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Starring:

Laurence Olivier

Acting credits By Year of release

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

(Laurence Olivier plays Dr. Totenkopf)

Director(s):
Kerry Conran

Starring:

2004

War Requiem

(Laurence Olivier plays The Old Soldier)

Director(s):
Starring:
Nathaniel Parker • Tilda SwintonSean Bean • Owen Teale • Laurence Olivier

1989

Wild Geese II

(Laurence Olivier plays Rudolf Hess)

Director(s):
Peter R. Hunt

Starring:
Scott Glenn • Barbara Carrera • Edward Fox • Laurence Olivier • Robert Webber

1985

The Ebony Tower

(Laurence Olivier plays Henry Breasley)

Director(s):
Robert Knights

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Roger Rees • Greta Scacchi • Toyah Willcox • Georgina Melville

1984

The Bounty

(Laurence Olivier plays Admiral Hood)

Director(s):
Starring:
1984

The Jigsaw Man

Director(s):
Terence Young

Starring:
Michael CaineLaurence Olivier • Susan George • Robert Powell • Charles Gray

1984

A Talent For Murder

(Laurence Olivier plays Dr. Anthony Wainwright)

Director(s):
Alvin Rakoff

Starring:
Angela Lansbury • Laurence Olivier • Hildegard Neil • Charles Keating • Garrick Hagon

1984

King Lear

(Laurence Olivier plays King Lear)

Director(s):
Michael Elliott

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Colin Blakely • Leo McKern • Robert Lindsay • Dorothy Tutin

1983

A Voyage Round My Father

(Laurence Olivier plays Clifford Mortimer)

Director(s):
Alvin Rakoff

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Alan Bates • Jane Asher • Elizabeth Sellars • Michael Aldridge

1982

The Jazz Singer

Director(s):
Starring:
Neil Diamond • Laurence Olivier • Lucie Arnaz • Catlin Adams • Franklyn Ajaye
1981

Inchon

(Laurence Olivier plays Gen. Douglas MacArthur)

Director(s):
Terence Young

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Jacqueline Bisset • Ben Gazzara • Toshiro Mifune • Richard Roundtree

1981

Clash of the Titans

Director(s):
Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Claire Bloom • Maggie Smith • Ursula Andress • Jack Gwillim
1981

Dracula

(Laurence Olivier plays Prof. Abraham Van Helsing)

Director(s):
John Badham

Starring:
Frank Langella • Laurence Olivier • Donald Pleasence • Kate Nelligan • Trevor Eve

1979

A Little Romance

(Laurence Olivier plays Julius)

Director(s):
George Roy Hill

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Arthur Hill • Sally Kellerman • Diane Lane • Thelonious Bernard

1979

The Betsy

(Laurence Olivier plays Number One)

Director(s):
Daniel Petrie

Starring:
Laurence OlivierRobert Duvall • Katharine Ross • Tommy Lee Jones • Jane Alexander

1978

Daphne Laureola

(Laurence Olivier plays Sir Joseph)

Director(s):
Waris Hussein

Starring:
Arthur Lowe • Gregoire Aslan • Jan Conrad • Jane Carr • Michael Cochrane

1978

Saturday Sunday Monday

(Laurence Olivier plays Antonio)

Director(s):
Alan Bridges

Starring:
Joan Plowright • Maggie Wells • Frank Finlay • Nicholas Clay • John Duttine

1978

The Boys From Brazil

Starring:
Gregory Peck • Laurence Olivier • James Mason • Lilli Palmer • Uta Hagen

1978

Come Back, Little Sheba

(Laurence Olivier plays Doc)

Director(s):
Silvio Narizzano

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Joanne Woodward • Carrie Fisher • Nicholas Campbell • Patience Collier

1977

A Bridge Too Far

(Laurence Olivier plays Doctor Spaander)

Starring:

1977

Marathon Man

(Laurence Olivier plays Szell)

Director(s):
Starring:
Dustin HoffmanLaurence Olivier • Roy Scheider • William Devane • Marthe Keller
1976

