Olivier by Philip Ziegler " review
Philip Ziegler's biography of Laurence Olivier captures the man in his contradictory essenceLaurence Olivier was the greatest British actor of his time, primus inter pares of the trio who dominated our theatre from the early 1930s to the 1980s. His superiority to his chief rivals, Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, resides in the role he played in the creation of the National Theatre and in the way he came to embody …