Biography: life and films
Laurence Harvey was an English actor. He was born in Joniskis, Lithuania on 1st October 1928 and died in London, England on 25th November 1973, aged 45.His best films as an actor include Lewis Gilbert's crime-thriller The Good Die Young (1954), Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959), Leslie Norman's The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), John Frankenheimer's thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Anthony Mann's A Dandy in Aspic (1968), and whose best work as a film director include The Ceremony (1963), A Dandy in Aspic (1968) and Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974).
Laurence Harvey appeared in 56 films, directed 3 films and scripted 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Lewis Gilbert (3 films), Robert Siodmak (2), Oswald Mitchell (2), Orson Welles (2) and Ken Annakin (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (39 films), romance (6), Thriller (5), War (4), history (3), comedy (3), Horror (3), Documentary (3), Biography (3), comedy-drama (2) and Western (2).
Our average rating for Laurence Harvey over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director
House of Darkness (1948) [a]
Landfall (1949) [a]
Man on the Run (1949) [a]
The Man from Yesterday (1949) [a]
Cairo Road (1950) [a]
The Black Rose (1950) [a]
The Dancing Years (1950) [a]
Scarlet Thread (1951) [a]
There Is Another Sun (1951) [a]
A Killer Walks (1952) [a]
I Believe in You (1952) [a]
Women of Twilight (1952) [a]
Knights of the Round Table (1953) [a]
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) [a]
Romeo and Juliet (1954) [a]
I Am a Camera (1955) [a]
Storm Over the Nile (1955) [a]
Three Men in a Boat (1956) [a]
After the Ball (1957) [a]
The Truth About Women (1957) [a]
The Silent Enemy (1958) [a]
Expresso Bongo (1959) [a]
Power Among Men (1959) [a]
BUtterfield 8 (1960) [a]
The Alamo (1960) [a]
Summer and Smoke (1961) [a]
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) [a]
Two Loves (1961) [a]
A Girl Named Tamiko (1962) [a]
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [a]
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) [a]
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) [a]
The Ceremony (1963) [a,d]
The Running Man (1963) [a]
Of Human Bondage (1964) [a]
The Outrage (1964) [a]
Darling (1965) [a]
Life at the Top (1965) [a]
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) [a]
A Dandy in Aspic (1968) [a,d]
Kampf um Rom I (1968) [a]
The Winter's Tale (1968) [a]
L'Assoluto naturale (1969) [a]
Rebus (1969) [a]
The Magic Christian (1969) [a]
The Deep (1970) [a]
WUSA (1970) [a]
Escape to the Sun (1972) [a]
Night Watch (1973) [a]
Vérités et mensonges (1974) [a]
Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974) [a,d]
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) [a]
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