Laurence Olivier: A Life. - Parts 1 & 2 (South Bank Show 1982) The Full Documentary.
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- Laurence Olivier: A Life. Part 1 & 2 (South Bank Show 1982) The Full Documentary. Originally aired on October 17th, 1982, on ITV. Widely regarded as the most famous South Bank episode, and probably the most in-depth interview ever held with Olivier. In post, I cropped it a little then coloured it as best I could and added a LUT, the original video was covered in watermarks and overexposed with very little colour. It runs for approximately 2 hours 35 minutes.
Such a brilliant actor, director and manager. We will not see his like again.
The interview itself is a master class in the art and technique of acting.
Greatest actor that ever graced the stage, or set.
Forever in a league all his own. A most remarkable and memorable life lived.
A very beautiful man, brilliant actor, love to listen his voice.❤
He was a very kind man as well, and grew into being an actor during a time which was unlike any other. Of course, made a bewildering catastrophe of some parts he played, mainly because he was rarely with director who knew how to talk to him. Then, when his totally unsung friend, Donald McKechnie, helped him start the National Theatre, he did his best stage work. And if you've seen Gene Hackman or John Malkovich (and I mean whenacting on the stage) you'll have seen the same Godly power. John.
32:32 My favourite part of this documentary. Richardson is such an imp. What a delightful friend to have.
Wonderful thank you x
You're welcome :)
Brilliant, oozing talent and charm… the one and only Larry Olivier ❤️🙏🏼Respect Sir🙏🏼❤️👍🏼
Fabulous! Thank you.
Thanks for posting
My hero. Thank you for this rich documentary of him.
Thanks a lot for uploading. I saw this when first broadcast and have wanted to revisit it many times since without success. I’ll cherish this.
You're welcome ✌️
Thank you for posting this gem.
🪅Thank you so much for posting this, just marvelous. 🎭🧡
THE GREATEST ACTOR FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS....NOW ALSO THE GREATEST ACTOR TILL ETERNITY...❤❤❤❤
Refined in the best possible way. He conveys feeling with such exquisite self deprecation.
These actors were a special type, Gielgud Ralph Richardson Olivier they were considered exceptional even by other very successful actors of the time
But to me Olivier took the whole thing to another dimension of genius and magic
His Stupendous Performances ....Oedipus, the Critic, Sergius, John Falstaff, Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo, Mercutio, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, Malvolio, D'arcy, Maxim de Winter, Wuthering Heights, Archie Rice, Coriolanus, Crassus, Christian Czell, Andrew Wyke, Shylock, King Lear, Boys from Brazil, Private Lives, Prince and the Showgirl, Taming of the shrew, Uncle Vanya, Vkyage round my Father, Brideshead Revisited, oh! What a lovely War, Battle of Britain, A Bridge Too Far, Love among the Ruins , War Requiem, Inchon, Wild Geese, Mutiny on the Bounty, Devil's Disciple, Cat on a hot tin roof, etc etc 😮 Forever till ETERNITY ....
thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x
Absolutely one, if not thee, best actor of all time mesmerising performances all the time on stage and on screen in a class of his own i loved him with vivien leigh❤🎉
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting.
Appreciate that, thanks.
I love his voice very much! In Henry V and Richard III he was very loud.👏🙌❤️
I wouldn't necessarily say that Olivier is the best actor of all time but he's the one I admire the most.
What a great man, actor and human being.
He liked oysters & snails....allegedly
mad respect
I really hope Brideshead is mentioned! What a performance!~
For an intelligent man Bragg is sometimes a pedantic dunce when it comes to the arts he has fronted. The urge to journalistically anatomise style is like cutting up a worm to find out how it works. You've found out how it works but all you are left with is a dead worm cut up into parts. It is no longer wriggling and alive. It is merely a mortified specimen. Art is mystique, that's why we love it.
I love Laurence Oliver ❤ I like to name my son after him if I have children that is
When a young man in “The divorce of Lady X”. With Merle Oberon was funny and good acting. Before he became so impressed by his own greatness.
( Contd) His Stupendous Performances .. . Richard 111, Othello, Julius Caesar, Bees on the Board deck, As You Like It, Beggar's Opera, Shoes of the Fisherman, Term of Trial, Long Days Journey into Night, Come back little Sheeba, Dracula, Inchon, Two percent solution, A flea in her ear, Dance of Death, Magic Box, etc etc Forever ...till Eternity...❤❤❤
Everyone should have an uncle like Ralph Richardson.
A man you don`t meet every day.
How shamefully the NT treat him in the end, how well he took the ritual humiliating speech and presentation by that creep Hall. Great acting or what.
Totally agree🫡
Shame on Larry for not discussing the huge impact Vivien made in his life. Larry worshipped Vivien. Yes, I’ve read the love letters her wrote to her. They are naughty and beautiful. Vivien’s mental illness is why the couple divorced. Larry said to John Gielgud, “acting means more to me than Vivien”. At this point he was done. Bipolar leads you into promiscuity without treatment. Viv wasn’t being medicated. For Viv to carry on with other men you KNOW she was sick. Viv worshipped and adored Larry. To feel the man you adore pulling away from you absolutely broke her in mind body and spirit. WHY couldn’t Larry put Vivien first, his career aside and nurse her back to health for the remainder of her life? It’s called sacrifice for the women you love. Larry was a selfish person. How did he feel when he had a breakdown? Now he knows what Vivien went through. How did he feel when stage fright struck? KARMA Larry. You abandoned your beautiful “Puss” when she needed you so badly.
Jean Simmons who played Ophelia recalls Larry scolding her for giggling while watching the dailies of herself. And he wouldn’t speak to Jean for days because she chose not to stick around when she wasn’t filming. Hypocrite Larry!! Jean was 19 years old. Remember the giggles, Larry🙄
Ralph Richardson was hilarious. I was never really an Olivier fan. Something about him is off putting.
I've been a huge VL fan since the reissue of GWTW in the autumn of 1967 (just a few months following her death). As an increasing number of biographies on Olivier and Leigh began to appear in the following years, the full tragedy of Leigh's mental condition finally became known to the general public. For a long time I disliked Olivier for leaving her in the late 50s. However, as I've grown older and hopefully wiser, my earlier negative feelings have somewhat subsided. I suppose this may be based on how debilitating it would be to live with someone with severe manic-depressive illness. It's akin to being caught in an environment where you're deprived of oxygen to breathe (David Niven described the horror of Vivien's illness in the "Missie" chapter of his autobiography).
By God, Alan Bates was a handsome man.
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01:18:10 Richard 3rd
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3:41. Always depends on the individual.
What about Norbert Smith?
The man Jed Harris for whom he modeled Richard the third after had an affair with Henry Fonda’s first wife who later committed su1c1de.
Jed Harris also had a child with Ruth Gordon.
I don’t get Laurence Olivier. I get Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton and Gielgud but not Olivier. It’s strange to see at the beginning R Donat an Olivier together since Hitchcock first choice to play the male part in Rebecca was Donat.