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.

Housman's brother Laurence Housman and sister Clemence Housman also became writers.

This second marriage was enduring and happy, though childless, and Laura became stepmother to Anna and Laurence.

Anna became a painter and Laurence became a novelist.

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

St. Laurence O ' Toole, born in 1128, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his sanctity and hospitality.

Through his friendship with Laurence Binyon, Pound had already developed an interest in Japanese art by examining Nishiki-e prints at the British Museum, and he quickly became absorbed in the study of related Japanese verse forms.

John Laurence Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark, arrived in 1881, and set up his pineapple plantation, which became the town of Jensen.

Smith said that ' the group ' eventually became Malice-" sort of a sub-metal punk group-with Michael Dempsey, Laurence and two other blokes.

Boston University economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff suggests commercial banks only became involved with CDOs, SIVs, and other “ risky products ” after Glass-Steagall was “ repealed ,” but he rejects Glass-Steagall reinstatement ( after suggesting Paul Volcker favors it ) as a “ non-starter ” because it would give the “ nonbank / shadow bank / investment bank industry ” a “ competitive advantage ” without requiring it to pay for the “ implicit ” “ lender-of-last-resort ” protection it receives from the government.

It became rumoured that Gielgud also provided the voice for the uncredited role of the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version, but the voice was actually that of Olivier, electronically distorted.

As one of the leading Shavian actors of his generation, Hardwicke starred in such Shavian works as Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, The Apple Cart, Candida, Too True to Be Good, and Don Juan in Hell, making such an impression that at age 41 he became the youngest actor to be knighted ( this occurred in the 1934 New Year's Honours ; Laurence Olivier subsequently took the record in 1947 when he was knighted at the age of 40 ).

Finally, with help from Larry Gadd the owner of North River Press, the book was published and became a great success .< ref > Laurence Gadd.

The phrase " Atomic Age " was coined by William L. Laurence, a New York Times journalist who became the official journalist for the U. S. Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons.

The original Kim was played by Lea Salonga, who became famous because of this role and won the Laurence Olivier Award and Tony Award.

In the 1920s she became a regular speaker on behalf of the League of Nations Union, but in June 1936 she was invited to speak at a peace rally in Dorchester, where she shared a platform with Dick Sheppard, George Lansbury, Laurence Housman and Donald Soper.

Through her marriage to Laurence Olivier, she became closely associated with his work at the National Theatre from 1963 onwards.

Upon her marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier, her formal title became " Lady Olivier "; however, she has never used it in her professional career.

He won in the general election of 1987, when he became the MP for Brent South in succession to Laurence Pavitt, being one of the first three black MPs ( the others being Bernie Grant and Diane Abbott ).

With the gradual expansion of Laurence Echard's ( d. 1730 ) gazetteer of 1693, it too became a universal geographical dictionary that was translated into Spanish in 1750, into French in 1809, and into Italian in 1810.

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

Dorothea Baird married his son H B and the couple had a son, Laurence Irving ( 1897 – 1988 ), who became a well known Hollywood art director and a biographer for his grandfather.

Several actors made their name in show business by being the understudy of a leading actor and taking the role over for several performances, including: Anthony Hopkins for Laurence Olivier, when Olivier became ill with cancer during the run of the National Theater's The Dance of Death, 1967 ; Ted Neeley for Jeff Fenholt during the 1971 Broadway run of Jesus Christ Superstar when Neeley was asked to star in the 1973 film version and subsequent tours ; and more Edward Bennett for David Tennant as Hamlet in the RSC's 2008 production.

During this period Cholesbury became a separate manor, developing into a village community indicated by the construction, within the hillfort, of an early 12th century church dedicated to St Laurence.