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Laurence Harvey (1928-1973) was an Oscar®-nominated Lithuanian-born British actor and director. In a career that spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film, and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States. His IMDb page shows 68 acting credits between 1948 and 1974. This page will rank Laurence Harvey movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.
Laurence Harvey Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Laurence Harvey Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Laurence Harvey
1. Laruschka Mischa Skikne was born in Joniškis, Lithuania in 1928.
2. Accounts vary as to how he acquired his stage name of Laurence Harvey. One version has it that it was the idea of talent agent Gordon Harbord who decided Laurence would be an appropriate first name. In choosing a British-sounding last name, Harbord thought of two British retail institutions, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Another is that Skikne was traveling on a London bus with Sid James who exclaimed during their journey: “It’s either Laurence Nichols or Laurence Harvey.” Harvey’s own account differed over time.
3. In the period of 1959-1965, Laurence Harvey appeared opposite three winners of the Best Actress Academy Award®: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1959), Elizabeth Taylor in BUtterfield 8 (1960), and Julie Christie in Darling (1965). In that period, he also starred with Best Actress Oscar nominee Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke (1961).
4. During the launching of the James Bond franchise in 1961, Laurence Harvey was strongly considered for the part of Bond.
5. Laurence Harvey attended Michael Caine’s wedding to wife Shakira in early 1973.
Check out Laurence Harvey’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
The 10 That Got Away – Could Not Find Any Box Office On The Following Laurence Harvey Movies
- Man On The Run (1949) 70.50%
- I Believe In You (1952) 70.00%
- A Killer Walks (1952) 67.50%
- Wall of Death/There Is Another Sun (1952) 67.00%
- Cairo Road (1950) 66.00%
- House of Darkness (1948) 64.50%
- Landfall (1949) 59.00%
- Twilight Women (1952) 57.00%
- Temptations/The Man From Yesterday (1949) 52.50%
- Scarlet Thread (1951) 52.50%
I incorrectly quoted Celebrity Net Worth as the source of Harvey’s wealth whereas the source is Information Cradle site which updated its assessment of Larry’s figures in May this year. Apologies for misleading.
On reflection it is not really clear whether the 67 million was ACTUAL at the time of Harvey’s 1973 death or if it is an inflationary updated quote. Here is precisely what Information Cradle says “Laurence had a whooping net worth of 67 million dollars before he was deceased.”
Very clumsily worded but to me $67 million as an inflation-adjusted figure would seem more realistic as Sir Maurice Micklewhite is quoted as having a $75 million net worth at the moment; he is a bigger star than Larry was; and Sir M is a notorious “tight wad” and not a big spender – except maybe on himself at times!
Whatever – $67 million at today’s prices is a highly impressive sum for an actor originally grounded in the British cinema and whose heyday was probably in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Hey Bob. I think you’re right, his net worth seems to be an adjusted one. Just goes to show, that no matter how much money you got, when it’s your time it’s your time. Although I have read, his lifestyle is probably the reason he got sick so young. Good stuff
LIST of BOB’s HARVEY “HAVE SEEN” MOVIES
1/After the Ball – I don’t immediately see it above.
2/WUSA
3/Magic Christian
4/Darling
5/Running Man
6/Summer and Smoke
7/The Alamo – dare I have missed it!
8/Expresso Bongo
9/The Black Rose
10/Room at the Top -after which Larry’s career really took off.
11/The Silent Enemy
12/Life at the Top
13/The Good Die Young – my own fave Harvey role
14/Storm over the Nile
15/The Truth about Women
16/I am a Camera – see Additional Trivia in my Part 2
17/Kind Richard and the Crusaders
18/A Dandy in Aspic
19/Manchurian Candidate
20/A Girl Named Tamiko
Hey Bob. Thanks for listing the movies you have watched starring Laurence Harvey. Tally counts. Bob 20, Flora 11, Cogerson 9, PhilHOF17 and other Bob 4. Two victories in a row for you, you were on a roll.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA Only Dan or I could weave the following rich tapestry of links and connections!!
