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Laurence Olivier

September 2024

  • Cleo Sylvestre photographed at the South Bank, London outside the National Theatre

    From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

    The black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre

June 2024

  • Diane Lane sits on the floor wearing a jumpsuit.

    ‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

    She was on the cover of Time magazine in her teens, and decades later the acclaimed actor is having another big moment. She discusses Feud, A Man in Full and the highs and lows of Hollywood

April 2024

  • Trevor Griffiths<br>English dramatist Trevor Griffiths, UK, 3rd November 1973. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Trevor Griffiths obituary

    Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

February 2024

  • Ice-cream cone being sold from a van

    Brief letters
    Has the ice-cream van cometh too early?

  • Laurence Olivier as Othello and Maggie Smith as Desdemona in the 1965 film Othello.

    Olivier’s Othello was always a racially offensive anachronism

January 2024

  • Richard Pilbrow with National Theatre lightboard

    Richard Pilbrow obituary

    Lighting designer who worked with Laurence Olivier on the construction and design of the National Theatre in London

December 2023

  • DIRECTOR OF THE MUSICAL 'KISS ME KATE' MICHAEL BLAKEMORE.23 October 2001 PHOTO ANDY PARADISE<br>2F348R5 DIRECTOR OF THE MUSICAL 'KISS ME KATE' MICHAEL BLAKEMORE.23 October 2001 PHOTO ANDY PARADISE

    Michael Blakemore obituary

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave

    Peter Bradshaw

October 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?

    Arifa Akbar
    Only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar

September 2023

  • Michael Gambon in 2006.

    Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

  • Michael Gambon in 2000.

    Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

July 2023

  • Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine, with a cast including Peggy Ashcroft, centre, and lighting designed by Leonard Tucker, at the National Theatre, London, 1980.

    Leonard Tucker obituary

    Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

June 2023

  • Playwright and professor Adrienne Kennedy

    ‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play

    The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre

May 2023

  • Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler in Return of the King, the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

    Return of the king: what can the movies teach us about the coronation?

    Icy rejection in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, Chalamet stripped to the waist, a swaggering Chris Hemsworth – which will Charles channel on Saturday?

June 2022

  • Arthur Hughes as Richard III.

    To prove a villain: the many faces of Richard III – in pictures

    Arthur Hughes has become the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Look back at other incarnations of Shakespeare’s villain

April 2022

  • Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

    Truly Madly review – the deadly desire of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

    Biographer Stephen Galloway’s purple prose does its best to give a romantic sheen to a famously troubled relationship

March 2022

  • VARIOUS - 1981<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rex Features (87728e) PENELOPE KEITH AND PETER BOWLES IN 'TO THE MANOR BORN' TV PROGRAMME VARIOUS - 1981

    Peter Bowles obituary

    Veteran stage and screen actor who starred in the popular BBC TV sitcom To the Manor Born

February 2022

  • Henry V

    Once more unto the breach! Burton, Branagh and the battling stars of Henry V – in pictures

    Kit Harington is the latest actor to take on the role in Shakespeare’s history play. Look back at past portrayals by Michael Sheen, Mark Rylance, Laurence Olivier, Michelle Terry and many more

January 2022

  • Romaine Hart for obits only

    Romaine Hart obituary

    Film company boss who was the driving force behind the creation of the trailblazing Screen on the Green in the 1970s

August 2021

  • Kampf der Titanen - Auf dem Olymp herrscht Aufregung. gottervater Zeus ist emport, wie man auf Argos mit seiner Geliebten Danaa und seinem Sohn Perseus (HARRY HAMLIN) umspringt. Wahrend er Perseus nach Kraften hilft, ist die gottliche Thetis wutend auf den jungen Helden, weil Zeus ihrem eigenen Sohn Calibos ubel mitgespielt hat. Regie: Desmond Davis aka. Clash of the Titans. Image shot 2000. Exact date unknown.<br>GHPD8B Kampf der Titanen - Auf dem Olymp herrscht Aufregung. gottervater Zeus ist emport, wie man auf Argos mit seiner Geliebten Danaa und seinem Sohn Perseus (HARRY HAMLIN) umspringt. Wahrend er Perseus nach Kraften hilft, ist die gottliche Thetis wutend auf den jungen Helden, weil Zeus ihrem eigenen Sohn Calibos ubel mitgespielt hat. Regie: Desmond Davis aka. Clash of the Titans. Image shot 2000. Exact date unknown.

    Desmond Davis obituary

    Director best known for the 1981 film classic Clash of the Titans
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