Laurence Olivier
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 Laurence Olivier facts

• He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles
• Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles
• His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor
• After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s
• In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and he appeared in his first film
• In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star
• In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company
• There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus
• In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant-garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later played on film
• From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars