Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican priest, who decided that Laurence - or Kim as the family called him - would become an actor. His stage breakthrough was as in Noel Coward's Private Lives (in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was his portrayal of Heathcliff in ...

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Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican priest, who decided that Laurence - or Kim as the family called him - would become an actor. His stage breakthrough was as in Noel Coward's Private Lives (in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was his portrayal of Heathcliff in ...

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Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier - Life, Laurence Olivier - Acting appearances in London's West End, Laurence Olivier - Acting appearances on Broadway, Laurence Olivier - Productions on Broadway, Laurence Olivier - Broadway directing credits, Laurence Olivier - Movie credits, Laurence Olivier - Television credits

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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1907 - Events. January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. January 23 - Charles Curtis fr ...

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• 1907 - Events
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• 1907 - Undated
• 1907 - Births
• 1907 - January-March
• 1907 - April-June
• 1907 - July-September
• 1907 - October-December
• 1907 - Undated
• 1907 - Deaths
• 1907 - Nobel Prizes

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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• 1950s - Events and trends
• 1950s - Science
• 1950s - War, peace, and politics
• 1950s - Economics
• 1950s - Culture, religion
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• 1950s - People
• 1950s - World leaders
• 1950s - Entertainers
• 1950s - Sports figures

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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1] 1989 - Events. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assistant Austra ...

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• 1989 - Nobel Prizes
• 1989 - Templeton Prize
• 1989 - Right Livelihood Award

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The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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• Academy Honorary Award - List of Academy Honorary Award winners
• Academy Honorary Award - 1920s
• Academy Honorary Award - 1930s
• Academy Honorary Award - 1940s
• Academy Honorary Award - 1950s
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The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeare's best-known plays, written at an uncertain date between 1594 and 1597. It is a comedy ("comedy" had a very different meaning at the time; see Shakespearean comedies) and is best known for its portrayal of the Jew Shylock, which has raised questions of anti-semitism. Shylock is a tormented character but is also a tormenter, so whether he ...

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• The Merchant of Venice - Date
• The Merchant of Venice - Story
• The Merchant of Venice - Shylock and the anti-Semitism debate
• The Merchant of Venice - The anti-Semitic reading
• The Merchant of Venice - The sympathetic reading
• The Merchant of Venice - Shylock on stage
• The Merchant of Venice - Pederasty
• The Merchant of Venice - Film adaptations
• The Merchant of Venice - Pastimes

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Asterix (French: Astérix) is a fictional character, created in 1959 as the hero of a series of French comic books by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Uderzo has continued the series since the death of Goscinny in 1977. The books have been translated into many languages, even Latin and Ancient Greek. They are probably the most popular French comic in the world, and familiar to people of all ages in most European countries. Asterix is less well known in the United States and Japan, which both h ...

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• Asterix - Setting and characters
• Asterix - Humour
• Asterix - Stereotypes and allusions
• Asterix - Puns in names
• Asterix - Running gags
• Asterix - Revisionist explanations
• Asterix - Influences
• Asterix - Recurring characters
• Asterix - Major recurring characters

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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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• Academy Award for Directing - 1920s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1930s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1940s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1950s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1960s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1970s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1980s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1990s
• Academy Award for Directing - 2000s

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See also: 1968 in film 1969 1970 in film 1960s in film years in film film 1969 in film - Events. Cannes Film Festival opens, but closes in support of a French general strike without awarding any prizes. Last year for the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. 1969 in film - Top-grossing films. North America The Love Bug Funny Girl< ...

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• 1969 in film - Events
• 1969 in film - Top-grossing films
• 1969 in film - Academy Awards
• 1969 in film - Births
• 1969 in film - Deaths
• 1969 in film - Other films released

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1960 in film - Top grossing films. North America Ben-Hur Can Can Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Operation Petticoat Suddenly, Last Summer The Apartment Solomon and Sheba On the Beach 1960 in film - Academy Awards. Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Including:

• 1960 in film - Events
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• 1960 in film - Academy Awards
• 1960 in film - Births
• 1960 in film - Deaths
• 1960 in film - Other movies released

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The Battle of Agincourt was fought on 25 October 1415, (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War. The combatants were the English army of King Henry V (traditionally thought to be highly outnumbered, though this is now disputed, see below), and that of Charles VI of France. The latter was not commanded by the incapacitated king himself, but by the Constable Charles d'Albret and various notable French noblemen of the Armagnac party. The battle is notable for the use of the English longbow, which helped ...