(1) I also most recently watched Harvey in a rerun of the 1973 episode of the TV series Columbo [The Most Dangerous Match] in which for me Larry was compulsive viewing as the guest villain. That episode is in fact coincidentally airing once again on television over here this week.
(2) 1955’s film “I am a Camera” is from the same-source material as the 1972 movie Cabaret; and in the 1955 film Method actress Julie Harris played the culturally-legendary Sally Bowles for which character Liza Minelli won her Oscar in 1973. It was into THOSE ceremonies that another Method icon Marlon Brando threw a hand grenade by refusing his Godfather Oscar and enraging people like my other idol The Duke who saw Brando’s antics as “un-American”. Reportedly a gang of strong security guards had to stop Wayne from mounting the stage and throwing off Brando’s representative the Indian girl Sacheen Little Feather who later said that The Duke had “terrified” her. The Duke sure took a lot onto himself! Laurence of course had appeared in Wayne’s The Alamo.
(3) In a speech after the presentation Liza made it clear that SHE never had any intention of refusing her Oscar [“Hear Hear!” shouts The Work Horse at his TV screen]. I am a Camera was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin which was part of The Berlin Stories by writer Christopher Isherwood; and Harvey played the male lead of Isherwood in the 1955 film. It was through Christopher’s eyes that the story was told so hence the title of the movie. Julie Harris had won a Tony award for playing Sally Bowles in the stage version of I am a Camera; she like Harvey appeared in an episode of Columbo –Any Old Port in a Storm which aired in that same very pivotal year of 1973; and she co-starred with recognised [fellow] Method King Brando in 1967’s Reflection in a Golden Eye.
(4) At those notorious 1973 ceremonies Harvey was co-presenter of the award for Best Art Direction-Art Decoration and sadly within months of that Larry was dead at just 45.
Hey Bob. Good comment. I did not know I Am A Camera was based on the same source material as Cabaret. Sneaky connection to getting Marlon Brando in your comment, good job doing that. Good to know he was healthy enough to attend the Oscar ceremony so close to his passing. Good stuff.
Before he got into American films Laurence was considered a prestige actor in the British cinema in films like The Good Die Young; Storm over the Nile with “sex-bomb” Anita Ekberg’s husband Anthony Steel] [a remake of the 1939 British classic The Four Feathers starring John Clements and Sir Ralph Richardson] and especially Room at the Top which grossed around $700,000 dollars at the British box office and which is equivalent to about $6 million today and good for a British film in the restricted United Kingdom market those days. The Work Horse comprehensively covers above Larry’s early British films albeit minus grosses. Cairo Road is the one that I heard about most.
Larry was one of the few British-cinema actors back then to achieve stardom in the States which he did for a brief while in films like The Alamo; Butterfield 8; and Summer and Smoke. He also appeared in 36 television productions from 1950-1973 and 7 stage presentations 1947-64. In both those mediums Larry Harvey did Shakespeare [something too which I am sure the latter would have dissuaded Stallone from tackling if Sly had been about in The Bard’s time].
If Celebrity Net Worth site has done its figures right all that activity made Laurence one of the richest movie stars of all time with a fortune at the time of his 1973 death of $67 million which according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics is equivalent to exactly $405 million today. This compares as follows with the reported current net worth of other Brit Greats who have made it big in the US: Sir Sean Connery $350 million; Sir Maurice Micklewhite $75 million
Fortunately Laurence’s British and American movie heydays were during the years when I haunted the movie houses as much as The Work Horse seems to have done in more recent times; so I have seen 20 of Larry’s movies which I list with notes in Part 2.
EXTRACT FROM HARVEY’s NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY [which reads like classic Hirschhorn!].With his clipped speech, cool smile and a cigarette dangling impudently from his lips, Laurence Harvey established himself as the screen’s perfect pin-striped cad. He could project such utter boredom that willowy debutantes would shrivel in his presence. He could also exude such charm that the same young ladies would gladly lend him their hearts, which were usually returned utterly broken.
