Laurence Olivier
Bekannt Fir: Acting
Gebuertsdag: 1907-05-22
Gebuertsuert: Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
Och bekannt als: Лоуренс Оливье, Sir Laurence Olivier, Laurence Kerr Olivier, Лоуренс Олівʼє
Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...
Fräisetzung : 1940.03.23Popularitéit : 21.968
Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...
Fräisetzung : 1960.10.13Popularitéit : 33.428
Sleuth
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem. Preserved by the Academy Film...
Fräisetzung : 1972.12.10Popularitéit : 11.233
Marathon Man
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Fräisetzung : 1976.10.08Popularitéit : 14.088
Wuthering Heights
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged...
Fräisetzung : 1939.04.07Popularitéit : 9.47
To Be Hamlet
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...
Fräisetzung : 1985.01.19Popularitéit : 1.856
Clash of the Titans
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...
Fräisetzung : 1981.06.12Popularitéit : 22.238
Bunny Lake Is Missing
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Fräisetzung : 1965.10.03Popularitéit : 15.218
The Bounty
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to...
Fräisetzung : 1984.05.04Popularitéit : 15.481
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from...
Fräisetzung : 2000.08.01Popularitéit : 4.141
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has...
Fräisetzung : 2004.09.17Popularitéit : 11.754
A Bridge Too Far
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three...
Fräisetzung : 1977.06.15Popularitéit : 21.46
Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...
Fräisetzung : 1969.03.10Popularitéit : 5.651
A Little Romance
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with...
Fräisetzung : 1979.04.27Popularitéit : 8.989
Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...
Fräisetzung : 1937.03.05Popularitéit : 3.394
49th Parallel
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by...
Fräisetzung : 1941.11.24Popularitéit : 8.492
The Prince and the Showgirl
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Fräisetzung : 1957.06.13Popularitéit : 9.717
Battle of Britain
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...
Fräisetzung : 1969.09.15Popularitéit : 15.939
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...
Fräisetzung : 1948.12.10Popularitéit : 16.424
Henry V
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Fräisetzung : 1944.11.24Popularitéit : 8.929
Dracula
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he...
Fräisetzung : 1979.07.20Popularitéit : 12.671
The Dance of Death
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden...
Fräisetzung : 1969.01.01Popularitéit : 2.072
The Jigsaw Man
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB...
Fräisetzung : 1983.11.11Popularitéit : 6.264
Khartoum
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...
Fräisetzung : 1966.06.09Popularitéit : 13.65
War Requiem
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying...
Fräisetzung : 1989.01.06Popularitéit : 3.97
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....
Fräisetzung : 1976.10.24Popularitéit : 9.159
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
Fräisetzung : 1955.12.13Popularitéit : 7.084
Carrie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly...
Fräisetzung : 1952.07.17Popularitéit : 4.278
The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Fräisetzung : 1980.12.17Popularitéit : 10.048
That Hamilton Woman
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her...
Fräisetzung : 1941.04.03Popularitéit : 6.87
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single...
Fräisetzung : 1940.07.26Popularitéit : 9.728
Q Planes
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...
Fräisetzung : 1939.02.21Popularitéit : 2.988
The Divorce of Lady X
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Fräisetzung : 1938.01.15Popularitéit : 3.799
As You Like It
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Fräisetzung : 1936.09.02Popularitéit : 2.499
Othello
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Fräisetzung : 1965.12.15Popularitéit : 4.718
The Boys from Brazil
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Fräisetzung : 1978.10.05Popularitéit : 13.978
Nicholas and Alexandra
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Fräisetzung : 1971.11.29Popularitéit : 7.046
A Voyage Round My Father
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals...
Fräisetzung : 1984.04.19Popularitéit : 3.319
21 Days Together
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...
Fräisetzung : 1940.01.07Popularitéit : 4.591
The Shoes of the Fisherman
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...
Fräisetzung : 1968.11.14Popularitéit : 10.54
King Lear
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Fräisetzung : 1983.04.03Popularitéit : 4.345
Wild Geese II
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Fräisetzung : 1985.10.18Popularitéit : 3.259
The Entertainer
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Fräisetzung : 1960.07.25Popularitéit : 16.344
The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...
Fräisetzung : 1952.01.01Popularitéit : 4.276
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his...
Fräisetzung : 2023.06.02Popularitéit : 4.768
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...
Fräisetzung : 1983.02.25Popularitéit : 10.592
Term of Trial
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...
Fräisetzung : 1962.08.16Popularitéit : 3.541
The Devil's Disciple
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister...
Fräisetzung : 1959.08.20Popularitéit : 4.177
The Betsy
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even...
Fräisetzung : 1978.02.02Popularitéit : 11.206
The Yellow Ticket
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...
Fräisetzung : 1931.10.30Popularitéit : 1.795
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
Fräisetzung : 2002.08.16Popularitéit : 9.602
The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his...
Fräisetzung : 1953.01.01Popularitéit : 3.101
Love Among the Ruins
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé....
Fräisetzung : 1975.03.06Popularitéit : 4.326
The Power and the Glory
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...
Fräisetzung : 1963.05.31Popularitéit : 4.53
Inchon
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.
Fräisetzung : 1981.05.04Popularitéit : 7.865
David Copperfield
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...
Fräisetzung : 1969.12.01Popularitéit : 5.023
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...
Fräisetzung : 2018.07.27Popularitéit : 3.578
Words for Battle
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...
Fräisetzung : 1941.01.24Popularitéit : 0.304
The Gentleman Tramp
A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.
