Cast: Laurence Olivier
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Laurence Olivier. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Nicol Williamson · Alan Arkin · Robert Duvall · Vanessa Redgrave
Plot Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of...
6.2
485 votes
6.2
485 votes
The Last Days of Pompeii (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Series · 245 min. · Italy
Direction Peter Hunt
Cast Ned Beatty · Brian Blessed · Ernest Borgnine · Nicholas Clay
Plot This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption...
6.2
154 votes
6.2
154 votes
The Bounty
1984 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Donaldson
Cast Mel Gibson · Anthony Hopkins · Laurence Olivier · Edward Fox
Plot The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the...
6.2
4K votes
6.2
4K votes
Words for Battle (S)
1941 · Documentary · 8 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Humphrey Jennings
Cast Laurence Olivier
6.0
28 votes
6.0
28 votes
Fire Over England
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Flora Robson · Laurence Olivier · Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks
Plot In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. British sea raiders regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World with the support of Queen...
5.9
62 votes
5.9
62 votes
David Copperfield (TV)
1969 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Laurence Olivier · Robin Phillips · Michael Redgrave · Ralph Richardson
5.9
38 votes
5.9
38 votes
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Attenborough
Cast Joe Melia · Colin Farrell · Paul Shelley · Angela Thorne
Plot A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family...
5.9
99 votes
5.9
99 votes
21 Days
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dean
Cast Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks · Laurence Olivier · Francis L. Sullivan
5.9
151 votes
5.9
151 votes
The Jazz Singer
1980 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Neil Diamond · Laurence Olivier · Lucie Arnaz · Catlin Adams
Plot Neil Diamond stars in this remake of "The Jazz Singer"; this time this is the tale of Yussel, a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music....
5.5
128 votes
5.5
128 votes
The Betsy
1978 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Petrie
Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Duvall · Katharine Ross · Tommy Lee Jones
Plot The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the...
5.3
58 votes
5.3
58 votes
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Bolt
Cast Sarah Miles · Jon Finch · Richard Chamberlain · John Mills
Plot A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
5.2
25 votes
5.2
25 votes
Friends and Lovers
1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Lili Damita · Laurence Olivier · Erich von Stroheim
5.1
26 votes
5.1
26 votes
The Jigsaw Man
1984 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Young
Cast Michael Caine · Laurence Olivier · Susan George · Robert Powell
Plot Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital...
4.8
189 votes
4.8
189 votes
Wild Geese II
1985 · Movie · 125 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hunt
Cast Scott Glenn · Barbara Carrera · Edward Fox · Laurence Olivier
Plot A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
4.3
55 votes
4.3
55 votes
As You Like It
1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Czinner
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Henry Ainley · Felix Aylmer · Laurence Olivier
Plot A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has...
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The Dance of Death
1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Giles
Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye
Plot An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice,...
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Westward Passage
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Robert Milton
Cast Ann Harding · Laurence Olivier · ZaSu Pitts · Irving Pichel
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Inchon
1981 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Terence Young
Cast Laurence Olivier · Jacqueline Bisset · Ben Gazzara · Toshirô Mifune
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The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People (S)
1976 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States
Direction Allan Garden
Cast Everett Creach · William Devane · Robert Evans · Dustin Hoffman
Plot This making of the classic Marathon Man (1976) has legendary producer Robert Evans as host. He presents to us all of the film's qualities and most important, the magnificent collaboration...
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Moscow Nights
1935 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Harry Baur · Penelope Dudley-Ward · Laurence Olivier · Athene Seyler
Plot During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a...
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