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Laurence Olivier

1907–1989 · English actor and director

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his six-decade career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, Olivier had considerable success in television roles.

Laurence Olivier, in order

  1. 1930 Hokuspokus: acted · directed by Gustav Ucicky
  2. 1930 The Temporary Widow: acted · directed by Gustav Ucicky
  3. 1930 Too Many Crooks: acted · directed by George King
  4. 1931 Friends and Lovers: acted · directed by Victor Schertzinger
  5. 1931 The Yellow Ticket: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh
  6. 1932 Westward Passage: acted · directed by Robert Milton
  7. 1933 No Funny Business: acted · directed by Victor Hanbury
  8. 1933 Perfect Understanding: acted · directed by Cyril Gardner
  9. 1935 Moscow Nights: acted · directed by Anthony Asquith
  10. 1936 As You Like It: acted · directed by Paul Czinner
  11. 1936 Conquest of the Air: acted · directed by Zoltan Korda
  12. 1937 Fire Over England: acted · directed by William K. Howard
  13. 1938 The Divorce of Lady X: acted · directed by Tim Whelan
  14. 1939 Q Planes: acted · directed by Arthur B. Woods and Tim Whelan
  15. 1939 Wuthering Heights: acted · directed by William Wyler
  16. 1940 21 Days: acted · directed by Basil Dean
  17. 1940 Pride and Prejudice: acted · directed by Robert Z. Leonard
  18. 1940 Rebecca: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 98%, audiences 92%
  19. 1941 49th Parallel: acted · directed by Michael Powell
  20. 1941 That Hamilton Woman: acted · directed by Alexander Korda
  21. 1943 The Demi-Paradise: acted · directed by Anthony Asquith
  22. 1944 Elizabethan Stage: Henry V (short film): directed
  23. 1944 Henry V: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  24. 1944 The Volunteer (short film): acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
  25. 1944 This Happy Breed: acted · directed by David Lean · streaming on Roku Channel, Criterion Channel, YouTube (free)
  26. 1946 Henry V: The Battle Of Agincourt (short film): directed
  27. 1948 Hamlet: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  28. 1951 The Magic Box: acted · directed by John Boulting · audiences 76%
  29. 1952 Carrie: acted · directed by William Wyler
  30. 1953 A Queen Is Crowned: acted · directed by Michael Waldman
  31. 1953 The Beggar's Opera: produced, acted · directed by Peter Brook
  32. 1955 Richard III: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  33. 1957 The Prince and the Showgirl: directed, acted
  34. 1959 The Devil's Disciple: acted · directed by Guy Hamilton
  35. 1959 The Moon and Sixpence (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Mulligan
  36. 1960 Spartacus: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  37. 1960 The Entertainer: acted · directed by Tony Richardson
  38. 1962 Term of Trial: acted · directed by Peter Glenville
  39. 1963 Uncle Vanya: acted · directed by Stuart Burge
  40. 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
  41. 1965 Othello: acted · directed by Stuart Burge
  42. 1966 Khartoum: acted · directed by Basil Dearden
  43. 1968 Romeo and Juliet: acted · directed by Franco Zeffirelli · critics 95%, audiences 74% · streaming on Hoopla
  44. 1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman: acted · directed by Michael Anderson · critics 43%, audiences 75%
  45. 1969 Battle of Britain: acted · directed by Guy Hamilton
  46. 1969 Dance of Death: acted · directed by David Giles
  47. 1969 David Copperfield: acted · directed by Delbert Mann
  48. 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War: acted · directed by Richard Attenborough
  49. 1970 Three Sisters: directed, acted
  50. 1971 Nicholas and Alexandra: acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
  51. 1972 Lady Caroline Lamb: acted · directed by Robert Bolt
  52. 1972 Sleuth: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  53. 1973 Long Day's Journey into Night: acted · directed by Peter Wood
  54. 1973 The Merchant of Venice: acted · directed by John Sichel
  55. 1974 The Rehearsal: acted · directed by Jules Dassin
  56. 1975 Love Among the Ruins (TV movie): acted · directed by George Cukor
  57. 1976 Laurence Olivier Presents (TV series): created
  58. 1976 Marathon Man: acted · directed by John Schlesinger
  59. 1976 The Collection: acted · directed by Michael Apted
  60. 1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
  61. 1977 A Bridge Too Far: acted · directed by Richard Attenborough
  62. 1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV series): acted · directed by Franco Zeffirelli · streaming on Peacock, Plex, Fawesome
  63. 1978 Come Back, Little Sheba (TV movie): acted · directed by Silvio Narizzano
  64. 1978 The Betsy: acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
  65. 1978 The Boys from Brazil: acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
  66. 1979 A Little Romance: acted · directed by George Roy Hill · critics 74%, audiences 85% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  67. 1979 Dracula: acted · directed by John Badham
  68. 1980 The Jazz Singer: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie
  69. 1981 Brideshead Revisited (TV series): acted · directed by Charles Sturridge and John Mortimer
  70. 1981 Clash of the Titans: acted · directed by Desmond Davis
  71. 1981 Inchon: acted · directed by Terence Young · critics 0%, audiences 6%
  72. 1983 King Lear (TV movie): acted · directed by Michael Elliott
  73. 1983 Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson: acted · directed by Alvin Rakoff
  74. 1983 Wagner (TV movie): acted · directed by Tony Palmer
  75. 1984 A Talent for Murder (TV movie): acted · directed by Alvin Rakoff
  76. 1984 Terror in the Aisles: acted · directed by Andrew J. Kuehn · critics 63%, audiences 51%
  77. 1984 The Bounty: acted · directed by Roger Donaldson · critics 72%, audiences 73% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  78. 1984 The Ebony Tower (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Knights
  79. 1984 The Last Days of Pompeii (TV movie): acted · directed by Peter R. Hunt · critics 18%
  80. 1985 Wild Geese II: acted · directed by Peter R. Hunt
  81. 1986 Lost Empires: acted · directed by Alan Grint
  82. 1986 Peter the Great (TV series): acted · directed by Lawrence Schiller and Marvin J. Chomsky
  83. 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind: acted · directed by David Hinton · audiences 93%
  84. 1989 War Requiem: acted · directed by Derek Jarman
  85. 2000 The Filth and the Fury: acted · directed by Julien Temple
  86. 2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: acted · directed by Kerry Conran
  87. 2015 Trumbo: acted · directed by Jay Roach · critics 74%, audiences 79% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)