My Filmography! (From 1930-2004)

Complete Stats and Filmography:


Full Name: Laurence Kerr Olivier

Nicknames: Larry, Larry-Boy, Kim (family nickname, from the Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name)

Birthday: May 22, 1907, Dorking, Surrey, England

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Gray/Green

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 160lbs

Ethnicity: British

Religion: Brought up an Anglican, Olivier practically renounced religion when he embarked on his affair with Vivien (raised a Roman Catholic). However, his ties to the church never really left him.

Political Stance: Conservative

Siblings: Gerard Dacres (also known as Dickie), Sybille (both older)

Parents: Gerard Kerr Olivier, a clergyman (who encouraged his youngest son to become an actor), and Agnes Louise Crookenden, who died when Larry was 12

Profession: Film and theatre actor, director

Education: All Saints Choir School. His father decided he should be an actor after his brother, Richard, left for India to become a rubber planter

Marriages: Jill Esmond, 1930-August 30th, 1940; Vivien Leigh, August 30th, 1940-December, 1960; Joan Plowright, 1960-July 11, 1989

Children: Larry and Jill Esmond had a son named Simon Tarquin (they called him by his middle name), in 1936. He was step-father to Vivien Leigh's daughter, Suzanne, though he and Vivien were unable to have children of their own. Much like Suzanne, Tarquin did not have a very close relationship with his father. Larry relinquished custody when he married Vivien Leigh. However, Vivien was determined to get he and his father to become closer during her marriage to Larry, and Tarquin became very close with his step-mother. He had three children by third wife, Joan Plowright: Richard, Tamsin and Julie-Kate. Larry was god-father to Victoria Tennent and Vanessa Redgrave

Other Relationships: Larry had an affair with Claire Bloom and a younger actress named Dorothy Tutin in the late 1950's. It is rumored that he had a ten year affair with actor Danny Kaye, however, both he and his son, Tarquin, denied this. The rumor first surfaced in Donald Spotto's biography of Larry, but there doesn't seem to be much proof of it according to other biographers

Honors: Olivier was knighted by King George in 1947. He was 40 years old, making him the youngest British actor to receive the honor; co-director of the Old Vic COmpany, 1940's; founding director of the Chichester Festival Theatre (1962-66); founding director of the Royal National Theatre (1962-73); in 1970 he became a Life Peer and was named Baron Laurence Olivier of Brighton; was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1981; The Olivier Awards, Britain's version of the Tonys, was named after him.

Awards: See the full list of awards and nominations HERE

Illnesses: For the last 20 years of his life, Laurence Olivier suffered numerous illnesses. Among these were prostate cancer, which he was being treated and hospitalized for in 1967 when he received the news that Vivien Leigh had died (he promptly discharged himself to go to her flat), kidey stones, and a crippling muscle disorder which ultimately killed him.

Death: July 11th, 1989 at his home in Steyning, West Sussex of complications from a muscle disorder. He was 82 years old.
Larry was interred in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey in London, next to other famous British artists such as Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, and Robert Browning. There had been a debate between whether he was going to be burries at the Abbey or across town at St. Paul's. Westminster Abbey had a rule that people had to be dead for a certain length of time before they could be burried there, however once they were told he would be burried at St. Paul's instead, the Abbey bent its rules so as not to lose out in the competition. The service was attended by many of Olivier's famous colleagues and friends. Both his current wife, Joan Plowright, and his first wife, Jill Esmond, attended. The only one missing was Vivien. She had died 22 years earlier.

from www.vivandlarry.com

Wow, this is going to be a really long list...I've been in over 60 films!

2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

*I was actually dead when this was made.  It used recycled footage. 
1988 War Requiem 
1986 Lost Empires
1986 Peter the Great
1985 Wild Geese II
1984 The Bounty
1984 The Jigsaw Man
1984 King Lear
1984 The Last Days of Pompeii
1984 A Talent for Murder
1984 The Ebony Tower
1983 A Voyage Round My Father
1983 Wagner
1983 Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson
1982 Brideshead Revisited
1982 Inchon
1981 Clash of the Titans
1980 The Jazz Singer
1979 Dracula
1979 A Little Romance
1978 The Betsy
1978 The Boys From Brazil
1977 Come Back, Little Sheba
1977 Jesus of Nazareth
1977 A Bridge Too Far
1976 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1976 Marathon Man 
1976 The Seven Percent Solution
1975 Gentleman Tramp
1975 Love Among the Ruins
1975 The Collection 
1974 The World at War
1974 The Rehearsal
1973 Long Day's Journey Into Night
1973 The Merchant of Venice
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb 
1972 Sleuth
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra
1970 Three Sisters
1970 David Copperfield
1969 Battle of Britain
1969 Oh! What a Lovely War

1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 Romeo and Juliet
1968 Dance of Death
1966 Kartoum
1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965 Othello
1963 Uncle Vanya 
1962 Term of Trial 
1961 The Power and the Glory
1960 Spartacus
1960 The Entertainer
1959 The Moon and Sixpence
1959 The Devil's Disciple
1957 The Prince and the Showgirl
1955 Richard III
1953 The Beggar's Opera
1953 A Queen Is Crowned
1952 Carrie
1951 The Magic Box
1948 Hamlet
1945 Henry V
1944 The Volunteer
1943 The Demi-Paradise
1942 Malta G.C.
1942 Words For Battle
1941 49th Parallel
1941 That Hamilton Woman
1940 The Conquest of the Air
1940 Pride and Prejudice
1940 Rebecca
1939 Q Planes
1939 Wuthering Heights 
1938 The Divorce of Lady X
1938 21 Days Together
1937 Fire Over England
1936 As You Like It
1936 Moscow Nights
1935 I Stand Condemned
1933 Perfect Understanding
1933 No Funny Business
1932 Westward Passage 
1931 Potiphar's Wife
1931 Friends and Lovers
1931 Yellow Ticket
1930 Too Many Crooks
1930 The Temporary Widow