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

(Laurence Olivier plays Big Daddy)

Director(s):
Robert Moore

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Maureen Stapleton • Jack Hedley • Robert Wagner • Mary Peach

1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Director(s):
Starring:
Alan Arkin • Vanessa RedgraveRobert Duvall • Nicol Williamson • Laurence Olivier

1976

Love Among the Ruins

(Laurence Olivier plays Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones)

Director(s):
George Cukor

Starring:
Katharine Hepburn • Laurence Olivier • Colin Blakely • Richard Pearson • Joan Sims

1975

The Merchant of Venice

(Laurence Olivier plays Shylock)

Director(s):
John Sichel

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Joan Plowright • Jeremy Brett • Michael Jayston • Anthony Nicholls

1973

Lady Caroline Lamb

(Laurence Olivier plays Duke of Wellington)

Director(s):
Robert Bolt

Starring:
Sarah Miles • Jon Finch • Richard Chamberlain • John Mills • Margaret Leighton

1972

Sleuth

Director(s):
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring:
Laurence OlivierMichael Caine • Alec Cawthorne • John Matthews • Eve Channing

1972

Nicholas and Alexandra

(Laurence Olivier plays Count Witte)

Starring:
Michael Jayston • Janet Suzman • Roderic Noble • Ania Marson • Lynne Frederick

1971

David Copperfield

(Laurence Olivier plays Mr. Creakle)

Director(s):
Delbert Mann

Starring:
Richard Attenborough • Cyril Cusack • Edith Evans • Pamela Franklin • Susan Hampshire

1970

Three Sisters

Director(s):
Laurence OlivierJohn Sichel

Starring:
Jeanne Watts • Joan Plowright • Louise Purnell • Derek Jacobi • Sheila Reid

1970

Battle of Britain

(Laurence Olivier plays Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding)

Director(s):
Guy Hamilton

Starring:
Harry Andrews • Michael Caine • Trevor Howard • Curd Jurgens • Ian McShane

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

Starring:
Wendy Allnutt • Colin Farrell • Malcolm McFee • John Rae • Corin Redgrave

1969

Male of the Species

Director(s):
Charles Jarrott

Starring:
Paul Scofield • Michael Caine • Anna Calder-Marshall • Sean ConneryLaurence Olivier

1969

The Shoes of the Fisherman

(Laurence Olivier plays Premier Piotr Ilyich Kamenev)

Director(s):
Michael Anderson

Starring:
Anthony Quinn • Laurence Olivier • Oskar Werner • David Janssen • Vittorio De Sica

1968

Romeo and Juliet

(Laurence Olivier plays Narrator / Lord Montague / Complementary Role)

Director(s):
Franco Zeffirelli

Starring:
Leonard Whiting • Olivia Hussey • John McEnery • Milo O'Shea • Pat Heywood

1968

Uncle Vanya

(Laurence Olivier plays Dr. Mihail Lwowitch Astrow)

Director(s):
Laurence Olivier

Starring:
Michael Redgrave • Max Adrian • Wynne Clark • Rosemary Harris • Robert Lang

1967

Khartoum

(Laurence Olivier plays The Mahdi)

Director(s):
Basil DeardenEliot Elisofon

Starring:
Charlton Heston • Laurence Olivier • Richard Johnson • Ralph Richardson • Alexander Knox

1966

Bunny Lake Is Missing

(Laurence Olivier plays Superintendent Newhouse)

Director(s):
Otto Preminger

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Carol Lynley • Keir Dullea • Martita Hunt • Anna Massey

1965

Othello

Director(s):
Stuart Burge

Starring:
Laurence OlivierMaggie Smith • Joyce Redman • Frank Finlay • Derek Jacobi

1965

Uncle Vanya

(Laurence Olivier plays Dr. Astrov)

Director(s):
Stuart Burge

Starring:
Michael Redgrave • Robert Lang • Max Adrian • Lewis Casson • Fay Compton

