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Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland was a true star, giving memorable performances in such films as To Each His Own (1946), The Heiress (1949), Gone With the Wind (1939), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Snake Pit (1948) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). At the time of her death, age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner, and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.


Aliases
  • Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE
  • Olivia DeHaviland
English

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005
as Herself - Actress (also archive footage)

The Woman He Loved

1988
as Aunt Bessie Merryman

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

1986
as Dowager Empress Maria

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Herself (archive footage)

Murder Is Easy

1982
as Honoria Waynflete

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

1982
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

The Fifth Musketeer

1979
as Anne d'Autriche

The Swarm

1978
as Maureen

Airport '77

1977
as Emily Livingston

Pope Joan

1972
as Mother Superior

The Screaming Woman

1972
as Laura Wynant

The Adventurers

1970
as Deborah Hadley

Noon Wine

1966
as Ellie Thompson

Lady in a Cage

1964
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard

Light in the Piazza

1962
as Meg Johnson

Insight: Anthony Asquith

1960
as Olivia de Havilland

Libel

1959
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon

The Proud Rebel

1958
as Linnett Moore

Not as a Stranger

1955
as Kristina Hedvigson

That Lady

1955
as Ana de Mendoza

My Cousin Rachel

1952
as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley

The Heiress

1949
as Catherine Sloper

The Snake Pit

1948
as Virginia Stuart Cunningham

Devotion

1946
as Charlotte Bronte

The Dark Mirror

1946
as Terry / Ruth Collins

The Well Groomed Bride

1946
as Margie Dawson

To Each His Own

1946
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris

Stars on Horseback

1943
as Olivia de Havilland

Princess O'Rourke

1943
as Princess Maria

Government Girl

1943
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard

In This Our Life

1942
as Roy Timberlake

The Male Animal

1942
as Ellen Turner

Breakdowns of 1942

1942
as Olivia de Havilland

They Died with Their Boots On

1941
as Elizabeth Bacon

Hold Back the Dawn

1941
as Emmy Brown

Santa Fe Trail

1940
as Kit Carson Holliday

My Love Came Back

1940
as Amelia Cornell

Wings of the Navy

1939
as Irene Dale

Dodge City

1939
as Abbie Irving

Gone with the Wind

1939
as Melanie Hamilton

Raffles

1939
as Gwen

Out Where the Stars Begin

1938
as Herself, clip from 'Gold Is Where You Find It' (archive footage)

Gold Is Where You Find It

1938
as Serena Ferris

Four's a Crowd

1938
as Lorri Dillingwell

The Great Garrick

1937
as Germaine de la Corbe

Call It a Day

1937
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton

It's Love I'm After

1937
as Marcia West

Anthony Adverse

1936
as Angela Guiseppe

Alibi Ike

1935
as Dolly Stevens

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935
as Hermia, In love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)

The Irish in Us

1935
as Lucille Jackson

Captain Blood

1935
as Arabella Bishop