This 1980s war movie starring Laurence Olivier, which cost a (for the time) absolutely wild $46 million to make, had box ...

When Beth Gibbons and her seven-piece band take the stage, there’s no small talk. Gibbons shuns the spotlight, literally.

Director Robert O'Hara's noir version of 'Hamlet,' starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but ...

Laurence Olivier first came to prominence as a stage ... It picked up four Oscars and a Golden Globe. 8. Hamlet (1948) 96% critics rating This is Olivier at his most inspired - both as director ...

Sir Olivier played Henry V, Richard III and Hamlet (Picture: Everett/ Shutterstock) Dame Plowright rose to fame in Roots (Picture: AP Photo/ Bob Dear, File) By that time, Sir Laurence was a ...

A teacher tells her class that Hamlet was “one of the first action heroes” and shows them a clip of the 1948 Laurence Olivier film, in which the Prince of Denmark hesitates and soliloquises ...

Hamlet's still around. Shakespeare stays." Sir Derek is quick to name drop some of his esteemed colleagues: Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney and Sir ...

In Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet, the "To be, or not to be" speech is given a strikingly odd and symptomatic treatment. To a panicked score by William Walton, the camera spirals up ...

He won three Oscars for his work - an honorary gong for Henry V in 1946, best actor award for Hamlet in 1949 ... but divorced 20 years later in 1960 Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan ...

tutoring her pupils about Hamlet. "He is one of the first action heroes," her character says, before setting up the school's film projector. "What you are about to see now is a scene from the film by ...