Laurence Olivier Movies

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...

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

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

Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille...

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

Short WW II documentary

'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in...

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

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

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

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...

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...

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

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