1963

Term of Trial

(Laurence Olivier plays Graham Weir)

Director(s):
Peter Glenville

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Simone Signoret • Sarah Miles • Terence Stamp • Hugh Griffith

1962

The Power and the Glory

(Laurence Olivier plays Priest)

Director(s):
Marc Daniels

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Julie Harris • George C. Scott • Martin Gabel • Roddy McDowall

1961

The Entertainer

(Laurence Olivier plays Archie Rice)

Director(s):
Tony Richardson

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Brenda de Banzie • Roger Livesey • Joan Plowright • Alan Bates

1960

Spartacus

Director(s):
Starring:
Kirk Douglas • Laurence Olivier • Jean Simmons • Charles Laughton • Peter Ustinov

1960

The Devil's Disciple

(Laurence Olivier plays Gen. Burgoyne)

Director(s):
Guy HamiltonAlexander Mackendrick

Starring:
Burt Lancaster • Kirk Douglas • Laurence Olivier • Janette Scott • Eva Le Gallienne

1959

The Moon and Sixpence

(Laurence Olivier plays Charles Strickland)

Director(s):
Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Judith Anderson • Hume Cronyn • Cyril Cusack • Denholm Elliott

1959

The Prince and the Showgirl

(Laurence Olivier plays The Regent)

Director(s):
Laurence Olivier

Starring:
Richard Wattis • David Horne • Jeremy Spenser • Sybil Thorndike • Laurence Olivier

1957

Richard III

(Laurence Olivier plays Richard III)

Director(s):
Laurence Olivier

Starring:
Cedric Hardwicke • Nicholas Hannen • Laurence Olivier • Ralph Richardson • John Gielgud

1955

The Beggars Opera

(Laurence Olivier plays Captain MacHeath)

Director(s):
Peter Brook

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Hugh Griffith • George Rose • Stuart Burge • Cyril Conway

1953

Carrie

(Laurence Olivier plays George Hurstwood)

Director(s):
William Wyler

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Jennifer Jones • Miriam Hopkins • Eddie Albert • Basil Ruysdael

1952

The Magic Box

(Laurence Olivier plays Police Constable 94-B)

Director(s):
John Boulting

Starring:
Renée Asherson • Richard Attenborough • Robert Beatty • Martin Boddey • Edward Chapman

1951

Hamlet

(Laurence Olivier plays Hamlet, Prince of Denmark)

Director(s):
Laurence Olivier

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Jean Simmons • Eileen Herlie • Basil Sydney • Felix Aylmer

1948

Henry V

(Laurence Olivier plays King Henry V of England)

Director(s):
Laurence Olivier

Starring:
Leslie Banks • Felix Aylmer • Robert Helpmann • Vernon Greeves • Gerald Case

1944

This Happy Breed

(Laurence Olivier plays Narrator)

Director(s):
Starring:
Robert Newton • Celia Johnson • Amy Veness • Alison Leggatt • Stanley Holloway

1944

The Volunteer

(Laurence Olivier plays Self - Impersonating a Fish outside Restaurant Window)

Director(s):
Michael PowellEmeric Pressburger

Starring:
Ralph Richardson • Pat McGrath • Anna Neagle • Laurence Olivier • Michael Powell

1944

The Demi Paradise

(Laurence Olivier plays Ivan Kouznetsoff)

Director(s):
Anthony Asquith

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Penelope Dudley-Ward • Marjorie Fielding • Margaret Rutherford • Felix Aylmer

1943

49th Parallel

(Laurence Olivier plays Johnnie - The Trapper)

Director(s):
Michael Powell

Starring:
Leslie Howard • Raymond Massey • Laurence Olivier • Anton Walbrook • Eric Portman

1941

That Hamilton Woman

(Laurence Olivier plays Lord Horatio Nelson)

Director(s):
Alexander Korda

Starring:
Vivien Leigh • Laurence Olivier • Alan Mowbray • Sara Allgood • Gladys Cooper

1941

21 Days

(Laurence Olivier plays Larry [Darrant])

