Laurence Harvey

 ( 1928 Births ) 

Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne;

1 October 1928Harvey altered his birth year to 1927 to gain entry to the South African Navy when he was aged only 14, and 1927 now appears in many sources.25 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born British actor and film director. He was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents and emigrated to South Africa at an early age, before later settling in the United Kingdom after World War II. In a career that spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States.Laurence Harvey, Stage, Film Actor By Jean R. Hailey. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 27 November 1973: C10.

Harvey was known for his clipped, refined accent and cool, debonair screen persona. His performance in Room at the Top (1959)Obituary Variety, 28 November 1973, p. 62. resulted in an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. That success was followed by the roles of William Barret Travis in The Alamo and Weston Liggett in BUtterfield 8, both films released in the autumn of 1960. He also appeared as the brainwashed Sergeant Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He made his directorial debut with The Ceremony (1963), and continued acting into the 1970s until his early death in 1973 of cancer.

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Early life and career

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South Africa Harvey was born in Joniškis, Lithuania, the youngest of three sons of Ella (née Zotnickaita) and Ber Skikne, Lithuanian Jewish parents.

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His civil birth name was Larushka Mischa Skikne, and his Hebrew name was Zvi Mosheh (). When he was five years old, his family travelled with the family of Riva Segal and her two sons, Louis and Charles Segal on the to South Africa, where he was known as Harry Skikne. Harvey grew up in Johannesburg. He was only fifteen when he auditioned to join the Entertainment Unit of the South African Army during the Second World War. Sid James managed the Unit and approved his audition. They became lifelong friends.

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As the mystery guest on the American TV show What's My Line?, screened 1 May 1960, Harvey stated that he arrived in South Africa in 1934 and moved to the UK in 1946.Archived at Ghostarchive and the target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine:

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Move to Britain

After moving to London, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,

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but left RADA after three months.David Shipman The Great Movie Stars: 2. The International Years, London: Macdonald, 1989, pp. 246–28

Billed as Larry Skikne, he appeared in the play Uprooted at the Comedy Theatre in 1947. He also appeared on stage at the Library Theatre in Manchester. His performances in Manchester led to him being cast in his first film.BRIGHT YOUNG MEN OF THE THEATRE—7: LAURENCE HARVEY The Sketch; London Vol. 220, Iss. 2859, (5 May 1954): 403.

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Film debut and new name

Harvey made his cinema debut in the British film House of Darkness (1948), but its distributor British Lion thought someone named Larry Skikne was not commercially viable. Accounts vary as to how the actor acquired his stage name of Laurence Harvey. One version has it that it was the idea of talent agent Gordon Harbord who decided Laurence would be an appropriate first name. In choosing a British-sounding last name, Harbord thought of two British retail institutions, Harvey Nichols and Harrods.

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Another is that Skikne was travelling on a London bus with Sid James who exclaimed during their journey: "It's either Laurence Nichols or Laurence Harvey." Harvey's own account differed over time.Anne Sinai, Lou Reach for the Top, p. 97

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Associated British Picture Corporation and leading man

Associated British Picture Corporation quickly offered him a two-year contract, which Harvey accepted. He appeared in supporting roles in several of their lower-budget films such as Man on the Run (1949), Landfall (1949) (directed by Ken Annakin) and The Dancing Years (1950). For International Motion Pictures he was in The Man from Yesterday (1949).The Life Story of LAURENCE HARVEY Picture Show; London Vol. 57, Iss. 1492, (3 Nov 1951): 12.

Mayflower Productions, which released through Associated British, gave Harvey his first lead, appearing alongside Eric Portman in the Egypt-set police film Cairo Road (1950). It was a minor success.

He had a small role in the Hollywood-financed The Black Rose (1950), starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, directed by Henry Hathaway. It was Harvey's first experience in a Hollywood film. He played Cassio in a version of Othello for BBC TV starring Andre Morell.

