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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.
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 ).

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Despite her relative inexperience, Leigh was chosen to play Ophelia to Olivier's Hamlet in an Old Vic Theatre production staged at Elsinore, Denmark.
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.
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.
In 1939 he played Horatio to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic-the production also included Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave.
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.
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 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.
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.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.

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Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).
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 ".
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.
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.
During Laurence Olivier's tenure as director of the National, Chandos was a central figure in the controversy over a proposed production of Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers.
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.
In 1998 at the Globe he played a sad Antonio in Richard Olivier's production of The Merchant of Venice.

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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.
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.
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.
Olivier's attitude to Empire had changed and he rejected calls for a new conference to discuss changes to the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1921, reaffirming the traditional canard that Britain's contribution to India gave it a right to be there and that the native Indians were not ready for self-government.

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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.
" 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.
He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ( appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film Hamlet ) and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks (' The Colonel ') in the British television series Follyfoot from 1971 to 1973.
His friendship with Olivier and his engagement with Olivier's sister Aude are told in Girart de Vienne by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube.
Bogarde later said that he regretted declining Olivier's offer and with it the chance to " really learn my craft ".
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 ".
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.
Lord Rivers, who usually dies offstage ( or in the case of Olivier's film offscreen ) is impaled by the device of a sharp spike spurting up from the bottom of his mattress while he lies in bed during sex with a woman in a hotel room.
Esmond withstood the publicity of Olivier's affair with Vivien Leigh and did not seek a divorce.
Of all Olivier's Shakespeare films, Othello is the one with the least music.
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?

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