Laurence Harvey

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Laurence Harvey
Harvey in 1973,
photograph by Allan Warren
Born
Zvi Mosheh Skikne[1]

(1928-10-01)1 October 1928
Joniškis, Lithuania
Died25 November 1973(1973-11-25) (aged 45)
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Resting placeSanta Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Other names
  • Zvi Mosheh Skikne
  • Hirsh Skikne
  • Larry Skikne
Occupations
Years active1948–1973
Spouses
(m. 1957; div. 1961)
(m. 1968; div. 1972)
(m. 1972)
ChildrenDomino Harvey

Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne;

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.[4]

Harvey was known for his clipped, refined accent and cool, debonair screen persona. His performance in

directorial debut with The Ceremony (1963), and continued acting into the 1970s until his early death in 1973 of cancer
.

Early life and career

South Africa

Harvey was born in

better source needed] As the Mystery Guest on the USA TV show What's My Line? screened 1 May 1960, he states he arrived in South Africa in 1934 and moved to the UK in 1946.[10]

Move to Britain

Harvey and Diane Cilento in the television play The Small Servant. Both made their U.S. television debuts in this production for The Alcoa Hour (1955).

After moving to London, he enrolled in the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[11] but left RADA after three months.[12]

Billed as Larry Skikne, he appeared in the play Uprooted at the

Library Theatre in Manchester.[13] His performances in Manchester led to him being cast in his first film.[14]

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.[15] 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.[16]

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).[17]

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.[12]

He had a small role in the Hollywood-financed

Andre Morell.[12]

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 ted and his manner redolent of a languorous sexuality no amount of National Service could quell."[18]

He starred in the low-budget thriller A Killer Walks (1952). In 1951 he appeared on stage in Hassan at the Cambridge Theatre.[12]

Romulus films

Harvey's career gained a boost when he appeared in

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.[19]

In 1953 he played Orlando on a BBC TV version of As You Like It, opposite Margaret Leighton, whom he would later marry.[20]

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.[21] This has been called his "first performance of note."[18]

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.[20]

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.[13] 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.[22]

Romulus gave Harvey another excellent chance when he was cast as the writer

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.[23] While in the US he appeared on TV in an episode of The Alcoa Hour called The Small Servant , co-starring Diane Cilento.[24]

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.[25]

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.[25]

International stardom

Room at the Top

Harvey (left) with Frank Sinatra, during filming of The Manchurian Candidate

Harvey's breakthrough to international stardom came after he was cast by director

BAFTA Award[26] nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[11] 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

Old Vic company, which featured a young Judi Dench as Katherine, the daughter of the king of France.[27][25]

Harvey followed it with the musical

ITV Play of the Week
(1959).

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

Hollywood

The success of Room at the Top led to Hollywood offers and Harvey decided to spend the next three years focusing on films.

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.[30] The Alamo was a hit (although the enormous cost meant the film lost money).[citation needed
]

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.[31]

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.[32] 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).[33]

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.[11] He signed to appear in the film of Five Finger Exercise but was not in the eventual film.[34] His fee around this time was $300,000 a film.[35]

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."[7] 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 label.[36] 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.[37] 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.[11] 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".[12] 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

Hal Wallis. "I have suddenly found the gates of Hollywood opened to me," he said at the time.[29]

He followed this with The Running Man (1963), directed by Carol Reed, with Lee Remick and Alan Bates.[29]

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.[38]

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.[39]

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.[40] 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.[41] During filming, kidnap threats were made against both Harvey and Novak by student organisations.[42][43]

Rashomon (1950). Besides Harvey, the film starred Paul Newman and Claire Bloom, but was unsuccessful critically and commercially.[44]

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.[18]

He had his first commercially successful film in a number of years with Darling (1965), starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde.[45] While Harvey's role in the film is short, his involvement enabled director John Schlesinger to raise financial backing for the project.[12] 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.[18]

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

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.[47] 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.[48] 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.[49] 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.[50]

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.[51] 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."[18]

Harvey provided the narration for the Soviet film Tchaikovsky (1969), directed by Igor Talankin.[52]

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.[53]

Harvey starred in

She and He (1969) which he helped produce.[54]

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 Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match in 1973, portraying a chess champion who kills his opponent.[citation needed] 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.[55]

Harvey starred in

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.[43]

Final plans

In August 1973, it was reported Harvey had been ill, but he assured people he was busier than ever.