Harvey starred in leading roles for two B-pictures for director Lewis Gilbert at Nettleford Films: Scarlet Thread (1951) and There Is Another Sun (1951). For Ealing, he made I Believe in You (1952), directed by Basil Dearden. According to Sight and Sound this performance gave "an indication of Harvey's true metier. While Basil Dearden's direction focused on honest Harry Fowler, it was Harvey's Jordie who supplied an authentic glimpse of pin-table thuggery, his clothes and hairstyle on the cusp between cosh-boy and Teddy Boys and his manner redolent of a languorous sexuality no amount of National Service could quell."

He starred in the low-budget thriller A Killer Walks (1952). In 1951 he appeared on stage in Hassan at the Cambridge Theatre.

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Romulus films

Harvey's career gained a boost when he appeared in Women of Twilight (1952); this was made by Romulus Films run by brothers John and James Woolf, who signed Harvey to a long-term contract. James Woolf in particular was a big admirer of Harvey and played an important role in turning the actor into a star.John Ezard "Sexy self-image that revved up Dirk Bogarde", The Guardian 2 October 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2012

In 1953 he played Orlando on a BBC TV version of As You Like It, opposite Margaret Leighton, whom he would later marry.

Romulus put him in two ensemble films: a comedy, Innocents in Paris (1953) and a crime thriller, The Good Die Young (1954). He had an especially strong role in the latter, which was directed by Lewis Gilbert, and featured Hollywood actors such as John Ireland, Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame, along with Leighton. This has been called his "first performance of note."

Harvey received an offer to play the juvenile male lead in the Hollywood spectacular King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), a medieval swashbuckler for Warner Bros starring Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo and George Sanders. It was a box-office disappointment, although Harvey's performance was well received.LAURENCE OF LITHUANIA: Laurence Harvey Sets the Course From His Homeland to Screen Stardom By HOWARD THOMPSON. The New York Times 20 June 1954: X5.

Harvey played Romeo in Renato Castellani's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1954), narrated by John Gielgud. His performance was generally not well received.Laurence Harvey The Guardian 27 November 1973: 7. According to a contemporary interview, he turned down an offer to appear in Helen of Troy (1955) to act at Stratford-upon-Avon, where he again performed in Romeo and Juliet, this time on stage.

Romulus gave Harvey another excellent chance when he was cast as the writer Christopher Isherwood in I Am A Camera (1955), with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. He and Leighton starred in an adaptation of A Month in the Country for ITV Play of the Week (1955). He made his Broadway debut in 1955 in the play Island of Goats, a flop that closed after one week, though his performance won him a 1956 Theatre World Award.

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While in the US he appeared on TV in an episode of The Alcoa Hour called The Small Servant , co-starring Diane Cilento.Drama: Laurence Harvey Faces Heavy Duty; Lew Ayres' Religious Films Unique Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 17 October 1955: B11.

Zoltan Korda used him as one of the soldiers in Storm Over the Nile (1955), a remake of The Four Feathers (1939), playing the part taken by Ralph Richardson in the 1939 version. It was popular in Britain as was the comedy Three Men in a Boat (1956), made for Romulus under the direction of Ken Annakin.

Harvey appeared in The Bet for ITV Television Playhouse (1956) then did another for Romulus, After the Ball (1957), a biopic of Vesta Tilley, in which Harvey played Walter de Frece. He followed it with The Truth About Women (1958), a comedy directed by Muriel Box for Beaconsfield Productions.

Harvey returned to Broadway in 1957 to appear alongside Julie Harris, Pamela Brown and Colleen Dewhurst in William Wycherley's The Country Wife (a production he had originally starred in at London's Royal Court Theatre).

For Romulus, Harvey starred in The Silent Enemy (1958), with his old friend Sid James, a biopic of war hero Lionel Crabb.

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International stardom

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Room at the Top Harvey's breakthrough to international stardom came after he was cast by director Jack Clayton as the social climber Joe Lampton in Room at the Top (1959), produced by Romulus. For his performance, Harvey received a BAFTA Award nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Simone Signoret and Heather Sears co-starred as Lampton's married lover and eventual wife respectively. It was the third most popular movie at the British box office in 1959 and a hit in the U.S.

Harvey went to Broadway in 1958, as Shakespeare's Henry V, as part of the Old Vic company, which featured a young Judi Dench as Katherine, the daughter of the king of France.Laurence Harvey's 'Henry V' Opens Old Vic Series Tomorrow: Laurence Harvey Due in Old Vic 'Henry Y' Smith, Cecil. Los Angeles Times 5 October 1958: E1.

