Olivier's co-star in his 1937 Old Vic Theatre production, Judith Anderson, had an equally triumphant association with the play.

Hardwicke played in such film classics as Les Misérables ( 1935 ), King Solomon's Mines ( 1937 ), The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) and Olivier's Richard III ( 1955 ).

Other film roles included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), Fire Over England ( 1937 ), Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ), Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ), and David Lean's Madeleine ( 1950 ).

It turned out to be Olivier's last performance.

Olivier's performance won him an engagement as the leading man of the Old Vic Theatre the following season, starting his career as a classical actor, but he was said to have resented Gielgud's direction and developed a wary relationship with Gielgud which resulted in Olivier turning down Gielgud's request to play the Chorus in Olivier's film of Henry V and later doing his best to block Gielgud from appearing at the Royal National Theatre when Olivier was its director.

He also played Ancient Pistol in Laurence Olivier's 1944 film of Henry V and Lukey in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ; this performance was later immortalised in Harold Pinter's play Old Times.

In July 1973, he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang.

Columnist Inez Robb disparagingly compared Olivier's performance to the blacked up Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer.

She described Olivier's performance as " high camp ", and said " I was certainly in tune with the gentleman sitting next to me who kept asking ' When does he sing Mammy?

" Niemi wrote that Olivier's performance " was a low point in an otherwise distinguished film career ".

Despite her relative inexperience, Leigh was chosen to play Ophelia to Olivier's Hamlet in an Old Vic Theatre production staged at Elsinore, Denmark.

Olivier's film was made during the Second World War and was intended as a patriotic rallying cry at the time of the invasion of Normandy.

In 1939 he played Horatio to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic-the production also included Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave.

Of debuting at the Old Vic, where his parents performed as part of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company, Stephens said: " It's quite moving for me to do something there.

He also persuaded Olivier to play the title role in Shakespeare's Othello, something the actor had always been reluctant to do: Olivier's Othello opened at the National Theatre in 1964 to glowing reviews, and was filmed in 1965.

During Olivier's youth, the family spent time at Lausanne and Kineton, and at Poulshott in Wiltshire, where the Reverend Olivier was rector.

In 1974 he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in the play Spring Awakening, opposite Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Beryl Reid and Cyril Cusack.

He became an actor in 1971, performing at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre.

Merrison was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1970's and the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon.

Whiting played the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical for 18 months, and for 13 months appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in the production of Congreve's " Love for Love " opposite Olivier, which toured Moscow and Berlin.

In 1998 at the Globe he played a sad Antonio in Richard Olivier's production of The Merchant of Venice.

Adrian was one of the original members of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1963, and appeared as Polonius in the opening production of Hamlet, in which Peter O ' Toole played the Prince.

Many English critics even ranked the Hamlet of Smoktunovsky above the one played by Olivier, at a time when Olivier's was still considered definitive.

Cyclops and Gambit, who both died at the end of the X-Men: The End storyline, are shown to be alive in this future, with Cyclops still running the school with Emma Frost, though both fell out of touch with the X-Men after Rogue's death, as Gambit barely speaks to his son Olivier, doing so only through Olivier's sister.

Alongside John Dexter's Chichester staging of Saint Joan, Olivier's Uncle Vanya was first revived in Chichester in 1963 before transferring to the Old Vic as part of the nascent Royal National Theatre's inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second win as Best Actor in the 1963 Evening Standard Awards.

He was cast in several of Laurence Olivier's Old Vic productions and during the decade came to be regarded as one of British theatre's most promising actors.

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

In the 1970s Dale was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Baker was part of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company and had his first big film break in 1971 with the role of Rasputin in the film Nicholas and Alexandra ( after Olivier recommended him for the part ).

As a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company, Johnson appeared in the plays The Master Builder ( 1964 ) with Olivier and Hay Fever ( 1965 ), and later reprised her roles in the television productions.

Much of Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), a comedy involving Shakespeare in a fictionalised romance, was set around the original Globe Theatre, as was Laurence Olivier's 1944 Henry V.

A stalwart member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1960s, he created the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

In 1962, she returned to Britain and Chichester Festival Theatre during its opening season when the director was Laurence Olivier ; she appeared as Elena in Olivier's celebrated 1962-63 Chichester production of Uncle Vanya.

In the 1960s Timothy was part of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company and appeared in such productions as The Master Builder, Juno and the Paycock and Olivier's Othello.

British cinema's growing international reputation was enhanced by the success of The Red Shoes, the most commercially successful film of its year in the U. S., and by Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Eileen Herlie repeated her role from Olivier's film version as the Queen, and the voice of Gielgud was heard as the Ghost.

Olivier's makeup was so thick and stylised for that production that Vivien Leigh was quoted as saying " You hear Macbeth's first line, then Larry's makeup comes on, then Banquo comes on, then Larry comes on ".

" While most of the blame was attributed to Olivier's acting and direction, Leigh was also criticised, with Bernard Grebanier commenting on the " thin, shopgirl quality of Miss Leigh's voice.

The longest film telecast prior to this was Olivier's version of Richard III, which, unlike Oz, was somewhat edited and not telecast in prime time.

In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.

Olivier criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for passing a budget that was “ 30 % larger than the one that got Governor Davis recalled just three years ago .” Olivier's main earned media was talk radio, advertising his opposition to illegal immigration.

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.

Also worth noting is that composer William Walton, who had scored Olivier's three Shakespearean films ( Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III ) came out of retirement to write the title music for the show, although this was only used for the first two series and then replaced by a new theme by Stephen Oliver.

Playing Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet made her a star, although she was already well known for her work in other British films, including her first starring role in the film adaptation of Uncle Silas, and Black Narcissus ( both 1947 ).