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.[59]

Personal life

He met

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.[60][61]

In 1968 he married Joan Perry, the widow of film mogul Harry Cohn.[62] Her marriage to Harvey lasted until 1972.

His third marriage was to British fashion model Paulene Stone. She gave birth to their daughter Domino in 1969 while he was still married to Perry.[63] 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.[11][64]

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.[65]

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.[66]

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.' "[7]

Death

A heavy smoker and drinker, Harvey died at the age of 45 from stomach cancer in Hampstead, North London, on November 25, 1973.[67][68]

His daughter Domino, 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 together in Santa Barbara Cemetery in Santa Barbara, California.[69]

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."[7]

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 parodie as 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 "[18]

Awards and nominations

Acting credits

Theater

Opened Closed Title Role Theater Awards Notes Refs.
1946 1946 The Winters Tale Camillo RADA production - mid-term billed as Larry Skikne
Joan Swinburne prod.
11 Feb 1947 28 June 1947 "The Seagull", "Amphitryon","The Kirby Fortune","The Beaux Stratagem" and "The Circle" various Manchester Intimate Theatre billed as Larry Skikne
Andre Van Gysegham rep.
16 Nov 1947 Uprooted Nicky Horroway Comedy Theatre Billed as Larry Skikne [70]
9 May 1951 Hassan Cambridge Theatre [71]
1954 Romeo and Juliet Romeo Royal Shakespeare Theatre [72]
4 Oct 1955 8 Oct 1955 Island of Goats Angelo Fulton Theatre 1956 Theatre World Award [73]
27 Nov 1957 4 Jan 1958 The Country Wife Mr. Horner
Henry Miller's Theatre
(12/23/1957 – 1/04/1958)
[74]
25 Dec 1958 10 Jan 1959 Henry V Henry V Broadway Theatre [75]
19 Aug 1964 Camelot King Arthur Theatre Royal, Drury Lane [76]

Film

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.

