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Director:
Alvin Rakoff
Writers:
John Mortimer (play)
John Mortimer (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 April 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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Awards:
4 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Actors, politicians and royalty pay respects to Sir John Mortimer
 (From The Guardian - TV News. 17 November 2009, 8:42 AM, PST)
User Comments:
What a Wonderful Elegy He Made for Himself more (2 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Laurence Olivier ... Clifford Mortimer

Alan Bates ... John Mortimer
Jane Asher ... Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sellars ... Mother
Michael Aldridge ... Headmaster

Alan Cox ... Son as a Boy
Norman Bird ... Ham
Albert Welling ... Japhet
James Downer ... Reigate
Susan Littler ... Miss Cox
Gay Wilde ... Miss Baker
Anthony Sharp ... Film Director
Ann Davies ... A.T.S. Girl
Judy Riley ... A.T.S. Girl
Jonathan Newth ... Boustead
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Runtime:
Brazil:90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:PG
Filming Locations:
Turville, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Company:
Thames Television more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The house in which the family live is the house in which author John Mortimer and his parents lived, and which the author lives today. The gardening hat that Laurence Olivier wears belonged to John Mortimer's father. more
Quotes:
Headmaster: You shall refer to us all by nicknames. I am Noah. My wife is Mrs. Noah. You are the animals. This is Ham and Japhet. Matron is Matey. And Mr. Bingo Ollard... Mr. Bingo Ollard is Mr. Bingo Ollard. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Laurence Olivier: A Life (1982) (TV) more

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What a Wonderful Elegy He Made for Himself, 5 May 2000
Author: Alice Copeland Brown (alicecbrown@yahoo.com) from Boston

Sir Laurence Olivier, the magnificent!! What a sweet comedy and the line to best ALL lines: "I ALWAYS get angry when I'm dying!" and he does. This was his swan song a few years before he died.

And how great it was to see two Anthonies play opposite on another, Alan Bates and Laurence Olivier. Father and son, it was so wonderfully sweet and funny. Of course, the beautiful English countryside wasn't half-bad either.

I love observing the native habits of the English. They are so funny and so well educated...at least they were back in those times before the fall of the Empire. To watch all the goings-on in the courtroom was well worth the price of the movie. U.S. courtroom behavior is so much more cut and dried with none of the unmeant and deliberate humor that was injected in this movie.

See this one, and understand that it can well be a primer for dying the good death.

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