Hey Bob. Thanks for sharing his net worth, his awards, his television performances, and some of the words spoken about him when he passed. I think Joel, liked him more than the writer that you quoted did. Those early British movie,s barely if at all, appeared in North American theaters. When the time comes to write a page on Ralph Richardson (which is coming soon), I will have to dig through those old Variety magazines and see if Storm On The Nile generated any box office in the United States. I do suspect the totals will be low. I agree with you, about how great a stretch of movies he made after the success of Room At The Top. Good stuff thanks for all the comments.
Trying to vacuum the pool while responding to comments using the audio feature on my phone is beyond difficult…I had to come back inside and fix all the errors in this comment. My favorite error? Instead of Bob….it listed you as Bhan. But all is fixed now.
Laurence Harvey just fell off the Oracle of Bacon countdown in 2020. These are the actors on the 2020 list Larry appeared with it.
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE Innocents in Paris (1953)
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE Storm Over the Nile (1955)
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE The Magic Christian (1969)
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE The Truth About Women (1957)
18 JOHN GIELGUD Romeo and Juliet (1954)
18 JOHN GIELGUD The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
25 TREVOR HOWARD The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
37 JOHN CLEESE The Magic Christian (1969)
46 VANESSA REDGRAVE The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
60 MICHAEL HORDERN Storm Over the Nile (1955)
67 VERNON DOBTCHEFF A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
67 VERNON DOBTCHEFF Darling (1965)
70 JOSS ACKLAND Landfall (1949)
90 RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH The Magic Christian (1969)
91 EDWARD FOX Life at the Top (1965)
102 ORSON WELLES Kampf um Rom I (1968)
102 ORSON WELLES Kampf um Rom II – Der Verrat (1969)
102 ORSON WELLES The Black Rose (1950)
102 ORSON WELLES The Deep (1970)
106 SHIRLEY MACLAINE Two Loves (1961)
117 RICHARD HARRIS The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
127 DENHOLM ELLIOTT The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
128 ROBERT MORLEY Life at the Top (1965)
128 ROBERT MORLEY Of Human Bondage (1964)
128 ROBERT MORLEY The Good Die Young (1954)
158 SHELLEY WINTERS I Am a Camera (1955)
180 FERNANDO REY The Ceremony (1963)
184 HARRY ANDREWS A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
184 HARRY ANDREWS The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
190 HERBERT LOM The Black Rose (1950)
196 CLORIS LEACHMAN WUSA (1970)
213 JULIE CHRISTIE Darling (1965)
216 JEANNE MOREAU The Deep (1970)
224 PAUL NEWMAN The Outrage (1964)
224 PAUL NEWMAN WUSA (1970)
225 DAVID HEMMINGS The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
259 MIA FARROW A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
265 HENRY SILVA The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
284 WALTER GOTELL Cairo Road (1950)
303 CLAIRE BLOOM Innocents in Paris (1953)
303 CLAIRE BLOOM The Outrage (1964)
303 CLAIRE BLOOM The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
313 AVA GARDNER Knights of the Round Table (1953)
327 BURT KWOUK Expresso Bongo (1959)
344 JOHN WAYNE The Alamo (1960)
366 ANN-MARGRET Rebus (1969)
373 FERDY MAYNE Cairo Road (1950)
373 FERDY MAYNE Storm Over the Nile (1955)
373 FERDY MAYNE The Magic Christian (1969)
398 MEL FERRER Knights of the Round Table (1953)
406 LIONEL STANDER A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
451 GRAHAM STARK The Magic Christian (1969)
462 STUART WHITMAN Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974)
480 DIANE LADD WUSA (1970)
492 JANE FONDA Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK The Alamo (1960)
510 JOHN IRELAND Escape to the Sun (1972)
510 JOHN IRELAND The Ceremony (1963)
510 JOHN IRELAND The Good Die Young (1954)
