| |
Real name: |
Laurence Kerr Olivier |
| Birthdate: |
May 22, 1907 |
| Date of death: |
July 11, 1989 |
| Age: |
81 years |
| Country: |
 United Kingdom
|
| Horoscope: |
Gemini |
Ranking
-
I like
-
Normal
-
I don't like
Laurence Olivier Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
-
- Academy Honorary Award WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Academy Honorary Award WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Director NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
Golden Globes Awards
-
- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
BAFTA
-
- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
-
- Best British Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor TV - Drama NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best actor on TV NOMINATED
-
- Best British Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best British Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best British Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best British Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best British Actor NOMINATED
David di Donatello
-
- Best Foreign Actor WINNER
-
- Best Foreign Producer WINNER
-
- Best Foreign Actor WINNER
Emmy
-
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie WINNER
-
- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV WINNER
-
- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
Razzie
-
- Worst Actor WINNER
-
- Worst Supporting Actor NOMINATED
New York Film Critics Circle
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
-
- Best Director NOMINATED
-
- Best Director NOMINATED
National Board of Review
-
- Best Leading Actor WINNER
-
- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
Laurence Kerr Olivier, better known as Laurence Olivier, was an British Actor and Director. He has won three Academy Awards, two Golden Globes Awards and two BAFTA Awards. He's known for The Jazz Singer (1980), Rebecca (1940) and Spartacus (1960).
All Movies of Laurence Olivier
-
"A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenalin...
Character:
(archive footage)
2009
-
This excellent documentary interweaves the biographies of two highly different but equally important characters of cinema history: David O. Selznick, producer, and Alfred Hitchcock, movie director.
Character:
(archive footage)
1998
-
Character:
The Old Soldier
1989
-
This is the story of Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and the constant struggle between him, his sister Sophia and the Streltsy, an important Russian military corp. The story depicts the efforts of Peter in transforming Russia i...
Character:
King William III of Orange
4 episodes, 1986
1986
-
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Character:
Rudolf Hess
1985
-
This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from t...
Character:
Gaius
3 episodes, 1984
1984
-
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 to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off...
Character:
Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
1984
-
A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Character:
Dr. Anthony Wainwright
1984
-
Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted son, who follows his ...
Character:
Clifford Mortimer
1984
-
A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and begins examining his own attitudes towards life and art.
Character:
Henry Breasley
1984
-
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 get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieute...
Character:
Admiral Hood
1984
-
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and poli...
1983
-
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Character:
King Lear
1983
-
TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly falls in love with t...
Character:
Lord Marchmain
2 episodes, 1981
1981
-
This big-budget epic re-creation of the massive Korean war battle of Inchon just proved too ponderous to save itself from certain death. Terence Dixon was hired to direct the film on location in Korea. The production was plagued w...
Character:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1981
-
The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, ...
Character:
Zeus
1981
-
Neil Diamond stars in this remake of "The Jazz Singer"; this time this is the tale of Yussel, a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yusse...
Character:
Cantor Rabinovitch
1980
-
When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He makes friends with Dr Seward who runs the local asylum and ...
Character:
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1979
-
A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his story telling. In an attempt to solidify the teens' love forever, t...
1979
-
The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to elimina...
Character:
Number One
1978
-
Olivier stars in this high-tension political thriller as a Nazi-hunter who uncovers the existence of a war criminal (Peck) and his plans to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Adolph Hitler. Based on the novel by Ira Levin.
1978
-
Richard Attenborough‘s star–studded re–telling of the allies‘ attempts to capture several bridges in Germany during World War II, in a campaign called operation Market Garden.
Character:
Doctor Spaander
1977
-
Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of t...
Character:
Nicodemus
4 episodes, 1977
1977
-
The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
Character:
Big Daddy
1976
-
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devot...
Character:
Professor James Moriarty
(as Sir Laurence Olivier)
1976
-
As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled in an espionage plot. Babe's brot...
Character:
Szell
1976
-
An unorthodox love story set in Edwardian England, "Love Among The Ruins" features Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier in their only film collaboration. A wealthy, headstrong widow and aging grande dame of the Lon...
Character:
Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones
1975
-
Semi-documentary on the massacre of students by the Greek junta.
Character:
Self
1974
-
Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands repayment in the form of a pound of Antonio's flesh.
Character:
Shylock
1973
-
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
Character:
Duke of Wellington
1972
-
Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre toys and mechanisms are exposed. One evening, Milo T...
Character:
Andrew Wyke
1972
-
The tragic story of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their daughters, and the pai...
Character:
Count Witte
1971
-
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meanin...
Character:
Dr. Ivan Chebutikin
|
Movie director
1970
-
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 mendacious womaniser; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an elderly barrist...
Character:
Narrator
1969
-
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for ...
Character:
Edgar
1969
-
There's something about this film that's so irresistible, despite its grandiose manipulation. Maybe because it recounts the greatest air battle in history, achieving the greatest aerial battle in film history. Maybe because it has...
Character:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
1969
-
Character:
Mr. Creakle
1969
-
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the mo...
Character:
Field-Marshal Sir John French
1969
-
After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free by USSR president Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Laurence Olivier). The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to...
Character:
Premier Piotr Ilyich Kamenev
(as Sir Laurence Olivier)
1968
-
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they hav...
Character:
The Mahdi
1966
-
Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record of Bunny having been registered. When even the police can find n...
Character:
Superintendent Newhouse
1965
-
Desdemona defies her father to marry the Moor of Venice, the mighty warrior, Othello. But Othello's old lieutenant, Iago, doesn't like Othello, and is determined to bring about the downfall of Othello's new favorite, Cassio, and d...
Character:
Othello
1965
-
Character:
Dr. Astrov
1963
-
Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is looked upon with disdain...
Character:
Graham Weir
1962
-
A cynical catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach. It's the 30's and Mexican government sees the church as competition. They send a secret agent to assassinate the priest.
Character:
Priest
1961
-
Spartacus is a 1960 American historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. The film stars Kirk Douglas as...
Character:
Crassus
1960
-
Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical jokes about sex and politics and hu...
Character:
Archie Rice
(as Lawrence Olivier)
1960
-
Character:
Charles Strickland
1959
-
The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
Character:
Gen. Burgoyne
1959
-
When Grandduke Charles, the prince-regent of Carpatha, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British king in 1911, and spends his one eveni...
Character:
The Regent
|
Movie director
1957
-
The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke ...
|
Movie director
1955
-
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
Character:
Narrator
(voice)
1953
-
Authentic rendering of John Gay's 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor, about Captain MacHeath, a highwayman, and his love for too many beautiful women. Betrayed by Jenny and Sukey, two of his bygone lovers, and temporarily...
Character:
Captain MacHeath
1953
-
When Carrie steps onto the train that will take her to Chicago, she regards the trip as a grand adventure. But her glorious dreams of the big city quickly die, for all that awaits Carrie there is a bleak life of grueling and poorl...
Character:
George Hurstwood
1952
-
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 include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic ...
Character:
Police Constable 94-B
1951
-
William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude fo...
Character:
The Royal Court of Denmark - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
|
Movie director
1948
-
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch....
Character:
King Henry V of England
|
Movie director
1944
-
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 ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow ...
Rating
Year
