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English actor and director. One of the best performers of Shakespeare′s roles in theater and movies (Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, Macbeth, Othello, etc.). Acted in the movies "Wuthering Heights", "Rebecca," "Lady Hamilton", "Comedian," "Spartacus," "Marathon Man", etc. The head of London′s National Theater (1963-1973).
Laurence Olivier was born on 22 May 1907 in Dorking. His father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, served as a priest. His mother, Agnes Krukenden, was a relative of the headmaster in Guildford, where Gerard was once taught. She devoted herself to raising two sons and a daughter.
In nine years, Lawrence received a boarder in the school choir at the Church of All Saints in central London. In the school play "Julius Caesar" he entrusted the role of Brutus. Visited by the Prime actress Ellen Terry wrote in her diary: "The little boy who played Brutus is already a great actor."
In March of 1920 from a brain tumor Lawrence′s mother died. "I often think that I never recovered after that - Olivier said in a television interview, forty-five years later. - Now I had to deal with his father, with whom I did not connect a special closeness.
Lawrence spent three years in a public school with a pronounced spiritual bent - in the school of St. Edward ( "Teddy") in Oxford. Then Olivier senior, had heard of the talents of her son, invited him to take the examination at the Central School of oratory and dramatic art.
Last year school youth was surprisingly versatile training. In October 1925 he was invited into the company of Lena Eshuell. However, Olivier, obtaining a dramatic role, managed to turn them into a comic. Having the calculation, it is quite a long hunger strike until the head of the troupe Jackson did not take it in a theater in Birmingham. The situation of "the young hero of" Lawrence outplayed many roles.
In June 1928, was replaced by Patrick Olivier Syuzendsa in the play "bird in the hand." His scenic beloved portrayed Jill Esmond-Moore, the daughter of famous actors. Three weeks after the first meeting of the Lawrence made a proposal to the girl.
They were married July 25, 1930, shortly before the start of rehearsals, "privacy" from Noel Coward. According to Olivier, he gave a lot of experience in the semi-annual communion with Coward: "Noel, I think, was the first man who took hold of me and made to think. He pointed out to me when I say nonsense, which has not yet made one. He taught me to read - I do not read anything. Noel has had a huge influence on me. "
In the spring of 1931, Olivier was invited to Hollywood. In the first film, "Friends and Lovers", he played Lieutenant Nichols, the victim of blackmail. Studio "CSC" was pleased with his work, but long breaks between the footage was not satisfied with the very Olivier. In April 1933 he returned to the London stage in the role of an idealistic young teacher in the Norway rat.
The performance was an absolute success. Harold Hobson, the oldest critic of the Sunday Times, later called it one of the seven cases in his practice, when the only experience was enough to feel great actor.
In April 1935 Olivier term contract with the producer Alexander Korda. First of their joint work was a picture of "Moscow Nights." Now, Olivier and Jill Esmond knew not idle in theatrical work. Shortly Olivier celebrated the birth of a son, Simon Tarquinia.
Autumn Gielgud and Albury have decided to resume the play "Romeo and Juliet. Gielgud played Mercutio, the role of Romeo was invited by Olivier. After the first performance in New tietr "reviewers criticized Lawrence for violence against poetry. The actor was in such despair that he wanted to abandon the role. Albury did not share his pessimism, and the future has confirmed he was right. The tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet" has stood in New tietr "a record number of submissions - 186.
After six weeks, Olivier appeared in the form of Mercutio. He endowed his hero in such a conceit, madness and caustic wit, which was markedly different from its established before the young Romeo. It stressed the extraordinary breadth of his range.
Gielgud himself paid tribute to the talent Olivier, praising his success in the role of Romeo, and the role of Mercutio. But he, of course, understood that initially the distribution of roles has been less successful than the final. "Larry advantage over me - wrote Gielgud - was in his powerful vitality, force, smashing his views, his brilliant humor and immediate passion. In addition, he is well fenced, and the role of Mercutio, his thrilling duel with Tybalt served a magnificent prelude to the scene of death. In the role of Romeo′s love scenes were obtained from him truthful and tender, tragic talent of his deeply touched.
Producer Korda suggested Olivier major role in a romantic ribbon of times Queen Elizabeth "Fire Over England." The plot is based the film - the love story of the royal maids of honor of Cynthia (her playing Vivien Leigh) and a brave naval officer Michael Ingoldsbi. At Lawrence was the Bike stunt role, and he insisted to do everything himself.
Shooting last for a few months. Vivien Leigh and Olivier are feeling increasingly unconditional and rare intimacy. They often spent time together.
