Talk:Laurence Harvey

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Removed information from Anonymous User:81.192.140.195. Source quoted is speculative information with facts to support it and does not meet any of the criteria for Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, and does not meet Wikipedia Encyclopedic Standards. Note that this is the same Anonymous user who also fabricted information and inserted unfounded information into articles on Nick Adams and Elvis Presley. Ted Wilkes 29 June 2005 17:29 (UTC)

Misinformation/Inaccuracy/"Nonsense"?

Toward the end of the Laurence Harvey article there is a paragraph quoting an actor/author named John Fraser who wrote that Harvey was gay. Part of the Fraser quote states that Harvey was married to Margaret Leighton (1957 - 1961) and says she was "old enough to be his mother." This apparently is supposed to in some way support Fraser's contention that Harvey was gay. In truth, Margaret Leighton was born in February 1922 (according to IMDB, Geocities, and Women's International Center), and Laurence Harvey was born in October 1928. Obviously with only a 6 year age difference, Leighton was not old enough to be Harvey's mother. I suggest you drop entire John Fraser quote from the Harvey article. The above fact makes it clear that Fraser was either uninformed or inclined to extreme exaggeration and is, in any case, an unreliable source of information on either Laurence Harvey or Margaret Leighton. Mr. Harvey was an accomplished and respected actor who deserves better (as does the equally gifted and Oscar-nominated Ms. Leighton). 12.106.37.62 00:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Death?

Laurence died quite young. Can we get some information as to why he did? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.109.186.127 (talk) 06:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

According to several web pages he died of stomach cancer.Count de Ville 01:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that that information is not worth including in the article.Lestrade 21:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skikne

According to this article, Laurence Harvey's real name was Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skokne. Can anyone source this? Every other article on the web about him gives his real name as Laruschka Mischa Skikne. Also, could anyone get a better photo of him to put in the infobox?Count de Ville 01:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Old Cause

I see that the Wikipedia Gay Lobby has been able to insert its gossip and innuendo successfully in this article ("It is indisputable from numerous accounts that Laurence Harvey was bisexual"). The strategy is to make homosexuality, which is an immature, juvenile phase of life for some people, seem normal as adult behavior. The tactic is to insinuate that many famous people are homosexual. Of course, most of these insinuations are mere unprovable rumor, from what are vaguely called "numerous accounts." Who has real, concrete, positive proof that Laurence Harvey was homosexual? No one.Lestrade 21:33, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

I guess that is why he offered to have sex with John Wayne when they were filming "The Alamo" in 1959. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.214.77.160 (talk) 13:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Were you there? Did you hear it? Is that an actual fact or merely someone's fantasy? A person who makes a positive statement has the burden of proof.Lestrade (talk) 19:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

Er, you do know that Hervey worked as a male prostiture when he was a struggling young actor? By the way, he was very honest with his (gay) co-star Dirk Bogarde about his bisexuality when they made Darling in 1964.