Year Title Role Director Producer Studio/Distributor Other cast members Notes Refs.
1948 House of Darkness Francis Merryman Oswald Mitchell Gordon Myers International Motion Pictures Lesley Brook, John Stuart [77]
1949 Man on the Run Detective Sergeant Lawson Lawrence Huntington Associated British Picture Corporation Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins [78]
The Man from Yesterday John Matthews Oswald Mitchell International Motion Pictures John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Marie Burke [79]
Landfall P/O Hooper Ken Annakin Victor Skutezky Associated British Picture Corporation Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Maurice Denham [80]
1950 Cairo Road Lt. Mourad David MacDonald Mayflower Pictures Corporation Eric Portman [81]
The Dancing Years Minor Role Harold French Warwick Ward Dennis Price Uncredited [82]
The Black Rose Edmond Henry Hathaway Louis D. Lighton
20th Century Fox
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Herbert Lom [83][84]
Seven Days to Noon Soldier John Boulting, Roy Boulting John Boulting, Roy Boulting Associated British Picture Corporation Barry Jones Uncredited
1951 Scarlet Thread Freddie Lewis Gilbert Ernest G. Roy Nettlefold Studios Kathleen Byron, Sydney Tafler [85]
There Is Another Sun Mag Maguire Lewis Gilbert Ernest G. Roy Nettlefold Studios Maxwell Reed, Susan Shaw [86]
1952 I Believe in You Jordie Bennett Michael Relph Michael Balcon Ealing Studios Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson [87]
A Killer Walks Ned Ronald Drake Ronald Drake Leontine Entertainments Susan Shaw, Trader Faulkner [88]
Women of Twilight Jerry Nolan Gordon Parry John Bremer Romulus Films Freda Jackson, Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton, Lois Maxwell [89]
1953 Innocents in Paris François Gordon Parry Anatole de Grunwald
Romulus films
Alastair Sim, Claire Bloom, Ronald Shiner Uncredited [90]
1954 The Good Die Young Miles Ravenscourt Lewis Gilbert Remus Films Margaret Leighton, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, Gloria Grahame [91]
King Richard and the Crusaders Sir Kenneth of Huntington David Butler Henry Blanke Warner Bros. Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders [92][93]
Romeo and Juliet Romeo Renato Castellani Verona Productions Susan Shentall [94]
1955 I Am a Camera Christopher Isherwood Henry Cornelius Remus Films Julie Harris, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell [95]
Storm Over the Nile John Durrance Terence Young
London Film Productions
Anthony Steel [96]
1956 Three Men in a Boat George Ken Annakin Romulus Films Jimmy Edwards, David Tomlinson [97]
1957 After the Ball Walter de Frece Compton Bennett Romulus Films Pat Kirkwood [98]
The Truth About Women Sir Humphrey Tavistock Muriel Box Sydney Box Beaconsfield Films Ltd Diane Cilento, Julie Harris [99]
1958 The Silent Enemy Lt Crabb William Fairchild Romulus Films Dawn Addams [100]
1959 Room at the Top Joe Lampton Jack Clayton
John Woolf
Remus Films Simone Signoret, Donald Houston [101]
Power Among Men Narrator Alexander Hackenschmied United Nations Film Services Documentary [102][103]
Expresso Bongo Johnny Jackson Val Guest Val Guest Val Guest Productions Sylvia Syms [104]
1960 The Alamo
William Barret Travis
John Wayne John Wayne Batjac Productions John Wayne, Richard Boone, Richard Widmark [105][106]
BUtterfield 8 Weston Ligget Daniel Mann Pandro S. Berman
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill [107][108]
1961 The Long and the Short and the Tall Pte. 'Bammo' Bamforth Leslie Norman Michael Balcon Associated British Picture Corporation Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum [109][110]
Two Loves Paul Lathrope Charles Walters Julian Blaustein Metro Goldwyn Mayer Shirley MacLaine, Jack Hawkins [111][112]
Summer and Smoke John Buchanan Jr Peter Glenville
Hal Wallis
Paramount Pictures Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, John McIntire, Earl Holliman [113][114]
1962 Walk on the Wild Side Dove Linkhorn Edward Dmytryk Charles K. Feldman Columbia Pictures Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Baxter, Capucine [115][116]
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Henry Levin George Pal Metro Goldwyn Mayer Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden ('The Cobbler and the Elves') [117][118]
The Manchurian Candidate Raymond Shaw John Frankenheimer George Axelrod United Artists Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, James Gregory [119][120]
A Girl Named Tamiko Ivan Kalin John Sturges Hal Wallis Paramount Pictures
France Nguyen, Martha Hyer
[121][122]
1963 The Running Man Rex Black Carol Reed Carol Reed Columbia Pictures Lee Remick, Alan Bates [123][124]
The Ceremony Sean McKenna Laurence Harvey Laurence Harvey (also wrote) United Artists
Robert Walker Jr.
[125][126]
1964 Of Human Bondage Phillip Carey Ken Hughes James Woolf Metro Goldwyn Mayer Kim Novak [127][128]
The Outrage Husband Martin Ritt A. Ronald Lubin Metro Goldwyn Mayer Paul Newman, Claire Bloom [129][130]
1965 Darling Miles Brand John Schlesinger Joseph E. Levine Embassy Pictures Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde [131][132]
Life at the Top Joe Lampton Ted Kotcheff James Woolf Romulus Films Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman [133][134]
The Doctor and the Devil Nicholas Ray Raymond Brandt
1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose Dr. Francis Trevelyan Daniel Petrie Joseph E. Levine Embassy Pictures Corp. Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries [135][136]
1967 The Winter's Tale King Leonites Frank Dunlop (director) Cressida Film Productions Jane Asher, Diana Churchill [137]
1968 A Dandy in Aspic Eberlin Laurence Harvey, Anthony Mann Anthony Mann Columbia Pictures Mia Farrow, Tom Courtenay [138][139]
The Charge of the Light Brigade Russian Prince Uncredited [140]
The Last Roman
Cethegus Robert Siodmak CCC Filmkunst Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles [141]
1969 Rebus Jeff Miller Nino Zanchin Ann-Margret [142]
L'assoluto naturale He – Producer and co-star Mauro Bolognini Laurence Harvey Laurence Harvey Productions Sylvia Koscina [143]
The Magic Christian Hamlet Joseph McGrath (film director) Denis O'Dell Commonwealth United Entertainment Group Inc. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr [144][145]
1970 WUSA Farley Stuart Rosenberg John Foreman (producer) Paramount Pictures Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins [146][147]
Tchaikovsky Narrator Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky
Mosfilm [148]
The Deep
Hughie Warriner Orson Welles Orson Welles Orson Welles [149]
1972 Escape to the Sun (Habricha El Hashemesh) Major Kirsanov Menahem Golan Noah Films
John Ireland
, Jack Hawkins
[150]
1973 Night Watch John Wheeler Brian G. Hutton Joseph E. Levine
Avco Embassy Pictures
Elizabeth Taylor [151][152]
F for Fake Himself Orson Welles Les Films de l'Astrophore Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten [153]
1974 Welcome to Arrow Beach Jason Henry Laurence Harvey John Cushingham Warner Bros. Joanna Pettet, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland (posthumous release) [154][155]
Yellow-Headed Summer Laurence Harvey, Walter Pidgeon (final film role; posthumous release)