Harvey followed it with the musical Expresso Bongo (1959), a film best remembered for introducing Cliff Richard.Laurence Harvey Starring in Soho Yarn by Mankowitz By Harold Rogers. The Christian Science Monitor (1908–Current file); Boston, Mass. Boston,21 July 1960: 5. He did The Violent Years for the ITV Play of the Week (1959).

While in the US he appeared in "Arthur", an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Hitchcock himself.

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Hollywood

The success of Room at the Top led to Hollywood offers and Harvey decided to spend the next three years focusing on films. He was in John Wayne's epic The Alamo (1960), being John Wayne's personal choice to play Alamo commandant William Barret Travis. Wayne had been impressed by Harvey's talent and ability to project the aristocratic demeanor Wayne believed Travis possessed. Harvey and Wayne later expressed their mutual admiration and satisfaction at having worked together.

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The Alamo was a hit.

Even more successful was Harvey's next Hollywood film, MGM's BUtterfield 8 (1960), which won Elizabeth Taylor her first Oscar. He was named for The Eddie Chapman Story but it was not made until years later, as Triple Cross with Christopher Plummer.Laurence Harvey Star in Famous Spy Story Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune 22 July 1960: b4.

Back in Britain, Harvey was cast in the film version of The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) in a role originally performed by Peter O'Toole during the play's West End run. He clashed with Richard Todd and Richard Harris during filming but the movie was a hit in Britain.Preparation Helped Laurence Harvey Find Room at the Top By Hedda Hopper. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 1 January 1961: C6. He was announced for some films that were not made ( The Disenchanted from the novel by Budd Schulberg, No Bail for the Judge from Alfred Hitchcock, The Lion, and The Long Walk).LAURENCE HARVEY FACES BUSY YEAR: British Actor to Have Roles in 8 Films – Bardot to Be Seen Without Subtitles The New York Times 28 January 1960: 26.

In the U.S., he supported Shirley MacLaine in MGM's Two Loves (1961) and co-starred with Geraldine Page in the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke (1961), directed by Peter Glenville. He signed to appear in the film of Five Finger Exercise but was not in the eventual film.Laurence Harvey Signed The Christian Science Monitor 17 January 1961: 4. His fee around this time was $300,000 a film.Laurence Harvey Agrees to a Single Picture Deal Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune 16 January 1961: c8.

Harvey played the male lead in Walk on the Wild Side (1962), produced by Charles Feldman, cast alongside Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda and Capucine. Fonda was not positive about the experience of working with him: "There are actors and actors – and then there are the Laurence Harveys. With them, it's like acting by yourself."

The same year, he recorded an album of spoken excerpts from the book This Is My Beloved by Walter Benton, accompanied by original music by Herbie Mann. It was released on the Atlantic Records label. He narrated a TV musical, The Flood (1962).

MGM cast Harvey as Wilhelm Grimm in the MGM film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), produced by George Pal. Harvey's performance earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. The fantasy movie filmed in 3-strip Cinerama was a box office disappointment.

Harvey appeared as the brainwashed US Army Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962), directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury. Film critic David Shipman wrote: "Harvey's role required him to act like a zombie and several critics cited it as his first convincing performance". The movie was a hit and has since become critically highly regarded, and is one of Harvey's better-remembered films.

Harvey went to Japan to make A Girl Named Tamiko (1962) with France Nuyen for director John Sturges and producer Hal Wallis. "I have suddenly found the gates of Hollywood opened to me," he said at the time.LAURENCE HARVEY A RUNAWAY? 'NONSENSE!' Alpert, Don. Los Angeles Times 10 December 1961: Q10.

He followed this with The Running Man (1963), directed by Carol Reed, with Lee Remick and Alan Bates.

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Director

Harvey made his directorial debut with the crime drama The Ceremony (1963), in which he also starred. It was shot in Spain for United Artists.SCREENING IS SET FOR 'DR. CALIGARI' By EUGENE ARCHER. The New York Times (1923–Current file); New York, N.Y. New 4 December 1962: 47.

