Laurence Olivier

actor

Photo: HRT press

Pays: United Kingdom

Genre: M

Date d'anniversaire: 1907-05-22

Décédés: 1989-07-11

Biographie
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Olivier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acteur:

  1. 1. Le parfait accord (1933), film
    ...
    Nicholas Randall
  2. 2. Les Nuits moscovites (1935), film
    ...
    Capt. Ivan Ignatoff
  3. 3. Comme il vous plaira (1936), film
    ...
    Orlando
  4. 4. L'invincible Armada (1937), film
    ...
    Michael
  5. 5. Le divorce de Lady X (1938), film
    ...
    Everard Logan
  6. 6. Les hauts de Hurlevent (1939), film
    ...
    Heathcliff
  7. 7. Nuages sur l'Europe (1939), film
    ...
    Tony McVane
  8. 8. Rebecca (1940), film
    ...
    'Maxim' de Winter
  9. 9. Vingt-et-un jours ensemble (1940), film
    ...
    Larry
  10. 10. Lady Hamilton (1941), film
    ...
    Lord Horatio Nelson
  11. 11. 49ème parallèle (1941), film
    ...
    Johnnie - the Trapper
  12. 12. The Demi-Paradise (1943), film
    ...
    Ivan Kouznetsoff
  13. 13. Henry V (1944), film
    ...
    King Henry V of England
  14. 14. Hamlet (1948), film
    ...
    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  15. 15. Un amour désespéré (1952), film
    ...
    George Hurstwood
  16. 16. Richard III (1955), film
  17. 17. Le prince et la danseuse (1957), film
    ...
    The Regent
  18. 18. Au fil de l'épée (1959), film
    ...
    Gen. Burgoyne
  19. 19. Spartacus (1960), film
    ...
    Crassus
  20. 20. Spartacus (1960), série
    ...
    Crassus
  21. 21. Le cabotin (1960), film
  22. 22. Bunny Lake a disparu (1965), film
    ...
    Superintendent Newhouse
  23. 23. Othello (1965), film
    ...
    Othello
  24. 24. Khartoum (1966), film
    ...
    The Mahdi
  25. 25. Les souliers de Saint-Pierre (1968), film
    ...
    Premier Piotr Ilyich Kamenev
  26. 26. La bataille d'Angleterre (1969), film
    ...
    Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
  27. 27. The Dance of Death (1969), film
    ...
    Edgar
  28. 28. Les trois soeurs (1970), film
    ...
    Dr. Ivan Chebutikin
  29. 29. Le limier (1972), film
    ...
    Andrew Wyke
  30. 30. La vie tumultueuse de Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), film
    ...
    Duke of Wellington
  31. 31. 39-45 : Le monde en guerre (1973), série
    ...
    Self - Narrator
  32. 32. Il neige au printemps (1975), film
    ...
    Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones
  33. 33. Marathon Man (1976), film
    ...
    Dr. Christian Szell
  34. 34. Sherlock Holmes attaque l'Orient-Express (1976), film
    ...
    Professor James Moriarty
  35. 35. Jésus de Nazareth (1977), série
    ...
    Nicodemus
  36. 36. Betsy (1978), film
    ...
    Number One
  37. 37. Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil (1978), film
    ...
    Ezra Lieberman
  38. 38. Dracula (1979), film
    ...
    Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
  39. 39. I love you, je t'aime (1979), film
    ...
    Julius
  40. 40. Le chanteur de jazz (1980), film
    ...
    Cantor Rabinovitch
  41. 41. Le choc des Titans (1981), film
    ...
    Zeus
  42. 42. Retour au château (1981), série
    ...
    Lord Marchmain
  43. 43. La taupe (1983), film
    ...
    Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
  44. 44. King Lear (1983), film
    ...
    King Lear
  45. 45. Wagner (1983), série
    ...
    Pfeuffer
  46. 46. Le Bounty (1984), film
    ...
    Admiral Hood
  47. 47. Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi (1984), série
    ...
    Gaius
  48. 48. Les Oies sauvages II (1985), film
    ...
    Rudolf Hess
  49. 49. War Requiem (1989), film
    ...
    The Old Soldier
  50. 50. Capitaine Sky et le monde de demain (2004), film
    ...
    Dr. Totenkopf (archive footage)
  51. 51. For No Good Reason (2012), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  52. 52. Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015), série
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  53. 53. Petites anecdotes entre stars (2018), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  54. 54. Quand Churchill faisait son cinéma (2019), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  55. 55. Dans l'ombre d'Hitchcock, Alma et Hitch (2019), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  56. 56. Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent (2021), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  57. 57. Mel Gibson, à la folie, passionnément (2022), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)
  58. 58. La côte amalfitaine, entre mythologies et dolce vita (2023), film
    ...
    Self (archive footage)

Réalisateur:

  1. 1. Henry V (1944), film
  2. 2. Hamlet (1948), film
  3. 3. Richard III (1955), film
  4. 4. Le prince et la danseuse (1957), film
  5. 5. Les trois soeurs (1970), film

Scénario:

  1. 1. Henry V (1944), film
    ...
    (uncredited)
  2. 2. Hamlet (1948), film
    ...
    (uncredited)

Producteur:

  1. 1. Henry V (1944), film
  2. 2. Hamlet (1948), film
    ...
    producer (uncredited)
  3. 3. Le prince et la danseuse (1957), film

Voix:

  1. 1. Le Couronnement d'Élisabeth II (1953), film
    ...
    Self - Narrator
  2. 2. Roméo & Juliette (1968), film
    ...
    Narrator / Lord Montague / Complementary Role

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