The film "Fire Over England" was a huge success. Critic Lionel Collier enthusiastically wrote: "... Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier are exceptionally good in the roles of young lovers. Love scenes in their performance especially attracted by its sincerity and naturalness.
Having achieved recognition as a film actor, Olivier suddenly switched to the theater, the Old Vic, where he began with Hamlet, staged in its entirety, more than four-hour entirety.
Yet never in my life so Olivier was not nervous, as before the premiere on Jan.
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For the February performances Old Vic, Olivier suggested "Twelfth Night" and himself as Sir Toby Belch. He had changed his appearance with makeup, that it could "only rarely get to shine your teeth. Some critics took up arms against playacting, assuming that a violent acrobatics Olivier - "forever crawling, stumbling and losing balance" - shook the play.
In the spring of 1937, because of the approaching coronation of George VI, was put Shakespeare′s "Henry V". Olivier felt a strong aversion to the image of the soldier-king. Critics noted the cold mine actor and a certain monotony of his speech. But with every performance performance became better. One of Olivier′s dressing room went Charles Laughton. "You know why you′re so good in this role?" - he asked. "No, - said Lawrence. - Tell me, please. " And Lawton said, imitating the pompous style of Churchill: "Because you - this is England."
At the end of the season actors Old Vic opens the annual "Hamlet" festival in the Danish city of Elsinore. On the role of Ophelia was invited to Vivien Leigh. The performance was a triumph for the entire company.
From Elsinore Olivier and Vivien Leigh returned to Denham, where the shooting ended, the first and last - film in which they played lovers. In the theater, Old Vic, Olivier was waiting second installment of the great Shakespearean roles. "Macbeth" did not justify his hopes. As raised in the February 1938 performance of "Othello". And Iago in his performance did not take criticism at all, he was "too grim", "too angry".
At the same time in an incredibly difficult role of Coriolanus Olivier caused universal admiration, what great merit of the director Lewis Kessona.
By the end of the season in 1938 to achieve Olivier in the classic repertoire have become universally recognized. However, failing to reach the peak of glory, he was six years left the English stage.
When shooting in the Hollywood film "Wuthering Heights" (1939), Lawrence became a movie star with a worldwide reputation.
The next film - "Rebecca" (1940) - brought triumph and director Hitchcock, and his two stars - Olivier and Fontaine. Dark and sinister images created by Lawrence in the deeply peculiar manner, has earned the approval of much of the criticism. In "Pride and Prejudice" Olivier played another great role suitable to him - Darcy.
Finally, he and Vivien Leigh began production of "Romeo and Juliet." They have invested in this project all his savings - about 60 thousand dollars. Olivier conduct all the staging, down to compose music for the exits. Of course, he played Romeo, and Vivien Leigh - Juliet. The catastrophic failure of the play remains one of the most mysterious and unexplained in the history of the theater. "The worst Romeo ..."," Laurence Olivier spoke as if he cleans his teeth at this time ... viscous, without a spark of inspiration ... rapidly and incomprehensible. Kartrell biographer, believes that "Olivier suffered from their own miscalculations. Love in the play, and his Juliet, in the midst of his novel, he had not noticed major mistakes of the production. Passion for detail and spectacular affects could bear fruit in the cinema ... "
Summer of 1940, Olivier tried to get a pilot′s license. After defeating the three aircraft, he still has flown 200 hours needed to obtain a license. Of his non-professional accomplishments Lawrence was proud of it most.
In late August, Olivier and Lee secretly combined legal marriage, and then started to work on the film "Lady Hamilton". Vivien Lee shone in the image of Admiral Nelson′s mistress - Olivier. The picture perfectly consistent with the spirit of the time, and, most significantly, she was very fond of Churchill.
Returning to London, Lawrence tried to get to the front, but was sent to Worthy Down, as an instructor for training archers and head of the camps of reservists of training Air Corps. Vivien Lee followed him.
As an actor, Olivier often spoke in support of the spirit of the army. In autumn 1942, when he heard Lawrence in the full-length auditions for "Henry IV", producer Del Gvidiche found his ideal hero adaptation of Shakespeare′s plays. Olivier wanted to get full control over screen version - the staging, selection of artists, installation and all the rest. Del Gvidiche unexpectedly agreed to these harsh conditions.
In a massive rent a movie released in the summer of 1945. "Henry IV" could not compete even with Hollywood ribbons in all major cities of the country′s teachers have led to morning sessions huge squads of children. The picture brought such an income, that the press acted indignant letters to the proposal to transfer profits to the state.
