Bullish - Video. Laurence Olivier's Henry V: A Shakespearean Classic. Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: April 8, 2025. The film explores the Elizabethan theater, focusing on Shakespeare's ...

The question used to be: Can Shakespeare’s plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for ...

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender. By Maya Phillips Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

LONDON – Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died ...

News about Laurence Olivier. Commentary and archival information about Laurence Olivier from The New York Times.