The question used to be: Can Shakespeare’s plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all.

John Woodvine, the prolific, Olivier Award-winning British stage actor who appeared in more than 70 stage productions at the ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Legend has it that Winston Churchill asked Laurence Olivier to make a film version of Shakespeare’s Henry V to help raise British morale during the worst days of World War II. It was not an entirely ...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest English language writers of all time. His beautiful language, portrayals of human nature, and mastery of writing dirty jokes have all landed ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company is betting big on star power and global reach with its 2025/26 season, headlined by "Outlander" heartthrob Sam Heughan making his RSC debut in "Macbeth" and Olivier ...

Lincoln Center Theater has released the first production photo for Kyoto, the United States premiere of the Royal Shakespeare ...

The actor notably starred opposite Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in a production of "Macbeth" for the Royal Shakespeare Company ...

Olivier Award-winning British stage and screen actor John Woodvine, known for The Crown and An American Werewolf in London, ...