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Wikify[edit]

I added the wikify tag to remind the creator of this article to convert the dot points into the table format that he began with. David P. A. Hunter 02:16, 26 April 2006 (UTC).[reply]

First professional leading role in Shakespeare[edit]

It's well known that Laurence Olivier played half-a-dozen small parts in Shakespearean stage productions during the early years of his professional acting career and that he played his first leading role as a Shakespearean actor on stage as Romeo in October1935. It's not so well known that his first leading role in a Shakespearean production was on radio, in January 1935, at the age of 27. (It isn't mentioned in Alan Dent's authorized 1953 biography "The Oliviers".) He was Leontes, King of Sicily in "The Winter's Tale", as this article mentions in its list of his work on radio. Sadly, the recording appears to be lost - unless, by a miracle, it's found in somebody's attic or garden shed. Stranger things have happened. It's equally sad that his 1942 radio performance in "Henry V" also appears to be lost. O Murr (talk) 21:10, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Author of "The Oliviers" was, of course, Felix Barker. Alan Dent was text editor on Olivier's Shakespeare films. O Murr (talk) 00:58, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]