Cast: Laurence Olivier

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews

Plot Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Laurence Olivier · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders · Judith Anderson

Plot A naïve and somewhat simple young woman (Joan Fontaine), is working as a hired travel companion for decadent, rich ladies. On one of her assignments she ends up in Monte...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier

Plot TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Merle Oberon · Laurence Olivier · David Niven · Flora Robson

Plot The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff....

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jean Simmons · Basil Sydney · Eileen Herlie

Plot William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jennifer Jones · Miriam Hopkins · Eddie Albert

Plot When Carrie steps onto the train that will take her to Chicago, she regards the trip as a grand adventure. But her glorious dreams of the big city quickly die,...

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · Lawrence Schiller

Cast Maximilian Schell · Vanessa Redgrave · Omar Sharif · Trevor Howard

Plot It tells the story of Peter I, who becomes infected with a love for western culture and travels to Europe for academic studies. Upon his return to Russia, the maverick...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Sean Connery · Edward Fox · James Caan · Dirk Bogarde

Plot Richard Attenborough‘s star–studded re–telling of the allies‘ attempts to capture several bridges in Germany during World War II, in a campaign called operation Market Garden.

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Plot The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Laurence Olivier · Roy Scheider · William Devane

Plot As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Carol Lynley · Keir Dullea · Laurence Olivier · Noël Coward

Plot Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Plot In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Robert Powell · Anne Bancroft · James Mason · Rod Steiger

Plot Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his...

Direction Stuart Burge

Cast Laurence Olivier · Frank Finlay · Maggie Smith · Joyce Redman

Plot Desdemona defies her father to marry the Moor of Venice, the mighty warrior, Othello. But Othello's old lieutenant, Iago, doesn't like Othello, and is determined to bring about the downfall...

Direction Michael Epstein

Cast David O. Selznick · Alfred Hitchcock · Peter Bogdanovich · Judith Anderson

Plot This excellent documentary interweaves the biographies of two highly different but equally important characters of cinema history: David O. Selznick, producer, and Alfred Hitchcock, movie director.

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Laurence Olivier · Oskar Werner · David Janssen

Plot After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free by USSR president Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Laurence Olivier). The Catholic...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Michael Jayston · Janet Suzman · Tom Baker · Laurence Olivier

Plot The tragic story of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Gregory Peck · Laurence Olivier · James Mason · Lilli Palmer

Plot Olivier stars in this high-tension political thriller as a Nazi-hunter who uncovers the existence of a war criminal (Peck) and his plans to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Adolph...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Plot Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy...