She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven ... and starred with Olivier in a 1973 TV adaptation of “The Merchant of Venice.” Plowright played the mother ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...

It was a tumultuous time for Olivier, whose attachment to his former wife, the troubled film star ... in The Merchant of Venice (1970) and as Rosa in Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1973-74).

He recreated his stage role as the Duke of Clarence for the mini-series The Wars of the Roses (1965), appeared as Prince of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice (1973), Tsar Nicholas II in Fall of ...

“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theater, film and TV over seven decades ... Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull and Who's Afraid ...

among them the role of Portia opposite Olivier’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1973); a spinster dragged into a romantic charade with Alec McCowen in A Dedicated Man; as Meg in Pinter’s ...

British acting legend Dame Joan Plowright has died at 95. The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver from 1961 to his death in 1989, "died peacefully on Jan. 16, 2025 ...

Check out the lineup for “Snubbed Forever: Great Actors, No Nominations,” with film descriptions provided ... Nicolas Roeg. 1973, 110 mins. U.K. DCP. With Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...