München, Düsseödorf, Bozen, 1956

Books with an entry on Laurence Olivier

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of Laurence Olivier

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

John Kobal (ed.) Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties John Kobal (ed.)
Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties, 163 Glamor Photos
New York, 1977

Articles on Laurence Olivier

Lizzie Francke, The Entertainer, in: Premiere (UK), nr. 40, 1996 pp. 106-111

DeWitt Bodeen, Laurence Olivier, The Man and His Films, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 577-599

Films

1930
The Temporary Widow
Too Many Crooks

1931
Friends and Lovers
Potiphar's Wife
The Yellow Ticket

1932
Westward Passage

1933
No Funny Business
Perfect Understanding

1935
Moscow Nights

1936
As You Like It
The Conquest of the Air

1937
Fire Over England

1938
The Divorce of Lady X

1939
Q Planes
Wuthering Heights

1940
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
21 Days

1941
49th Parallel
That Hamilton Woman

1943
The Demi-Paradise

1944
Henry V
This Happy Breed

1948
Hamlet

1951
The Magic Box

1952
Carrie

1953
The Beggar's Opera
A Queen Is Crowned

1955
Richard III

1957
The Prince and the Showgirl

1959
The Devil's Disciple
The Moon and Sixpence

1960
Spartacus
The Entertainer

1961
The Power and the Glory

1962
Term of Trial

1963
Uncle Vanya

1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Othello

1966
Khartoum

1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Romeo and Juliet

1969
Male of the Species
Battle of Britain
The Dance of Death
Oh! What a Lovely War

1970
David Copperfield
Three Sisters

1971
Nicholas and Alexandra

1972
Sleuth
Lady Caroline Lamb

1973
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Merchant of Venice
The World at War

1974
The Rehearsal

1975
Love Among the Ruins

1976
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Collection
Marathon Man
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Gentleman Tramp
Hindle Wakes

1977
Come Back, Little Sheba
Jesus of Nazareth
A Bridge Too Far

1978
The Boys from Brazil
Daphne Laureola
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
The Betsy

1979
Dracula
A Little Romance

1980
The Jazz Singer

1981
Brideshead Revisited
Clash of the Titans
Inchon

1983
King Lear
Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson
Wagner
The Jigsaw Man

1984
The Bounty
The Ebony Tower
A Talent for Murder
A Voyage Round My Father
The Last Days of Pompeii

1985
Wild Geese II

1986
Lost Empires
Peter the Great

1989
War Requiem

2000
The Filth and The Fury

2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture

2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2015
Trumbo

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