10.0
10.0
The Woman He Loved
1988
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Olivia de Havilland
Acting
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (; July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry which was well documented in the media, was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she received the first of her five Oscar nominations, the only one for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1940s, De Havilland departed from ingénue roles and distinguished herself for performances in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949), receiving four Best Actress nominations and winning for To Each His Own and The Heiress. She was also successful in work on stage and television. From the 1950s, De Havilland lived in Paris and received honors such as the National Medal of the Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and the appointment to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the age of 101. In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theater, appearing three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962). She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Movie or Series.
Filmography (70 movies)
8.1
8.1
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
7.9
7.9
Gone with the Wind
1939
as Melanie Hamilton
7.8
7.8
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Actress (also archive footage)
7.8
7.8
The Heiress
1949
as Catherine Sloper
7.6
7.6
The Irish in Us
1935
as Lucille Jackson
7.5
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Maid Marian
7.3
7.3
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
2021
as Self - Actress
7.3
7.3
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Self
7.3
7.3
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Miriam Deering
7.2
7.2
Captain Blood
1935
as Arabella Bishop
7.2
7.2
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004
as Herself
7.1
7.1
The Snake Pit
1948
as Virginia Stuart Cunningham
7.0
7.0
Noon Wine
1966
as Ellie Thompson
7.0
7.0
It's Love I'm After
1937
as Marcia West
7.0
7.0
Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
7.0
7.0
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
as Self
6.9
6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Serena Ferris
6.9
6.9
The Dark Mirror
1946
as Terry Collins / Ruth Collins
6.9
6.9
The Strawberry Blonde
1941
as Amy Lind
6.9
6.9
Dodge City
1939
as Abbie Irving
6.9
6.9
To Each His Own
1946
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
6.8
6.8
In This Our Life
1942
as Roy Timberlake
6.7
6.7
My Cousin Rachel
1952
as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley
6.7
6.7
The Screaming Woman
1972
as Laura Wynant
6.7
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
as Emmy Brown
6.6
6.6
Libel
1959
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon
6.6
6.6
Out Where the Stars Begin
1938
as Serena Ferris (archive footage)
6.6
6.6
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Elizabeth Bacon
6.5
6.5
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
6.5
6.5
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
as Elsa Campbell
6.4
6.4
Murder Is Easy
1982
as Honoria Waynflete
6.3
6.3
Princess O'Rourke
1943
as Princess Maria
6.3
6.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
as Hermia
6.2
6.2
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Lady Penelope Gray
6.2
6.2
Light in the Piazza
1962
as Meg Johnson
6.2
6.2
Not as a Stranger
1955
as Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh
6.1
6.1
Lady in a Cage
1964
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
6.1
6.1
The Proud Rebel
1958
as Linnett Moore
6.0
6.0
Devotion
1946
as Charlotte Brontë
6.0
6.0
Raffles
1939
as Gwen
6.0
6.0
Wings of the Navy
1939
as Irene Dale
6.0
6.0
That Lady
1955
as Ana de Mendoza
6.0
6.0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Self
6.0
6.0
Hard to Get
1938
as Margaret "Maggie" Richards
6.0
6.0
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
5.9
5.9
The Great Garrick
1937
as Germaine de la Corbe
5.9
5.9
Pope Joan
1972
as Mother Superior
5.8
5.8
Alibi Ike
1935
as Dolly Stevens
5.7
5.7
Anthony Adverse
1936
as Angela Guiseppe
5.7
5.7
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Kit Carson Holliday
5.6
5.6
Airport '77
1977
as Emily Livingston
5.5
5.5
A Dream Comes True
1935
as Herself (uncredited)
5.2
5.2
Government Girl
1943
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard
5.0
5.0
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
1936
5.0
5.0
A Day at Santa Anita
1937
as Olivia de Havilland (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Call It a Day
1937
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton
5.0
5.0
The Swarm
1978
as Maureen Schuester
4.8
4.8
Four's a Crowd
1938
as Lorri Dillingwell
4.8
4.8
The Fifth Musketeer
1979
as Anne d'Autriche
4.7
4.7
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
1982
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
4.6
4.6
My Love Came Back
1940
as Amelia Cornell
4.3
4.3
The Ambassador's Daughter
1956
as Joan Fisk
4.2
4.2
The Adventurers
1970
as Deborah Hadley
4.0
4.0
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
as Margie Dawson
4.0
4.0
Stars on Horseback
1943
3.9
3.9
The Male Animal
1942
as Ellen Turner
2.6
2.6
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
as Self
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