Laurence Olivier
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Cast
- Esmond KnightBernardo
- Jean SimmonsOphelia, Daughter of Polonius
- Basil SydneyClaudius, The King
- Anthony QuayleMarcellus
- Eileen HerlieGertrude, The Queen
- Niall MacGinnisSea Captain
- Harcourt WilliamsFirst Player
- Felix AylmerPolonius, Lord Chamberlain
- Stanley HollowayGravedigger
Patrick TroughtonPlayer King- Peter CushingOsric
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1937 staging of Hamlet
- He scored a significant triumph as star of an unabridged 1937 staging of Hamlet. He returned to Hollywood to play the tormented Heathcliff in Samuel Goldwyn ’s production of Wuthering Heights (1939).
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Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director and the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 As You Like It had starred Olivier, but had been directed by Paul Czinner ).
Hamlet: Directed by Laurence Olivier. With John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis. Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
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Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles.
Production [14] [15] [16]DateRoleTheatre (london, Unless Otherwise Noted)Unfailing InstinctAugust 1925Armand St CyrBrighton Hippodrome and tourAugust 1925PolicemanBrighton Hippodrome and tourOctober 1925AntonioCentury Theatre and London area tourOctober 1925Century Theatre and London area tourLaurence Olivier played an athletic and fiery Prince in Tyrone Guthrie's full text production at the Old Vic in 1937. This production was remarkable for its interpretation of Hamlet's delay based on Freud's analysis of the Oedipal complex, in which the son unconsciously desires to kill the father and possess the mother.
Oct 6, 2014 · When I recently showed Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet to a class of college students, two things surprised them. First, because of what they had had heard about Olivier, they had expected great acting, but they initially found the performances hammy, like "old-fashioned stage acting."
Jul 29, 2014 · LAURENCE OLIVIER (The Old Vic, London, 1936) The performance that set its star on the road to theatrical immortality, this was an expressly physical Hamlet of quicksilver mood changes and...
May 4, 2023 · With ghoulish sound and an aesthetic blend of German expressionism and film noir, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet made its move to movies matter.
