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21 Days

1940
as Larry Durrant

49th Parallel

1941
as Johnnie - the Trapper

A Bridge Too Far

1977
as Dr. Jan Spaander

A Queen Is Crowned

1953
as Narrator

A Talent for Murder

1984
as Dr. Anthony Wainwright

As You Like It

1936
as Orlando

Battle of Britain

1969
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

Brideshead Revisited

1981
as Lord Marchmain

Bunny Lake Is Missing

1965
as Supt. Newhouse

Carrie

1952
as George Hurstwood

Come Back, Little Sheba

1977
as Doc Delaney

Daphne Laureola

1978
as Sir Joseph

David Copperfield

1969
as Mr. Creakle

Dracula

1979
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing

Fire Over England

1937
as Michael Ingolby

Great Acting: Laurence Olivier

1966
as Self - Interviewee

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

1988
as Laurence Olivier

Hamlet

1948
as Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost

Henry V

1944
as King Henry

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Himself (archive footage)

Inchon

1982
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as Nicodemus

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as Nicodemus

Khartoum

1966
as Mahdi

King Lear

1983
as King Lear

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972
as Duke of Wellington

Lost Empires

1986
as Harry G Burrard

Love Among the Ruins

1975
as Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones

Malta G.C.

1943
as Narrator

Marathon Man

1976
as Christian Szell

Moscow Nights

1935
as Captain Ivan Ignatoff

Never Apologize

2007
as Laurence Olivier

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971
as Count Witte

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Field Marshal Sir John French

Othello

1965
as Othello

Perfect Understanding

1933
as Nicholas Randall

Peter the Great

1986
as King William III of Orange

Potiphar's Wife

1931
as Straker

Pride and Prejudice

1940
as Mr. Darcy

Q Planes

1939
as Tony McVane

Rebecca

1940
as 'Maxim' de Winter

Richard III

1955
as Richard III

Sleuth

1972
as Andrew Wyke

Spartacus

1960
as Marcus Licinius Crassus

Term of Trial

1962
as Graham Weir

That Hamilton Woman

1941
as Lord Horatio Nelson

The Betsy

1978
as Loren Hardeman

The Bounty

1984
as Admiral Hood

The Boys from Brazil

1978
as Ezra Lieberman

The Conquest of the Air

1936
as Vincent Lunardi

The Devil's Disciple

1959
as Gen. Burgoyne

The Divorce of Lady X

1938
as Everard Logan

The Ebony Tower

1984
as Henry Breasley

The Entertainer

1960
as Archie Rice

The Jazz Singer

1980
as Cantor Rabinovitch

The Jigsaw Man

1984
as Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith

The Magic Box

1951
as Police Constable 94-B

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976
as Professor James Moriarty

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968
as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev

The South Bank Show: Noel Coward

1992
as Self - 1982 South Bank Show

The Tales of Helpmann

1990
as Laurence Olivier

The Temporary Widow

1930
as Peter Bille

The Volunteer

1944
as Himself

The World at War

1973
as Narrator

The Yellow Ticket

1931
as Julian Rolfe

This Happy Breed

1944
as Narrator

Three Sisters

1970
as Dr. Ivan Chebutikin

War Requiem

1989
as The Old Soldier

Westward Passage

1932
as Nicholas 'Nick' Allen

Wild Geese II

1985
as Rudolf Hess

Words for Battle

1941
as (voice)

Wuthering Heights

1939
as Heathcliff

Director

Movie Hamlet 1948
Movie Henry V 1944
Movie Richard III 1955
Movie The Prince and the Showgirl 1957
Movie Three Sisters 1970

Writer

Movie Hamlet 1948
Movie Henry V 1944

Producer

Movie Richard III 1955
Movie Saturday Sunday Monday 1978
Movie The Prince and the Showgirl 1957

Guest Star

Episode The World at War
Barbarossa (June–December 1941)
1973
Episode The Merv Griffin Show
Dec 22 1982 Sir Laurence Olivier
1982
Episode Les couples mythiques du cinéma
Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh
2015
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright
1980
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright
1980
Episode The World at War
On Our Way: U.S.A. (1939–1942)
1973
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Sir Laurence Olivier
1973
Episode The Academy Awards
The 31st Academy Awards 1959
1959