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• Battle of Agincourt - The Battle
• Battle of Agincourt - Notable casualties
• Battle of Agincourt - Modern re-assessment of Agincourt
• Battle of Agincourt - Were archers as effective as traditionally thought?
• Battle of Agincourt - Were the English as outnumbered as traditionally thought?
• Battle of Agincourt - The Battle of Agincourt as an English patriotic myth
• Battle of Agincourt - Popular Myths
• Battle of Agincourt - Bibliography
• Battle of Agincourt - External references
• Battle of Agincourt - Notes

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1972 in film - Academy Awards. Best Picture: The Godfather - Ruddy, Paramount Best Director : Bob Fosse - Cabaret Best Actor: Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined) Best Actress: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret Best Supporting Actor ; Joel Grey - Cabaret Best Supporting Actress : Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free 1972 in film - Births. ...

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• 1972 in film - Top grossing films
• 1972 in film - Academy Awards
• 1972 in film - Births
• 1972 in film - Deaths
• 1972 in film - Other movies released

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Clash of the Titans is a 1981 fantasy movie based on the myth of Perseus. Among its stars were Harry Hamlin (as Perseus), Maggie Smith (as Thetis), Claire Bloom (as Hera), Ursula Andress (as Aphrodite), Judi Bowker (as Andromeda), Burgess Meredith (as Amon), Sian Phillips (as Cassiopeia), and Sir Laurence Olivier (as Zeus). The special effects creatures were created by R ...

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The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. Westminster Abbey - History. According to tradition, a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorney Island; it was said to have been miraculously consecrated after ...

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• Westminster Abbey - History
• Westminster Abbey - Coronations
• Westminster Abbey - Burials and Memorials
• Westminster Abbey - Buried
• Westminster Abbey - Commemorated
• Westminster Abbey - Removed
• Westminster Abbey - Schools
• Westminster Abbey - Transport
• Westminster Abbey - List of Abbots Deans and the Bishop of Westminster
• Westminster Abbey - Gallery

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Coronation Street is Britain's longest-running television soap opera, and the UK's consistently highest-rated show. It was created by Tony Warren and first broadcast on the ITV network on Friday December 9, 1960. The working title of the show was Florizel Street, but Agnes, a tea lady at Granada Television, Manchester, (where Coronation Street is produced) remarked that "Florizel" sounded too much like a disinfecta ...

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• Coronation Street - Background to Coronation Street
• Coronation Street - 1960s kitchen-sink drama
• Coronation Street - Characters and characterisations
• Coronation Street - Long-established characters
• Coronation Street - Other well-known actors
• Coronation Street - Humour
• Coronation Street - Major events on the Street
• Coronation Street - Backstage staff
• Coronation Street - Scheduling
• Coronation Street - Other countries
• Coronation Street - VHS and DVD releases
• Coronation Street - Trivia

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Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. Born to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn as David Daniel Kaminski, red-haired Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. In 1941 he appeared in the Broadway show, Lady in the Dark and performed the famous number "Tchaikovsky," by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a whole string of Russian composers at br ...

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Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt, the last member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Hellenistic ruler of Egypt. Although many other Egyptian Queens shared the name, she is usually known as simply Cleopatra, and all of her similarly named predecessors have been mostly forgotten. As co-ruler of Egypt with her father (Ptolemy XII Auletes), her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV, and later her son Caesarion, Cleopatra survived a coup engineered by her brother's court ...

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• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Early life and name
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - The race debate
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Cleopatra in art film TV and literature
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Films about Cleopatra
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Paintings of Cleopatra
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Notes

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his best-known and most oft-quoted plays. It was written at an uncertain date between 1600 and the summer of 1602. Hamlet may be the most frequently produced work in almost every western country, and it is considered a crucial test for mature actors. Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy (Act Three, Scene One), the most popular passage in the play, is so well known that it has bec ...

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• Hamlet - Texts
• Hamlet - Main characters
• Hamlet - Plot summary
• Hamlet - Sources
• Hamlet - Hamlet as a Problem Play
• Hamlet - Hamlet as a character
• Hamlet - Hamlet in cinema and TV
• Hamlet - Straight adaptations
• Hamlet - Films that reference Hamlet
• Hamlet - Hamlet in music

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Bruno Ganz ▶ (help·info) (born March 22, 1941 in Zurich) is a Swiss actor. Before taking his Matura exams (in Switzerland, the general qualification for university entrance), Ganz had decided to become an actor. In 1960, aged 19, he played his first movie role, in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone ("The Man in the Black Derby"). Gustav Knuth, one of the main acto ...

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• Bruno Ganz - Awards
• Bruno Ganz - Filmography
• Bruno Ganz - Trivia

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