Olivier, Sir Laurence
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Olivier, Sir Laurence (1907–89). Actor and director. Praised by Ellen
Terry in a school play, Olivier became one of his generation's leading actors. Commencing in repertory, he established a reputation with Shakespearian roles and joined the Old Vic; after starring in film versions of
Wuthering Heights and
Rebecca in America, he returned to England to serve in the Fleet Air Arm, before helping rebuild the Old Vic after the Second World War. Handsome, charismatic, often generating a sense of risk, then youngest stage knight (1947), he directed and acted under his own management from 1950, revolutionized the art of filming Shakespeare (
Henry V,
Hamlet,
Richard III), became director of the newly formed National Theatre Company (1962–73), and was the first actor to receive a life peerage. The outstanding success of Olivier's later career, before ill-health supervened, was as Archie Rice in John Osborne's
The Entertainer (1957). One of the Royal National Theatre's stages is named in his honour.
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Anniversaries: 18th April 1996
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/18/1996; 569 words
; ...playwright, baptised 1732; Sir Francis Baring, banker...Quental, poet, 1842; Sir George Clausen, painter...and composer, 1882; Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn...composer, 1936; Sir Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, 1938...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/18/1995; 603 words
; ...Alexander VI, 1480; Sir Francis Baring, banker...Quental, poet, 1842; Sir George Clausen, painter...and composer, 1882; Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn...composer, 1936; Sir Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, 1938...
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THEME FOR THE DAY.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/18/1998; 700+ words
; ...to a United States oil company and later re-erected in Arizona; 60th: Birth of musicologist Sir Richard Runciman Terry; 110th: Birth of skier Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn. 28 Colmore Circus, Birmingham B4 6AX Editorial: Tel 0121 236 3366...
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Sir Richard Runciman Terry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Richard Runciman Terry 1865-1938, English organist and musicologist. He was organist and choir director (1901-24) of Westminster Cathedral. Terry studied and made collections of early English church music and edited...
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Terry, (Sir) Richard (Runciman)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Terry, (Sir) Richard (Runciman) ( b Ellington, Northumberland, 1865; d London, 1938). Eng. organist, conductor, composer, and scholar. Org. and choirmaster...
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