Laurence Olivier Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Laurence Olivier filmography covers 47 movie titles and 6 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Laurence Olivier movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Fire Over England (1937) as Michael Ingolby
• The Divorce of Lady X (1938) as Everard Logan
• Q Planes (1939) as Tony McVane
• Wuthering Heights (1939) as Heathcliff
• 21 Days (1940) as Larry Durrant
• Pride and Prejudice (1940) as Mr. Darcy
• Rebecca (1940) as Maxim de Winter
• 49th Parallel (1941) as Johnnie, the Trapper
• That Hamilton Woman (1941) as Lord Horatio Nelson
• Henry V (1944) as King Henry
• This Happy Breed (1944) as Narrator (voice)
• Hamlet (1948) as Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
• Carrie (1952) as George Hurstwood
• The Magic Box (1952) as Police Constable 94-B
• Richard III (1955) as Richard III
• The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) as The Regent
• The Devil's Disciple (1959) as Gen. Burgoyne
• Spartacus (1960) as Marcus Licinius Crassus
• The Entertainer (1960) as Archie Rice
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) as Newhouse
• Othello (1965) as Othello
• Khartoum (1966) as Mahdi
• Romeo and Juliet (1968) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev
• Battle of Britain (1969) as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as Field Marshal Sir John French
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) as Count Witte
• Sleuth (1972) as Andrew Wyke
• Marathon Man (1976) as Dr. Christian Szell
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Professor James Moriarty
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Dr. Jan Spaander
• The Betsy (1978) as Loren Hardeman
• The Boys from Brazil (1978) as Ezra Lieberman
• A Little Romance (1979) as Julius
• Dracula (1979) as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
• The Jazz Singer (1980) as Cantor Rabinovitch
• Clash of the Titans (1981) as Zeus
• The Jigsaw Man (1983) as Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
• The Bounty (1984) as Admiral Hood
• Wild Geese II (1985) as Rudolf Hess
• War Requiem (1989) as The Old Soldier
• The Filth and the Fury (2000) as Richard III (archive footage)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) as Dr. Totenkopf (archive footage)
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) as Self (archive footage)
• Nothing Like a Dame (2018) as Self (archive footage)
• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018) as Self (archive footage)
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021) as Self (archive footage)

Laurence Olivier television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Laurence Olivier; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Brideshead Revisited as Alexander Flyte
• Great Performances as Harry; Self
• Jesus of Nazareth as Nicodemus
• The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Audience Member
• The Oscars as Self
• The World at War as Narrator

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Laurence Olivier's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.