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Nov 3, 2018 · Virtually everyone knows the line, ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’. Whether we hear Laurence Olivier reciting them, or erroneously picture some other great Shakespearean actor pronouncing these words while holding a skull (which actually belongs in the later gravedigger scene), ‘To be or not to be’ is one of the most famous six-line phrases from all of English literature.
Dubbed the greatest actor of the twentieth century, Sir Laurence Olivier, the classically trained and majestically handsome English theater veteran and one-time co-director of London’s Old Vic, first transplanted his passion for Shakespeare to the big screen in the 1940s, and in so doing, allowed Elizabethan verse to break free of its stage-bound origins. Olivier directed only five films in ...
Laurence Olivier, known familiarly as Larry, seemed destined for stardom from his first stage appearance, aged 15, as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew at the 1922 Stratford Festival. Another juvenile appearance in A Midsummer Night's Dream brought his first review.
Feb 25, 1992 · Olivier’s first son, Tarquin, was born in 1936 when Olivier was 29. That same year he continued his movie career (with “Fire Over England,” an Alexander Korda swashbuckler) and launched an ...
Oct 20, 2021 · Oct. 20, 2021 10:02 AM PT. Last spring I included in my Shakespeare on Stage and Screen syllabus the 1965 film of “Othello” starring Laurence Olivier in blackface. You might be wondering why I ...
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
Olivier made his three Shakespeare films as the result of multiple promptings. Despite uneasiness about his own Orlando in the As You Like It film directed by Paul Czinner in 1936, he became interested in exploring the potential of the cinema for the presentation of Shakespeare's plays and he managed never to abandon the theatricality implicit in the plays in the films he directed.
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier OM (/ ˈlɒrənsˈkɜːrəˈlɪvieɪ / LORR-ənss KUR ə-LIV-ee-ay; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud made up a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films ...