Television

Year Title Role Other cast members Notes Refs.
1950 Othello Cassio André Morell (BBC TV) [156]
1953 As You Like It Orlando Margaret Leighton (BBC TV) [157]
1955 ITV Play of the Week Beljajew Margaret Leighton A Month in the Country [158]
The Alcoa Hour Dick Swiveller The Small Servant
1956 The Bet
1957 Holiday Night Reunion
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Arthur Williams Hazel Court, Patrick Macnee Season 5 Episode 1: Arthur [159]
ITV Play of the Week Chris/Misha Hildegard Knef The Violent Years [160]
1960 Pontiac Star Parade Self Entire cast and crew of The Alamo The Spirit of the Alamo, wrap party in Brackettville, Texas [161]
What's My Line? Self Guest panelist 6 March; mystery guest 1 May
Here's Hollywood Self Episode 1.19
1962 The Milton Berle Show Self 9 March episode [162]
The Flood (Stravinsky) Narrator [163]
1964 Password Self Georgia Brown v. Laurence Harvey
The Ed Sullivan Show Self Episode 18.5
The Eamonn Andrews Show Self Episode 1.2
1965 The Eamonn Andrews Show Self Episode 2.15
The Danny Kaye Show Self Episode 3.14 [164]
1966 Hollywood Talent Scouts Self 31 January episode
Late Night Line-Up Self Michael Dean, Denis Tuohy, Joan Bakewell 5 February episode, BBC [165]
1967 The Merv Griffin Show Self 27 April episode
Dial M for Murder Tony Wendice Diane Cilento, Hugh O'Brian, Cyril Cusack, Nigel Davenport TV movie [166]
The Jerry Lewis Show Self Joey Heatherton 17 October 1967 episode [167]
1968 The Joey Bishop Show 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 The David Frost Show Self Episode 2.184
1971 ITV Saturday Night Theatre Major Sergius Saranoff John Standing Arms and the Man [168]
The Dick Cavett Show Self 11 May episode
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Self 19 November episode
Celebrity Bowling Self Unknown episode
1972 Night Gallery Steven Macy Caterpillar [169]
1973 Columbo Emmett Clayton The Most Dangerous Match
45th Academy Awards Self Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction – Set Decoration
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Self 24 August episode

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ "Laurence Harvey". IMDb.
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  3. ^ Harvey 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.
  4. ^ Laurence Harvey, Stage, Film Actor By Jean R. Hailey. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 27 November 1973: C10.
  5. ^ Obituary Variety, 28 November 1973, p. 62.
  6. ^ a b "1959 Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination". Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d e Gardner, Paul (27 November 1973). "Laurence Harvey, Screen Actor, Is Dead at 45". The New York Times. p. 47.
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  10. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "What's My Line? - Laurence Harvey; Jean-Pierre Aumont [panel] (May 1, 1960)". YouTube.
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  12. ^ a b c d e f David Shipman The Great Movie Stars: 2. The International Years, London: Macdonald, 1989, pp. 246–28
  13. ^ a b Laurence Harvey The Guardian 27 November 1973: 7.
  14. ^ BRIGHT YOUNG MEN OF THE THEATRE—7: LAURENCE HARVEY The Sketch; London Vol. 220, Iss. 2859, (5 May 1954): 403.
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  16. ^ Anne Sinai, Lou Reach for the Top, p. 97
  17. ^ The Life Story of LAURENCE HARVEY Picture Show; London Vol. 57, Iss. 1492, (3 Nov 1951): 12.
  18. ^ a b c d e f Laurence Harvey: A DANDY IN ASPIC Roberts, Andrew. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 16, Iss. 4, (Apr 2006): 36,38–39,1.
  19. ^ John Ezard "Sexy self-image that revved up Dirk Bogarde", The Guardian 2 October 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2012
  20. ^ a b 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.
  21. ^ "GLORIA TO MAKE A BRITISH FILM". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XIV, no. 44. New South Wales, Australia. 20 September 1953. p. 38. Retrieved 5 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  22. ^ "AUSTRALIANS PLAY AT STRATFORD". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 8 September 1954. p. 16. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
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