Harvey played King Arthur in the 1964 London production of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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He was the male lead in an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (1964), co starring Kim Novak. Harvey had been connected to the project for several years.Of Local Origin The New York Times 15 December 1961: 46. It was a troubled shoot, with Harvey and Novak clashing, and original director Henry Hathaway leaving during the shoot and being replaced by Ken Hughes.Anne Sinai, Reach for the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey, Lanham, Maryland, US/Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2003 2007, pg. 285 During filming, kidnap threats were made against both Harvey and Novak by student organisations.

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The Outrage (1964) was director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese film Rashomon (1950). Besides Harvey, the film starred Paul Newman and Claire Bloom, but was unsuccessful critically and commercially.

Harvey reprised his role as Joe Lampton in Life at the Top (1965), directed by Ted Kotcheff. This is considered one of his best later performances.

He had his first commercially successful film in a number of years with Darling (1965), starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde.

While Harvey's role in the film is short, his involvement enabled director John Schlesinger to raise financial backing for the project. Harvey starred in a version of The Doctor and the Devils directed by Nicholas Ray from a script by Dylan Thomas but the film was not completed.

Harvey co-starred with Israeli actress Daliah Lavi in the comedy The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), a parody of the James Bond films.

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Harvey did The Winter's Tale (1967) and then Dial M for Murder (1967) for American TV.

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Charge of the Light Brigade

Harvey owned the rights to the book on which John Osborne's early script for the film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) was partially based, Cecil Woodham-Smith's book The Reason Why (1953). He intended to make his own version.

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A lawsuit was filed against director Tony Richardson's company Woodfall Film Productions on behalf of the book's author. There was a monetary settlement, and Harvey insisted on being cast in a cameo role (being cast as Prince Radziwill) as part of the agreement for which he was paid £60,000.Sinai Reach for the Top, p. 302 Charles Wood was brought in to re-write the script. Harvey's scenes were cut from the movie at Richardson's insistence except for a brief glimpse as an anonymous member of a theatre audience which, technically, still met the requirements of the legal settlement.

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John Osborne asserted in his autobiography that Richardson shot the scenes with Harvey "French", which is film jargon for a director "going through the motions" because of some obligation, but with no film in the camera.John Osborne Almost a Gentleman, London: Faber & Faber 1991, p. 146

Harvey completed direction of the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic (1968) after director Anthony Mann died during production. The film co-stars Mia Farrow.

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This has been called "his last effective cinema role... The critics greeted it with disdain but the plot was tailor-made for Harvey, who plays a Russian spy who has adopted an English identity so he can go undercover within British Intelligence."

Harvey provided the narration for the Soviet film Tchaikovsky (1969), directed by Igor Talankin.

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Later career

Harvey co-starred with Ann-Margret in Rebus (1969) then appeared in Kampf um Rom (1970), a film set in Ancient Rome. The latter starred Orson Welles, who directed Harvey in The Deep, a thriller that was abandoned.

Harvey starred in She and He (1969), which he helped produce.A Glimpse of the Terribly Baronial Laurence Harvey: Laurence Harvey By Mary Blume. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 5 October 1969: 87.

He had a cameo role as himself in The Magic Christian (1969), a film based on the Terry Southern novel of the same name. He gives a rendition of Hamlet's soliloquy that develops unexpectedly into a campy striptease routine.

He had a small role in WUSA (1970) and was guest murderer on in 1973, portraying a chess champion who kills his opponent. For British TV he appeared in a version of Arms and the Man for ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1971). Joanna Pettet appeared with Harvey in an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery ("The Caterpillar", 1972), in which Harvey's character attempts to assassinate a romantic rival by having a burrowing insect dropped in the man's ear.

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Harvey starred in Escape to the Sun (1972), directed by Menahem Golan and was reunited with Elizabeth Taylor in Night Watch (1973), financed by Brut Productions. The same company financed Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974), which Harvey directed and starred in; the cast also included his friend Pettet, John Ireland and Stuart Whitman. The film deals with a type of war-related post-traumatic stress disorder that turns a military veteran to cannibalism.