In April 1946, in Boston, took the American premiere of "Henry IV". Tufts University awarded the honorary degree of Master Olivier for his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema. During the year the picture, which showed in twenty U.S. cities, managed to collect over a million dollars. In March 1947, Olivier has received Academy Award for the organization, formulation and execution of the main roles. Now, about his genius recognized throughout the world. Returning after a Hollywood celebration, Lawrence gave his Oscar Filippo del Gvidiche "Without you, my friend, - he said -" Henry IV "simply would not have been."
In June 1944, Olivier, signing a five-year contract, took the post of director of the revived "Old Vic".
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His Richard had a sophisticated, cruel charm, despite the long nose, a hump behind the right shoulder and a limping gait.
Impressed by his play, Gielgud, Olivier presented the sword, with which Richard III played by Edmund Kean, and who received in 1873 a brilliant in this role, Irving.
In a sense it was in 1945 brought the spouses Olivier crown ruling couple, the entertainment world. In the same year they bought their own country "palace" - Notli-Abbey, built in the XII century by Augustinian monks in Bekingemshire.
In late April 1946, "Old Vic" went to half a month tour in New York. And the cost Olivier show on the stage of "Century" Oedipus, as he immediately recognized the "great". "This Oedipus, - wrote John Mason Brown - one of those images, in which blood is mixed with electricity. It attracts the lightning from the sky. It just frightens, demeans and makes us fear, as one of the terrible phenomena of nature. Even in awe, he never loses its greatness. "
Olivier played the role of Hotspera, Shellou, Aster, Oedipus, and Puff. New York theater critics proclaimed Olivier best actor of Broadway season 1945/46 period.
Allowing a long summer holiday in Notli - with tennis, gardening and working on his small farm - in September 1946, the couple, Olivier returned to the London stage. Lawrence put the "King Lear" and played a major role in it.
His performance led to divergent responses. James Egeyt drew attention to a dark and unexpected humor, who lived in the Lira. This observation has led to criticism of the deepest penetration into the art of the actor: "I am confident that Olivier - a comedian by nature and by profession a tragedian. In the tragic roles, he bridle his sense of humor, but I can see how he curbs.
Olivier takes on remaking Shakespeare′s "Hamlet" for the cinema. He decided to play the Danish prince, but later wrote: "I think the sharp character roles, such as Hotsper or Henry IV, better suited to my acting warehouse, rather than lyrical, poetic Hamlet.
In July 1947 Olivier only once interrupted by shooting a completely exceptional occasion. He was awarded the noble title, taking the dedication of George VI.
Premiere of "Hamlet" was held in May 1948. Milton Shulman, a columnist for the London Evening Standard, wrote: "Some people put it in a number of great works of cinema, the other he was deeply disappointed. However, there is no doubt that Laurence Olivier - a great actor of our time. His expressive face and a rich, thrilling voice make the tortured Prince of Denmark in a truly and deeply tragic hero. Whatever may be said about his age and light hair, it can not overshadow the triumph of the actor. But the freedom to use the text should warp many.
In the U.S., critics have called "Hamlet" one of the world′s greatest films. Life magazine recognized Olivier most outstanding theatrical figure of his time.
As the number of records and awards received in Venice, Hollywood, Copenhagen, New York, "Hamlet" has surpassed all predecessors. For the first time a British band won four Oscars, one of whom received Olivier for Best Actor. Denmark awarded him the Order of Danneborga.
The more strange it seems the decision of the Board of theater "Old Vic" not to renew the contract with its leading actors, Olivier, Richardson and Barellom, upon its expiry in June 1949. Probably so conservative part of the government opposed the system of stars. Olivier at this time is about 12 thousand miles from home, the triumphal tour in Australia and New Zealand.
After leaving the Old Vic, Olivier headed his own company as an actor and entrepreneur. In November 1949 he took a four-year theater "Saint James".
In preparation for the Jubilee Festival in London, Olivier ventured to the dual formulation of "Antony and Cleopatra" and Shakespeare′s "Caesar and Cleopatra" Shaw, who alternated every evening. Two Cleopatra were on the scene four months. However, most critics felt that both Caesar and Anthony Olivier played well below their capabilities, so advantageous to shade Miss Lee in the role of Cleopatra.
In the summer of 1954 Laurence Olivier once made at the same time as director, producer and actor. At this time in the film adaptation of "Richard III". He gathered the outstanding masters of the scene. Quartet titled actors were Olivier, Hardwick (King Edward IV), Richardson (Buckingham) and Gielgud (Clarence). As with the creation of Hamlet, the play was subjected to strong processing.
This film won three awards at the British Academy of Film. And though, unlike in "Henry IV" and "Hamlet," "Richard III" brought Olivier an Oscar only for the best male role, some critics still consider this film the most successful of the entire trilogy.
