Essential Laurence Olivier Films

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Laurence Olivier's life and mission were the British theater--in later years he was particularly involved in the creation and sustenance of England's National Theatre. With rare but intriguing exception, film was of secondary importance to him and though he spent almost 60 years on the silver screen his relationship to the medium was haphazard. Building on his early stage reputation and good looks, Hollywood put Olivier under contract in the 1930s, but he never quite connected with film in the very human way that fellow countryman Ronald Colman did. The '40s were far better, yielding wonderful films for Michael Powell and Alexander Korda and a couple of highly inventive Shakespeare adaptations Olivier directed. In later years his reputation as an actor was large enough to withstand a self-effacing work ethic in movies, and he appeared in countless films (mostly in glorified cameos) of wildly varying quality to support his children. He was always commanding onscreen, the way actors of great technique can be, and when allowed to underplay his characters (as in Sleuth) he was quite memorable.

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Wuthering Heights starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon

Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier

Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson

Richard III starring Laurence Olivier

Henry V starring Laurence Olivier

The Betsy starring Laurence Olivier

The Boys From Brazil starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier

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