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Birthdate: May 22, 1907
Death date: July 11, 1989
Laurence Olivier
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
2.7248
13
1940s
3.0962
9
1950s
2.0048
6
1960s
2.7861
11
1970s
2.7321
12
1980s
2.0394
8
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.0676
3.0676
Laurence Olivier Movie Rankings
1
3.6087A slave, trained to be a Gladiator, insights a revolt and uprising against the corrupt Roman establishment that imprisons him and his fellow men. ...more about Spartacus
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $12.87
(12 sellers)
2
3.6061A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world wind romance, the new Mr. and Mrs. de Winter return to his estate. Once there Mrs. ...more about Rebecca
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $294.95
(1 sellers)
3
3.2362Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. ...more about Pride and Prejudice
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
4
3.1757
Based on one the most popular historical plays by Shakespeare and made in order to boost moral of British troops during WW2, this movie is about English king Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415. ...more about Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $25.57
(14 sellers)
5
3.1003
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. ...more about Wuthering Heights
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
6
3.0807
In this film of the classic Shakespearean play, a Danish prince seeks to avenge his father's death when his uncle murders his father, succeeds him as King, and marries the Queen. ...more about Hamlet
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $19.17
(14 sellers)
7
3.0473
English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Prime Minister Gladstone. ...more about Khartoum
DVD from $5.70
(12 sellers)
8
3.0252
This WWII film follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault. ...more about Bridge Too Far
DVD from $6.62
(12 sellers)
9
3.0189
In New York City, the brother of an infamous Nazi war criminal is killed in a head on collision car accident. Shortly thereafter, members of a covert US government group called "The Division" begin to be murdered one by one. ...more about Marathon Man
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
10
2.9372
Perseus has to rescue Andromeda, before she has to marry a monster. Zeus has set up a few tests for Perseus on the way, like capturing Pegasus, defeating Medusa, and finding a way to kill the dreaded Kraken... ...more about Clash of the Titans
DVD from $3.59
(13 sellers)
11
2.9281
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ...more about Seven-Per-Cent Solution
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.9159
Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew's wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. ...more about Sleuth
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.8957
Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record of Bunny having been registered. ...more about Bunny Lake Is Missing
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
14
2.7981
The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. ...more about Bounty
DVD from $6.80
(13 sellers)
15
2.7792
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn't cut the grade with London society but she gets along well with the Queen of Naples. ...more about That Hamilton Woman
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.7756
Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led my Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. ...more about Boys from Brazil
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $5.75
(13 sellers)
17
2.7457
Sir Laurence Olivier re-creates his famous stage role as Archie Rice created by 'John Osborne' (qv). He is a third rate act, headlining a failing end-of-the-pier show in a run down seaside resort. ...more about Entertainer
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
18
2.6879
Laurence Olivier plays Logan, a barrister who falls in love with Leslie (played by Merle Oberon), the woman he thinks his client will soon be divorcing. ...more about Divorce of Lady X
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.6776
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister's husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Then she injures a finger and is fired. This is the 1890s. ...more about Carrie
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
DVD from $4.58
(11 sellers)
20
2.6369
A damaged U-boat is stranded in a Canadian bay in the early years of World War II. The Fanatical Nazi captain and his crew must reach the neutral United States or be captured. ...more about 49th Parallel
DVD from $24.99
(12 sellers)
21
2.6256
The tragic story of Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. ...more about Nicholas and Alexandra
DVD from $15.69
(11 sellers)
22
2.6183
Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two for control of the skies over Britain as the new Luftwaffa and the Royal Air Force determine whether or not an invasion can take place. ...more about Battle of Britain
DVD from $4.86
(14 sellers)
23
2.4748
Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. The latest is British, and Hammond of the Secret Service, comical but competent, investigates undercover. ...more about Q Planes
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.4748
Struggling writer Nick Allen and socialite Olivia Van Tyne marry and live frugally because Nick refuses to compromise his writing to satisfy his publisher. ...more about Westward Passage
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.4573
The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. ...more about Betsy
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
26
2.3626
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. ...more about Jazz Singer
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $9.10
(12 sellers)
27
2.3551
Desdemona defies her father to marry the Moor of Venice, the mighty warrior, Othello. ...more about Othello
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $11.98
(8 sellers)
29
2.2434
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. ...more about Fire Over England
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.1460
A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. ...more about As You Like It
DVD from $19.99
(5 sellers)
31
1.9327
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. ...more about Oh! What a Lovely War
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $9.59
(11 sellers)
32
1.8501
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. ...more about Three Sisters
DVD from $16.33
(11 sellers)
33
1.8205
Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. ...more about Richard III
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- Jussi Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $25.57
(12 sellers)
34
1.7702
Authentic rendering of John Gay's 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor, about Captain MacHeath, a highwayman, and his love for too many beautiful women. ...more about Beggar's Opera
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.6880
The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. ...more about Devil's Disciple
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.6880
When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. ...more about Dracula
DVD from $5.90
(13 sellers)
37
1.6711
A film with no dialogs, just follows the lyrics of the Britten's oratorium, that criticize the war's horrors. It shows the story of an englishman soldier and a nurse (his bride) during the World War II. ...more about War Requiem
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.5890
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. ...more about Moscow Nights
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.5569
A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur. ...more about Inchon
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.4186
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. ...more about Magic Box
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.1702
Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. ...more about Term of Trial
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.0090
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. ...more about Jigsaw Man
- Not Available on DVD
45
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. ...more about 21 Days
- Not Available on DVD
46
This drama follows man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the first balloons, the Wright Brothers, and other pioneers, using dramatic re-enactment and working models of early flying machines. Beginning with World War I, archival footage is used. ...more about Conquest of the Air
- Not Available on DVD
50
A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his story telling. ...more about Little Romance
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $8.63
(9 sellers)
56
After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing Pope makes him a Cardinal. ...more about Shoes of the Fisherman
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
59
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country. ...more about Yellow Ticket
- Not Available on DVD
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