510 JOHN IRELAND Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974)
525 RAQUEL WELCH The Magic Christian (1969)
530 WILLIAM SHATNER The Outrage (1964)
539 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON THE RUNNING MAN (1963)
547 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON LIFE AT THE TOP (1965)
547 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON ROOM AT THE TOP (1959)
547 JOHN MEILLON THE RUNNING MAN (1963)
554 PAT HINGLE WUSA (1970)
562 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE The Magic Christian (1969)
562 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE The Truth About Women (1957)
567 MAURICE DENHAM Landfall (1949)
568 ERIC POHLMANN Cairo Road (1950)
568 ERIC POHLMANN Expresso Bongo (1959)
569 TERRY-THOMAS The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
580 YUL BRYNNER The Magic Christian (1969)
595 CLIVE REVILL Escape to the Sun (1972)
597 PAUL FIX The Outrage (1964)
612 DESMOND LLEWELYN Knights of the Round Table (1953)
628 GEORGE SANDERS King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
630 CLIFTON JAMES WUSA (1970)
634 JOAN COLLINS I Believe in You (1952)
634 JOAN COLLINS The Good Die Young (1954)
642 GEOFFREY KEEN Storm Over the Nile (1955)
660 LEE MARVIN Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
661 JACK HAWKINS Escape to the Sun (1972)
661 JACK HAWKINS The Black Rose (1950)
661 JACK HAWKINS Two Loves (1961)
677 ANTHONY PERKINS WUSA (1970)
703 ROLAND CULVER The Magic Christian (1969)
703 ROLAND CULVER The Truth About Women (1957)
713 MARNE MAITLAND Cairo Road (1950)
716 KENNETH GRIFFITH EXPRESSO BONGO (1959)
723 NIGEL DAVENPORT Life at the Top (1965)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON The Outrage (1964)
779 ELIZABETH TAYLOR BUtterfield 8 (1960)
779 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Night Watch (1973)
815 REX HARRISON King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
842 MARIANNE STONE The Good Die Young (1954)
842 MARIANNE STONE The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
882 ANTON DIFFRING I Am a Camera (1955)
906 PRUNELLA SCALES ROOM AT THE TOP (1959)
923 RONALD LACEY (I) OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1964)
931 JOHN LE MESURIER The Magic Christian (1969)
948 FRANK SINATRA The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
996 DIRK BOGARDE Darling (1965)
998 GEOFFREY BAYLDON A DANDY IN ASPIC (1968)
998 GEOFFREY BAYLDON LIFE AT THE TOP (1965)
Laurence appeared with 21 Oscar winners.
ANNE BAXTER Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
CLORIS LEACHMAN WUSA (1970)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR BUtterfield 8 (1960)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Night Watch (1973)
FRANK SINATRA The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
GEORGE SANDERS King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
GERALDINE PAGE Summer and Smoke (1961)
GLORIA GRAHAME The Good Die Young (1954)
JANE FONDA Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
JOANNE WOODWARD WUSA (1970)
JOHN GIELGUD Romeo and Juliet (1954)
JOHN GIELGUD The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
JOHN WAYNE The Alamo (1960)
JULIE CHRISTIE Darling (1965)
LEE MARVIN Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
MARGARET RUTHERFORD Innocents in Paris (1953)
PAUL NEWMAN The Outrage (1964)
PAUL NEWMAN WUSA (1970)
REX HARRISON King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
RITA MORENO Summer and Smoke (1961)
SHELLEY WINTERS I Am a Camera (1955)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Two Loves (1961)
SIMONE SIGNORET Room at the Top (1959)
VANESSA REDGRAVE The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
YUL BRYNNER The Magic Christian (1969)
Hey Dan
1. Thanks for putting this information together.
2. Interesting that Larry just fell of the Oracle list.
3. First list is massive…John Ireland (no UMR page) and Orson Welles (has a UMR page) lead the way with 4 movies with Larry.
4. 21 Oscar winning co-stars is below average…but a good total when looking at the amount of international movies he appeared in.
Good stuff as always.