Movies: Laurence Olivier

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased....

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship....

Short WW II documentary...

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried....

Producer Robert Evans dominates with his trademark promotional style, but Schlesinger gets a short time on camera (one of his few available interviews about the film), and Hoffman has even more. A highlight is the celebration of Olivier's final shoot...

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family....

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward....

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World...

World War II propaganda film....

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day tur...

In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, celebrated Hollywood star and great Shakespearean interpreter - Vivien Leigh was all that. Behind the celebrity, however, was a fragile person. Her bipol...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his birth....

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only full-length interview ever recorded with Walton. Filmed at his home on Ischia and in Oxford, London & Oldham, i...

In this television documentary, Laurence Oliver is interviewed by Kenneth Tynan about his Shakespearean films....

Tree of Life is a 1971 film directed by John Fernhout....

Towards the end of their lives, two men from very different worlds discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years....

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier....