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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Laurence Olivier, George Martin, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Eric Brown, Stanley Orr, Eugene Esmonde, Christopher Clayton, Ronald Cuthbert Hay, Patrick Gibbs, Caspar John, Michael Torrens-Spence, Roger Squires, Jimmy Buckley, John Moffat, Henry St John Fancourt, Duncan Hamilton, Peter Vanneck, Richard John Cork, John Smith, Francis Dawson-Paul, Nigel Ward, Robert Hampton Gray, Roy Halliday, William Henry Atkinson, Basil Charles Godfrey Place, Nicholas Goodhart, Ernest Harrison, John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, Adrian Johns, Charles Lamb, Benjamin Bathurst, Peter Compston, Peter Twiss, Alan Bristow, Robert W. H. Everett, Frank Hopkins, Rupert Brabner, William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, T. Neville Stack, Julian Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett, Rupert Davies, Terence Bourke, 10th Earl of Mayo, Bobby Brown, Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, Raymond Lygo, Michael P. W. Stone, Peter Eckersley, David Ogle, John Langford-Holt, Mike Lithgow, David Foster, Neville Atkinson, Roi Wilson, Andre Jubelin. Excerpt: Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (; 22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: fourteen Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor ...
