15 years after Olivier’s death at age 82 on July 11, 1989. Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright became ...

JOAN PLOWRIGHT: (As Jean Rice ... Plowright, who was 22 years younger, represented a new generation of method actors. So when they married a year after the film came out, that dynamic helped ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright ...

Joan Plowright ... (2005), as the lonely retiree who befriends a much younger man (Rupert Friend). In “Last Action Hero” (1993), Ms. Plowright made a jesting appearance as a “Hamlet ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright became ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan ... won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright became ...