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   Great album record of Henry V with Lawrence Olivier.  Who is Lawrence   
   Olivier?   
      
   I'm glad you asked.   
      
   RCA VICTOR RECORDRAMA ALBUMN M/DM-1128 (4 double-sided disks)   
   Presenting Laurence Olivier in spoken excerpts from   
      
   William Shakespeare's HENRY V   
      
   WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC WRITTEN BY William Walton for the Two Cities film   
      
   Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus conducted by William Walton   
      
   Albumn notes by Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, Ph.D., Litt., LLD   
      
   Professor Emeritus, Princeton University   
      
   President Emeritus, University of Kansas City   
      
      
      
   The four Red Seal Records albumn is in pristine condition and the play can   
   be followed by reading the accompanying well documented eight page notes.   
      
      
      
   Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton, (May 22, 1907 - July   
   11, 1989) was an English actor and director, esteemed by many as the   
   greatest actor of the 20th century.   
      
   Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking. He attended the Central School of   
   Speech Training and Dramatic Art. His stage breakthrough was in Noel   
   Coward's Private Lives ( in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet ( in 1935)   
   alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film   
   breakthrough was portrayal of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in 1939.   
      
   He was founding director (1962-1973) of the National Theatre of Great   
   Britain.   
      
   On July 25, 1930, he married actress Jill Esmond, whom Olivier biographer   
   Donald Spoto described as "a diffident lesbian." They had one son, Tarquin,   
   and were divorced on January 29, 1940.   
      
   On August 31, 1940 he married actress Vivien Leigh. They were divorced on   
   December 2, 1960.   
      
   On March 17, 1961 he married actress Joan Plowright. They had one son and   
   two daughters. He was not notably faithful in those marriages and had   
   extramarital affairs with both men and women: Joan Plowright said "I have   
   always resented the comments that it was I who was the homewrecker of   
   Larry's marriage to Vivien Leigh. Danny Kaye was attached to Larry far   
   earlier than I." Olivier reportedly was also intimate with playwright Noel   
   Coward.   
      
   Among his honours are 10 Oscar nominations (he won best actor/picture for   
   Hamlet in 1949), and two honorary Oscars (1947, 1979). He was knighted in   
   1947, made a life peer in 1970 (the first actor to achieve this   
   distinction), and was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1981.   
      
   He died in Steyning, West Sussex, England, of complications of a   
   neuromuscular disorder and cancer.   
      
   Lord Olivier is interred in Westminster Abbey, London, England. The Laurence   
   Olivier Awards, organised by The Society of London Theatre, were renamed in   
   his honour in 1984.   
      
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