Though Janssen's scenes were cut from the final release, he also appeared as a journalist in the film Inchon, which he accepted to work with Laurence Olivier who played General Douglas MacArthur.

There are persistent rumors that Kaye was either homosexual or bisexual, and some sources claim that Kaye and Laurence Olivier had a ten-year relationship in the 1950s while Olivier was still married to Vivien Leigh.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

In 1937, Tyrone Guthrie directed Laurence Olivier in a Jones-inspired Hamlet at the Old Vic.

Notable stagings in London and New York include Barrymore's 1925 production at the Haymarket ; it influenced subsequent performances by John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier.

In 1937 Tyrone Guthrie directed the play at Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Vivien Leigh as Ophelia.

Innokenty Smoktunovsky was cast in the role of Hamlet ; he was particularly praised by Sir Laurence Olivier.

" The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier ".

Whale offered the part of Stanhope to the then-barely known Laurence Olivier.

* Khartoum, a 1966 film starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier

Ullmann appeared with Laurence Olivier in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far in 1977.

Laurence Olivier played Malcolm in the 1929 production and Macbeth in 1937 at the Old Vic Theatre in a production that saw the Vic's artistic director Lilian Baylis pass away the night before it opened.

" Laurence Olivier himself said: " Brando acted with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match.

** Richard III ( 1955 film ), a film starring Laurence Olivier

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

He is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award.

; Laurence Olivier Awards

He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award as the Best Actor in a Musical for the role and also won the Theatregoers ' Choice Award ( getting 39 % of the votes cast by over 12, 000 theatregoers ) as Best Actor in a Musical.

* Sam Mendes-Academy Award-winning film director ( for American Beauty ) and four-time Laurence Olivier Award winner

She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles.

In 2009, Lineker and his wife Danielle hosted a series of the BBC's Northern Exposure, following on from Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen from the previous year in visiting and showcasing locations throughout Northern Ireland.

Dr. John Laurence Rentoul, an Irish born Presbyterian minister and academic, and his wife Annie Isobel ( née Rattray ).

Controversy arose in Britain in 1967 when the mooted premiere at Britain's National Theatre was cancelled, due to the intervention of the National Theatre board, despite the support for the play of Laurence Olivier, under pressure from his wife, and Kenneth Tynan.

The couple become slightly acquainted with Laurence Harwell, a wealthy theatrical " angel ", and his beautiful wife, whom he has rescued from poverty following her rich father's disgrace and imprisonment.

Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury persuaded Eadbald to accept Christianity and give up his wife.

Castlehaven was convicted attainted and three weeks later executed, beheaded, on Tower Hill for his sexual crimes: an " unnatural crime ", i. e. sodomy, committed with his page, Laurence Florence FitzPatrick, who confessed to the crime and was executed and for assisting Giles Browning ( or Giles Broadway ), also executed, in the rape of his, the Earl's, wife, Anne the Countess of Castlehaven, in which Lord Castlehaven himself participated by restraining her.

His younger son, Laurence Irving ( 1871 – 1914 ), became a dramatist and later drowned, with his wife, in the sinking of the Empress of Ireland.

Born in London, Laurence Irving was a son of the great Victorian actor manager, Sir Henry Irving and his wife Florence ( née O ' Callaghan ), and brother to actor manager Harry Brodribb Irving.

By his second wife he had a daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier, who was the British Ambassador to Norway 1941-51.

As the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, Judith Anderson was required to mentally torment the young bride, the " second Mrs. de Winter " ( Joan Fontaine ), even encouraging her to commit suicide ; and taunt her husband ( Laurence Olivier ) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen " Rebecca " of the title.

Oliver Cromwell had granted Laurence Scott of Bavelaw and his wife Katherine Binning, the lands, Lordship and Barony of Corstorphine, tower, manor-place, mills, mill-lands, parsonage etc., in lieu of the money due by James, Lord Forrester, to Beatrix Ramsay in Corstorphine who had assigned the debt to the said Laurence Scott, 1654.

The all-star cast featured Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Watson, Alan Arkin as Dr. Sigmund Freud, with Laurence Olivier as Moriarty, Charles Gray as Mycroft Holmes ( the role he reprised in the Jeremy Brett TV series ), Samantha Eggar as Mary Watson, Vanessa Redgrave as Lola Devereaux, Joel Grey as Lowenstein, and Jeremy Kemp as Baron von Leinsdorf and Williamson's then wife Jill Townsend playing his character's mother ( Mrs. Holmes ).

* Before the Hamlet sequence, in which the Laurence Olivier version is played on a projector, the teacher who introduces the film is Joan Plowright, an English actress and Laurence Olivier's third wife.

They had two children, Jack and Jill ( the actress Jill Esmond, first wife of Laurence Olivier ).

He is survived by his wife of nearly 70 years, Mildred Schwartz and their four children: Donald, Lloyd ( the creator of The Munsters Today ), Ross, and Hope ( wife of Laurence Juber ; reportedly named after Bob Hope ).

He was the eldest son of John Nowell of Read Hall, Read, Lancashire, by his second wife Elizabeth Kay of Rochdale, and was the brother of Laurence Nowell.

In 2011, Ross appeared in four episodes of CSI as the estranged wife of Laurence Fishburne's character.

There he was joined by about sixty converts, including five orthodox clergymen, some twenty Japanese from Satsuma Province, some American ladies of position, and most prominently by Laurence Oliphant with his wife and mother.

The first novel in the " Alphabet Mysteries " series introduces the character of Kinsey Millhone as she looks into through the facts surrounding the death of prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife, whose murder eight years previously was blamed on his wife, Nikki Fife.

Jill Esmond ( 26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990 ) was an English actress and first wife of Laurence Olivier.

Track 2, " Just One Look / Baby I'm Yours " was a duet with Lynda Laurence, former Supreme and then-current wife to album producer, Trevor Lawrence.