Laurence Olivier was a British actor and director, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. In his early career, he starred in several commercially unsuccessful movies like, ‘The Temporary Widow’ (1930), ‘Friends and Lovers’ (1931), ‘The Yellow Ticket’ (1931), and ‘Westward Passage’ (1932). However, it was his ‘Oscar’ nominated role of Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1939) that turned his career around.
Following that, he acted in some of the best and highest grossing movies of his career. He earned ‘Academy Award’ nominations for ‘Rebecca’ (1940), ‘Richard III’ (1955), ‘The Entertainer’ (1960), ‘Othello’ (1965), ‘Sleuth’ (1972), ‘Marathon Man’ (1976), and ‘The Boys from Brazil’ (1978). Laurence Oliver even won the ‘Academy Award’ for ‘The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France’ (1944), and ‘Hamlet’ (1948).
Some of his other famous movies are ‘Spartacus’ (1960), ‘A Little Romance’ (1979), and ‘A Voyage Round My Father’ (1982). Laurence Olivier even won at the ‘Primetime Emmy Awards’ five times for his acting in ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ (1959), ‘Long Day's Journey into Night’ (1973), ‘Love Among the Ruins’ (1975), ‘Brideshead Revisited’ (1981), and ‘King Lear’ (1983).