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Final plans In August 1973, it was reported Harvey had been ill, but he assured people he was busier than ever.Laurence Harvey as active as ever Norma Lee Browning. Chicago Tribune 6 August 1973: c11. Just before he died, he was planning to star in and direct two films: one on Kitty Genovese, the other a Wolf Mankowitz comedy titled Cockatrice. His death put an end to any hope that Orson Welles's The Deep would be completed. With Harvey and Jeanne Moreau in the leading roles, Welles worked on the film between his other projects, although the production was hampered by financial problems.

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Personal life He met Hermione Baddeley, an established actress, when they were cast in the film There Is Another Sun in 1950. She became his live-in partner and a lucky charm for his career. She introduced him to Basil Dean and his first part on the London stage in Hassan, followed by a season at Stratford in 1952 with Glen Byam Shaw. Most significantly, she introduced him to James Woolf, of Romulus Films. Harvey left Baddeley in 1952 for actress Margaret Leighton, who was then married to publisher Max Reinhardt. Leighton and Reinhardt divorced in 1955, and she married Harvey in 1957 off the Rock of Gibraltar. The couple divorced in 1961.

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Actress Divorces Laurence Harvey Los Angeles Times 27 January 1961: 4.

In 1968 he married Joan Perry, the widow of film mogul Harry Cohn.

Her marriage to Harvey lasted until 1972.

His third marriage was to British fashion model Paulene Stone. She gave birth to their daughter Domino Harvey in 1969 while he was still married to Perry.Laurence Harvey a Dad...Officially Haber, Joyce. Los Angeles Times 20 June 1972: g9. Harvey and Stone married in 1972 and soon after, he adopted her child from her previous marriage, Sophie Norris (now Sophie Harvey). The wedding took place at the home of Harold Robbins.

In his account of being Frank Sinatra's valet, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra (2003), George Jacobs writes that Harvey often made passes at him while visiting Sinatra. According to Jacobs, Sinatra was aware of Harvey's sexuality. In his autobiography Close Up (2004), British actor John Fraser claimed Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was Harvey's manager James Woolf, who had cast Harvey in several of the films he produced in the 1950s.John Ezard "Sexy self-image that revved up Dirk Bogarde", The Guardian, 2 October 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

After working in two films with her, Harvey remained friends with Elizabeth Taylor for the rest of his life. She visited him three weeks before he died. Upon his death, Taylor issued the statement: "He was one of the people I really loved in this world. He was part of the sun. For everyone who loved him, the sun is a bit dimmer." She and Peter Lawford held a memorial service for Harvey in California.

Harvey once responded to an assertion about himself: "Someone once asked me, 'Why is it so many people hate you?' and I said, 'Do they? How super! I'm really quite pleased about it.' "

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Death A heavy smoker and drinker, Harvey died at the age of 45 from stomach cancer in Hampstead, North London, on 25 November 1973.Laurence Harvey, 45, Dies of Cancer at His London Home Los Angeles Times (1923–1995); Los Angeles, Calif. Los26 Nov 1973: 2.

His daughter Domino Harvey, who later became a bounty hunter, was only four years old at the time. She died at the age of 35, in 2005, after overdosing on the painkiller drug fentanyl. They are buried alongside one another in Santa Barbara Cemetery in Santa Barbara, California.

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Appraisal According to his obituary in The New York Times:

With his clipped speech, cool smile and a cigarette dangling impudently from his lips, Laurence Harvey established himself as the screen's perfect pin-striped cad. He could project such utter boredom that willowy debutantes would shrivel in his presence. He could also exude such charm that the same young ladies would gladly lend him their hearts, which were usually returned utterly broken ... The image Mr Harvey carefully fostered for himself off screen was not far removed from some of the roles he played. "I'm a flamboyant character, an extrovert who doesn't want to reveal his feelings", he once said. "To bare your soul to the world, I find unutterably boring. I think part of our profession is to have a quixotic personality."

