Movies by Laurence Olivier
As part of the cast:
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Never Apologize (2007)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Rachel Roberts …
Directed by: Mike E. Kaplan
Actor Malcolm McDowell pays tribute to filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in this program that blends reminiscences from McDowell's one-man monologue about the British director -- which ran at…
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Tony Palmer's Classic Film of John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)
Cast: John Osborne, Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney …
Directed by: Tony Palmer
John Osborne fell from a career peak in the 1950s as the most acclaimed playwright of his generation to becoming a nearly forgotten has-been due to his activism against successive English…
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Cast: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie …
Directed by: Kerry Conran
When scientists the world over keep disappearing without a trace, it's up to intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) and top aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) to uncover the truth…
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Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom (1999)
Cast: Claire Bloom, Roger Rees, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Phillip Schopper
Legendary Shakespearean actress Claire Bloom shares her perspective on some of the Bard's most fascinating female characters including Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Lady Anne and Gertrude.…
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War Requiem (1989)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Nathaniel Parker, Benjamin Britten …
Directed by: Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman's 1989 film serves as a visual accompaniment to composer Benjamin Britten's orchestral composition, which blends the Latin Requiem Mass with the hard-hitting poetry of…
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The Best of British Cinema: 5 Decades of Classic British Films (1988)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Douglas Fairbanks, Robert Donat …
With an entertaining narrative by Sir John Mills, this five-episode documentary explores British cinema -- from renowned historical dramas to international adventures to comedies that reflect…
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The Bounty (1984)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
After a month of battling sea squalls and the cruel reign of Capt. William Bligh, the HMS Bounty's crew at last finds respite on Tahiti. But the imperious Bligh soon wants to set sail,…
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King Lear (1984)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Anna Calder-Marshall …
Directed by: Michael Elliott
Having sent his loving daughter Cordelia (Anna Calder-Marshall) into exile, King Lear (Laurence Olivier) finds himself stripped of his status, his belongings and his pride by his other…
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Clash of the Titans (1981)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith …
Directed by: Desmond Davis
This epic mythological adventure stars Harry Hamlin as Perseus, son of Zeus (Laurence Olivier), who embarks on a series of perilous quests in the hopes of rescuing Princess Andromeda (Judi…
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Inchon (1981)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Omar Sharif …
Directed by: Terence Young
Best known as the movie produced by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, this searing war drama tells the story of the 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War, led by Gen.…
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William Walton: At the Haunted End of the Day (1981)
Cast: William Walton, Susana Walton, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer directs this critically acclaimed documentary that celebrates the life and works of Sir William Walton with interviews and performances by the likes of Laurence Olivier,…
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The Jazz Singer (1980)
Cast: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Neil Diamond adds his distinctive sounds to the role of Yussel, a young Jewish cantor on the verge of a dream in this remake of Al Jolson's 1927 film. Yussel (Diamond) forsakes the…
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Dracula (1979)
Cast: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence …
Directed by: John Badham
Seeking refuge in the home of a doctor and his daughter, seductive shipwreck survivor Dracula works his deadly magic on a nubile houseguest. Soon the vampire hunter Van Helsing is called to…
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A Little Romance (1979)
Cast: Diane Lane, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard …
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Diane Lane stars as Lauren, a young American girl whose love of books finds a soul mate in Daniel (Thelonious Bernard) -- and romance blossoms. When Daniel slugs the egomaniacal director…
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The Betsy (1978)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
An auto-dynasty family experiences scandal, adultery, incest and power struggles in a juicy adaptation of Harold Robbins's best-selling novel. Ruthless patriarch Loren (Laurence Olivier)…
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason …
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
In this thriller based on Ira Levin's novel, young Nazi hunter Barry Kohler stumbles on the trail of the infamous "Angel of Death," Dr. Josef Mengele, who is planning to resurrect…
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Daphne Laureola (1978)
Cast: Joan Plowright, Arthur Lowe, Gregoire Aslan …
Directed by: Waris Hussein
Partygoers, an elderly couple, an impressionistic young man and all the other diverse diners at a Soho restaurant have their worlds shaken up by Lady Pitts (Joan Plowright). A free spirit…
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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine …
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Featuring intense battle sequences and a cast of thousands, this wartime drama details a pivotal day in 1944 when an Allied task force tried -- and failed -- to win World War II by seizing…
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The Seven Percent Solution (1976)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Run down by his cocaine addiction, super sleuth Sherlock Holmes enters a treatment program under the care of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in this delightful mystery-adventure based on…
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Marathon Man (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
When his CIA agent brother (Roy Scheider) is killed, graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself trapped in a deadly game with a Nazi fugitive (Laurence Olivier), a sadist who…
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The Merchant of Venice (1973)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett …
Directed by: John Sichel
One of Shakespeare's most divisive plays gets the Laurence Olivier treatment as he takes on the role of anguished Jewish usurer Shylock, who demands a pound of nobleman Antonio's…
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Sleuth (1972)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Laurence Olivier stars as Andrew Wyke, an unhappily married man who wants to rid of his wife without paying alimony. Aware of his spouse's affair with Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), Wyke…
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Three Sisters (1970)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts …
Directed by: John Sichel, Laurence Olivier
Anton Chekhov's melancholy classic about shattered dreams, self-delusion and the necessity of compromise resonates in this American Film Theatre presentation of the 1967 stage production…
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Cast: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine …
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
This star-studded epic re-creates the 1940 air battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and outgunned, Britain's R.A.F. used determination and guile to fend off a…
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The Dance of Death (1969)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Lang …
Directed by: David Giles
Laurence Olivier and Geraldine McEwan reprise their highly acclaimed stage roles for this film adaptation of August Strindberg's acerbic play about an embittered couple, Edgar and Alice,…