Director(s):
Basil Dean

Starring:
Vivien Leigh • Laurence OlivierLeslie Banks • Francis L. Sullivan • David Horne

1940

Pride and Prejudice

(Laurence Olivier plays Mr. Darcy)

Director(s):
Robert Z. Leonard

Starring:
Greer Garson • Laurence Olivier • Mary Boland • Edna May Oliver • Maureen O'Sullivan

1940

Rebecca

(Laurence Olivier plays 'Maxim' de Winter)

Director(s):
Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Joan Fontaine • George Sanders • Judith Anderson • Nigel Bruce

1940

Q Planes

(Laurence Olivier plays Tony McVane)

Director(s):
Tim WhelanArthur B. Woods

Starring:
Laurence Olivier • Ralph Richardson • Valerie Hobson • George Curzon • George Merritt

1939

Wuthering Heights

(Laurence Olivier plays Heathcliff)

Director(s):
William Wyler

Starring:
Merle Oberon • Laurence Olivier • David Niven • Flora Robson • Donald Crisp

1939

The Divorce of Lady X

(Laurence Olivier plays Everard Logan)

Director(s):
Tim Whelan

Starring:
Merle Oberon • Laurence Olivier • Binnie Barnes • Ralph Richardson • Morton Selten

1938

Fire Over England

(Laurence Olivier plays Michael)

Director(s):
William K. Howard

Starring:
Flora Robson • Raymond Massey • Leslie BanksLaurence Olivier • Vivien Leigh

1937

The Conquest of the Air

(Laurence Olivier plays Vincent Lunardi)

Director(s):
Alexander EswayZoltan KordaJohn Monk SaundersAlexander ShawDonald Taylor

Starring:
Frederick Culley • Laurence Olivier • Franklin Dyall • Henry Victor • Hay Petrie

1936

As You Like It

(Laurence Olivier plays Orlando)

Director(s):
Paul Czinner

Starring:
Elisabeth Bergner • Laurence Olivier • Sophie Stewart • Henry Ainley • Leon Quartermaine

1936

Moscow Nights

(Laurence Olivier plays Capt. Ivan Ignatoff)

Director(s):
Anthony Asquith

Starring:
Harry Baur • Penelope Dudley-Ward • Laurence Olivier • Athene Seyler • Lilian Braithwaite

1935

No Funny Business

(Laurence Olivier plays Clive Dering)

Director(s):
Victor HanburyJohn Stafford

Starring:
Gertrude Lawrence • Laurence Olivier • Jill Esmond • Edmund Breon • Gibb McLaughlin

1933

Perfect Understanding

(Laurence Olivier plays Nicholas Randall)

Director(s):
Cyril Gardner

Starring:
Gloria Swanson • Laurence Olivier • John Halliday • Nigel Playfair • Michael Farmer

1933

Westward Passage

(Laurence Olivier plays Nick Allen)

Director(s):
Robert Milton

Starring:
Ann Harding • Laurence Olivier • Zasu Pitts • Irving Pichel • Juliette Compton

1932

The Yellow Passport

(Laurence Olivier plays Julian Rolfe)

Director(s):
Raoul Walsh

Starring:
Elissa Landi • Lionel Barrymore • Laurence Olivier • Walter Byron • Arnold Korff

1931

Friends and Lovers

(Laurence Olivier plays Lieutenant Ned Nichols)

Director(s):
Victor Schertzinger

Starring:
Adolphe Menjou • Lili Damita • Laurence Olivier • Erich von Stroheim • Hugh Herbert

1931

Potiphar's Wife

(Laurence Olivier plays Straker)

Director(s):
Maurice Elvey

Starring:
Nora Swinburne • Laurence Olivier • Norman McKinnel • Guy Newall • Donald Calthrop

1931

The Temporary Widow

(Laurence Olivier plays Peter Bille)

Director(s):
Gustav Ucicky

Starring:
Lilian Harvey • Laurence Olivier • Athole Stewart • Gillian Dean • Frank Stanmore

1930