According to Sight and Sound, "Any young actor who delighted in pink bathroom suites and liked to compare himself favourably to Olivier, Gielgud and Richardson – preferably in the same sentence – was clearly going to find it hard to fit the mould of New Elizabethan chappism promoted by Rank and ABPC ... Harvey flaunted a cigarette holder almost as a parody of Terry Thomas' and boasted that his drainpipe trousers pre-dated the teddy boys'. His hairstyle always tended towards the baroque and quickly became a trademark."Laurence Harvey: A DANDY IN ASPIC Roberts, Andrew. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 16, Iss. 4, (Apr 2006): 36,38–39,1.

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Theatre credits (partial)

1946	The Winter's Tale	Camillo	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	as 'Larry Skikne'
1947	The Seagull		Manchester Intimate Theatre
	Amphitryon
	The Kirby Fortune
	The Beaux' Stratagem
	The Circle
1947	Uprooted	Nicky Horroway	Comedy Theatre		Wearing (2014) p. 339
1951	Hassan		Cambridge Theatre, London		Mullin & Gielgud (1996) p. 223
1951-52	As You Like It		Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
1952	Coriolanus	Tullus Aufidius
	As You Like It	Orlando
	Macbeth	Malcolm
	Volpone	Castrone
1952-53	Macbeth
1954	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo			Kennedy (2002) p. 139
	Troilus and Cressida	Troilus
1955	Island of Goats	Angelo	Fulton Theatre, New York	Theatre World Award
1956	The Rivals	Captain Jack Absolute	Saville Theatre, London
			Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
	The Country Wife	Mr. Horner	Royal Court Theatre, London
1957			Adelphi Theatre, New York
1957-58			Henry Miller's Theatre, New York
1958	Simply Heavenly		UK tour	Director/presenter
1958-59	Henry V	King Henry V	US tour
			Broadway Theatre, New York
1964-65	Camelot	King Arthur	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane		Wright (2012) p. 292
1966	The Winter's Tale	Leontes	Edinburgh Festival Fringe
			UK tour
1970	Arms and the Man	Major Sergius Saranoff	Chichester Festival Theatre
1971	Child's Play	Jerome Malley	Theatre Royal, Brighton
			Sondheim Theatre

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Filmography Note: Where British Film Institute (BFI) and American Film Institute (AFI) differed on release year, or if the Wikipedia article title had a different release year, whichever source is the country of production is the year used.

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Film

1948	House of Darkness	Francis Merryman
1949	Man on the Run	Detective Sergeant Lawson	Lawrence Huntington
		John Matthews	Oswald Mitchell
	Landfall	P/O Hooper
1950	Cairo Road	Lieutenant Mourad
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		Edmond
		Soldier	John and Roy Boulting	Uncredited
1951	Scarlet Thread	Freddie
	There Is Another Sun	Mag Maguire
1952	I Believe in You	Jordie Bennett
		Ned
	Women of Twilight	Jerry Nolan
1953	Innocents in Paris	François		Uncredited
1954		Miles Ravenscourt
	King Richard and the Crusaders	Sir Kenneth of Huntington
	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo
1955	I Am a Camera	Christopher Isherwood
	Storm Over the Nile	John Durrance
1956	Three Men in a Boat	George
1957	After the Ball	Walter de Frece
		Sir Humphrey Tavistock
1958		Lieutenant Crabb
1959	Room at the Top	Joe Lampton		Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best British Actor Nominated- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
	Power Among Men	Narrator (voice)	Alexander Hackenschmied	Documentary
	Expresso Bongo	Johnny Jackson		Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
1960		William Barret Travis	John Wayne
	BUtterfield 8	Weston Ligget
1961		Private 'Bammo' Bamforth
	Two Loves	Paul Lathrope
	Summer and Smoke	John Buchanan Jr.	Peter Glenville
1962	Walk on the Wild Side	Dove Linkhorn
		Wilhelm Grimm / The Cobbler		Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
		Raymond Shaw
		Ivan Kalin
1963		Rex Black
		Sean McKenna	Himself	Also director
1964	Of Human Bondage	Phillip Carey
		Husband
1965	Darling	Miles Brand
	Life at the Top	Joe Lampton
1966		Dr. Francis Trevelyan
1967		King Leontes
1968		Eberlin	Anthony Mann Himself	Took over directing after Mann's death without credit
		Russian Prince	Tony Richardson	Uncredited cameo	(1999). 9780791442494, Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video. . ISBN 9780791442494
		Cethegus
1969	Rebus	Jeff Miller
	L'assoluto naturale	"He"		Also uncredited producer
		Hamlet
1970	WUSA	Farley
	Tchaikovsky	Narrator
		Hughie Warriner	Orson Welles
1972	Escape to the Sun	Major Kirsanov
1973	Night Watch	John Wheeler
	F for Fake	Himself	Orson Welles
1974	Welcome to Arrow Beach	Jason Henry	Himself	Also director, posthumous release