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Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Cast: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery …
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Falling in love against the wishes of their feuding families, star-crossed lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet defy their destiny and elope in secret, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner …
Directed by: Michael Anderson
A priest (Anthony Quinn, in an inspired performance) who's spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp rises to become the first Russian pope in this passionate drama that garnered two Oscar…
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Khartoum (1966)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson …
Directed by: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
In this epic war drama highlighting the British Army's travails in North Africa in 1883, Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon leads the defense of the Sudanese garrison against a Muslim…
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Othello (1965)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joyce Redman, Maggie Smith …
Directed by: Stuart Burge
Laurence Olivier stars in this stellar version of Shakespeare's masterpiece about jealousy and remorse. After Iago (Frank Finlay) convinces Othello (Olivier) that his love, Desdemona…
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Cast: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Noel Coward …
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Director Otto Preminger's dark film portrays the horror that befalls Ann (Carol Lynley), a single mom recently transplanted to London who shows up one day at her daughter's nursery…
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Spartacus (1960)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons …
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick directed this epic saga based on ancient events, chronicling the birth of a vagabond slave-army led by an ex-gladiator named Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) that threatens the…
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The Entertainer (1960)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Oscar-nominated Laurence Olivier re-creates his stage role as Archie Rice, a third-rate, vaudevillian-style performer headlining a show in a rundown British seaside resort. As his life falls…
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The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Gladys Henson …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
While visiting London in 1911 to attend the crowning of King George V, a stuffy Carpathian nobleman (Laurence Olivier) surprisingly finds himself attracted to saucy American showgirl Elsie…
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Richard III (1955)
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier stars as England's storied ruling monarch in one of Shakespeare's greatest historical drama. In a Machiavellian masterstroke, Richard III plays relatives against…
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Carrie (1952)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins …
Directed by: William Wyler
Carrie (Jennifer Jones) is a small-town girl anxious to leave her dreary surroundings for big-city life in Chicago. When she finally makes it there, she becomes the mistress of salesman…
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Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
In 15th century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) schemes to avenge his father's death when his uncle, Claudius, murders the prince's father, promptly weds the queen…
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Henry V (1944)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Robert Newton …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Needing to bolster his domestic sovereignty and unite England -- a nation in disarray -- the newly crowned King Henry V (Laurence Olivier) invades France over territorial disputes, but a…
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The Demi-Paradise (1943)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding …
Directed by: Anthony Asquith
When he journeys to England on the eve of World War II to promote his newfangled gadget, Russian inventor Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) gets the cold shoulder from British patriots wary…
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That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray …
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Married actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh star in this story of a tragic love affair. When young Emma Hart (Leigh) marries much older Sir William Hamilton (Alan Mowbray), the British…
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49th Parallel (1941)
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Michael Powell
The great Laurence Olivier leads an impressive cast in this wartime thriller about a Nazi U-boat crew stranded in Canada during World War II. Led by the fanatical Lt. Hirth (Eric Portman),…
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Rebecca (1940)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar for Best Picture, this mystery stars Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, a widower whose hapless second wife (Joan Fontaine) moves into his…
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Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Edward Ashley, Marten Lamont …
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
With Laurence Olivier playing the smoldering Mr. Darcy and Greer Garson portraying the strong-willed eldest Bennet daughter intent on landing him, the sparks fly in this lively adaptation of…
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven …
Directed by: William Wyler
In director William Wyler's beautiful adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic story of passion, hatred and revenge, Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon star as Heathcliff and Cathy,…
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As You Like It (1936)
Cast: Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer, Elisabeth Bergner …
Directed by: Paul Czinner
Rosalind (Elisabeth Bergner), the daughter of a banished duke (Henry Ainley), loves Orlando (Laurence Olivier, in his first Shakespearian role on celluloid) -- the son of one of her…
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David Copperfield / Oliver Twist / A Tale of Two Cities (1933)
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, Pamela Franklin …
Directed by: Delbert Mann, William J. Cowen
This collection of films based on literary classics features wonderfully produced adaptations of three seminal Charles Dickens novels: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two…
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The Love Trap / Directed by William Wyler (1929)
Cast: Laura La Plante, Neil Hamilton, Robert Ellis …
Directed by: William Wyler, Aviva Slesin
William Wyler's romantic comedy about a dancer who falls in love with a rich young man (despite his family's objections) -- one of the earliest movies to use sound -- stars Laura…
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Three Sisters (1970)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts …
Directed by: John Sichel, Laurence Olivier
Anton Chekhov's melancholy classic about shattered dreams, self-delusion and the necessity of compromise resonates in this American Film Theatre presentation of the 1967 stage production…
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The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Gladys Henson …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
While visiting London in 1911 to attend the crowning of King George V, a stuffy Carpathian nobleman (Laurence Olivier) surprisingly finds himself attracted to saucy American showgirl Elsie…
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Richard III (1955)
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier stars as England's storied ruling monarch in one of Shakespeare's greatest historical drama. In a Machiavellian masterstroke, Richard III plays relatives against…
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Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
In 15th century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) schemes to avenge his father's death when his uncle, Claudius, murders the prince's father, promptly weds the queen…
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Henry V (1944)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Robert Newton …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Needing to bolster his domestic sovereignty and unite England -- a nation in disarray -- the newly crowned King Henry V (Laurence Olivier) invades France over territorial disputes, but a…