He was Laurence Olivier reincarnated for a new the twenty-first century, a deconstructed style of performance.
"It was a rare honour to play Sir Laurence Olivier, " he told the BBC.
Other famous names to play the parts on Broadway include Claire Bloom, John Neville, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
"Henry V" for what it said of my insecurity never mind what it said of Laurence Olivier and my insufferable pretension.
It may sound preposterous, but it earned 8 nominations for the Laurence Olivier Awards, the top theater accolades in London.
Michael Redgrave's Hamlet was 42 and Laurence Olivier's film Hamlet was 41.
His dedication to the celluloid past, however, is beyond question among the plentiful homages, the immortal Laurence Olivier has a cameo from the crypt.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2005 for his production of Romeo and Juliet, which was created for Royal New Zealand Ballet.
He put on The Merchant of Venice starring Laurence Olivier in London's West End in 1970 and later became known for staging operas including Rigoletto and The Mikado.
"I reminded Frank that while Laurence Olivier had performed Shakespeare in his 20s, the readings he did when he was in his 60s gave them new meaning, " Ramone wrote.
Now Sir Kenneth Branagh, he joins the ranks of fellow thespians such as Alec Guinness, Patrick Stewart and Laurence Olivier, who he played in last year's My Week With Marilyn.
Harryhausen's last film, "The Clash of the Titans" (1981), was the only one with a big budget and major cast: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith, Harry Hamlin and Claire Bloom.
Comparisons to Laurence Olivier - who was knighted himself at the age of 40 - have pursued Branagh throughout his career, and are likely to do so again in the light of this latest elevation.
In the first decade, Jackson produced a string of world premieres, and his theatre soon became a forcing house for new acting talent, including such familiar names as Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Stewart Grainger and Ralph Richardson.
The evolution of first stage, and then movie acting, has proceeded to such a point that even a great actor of a couple of generations ago, like Sir Laurence Olivier, appears to us stiff and overly mannered now.
Seems its current productions don't create the excitement that they did in the halcyon days when Laurence Olivier managed a tour-de-force double bill, playing a fop in Sheridan's The Rivals only to return a half an hour later to do the lead in Oedipus Rex.
He won the Laurence Olivier Award for best actor, the Drama Desk Award for outstanding actor in a play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for best featured actor in a play, and a Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a play.
应用推荐