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Television

1950
Othello
Michael Cassio
(BBC TV)
1953
As You Like It
Orlando
(BBC TV)
1955
ITV  Play of the Week
Beljajew
A Month in the Country
The Alcoa Hour
Dick Swiveller
The Small Servant
 
1956
 
 
 
 
1957
Holiday Night Reunion
 
 
 
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arthur Williams
Season 5 Episode 1:  Arthur
ITV Play of the Week
Chris/Misha
The Violent Years
1960
Pontiac Star Parade
Self
The Spirit of the Alamo, wrap party in Brackettville, Texas
What's My Line?
Self
Guest panelist 6 March; mystery guest 1 May
 
Here's Hollywood
Self
Episode 1.19
 
1962
 
Self
9 March episode
Narrator
 
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1964
Password
Self
Georgia Brown v. Laurence Harvey
 
 
Self
Episode 18.5
 
 
Self
Episode 1.2
 
1965
 
Self
Episode 2.15
 
 
Self
Episode 3.14
Inman (2005) p. 159
1966
Hollywood Talent Scouts
Self
31 January episode
 
Late Night Line-Up
Self
5 February episode, BBC
1967
 
Self
27 April episode
 
Dial M for Murder
Tony Wendice
TV movie
Self
17 October 1967 episode
Inman (2005) p. 167
1968
 
Self
Episodes 2.245 and 3.40
 
Marvelous Party! 
Host
A 70th birthday tribute to Noël Coward
 
1969
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Episode 2.25
 
Joker's Wild
Self
American TV game show
 
1970
 
Self
Episode 2.184
 
1971
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Major Sergius Saranoff
Arms and the Man
 
Self
11 May episode
 
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
19 November episode
 
Celebrity Bowling 
Self
Unknown episode
 
1972
Night Gallery
Steven Macy
Episode: "Caterpillar"
Lofficier & Lofficier (2005) p. 113
1973
Columbo
Emmett Clayton
Episode: "The Most Dangerous Match"
 
45th Academy Awards 
Self (presenter)
Special
 
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (guest)
Episode dated 8/24/73
 

     

 

 
 
  

  Awards and nominations
 
 

 
     
Academy Awards
4 April 1960
Best Actor
Room at the Top
 
British Academy Film Awards
1959
Best British Actor
 
1960
Expresso Bongo
 
Golden Globe Awards
5 March 1963
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
 
12 February 1968
World Film Favorite - Male
 
 
 
Golden Laurel Awards
1960
Top Male New Personality
 
 
 
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1959
Best Actor
Room at the Top
 
 
Theatre World Award
1956
 
Island of Goats
 
 
Western Heritage Awards
1961
Theatrical Motion Picture
The Alamo
 
 
     

 

 
 
  

  Notes
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
  

  Citations
 
 

 
 
 
 

  

   
 (2025). 9780521785488, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521785488
  
  

   
 (1996). 9780874135695, University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874135695
  
  

   
 (2025). 9780810893054, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780810893054
  
  

   
 (2025). 9781843837916, Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843837916
  
 

 

 
 
  

  Other notes
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
  

  Further reading
 
 

 
 

  

Hickey, Des and Smith, Gus.   The Prince: The Public and Private Life of Laurence Harvey. Leslie Frewin. 1975.
  
  

     Paulene Stone.   One Tear is Enough: My Life with Laurence Harvey. 1975.
  
  

Sinai, Anne.   Reach for the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey. Scarecrow Press. 2003.
  
 

 

 
 
  

  External links
 
 

 
 
 

  

      Laurence Harvey Britmovie
  
 

 
 
 
 
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