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Griffiths' stage laurels have included the Laurence Olivier Award for best actor (Britain's equivalent of the Tony), the Tony, the Evening Standard, Drama Desk and Theatre World awards. Terry Coleman's new biography of the legendary Laurence Olivier portrays him as more of a heterosexual than previous books have, but his life remains fascinating. Back in 1975, when the Star Wars epic was little more than a gleam in Lucas's eye, the director offered the role of Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi to Guinness, a sixty-one-year-old stage and film veteran who had occasionally been mentioned in the same breath as Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, but had more often been classed, in critic Kenneth Tynan's words, as "the best living English character actor. |
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Laurence Olivier - English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989)
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