In April 1955, Lawrence began to rehearse in the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford. In June, the premiere of "Macbeth. Playing a major role, Olivier used the muted palette, masterfully portraying villainy so subtle that some of the critics called it a spectacle of how "going mad herself restraint." Leading critics unanimously found him "the best Macbeth of our time." In the words of Kenneth mystery, "he shook hands with the very greatness.
The next performance of "Titus Andronicus" proclaimed the triumph, a masterpiece is born and inspired theatrical flair producer Brook, and an excellent game, Olivier and Anthony Quayle.
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Well-known critic Kenneth Tyne said: "Thanks Hotsperu and Richard III, we knew that Sir Laurence is able to run amok and now we know that he may suffer. He proved that he was under the force of all the great, almost nevoplotimye role - "Splendor" Skelton, Ibsen Brand, Goethe′s Faust - he will be powerless to play anyone, not yet extinguished his eyes until he gathered together his mouth forever. "
Olivier always dreamed of having many children, and he was delighted to learn that 42-year-old Vivien Leigh is pregnant. Lawrence wanted a daughter, and they have already chosen a name: Katherine. Vivien was assured that she will give birth to a healthy baby. However, in August she, like, twelve years ago, suffered a miscarriage ...
At the end of 1956 the first newspaper pages flew by sensational news: "Sir Laurence is a partner of Marilyn Monroe."
Shooting of "Sleeping Prince" with Monroe began in August 1957 in London. Because of the triangular functions of producer, director and performer starring Sir Oliver had to work with the same intensity as in the screen adaptations of Shakespeare. In Hollywood, the film was renamed "The Prince and the chorus girl." Game Lawrence acknowledged impeccable, its director - the talented and full of refined taste.
In the theater, Olivier took the role in a modern play Osborne′s "Comedians". The decision to play the role of Archie, Raisa, broken actor music-hall, of course, required courage, because in the play joked at politicians, the royal family and the Suez events, etc. Gradually Archie Raisa became regarded as the best creation Olivier outside the classical repertoire.
Major success on television was taken for an actor in New York performance of "Moon and a penny" (1958) by Maugham. Olivier has received several awards, including an Emmy for best role in odnoseriynoy statement.
The film "Spartacus", but rather, the promised fees ($ 250 thousand), Olivier drew almost half a year in Hollywood. By this time his relationship with his wife noticeably cooled. Vivien Leigh increasingly depressed.
In June, 1959, Lawrence began rehearsals in Stratford Theater, celebrating its hundredth season. Jubilee collected the most popular actors, but Olivier as Coriolanus eclipsed all. The Times wrote that "it ... is so great, as soon as possible. "
Olivier asked myself the appalling rate. Playing "Coriolanus", it can also occasionally travels to London to rehearse another "Night of a hundred stars; in Nottingham, where his company has supplied the Australian play" inconstant heart; in Middlesex for "Shepperton Studios" Finally, in the Lancashire town of Morecambe in the shooting "Comedians".
In the "Comedians" play Miss Joan Plowright. Many years later, recalling the terrible sense of loss he experienced after his mother died, Oliver said that "since I was searching for her constantly. Perhaps Joanne I found her again. " Much of it is perceived as Olivier.
Unexpectedly for many Lawrence turned to the "theater of the absurd", deciding to play "Rhinoceros, Ionesco role Berenger′s character, Chaplinsky plan. Found suitable for the role and Plowright. "Rhinoceros" is highly consistent with the tastes of a new theater audience. Game Olivier attracted attention for its exquisite restraint rather than flashy effects. The Observer carried this role among the most committed by the actor.
In February 1962, Olivier asked to become artistic director of Chichester Festival Theater. And next month, the day of Saint Patrick, Joan Plowright and Laurence were married. They settled in the four-storey mansion in the coastal part of Brighton. In September, their first-born was born - a boy, who was named Richard Kerr. Then came the girls - Tamsin, Agnes, Margaret and Julie-Kate.
Two years after moving to Brighton in a conversation with theater critic Harold Hobson Olivier expressed the spirit of his new lifestyle: "I do not know anything more beautiful than when he went in the morning by taxi from the house, look around and see how your young child to hold the the window and wave to help you handle. It sounds sentimental and trite, but it is more important than poetry, than genius, than money. "
August 9, 1963, Olivier was appointed the first director of the British National Theater. Now on stage he appeared rarely. The audience could see his infinitely subtle Astrov and comically passionate BREISACH in "The officer, recruiter, Farquhar. But for fans of his talent was not enough.
