The untold story of how the BBC tried to persuade Laurence Olivier to make his first TV appearance is to be released in a new ...

For most of his adult life, stage legend and Oscar-winning actor Laurence Olivier swam daily. “He really made it a commitment,” recalls his son Richard Olivier to Closer. “He would swim 30 lengths, ...

The BBC is releasing archive material that will show the untold story of how the corporation attempted to persuade Laurence ...

The BBC are releasing thousands of files, including a letter inviting a 26-year-old Sir David Attenborough onto a TV training ...

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. She was ...

IN FEBRUARY 1940 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh attended the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Olivier was nominated as best actor for his performance as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights”; Leigh won ...

Vivien Leigh won Oscars for playing two of the most iconic Southern belles in American film: Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind” and Blanche DuBois in 1951’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” 3 ...

Today marks the centennial of the birth of the 20th century's greatest classical actor. Laurence Olivier was also a 1940s matinee idol who married... Laurence Olivier: One of a Kind, Twice Over He was ...