Discuss Laurence Olivier
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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on May 23, 2017 at 12:24 AM
on his birthday, Laurence Olivier, known for the movies "Wuthering Heights (1939)", "Rebecca (1940)", "Pride and Prejudice (1940)", "Henry V (1944)", "Hamlet (1948)", "Richard III (1955)", "Othello (1965)", "The Merchant of Venice (1973)" and "King Lear (1983)".
Some other movies he starred in are "The Prince and the Show Girl (1957)", "Spartacus (1960)", "The Entertainer (1960)", "The Power and the Glory (1961)", "Battle of Britain (1969)", "David Copperfield (1970)", "Sleuth (1972)", "Marathon Man (1976)", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)", "The Boys from Brazil (1978)", "Dracula (1979)", "Clash of the Titans (1981)" and "The Bounty (1984)".
He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor nine times, and he has won it once for his role as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in the movie "Hamlet (1948)".
As a producer, he also won the Academy Award for Best Picture for this movie, an adaptation of William Shakespeare play with the same title.
Laurence Olivier is considered one of the great, if not the greatest, Shakespearean actors of the twentieth century.
Reply by genplant29
on May 23, 2017 at 4:28 PM
I also am a fan of him as Lord Marchmain (Sebastian Flyte's father) in the exceptional 1981 British t.v. miniseries Brideshead Revisited. He was spot-on perfect in that.
Reply by bratface
on May 25, 2017 at 9:38 AM
He was also one of the greatest 'scenery chewers'.
Reply by genplant29
on May 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM
For sure. He shared that in common with (for example) the Barrymore brothers.