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Sir Laurence Olivier
Note: all theatres London unless otherwise specified.
The Twenties
Began his career in 1925 with various small parts with a number of companies, including appearing as a serving man in Henry VIII with Sybil Thorndike.
1926 - 1928 with the Birmingham Rep.
- 1926
- The Marvellous History of St Bernard (Kingsway)
- The Baker and the Cow (Clacton summer season)
- The Farmer's Wife (Provincial tour)
- 1927
- She Stoops to Conquer (Playing Tony Lumpkin: Birmingham)
- Uncle Vanya (Vanya: Birmingham)
- All's Well That Ends Well (M. Parolles: Birmingham)
- 1928
- With Birmingham Rep at the Royal Court: various parts
- Bird in Hand (Royalty)
- Journey's End (Playing Stanhope)
1929
- Beau Geste (The lead: Her Majesty's)
- The Circle of Chalk
- Paris Bound (Lyric)
- The Stranger Within (Garrick)
- Murder on the Second Floor (Eltringe Theater, New York)
- The Last Enemy (Fortune)
The Thirties
1930
- Private Lives (Phoenix) (Directed by Noel Coward: with Coward and Gertrude Lawrence)
1931
- Private Lives (Times Square Theater, New York)
1933
- The Rats of Norway (Playhouse)
- The Green Bay Tree (Cort, New York)
1934
- Biography (Globe)
- Queen of Scots (New) (Directed by John Gielgud)
- Theatre Royal (Lyric)
1935
- The Ringmaster (Shaftesbury)
- Golden Arrow (Whitehall) (Directed by Laurence Olivier)
- Romeo and Juliet (New) (Directed by John Gieldgud, with Olivier as Romeo, Peggy Ashcroft as Ophelia and Gielgud as Mercutio. He and Gielgud alternated their parts.)
1936
- Bees on the Boatdeck (Lyric)
1937 - 1938
- Hamlet (Old Vic)
- Twelfth Night (Old Vic) (Directed by Tyrone Guthrie: played Toby Belch)
- Henry V (Old Vic) (Directed by Tyrone Guthrie: played Henry)
- Hamlet (Elsinor) (Directed by Tyrone Guthrie: played Hamlet; Vivien Leigh as Ophelia)
- Macbeth (Old Vic)
- Othello (Old Vic) (Directed by Tyrone Guthrie: played Iago; with Ralph Richardson
- King of Nowhere (Old Vic) (Directed by Tyrone Guthrie)
- Coriolanus (Old Vic) (Played Coriolanus; with Sybil Thorndike)
1939
- No Time for Comedy (Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York)
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