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 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.

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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.

By contrast, a number of Irish people abroad converted to Asian religions and played significant roles in anti-colonial revival movements, such as the Irish Buddhist monk U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll?

In 2008, he played an MIT lecturer in the film 21, along with Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Jim Sturgess.

During the 1980s, she played Ruth Perkins, the mother of Allison Perkins, who had kidnapped the newborn baby of heroine Viki Lord Buchanan under orders from phony evangelist and mastermind criminal Mitch Laurence.

This feeling was echoed by Laurence Olivier, who played a police inspector in Bunny Lake Is Missing ( 1965 ).

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a principal character in the 1960 film Spartacus, played by actor Laurence Olivier.

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

In the 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role.

He played a British admiral in Under Ten Flags ( 1960 ) and worked with Laurence Olivier in Spartacus ( 1960 ).

She played opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial ( 1962 ).

O ' Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963.

Laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes ( played by Sir Michael ) had a daughter.

* 1951, Laurence Olivier as Antony and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in a production that played in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at the St James's Theatre and later on Broadway.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

Early on, he played the renegade son in the Western Duel in the Sun and, later in his career, the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil co-starring Laurence Olivier.

It was originally intended that the main roles should be played by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, who had scored quite a success with Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince.

In the same year she played Polly Peachum to Laurence Olivier's Macheath in Peter Brook's film version of The Beggar's Opera ( 1953 ).

Laurence Olivier played Tony Cavendish, and broke his ankle during a performance when he vaulted over a banister rail.

During 1914 he toured with Miss Darragh ( Letitia Marion Dallas, d. 1917 ) in Laurence Irving's play The Unwritten Law, and he appeared at the Old Vic in 1914 as Malcolm in Macbeth, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, and the gravedigger in Hamlet, among many other roles.

His cast included Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Ian Holm, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nanette Newman, Edward Fox, Susannah York, John Clements, Phyllis Calvert and Maurice Roëves.

Short term cast members included: Peter Adams, Briony Behets, Pat Bishop, Aileen Britton, Chelsea Brown, Carlotta, Anne Charleston, Chantal Contouri, Lynette Curran, Lorrae Desmond, Carmen Duncan, Paula Duncan, Judi Farr, Jill Forster, Joseph Furst, Arianthe Galani, Vivienne Garrett, Pamela Garrick, Deborah Gray, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Wendy Hughes, Chris King, Josephine Knur, Anne Louise Lambert, Margaret Laurence, Joanna Lockwood, Judy McBurney, Diana McLean, John McTernan, Vince Martin, Ray Meagher, Julieanne Newbould, John Orcsik, Shane Porteous, Candy Raymond, Tristan Rogers, June Salter, Justine Saunders, Mary Ann Severne, Henri Szeps, Malcolm Thompson, Rowena Wallace and Norman Yemm.

The play starred Laurence Olivier, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates and Helen Mirren.