Laurence Olivier

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q55245: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Clash of the Titans, which Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis credits them on.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Hamlet (1948). Count them as actor (5 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

director and star, Hamlet (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))

Acting (6) everyone in acting

actor, Clash of the Titans (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis)
actor, Spartacus (Blank Check — Patreon, Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free))
Crassus, Spartacus (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))
star, Hamlet (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))
star, Marathon Man (Blank Check — Patreon, Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))
Muhammad Ahmed (in makeup), Khartoum (Blank Check — Patreon, Batman (1966))

Other (2) everyone in other

joked wish-list name, Lady in the Water (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson)
considered for Humbert; his agents said no, Lolita (Blank Check — Patreon, Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

craft (craft): Laurence Olivier → Khartoum. Olivier plays Muhammad Ahmed in brown makeup; Heston plays Gordon.
“Lawrence Livia plays Muhammad Ahmed, and let us never speak of this again.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

people (shared crew): Jean Simmons → Laurence Olivier. Simmons was in Hamlet with Olivier before Spartacus.
“which she's in with Mr. Lawrence Olivier before this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (comparison): Laurence Olivier → Anthony Hopkins. Olivier playing Crassus feels like Hopkins's career phase; also Hopkins later impersonated him for the restoration.
“oh, Olivier was in the Hopkins phase of his career.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (worked together): Laurence Olivier → Stanley Kubrick. Olivier is the obvious Humbert choice, especially since Kubrick had just directed him in Spartacus.
“I mean, especially just coming off of Spartacus and Kubrick getting that kind of performance out of him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:12:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Laurence Olivier: Laughton and Olivier reportedly dragged a three-line exchange to twenty minutes trying to one-up each other.
“And they dragged it out for like 20 minutes because they were trying to one up each other.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)