Fräisetzung : 1976.10.10Popularitéit : 1.267
The Conquest of the Air
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...
Fräisetzung : 1936.12.01Popularitéit : 8.716
The Collection
Set in the rarefied world of West End boutique owners and fashion designers, The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant...
Fräisetzung : 1976.01.01Popularitéit : 1.757
Moscow Nights
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...
Fräisetzung : 1935.11.05Popularitéit : 1.29
Westward Passage
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Fräisetzung : 1932.05.27Popularitéit : 4.643
Friends and Lovers
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the...
Fräisetzung : 1931.10.03Popularitéit : 4.301
Male of the Species
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a...
Fräisetzung : 1969.01.03Popularitéit : 2.693
Perfect Understanding
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...
Fräisetzung : 1933.01.15Popularitéit : 2.706
Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...
Fräisetzung : 2011.11.01Popularitéit : 7.801
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put...
Fräisetzung : 2021.03.26Popularitéit : 6.363
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...
Fräisetzung : 1986.04.19Popularitéit : 5.355
The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...
Fräisetzung : 1943.11.18Popularitéit : 2.822
Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
Fräisetzung : 2005.10.15Popularitéit : 0.834
The Merchant of Venice
An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.
Fräisetzung : 1973.10.07Popularitéit : 2.305
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.
Fräisetzung : 2001.09.13Popularitéit : 2.013
Long Day's Journey Into Night
On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the...
Fräisetzung : 1973.03.10Popularitéit : 1.434
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
Fräisetzung : 1961.12.31Popularitéit : 2.425
Three Sisters
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support...
Fräisetzung : 1970.04.01Popularitéit : 3.261
Come Back, Little Sheba
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Fräisetzung : 1977.12.31Popularitéit : 1.149
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...
Fräisetzung : 1976.12.06Popularitéit : 1.827
The Beggar's Opera
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Fräisetzung : 1953.08.24Popularitéit : 1.853
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Fräisetzung : 1972.11.22Popularitéit : 3.194
The Ebony Tower
A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly...
Fräisetzung : 1984.04.01Popularitéit : 1.793
The Rehearsal
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in...
Fräisetzung : 1974.01.01Popularitéit : 3.343
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to...
Fräisetzung : 1988.03.08Popularitéit : 4.014
This Happy Breed
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs....
Fräisetzung : 1944.05.28Popularitéit : 4.574
No Funny Business
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
Fräisetzung : 1933.03.30Popularitéit : 0.744
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.
Fräisetzung : 1992.03.01Popularitéit : 1.266
Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...
Fräisetzung : 1985.03.10Popularitéit : 6.03
A Talent for Murder
A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Fräisetzung : 1983.12.19Popularitéit : 2.438
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their...
Fräisetzung : 1968.04.02Popularitéit : 19.303
A Queen Is Crowned
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
Fräisetzung : 1953.06.02Popularitéit : 5.52
The Bannfoot Ferry
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first...
Fräisetzung : 2024.06.22Popularitéit : 5.345
Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
Fräisetzung : 1978.01.15Popularitéit : 0.877
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of...
Fräisetzung : 1999.01.23Popularitéit : 1.712
The Volunteer
World War II propaganda film.
Fräisetzung : 1944.01.10Popularitéit : 2.185
The Temporary Widow
Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille...
Fräisetzung : 1930.07.13Popularitéit : 2.542
Too Many Crooks
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
Fräisetzung : 1930.08.01Popularitéit : 0.952
Potiphar's Wife
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...
Fräisetzung : 1931.03.28Popularitéit : 1.633
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...
Fräisetzung : 1978.01.01Popularitéit : 2.486
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...
Fräisetzung : 1940.07.31Popularitéit : 3.496
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
Fräisetzung : 1940.05.29Popularitéit : 1.65
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Fräisetzung : 1988.10.01Popularitéit : 2.545
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel...
Fräisetzung : 2005.12.12Popularitéit : 2.282
At the Haunted End of the Day
A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...
Fräisetzung : 1981.01.01Popularitéit : 3.567
Great Acting: Laurence Olivier
In this television documentary, Laurence Oliver is interviewed by Kenneth Tynan about his Shakespearean films.
Fräisetzung : 1966.12.31Popularitéit : 1.789
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Producer Robert Evans dominates with his trademark promotional style, but Schlesinger gets a short time on camera (one of his few available...
Fräisetzung : 1976.10.06Popularitéit : 2.276
The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk...
Fräisetzung : 2000.03.29Popularitéit : 5.715
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...
Fräisetzung : 1991.10.28Popularitéit : 8.863
And the Oscar Goes To...
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
Fräisetzung : 2014.02.01Popularitéit : 7.771
Directed by William Wyler
Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
Fräisetzung : 1986.05.01Popularitéit : 3.662
Uncle Vanya
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Fräisetzung : 1963.11.20Popularitéit : 4.631
Olivier Talks About Othello
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
Fräisetzung : 1965.01.01Popularitéit : 0.896
Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson
Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.
Fräisetzung : 1983.08.23Popularitéit : 1.834
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Fräisetzung : 1990.10.22Popularitéit : 4.053
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir...
Fräisetzung : 2023.07.19Popularitéit : 1.913
Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent
In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, celebrated Hollywood star and great Shakespearean...
Fräisetzung : 2020.01.03Popularitéit : 1.545
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...
Fräisetzung : 2010.05.05Popularitéit : 4.064
Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...
Fräisetzung : 2018.05.02Popularitéit : 6.426
The Moon and Sixpence
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
Fräisetzung : 1959.10.30Popularitéit : 1.296