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Sir Laurence Olivier - 2
Note: all theatres London unless otherwise specified.
The Forties
1940
- Romeo and Juliet (San Francisco, Chicago, New York) (Directed and played Romeo: with Vivien Leigh)
1941
- Enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1944
- Appointed co-director of the Old Vic with John Burrell and Ralph Richardson
- Arms and the Man (New) (Sergius)
- Peer Gynt (New) (Button Moulder)
- Richard III (New) (Richard)
1945
- The Skin of Our Teeth (Phoenix) (Director)
- Uncle Vanya (Old Vic) (Astrov)
- Henry IV Pt.1 (Old Vic) (Hotspur)
- Henry IV Pt.2 (Old Vic) (Shallow)
- Oedipus (Old Vic) (Oedipus)
- The Critic (Old Vic) (Mr Puff)
- Arms and the Man (Army bases tour: France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)
- Peer Gynt (Army bases tour: France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)
- Richard III (Army bases tour: France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)
1946
- Henry IV Pt.1 (Revival) (Century)
- Henry IV Pt.2 (Revival) (Century)
- Oedipus (Revival) (Century)
- Uncle Vanya (Revival) (Century)
- King Lear (New) (Directed and played Lear, with Alec Guinness and the Old Vic company)
1947
- Knighted
- Born Yesterday (Garrick) (Director)
1948
- The School for Scandal (Tour of Australia and New Zealand) (Directed and played Sir Peter Teazle: with Vivien Leigh)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (Tour of Australia and New Zealand)
- Richard III (Tour of Australia and New Zealand)
1949
- School for Scandal (Old Vic) (Revival)
- Antigone (Anouilh) (Old Vic) (Directed and played Chorus:
with Vivien Leigh)
- The Proposal (Old Vic) (Director)
- Richard III (Old Vic) (Richard)
- A Sreetcar Named Desire (Old Vic) (Director)
- Daphne Laureola (Wyndham's) (Producer)
The Fifties
1950
- Actor/Manager at the St James's
- Venus Observ'd (Director: played Duke of Altair)
- Fading Mansion (Producer)
- Captain Cavallo (Producer)
- Top of the Ladder (Producer)
- The Consul (Opera) (Producer)
1951
- Caesar and Cleopatra (Festival of Britain Productions: later Ziegfeld, New York) (Caesar)
- Antony and Cleopatra (Fesdtival of Britain Productions: later Ziegfeld, New York) (Antony)
- Othello (St James's) (Producer: directed by and starring Orson Wells)
1952
- The Happy Time (St James's) (Producer)
- Venus Observ'd (Revival) (New century, New York)
1953
- Anastasia (St James's) (Producer)
- The Sleeping Prince (Phoenix) (Directed and played the Prince)
1954
- Waiting for Gillian (St James's) (Producer)
- Meet a Body (Duke of York's) (Producer)
1955
- Twelfth Night (Stratford) (Malvolio)
- Macbeth (Stratford) (Macbeth)
- Titus Andronicus (Stratford) (Titus: directed by Peter Brook)
1956
- Double Image (Savoy) (Producer)
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Producer and director)
1957
- The Entertainer (Royal Court, then Palace) (Archie Rice)
- Titus Andronicus (European tour, then Stoll) (Revival)
1958
- The Entertainer (Royale, New York) (Malvolio)
1959
- Coriolanus (Stratford) (Coriolanus)
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