Much as I love to discuss books, today's a film day. It's the 100th anniversary of acting legend Laurence Olivier's birth. Let's celebrate with a look at some of his works.

According to the Academy Awards Database, Olivier was nominated for ten Oscars for acting (he won Best Actor for Hamlet), was nominated for directing Hamlet, and was awarded two special Oscars (one in 1946 for Henry V, and one in 1978 for his lifetime's work).

Hamlet won Best Picture for 1948, and Olivier is credited with producing, as well as directing and acting in the film. You can pick up a copy of Hamlet in the Music, Art, and Media Department.

Also available in the library's film collection are several more of his films, including:

An adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Wuthering Heights;
Shakespeare's Henry V and Richard III;
Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca;
and Spartacus.

For more information about the man and his work, we do have books by and about the legendary actor:

"Olivier: In Celebration" published two years before his 1989 death, is a collection of essays about the actor.
"On Acting" by Olivier, may deliver some insights into his work and achievements;
"Confessions of an Actor" is his autobiography. Laurence Olivier was famously married to two actresses, Vivien Leigh, immortalized as Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, and Joan Plowright.