All Formats & Editions

Laurence Olivier is one of the greatest actors of all time. This biography details his achievements as an actor and director of both plays and films, his central role in the founding of the National Theatre and the off-stage dramas of his private life.

Laurence Olivier is one of the greatest actors of the century, and perhaps of all time. Never before have the many different strands of his astonishing career, both on stage and off, been pulled together as intelligently as in this biography by award-winning journalist Anthony... Read Full Overview