In April 1964 Laurence Olivier started to prepare a great role: Othello. "I kept putting it off because, in my opinion, it is impossible to play - he said. - Volume huge, and the load on the actor simply monstrous.
Twice a week, Lawrence warm up in the gym, he began to run along the shore of Brighton Bay. Actor developed breathing, endurance and agility, since in his view Moor moved gracefully, "as a silent black leopard." Olivier worked for six months daily exercises for the voice. After four or five months, he could speak almost at full octave lower.
Most reviewers found him Othello tremendous achievement, especially affects his virtuosity. Richard Findleyteru was able to capture the most important: "Othello, appearing this evening in April at Waterloo Road, it seemed, absorbed all the properties, a combination of whom Olivier reached in its best moments in the past and thus has always stood out among the actors, costing only a few among them: men′s magnetic force, inventive technical findings, charm, emotion and diversity, a rare gift of reincarnation, pathos, comedy features, a wide range of voices, anger, respect for tradition combined with a willingness to experiment, the ability to surprise, keen intellect, ardor; the ability to show a character all human, the ability to cause fear among the audience, make them laugh and be brought to tears and huge, expressive, captivating eyes, daring, and yet something elusive, which makes a grateful public to call a great performance.
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Olivier organized the first foreign tour of the National Theater. The troupe performed successfully in Berlin and Moscow with three performances: "Othello", "Choice Hobson, Brighouse and" Love for Love "Kongriva.
21 February 1967 Olivier added to the gallery of his classic creations yet another masterpiece - the captain of Edgar in "Dance of Death. This role brought him the prize "Evening Standard" as the best dramatic actor and the gold medal of the Swedish Academy of Letters for his outstanding interpretation of the Swedish drama.
In 1970, Olivier was persuaded to a new primary role: Jonathan Miller was going to put "The Merchant of Venice. Probably, Shylock is not among the truly great images of Sir Laurence, but this role is revived in him confidence.
Olivier was the first actor was awarded the title of a life peerage (1970). Having forty-five years of life profession, which his grandmother called "monstrous", he became Lord Olivier Brighton. However, getting San peerage of England, Lawrence troupe of the National Theater announced that the first who called him "my lord", may consider himself sacked ...
In 1971, Olivier returned to the West End. The preparation of O′Neill′s drama "The long journey into the night, went months of hard work, but the most difficult part of James Tayrona Olivier played at full strength, having achieved such an incredible filigree technique, which is unanimously considered it. This role earned him a third prize of "Evening Standard" as the best dramatic actor. Another noteworthy that after the recording of the performance he received the highest award of the American television (an Emmy) for best odnoseriynoy role in the formulation.
The guide national scene in 1971 was the summer for Olivier crisis. He resigned.
Ruthless image of the writer-detective Andrew Uayka in "detectives" secured him a resounding return to the front ranks of the Screen Actors Guild. New York critics assigned him the title of best actor, and together with his partner, Michael Caine, he received an Oscar.
And two years later in Paynvude first time working with two old friends, Katharine Hepburn and directed by veteran George Cukor, it starred in the film "Love in the ruins" for American television. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, after forty years of fruitful work in the film claimed that nothing can compare with the actor Olivier experience, the rich, "as gold-bearing vein Comstock" Equally convincing Sir Laurence was in the role of a former Nazi doctor in "Marathon" ( 1976) John Schlesinger.
Olivier is a growing interest in modern drama and prose. His repertoire includes such works as the novel′s dramatization of Evelyn Waugh "The Return of Braydshed" (1981), a play by John Mortimer′s "Journey Around My Father" (1982), somewhat earlier than he made in a fierce political play by John Griffiths, "party" .
In 1983, Olivier had played Lear at the television screen. This work became his true triumph. Criticism came to the conclusion that the actor was able to raise the role of such an emotional level, which was not achieved by anyone. " His Lear struck many reviewers of the various countries of its extraordinary simplicity, maximum severity and naturalness.
A few years before the death of Laurence Olivier invented his epitaph. "He was funny." Death has already stepped up to him during his serious illness and dangerous operation, which followed a long period of mental stress, when the actor first experienced stage fright. But then he managed to escape and fear, and death due to a sense of humor in relation to himself, a little gloomy, but such a natural for the Anglo-Saxons.
But Olivier left the theater, he was beyond the power of long rehearsals and the need to go out every night on stage.
Greatest Thespian XX century, died in 1989 in Brighton, surrounded by his home. A year before director Derek yoke persuaded him to withdraw in the film "Remembering the War." This movie-protest against any war - the last film by Lawrence Olivier.
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