00:00In this video I'll take a look at actor Lawrence Olivier, widely regarded as one of the standout
00:06theatrical and Shakespearean English actors from the 20th century. He was in Hamlet in 1948 along
00:14with Basil Sidney, Eileen Hurley, Anthony Quayle, Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton, and Peter
00:22Cushing. This production is notable for being the first British film to win the Academy Award
00:27for Best Picture. Two actors I thought Lawrence Olivier may resemble, Oliver Reed, and American
00:36comedian Robin Williams. These two appeared together in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of
00:43Baron Munchausen in 1988, a fantasy adventure starring John Neville, Sarah Pauly, Eric Idle,
00:51Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Jeffrey, and Sting has a cameo in this as well.
00:57Connections. Robin Williams also acted in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in 1996, Derek Jacoby,
01:07Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Jack Lemmon, and Billy Crystal also appeared in this.
01:13Oliver is a 1968 British musical drama, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist,
01:19starred Oliver Reed, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shawnee Wallace, and Jack Wilde. Lawrence Olivier was
01:28reportedly considered for the part of Fagin, eventually played by Moody. Several of the
01:33cast of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen worked with Olivier, including John Neville. He acted in a
01:42stage production of John Ford's The Broken Heart, staged by Olivier at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1962.
