Starring: Glenda Jackson, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Michael Gambon
Director: Anthony Fabian
Running Time: 360 mins
Certificate: E
Release Date: December 10th 2012

At the end of British Legends Of Stage & Screen I got the distinct impression that you weren’t allowed to be an actor from the 1940s to the 1980s unless Sir Laurence Olivier said so. I’m sure it wasn’t quite as strict as that, but of the eights actors interviewed here, seven have Olivier based stories and six owe a large chunk of their early success to him. The only ones who don’t are Glenda Jackson and Christopher Lee, but even he claims to have snuck onto the set of Hamlet and hung around in the background. [Read more…]