Cast: Laurence Olivier

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Synopsis In Sleuth (1972), a wealthy mystery novelist invites his wife's young lover to his secluded mansion under the guise of a friendly meeting. What begins as a psychological game of wits quickly escalates into a twisted battle of deception and...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

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

Synopsis In Rebecca (1940), a young, timid woman marries a wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, and moves to his grand estate, Manderley. Struggling to adapt to her new role, she feels overshadowed by the lingering presence of Maxim's first wife, Rebecca,...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

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

Synopsis Spartacus (1960) tells the epic story of a Thracian slave who becomes a gladiator and leads a massive slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Captured and forced into brutal training, Spartacus inspires his fellow slaves to rise up and fight...

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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

Synopsis 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 falls in love with this odd group, but their embrace...

Direction William Wyler

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

Synopsis 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. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion...

Direction Laurence Olivier

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

Synopsis 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 the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet,...

Direction William Wyler

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

Synopsis 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, for all that awaits Carrie there is a bleak life...

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · Lawrence Schiller

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

Synopsis 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 ruler angers the established nobility by forcing them to adopt...

Direction Richard Attenborough

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

Synopsis A Bridge Too Far (1977) is a World War II epic that chronicles Operation Market Garden, a daring Allied plan to end the war by securing key bridges in the Netherlands. The film follows a multinational cast of soldiers and...

Direction Laurence Olivier

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

Synopsis 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 evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such...

Direction John Schlesinger

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

Synopsis 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 in an espionage plot. Babe's brother Doc (Roy Scheider) is...

Direction Otto Preminger

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

Synopsis 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 of Bunny having been registered. When even the police can...

Direction Laurence Olivier

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

Synopsis 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 from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

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

Synopsis 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 birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other...

Direction Stuart Burge

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

Synopsis 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 of Othello's new favorite, Cassio, and destroy Othello in the...

Direction Michael Epstein

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

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

Synopsis 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 Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their daughters, and the painful...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

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

Synopsis In The Boys From Brazil (1978), a young journalist stumbles upon a chilling Nazi conspiracy in South America. A notorious war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele, is orchestrating a sinister plan involving the cloning of Adolf Hitler. Aging Nazi hunter Ezra...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

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

Synopsis 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 come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But...