“Maestro” isn’t the first time a supersize sniffer set off a whiff of controversy. Here’s a look at the most notable schnozzes onscreen. By Sarah Bahr Acclaimed in Britain, he had the unique ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...

Hamlet has been adapted for the screen more than any other Shakespeare play. Besides Laurence Olivier’s version, which won four Academy Awards, it has been turned into an epic of Soviet realism by ...

It makes sense that Kenneth Branagh idolizes Sir Laurence Olivier. After all, both actors have directed themselves in Shakespeare’s plays on stage and screen, including “Henry V.” In fact, early in ...

As William Shakespeare turned 400 last week, Sir Laurence Olivier was only a month shy of becoming 57. Neither man had aged much. And the younger one proved it by stunning all London with a ...

Clive Revill, the New Zealand native who after being recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier starred on Broadway, appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the ...