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

After the war, he played Albert Godby in Brief Encounter and had a cameo role as the First Gravedigger in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet.

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 ).

Sellers, who had aspirations to do the role straight, appeared in a 1965 TV special on The Beatles ' music by reciting " A Hard Day's Night " in the style of Olivier's Richard III.

Richard Loncraine's 1995 filmic adaptation of Richard Eyre's 1990 stage production of Richard III features considerably less material from 3 Henry VI than had Olivier's film.

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.

He had also worked as Laurence Olivier's manager and as a television producer.

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.

The production had been championed by Olivier's dramaturg, Kenneth Tynan.

" Noted film critic Pauline Kael gave the production and Olivier's portrayal one of her most glowing reviews, shaming the major movie studios for giving Olivier so little money to make the film that he and the public had to be content with what was almost literally a filmed stage production, while other films received multimillion dollar budgets.

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.

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 ".

Plans for a film version faltered after the box-office failure of Olivier's Richard III.

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

Poster for Olivier's 1944 Henry V

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

He wanted to play the Chorus in Olivier's Henry V, but the role went to Leslie Banks, and he longed desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's Oliver Twist, but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead.

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.

Richardson's film appearances include Things to Come ( 1936 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ; his first nomination for an Academy Award ), Richard III ( 1955 ; playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard ), Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ; with Alec Guinness and Noël Coward ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and Oh!

Praise also came for Laurence Olivier's cameo as the Duke of Wellington, with Philip French of The Times writing that "... Olivier's brief appearance as the Duke of Wellington is a beautifully witty and rounded characterisation that is worth the price of the admission in itself ".

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.

During this time, Finch's closeness to the Olivier family led to an affair with Olivier's beautiful but increasingly unstable wife, Vivien Leigh, which began in 1948, and continued on and off for several years, ultimately falling apart due to her deteriorating mental condition.

* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.

Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet ( 1948 ), for which she received her first Oscar nomination.

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 ).

Leigh and her then lover Laurence Olivier ( later to be her husband ) were visiting as guests of Myron Selznick, who was also Olivier's agent, while Leigh was in Hollywood hoping for a part in Olivier's current movie, Wuthering Heights.

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.

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.

This latest version changes the ending considerably by letting Olivier's character live rather than die of a broken heart, and allowing a genuine face-to-face reconciliation between Jess and his father.

She led him and turned into a narrow alley and then into a garden told him that Madame Olivier's villa was on the right side then and there Halliday was kidnapped.

It turned out to be Olivier's last performance.

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.

Having no sons, Olivier's peerage became extinct upon his death in 1943, though his nephew, the actor Laurence Olivier, would be granted a life peerage in 1970 as Baron Olivier, of Brighton in East Sussex.

If anything it will be remembered as Diane Lane's first movie and one of Laurence Olivier's last.

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.

By modern standards, the depiction of Canadians is stereotypical: brave Mounties ; decorated Indians ; Scottish-accented Hudson's Bay Company men ; overwrought French-Canadians, including Olivier's often-criticized accent.

Extracts from the play were also used in Laurence Olivier's 1955 filmic adaptation of Richard III, starring Olivier himself as Richard, Cedric Hardwicke as Edward, John Gielgud as George and Mary Kerridge as Queen Elizabeth.

Olivier's former backers for his Shakespeare films were all deceased by 1965, and he was unable to raise the money to do a film version on location or on elaborate sets.

None of these films were commercially successful, but the commercial and critical prestige earned by Laurence Olivier's film version of Henry V ( which was produced in Great Britain in 1944 but not seen in the U. S. until 1946 ) helped to propel Welles ' Macbeth forward.

The alleged relationship has been denied by Olivier's official biographer, Terry Coleman.

Joan Plowright, Olivier's widow, has dealt with the matter in different ways on different occasions: she deflected the question ( but alluded to Olivier's " demons ") in a BBC interview.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The most notable examples in cinema are Laurence Olivier's 1944 version and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film, both of which draw additional material from the Henry IV plays.

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white Hamlet won best picture and best actor Oscars, and is still, as of 2011, the only Shakespeare film to have done so.

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

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

" 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.

* May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.

* September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.

* July 12 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London.

** Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England.

* March 11 – After having opened in London the previous year, Laurence Olivier's film, Richard III, adapted from Shakespeare's play, has its U. S. premiere in theatres and on NBC Television on the same day.

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.

He appeared on Broadway to great acclaim in Becket, as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960.