Laurence Harvey Autograph , Original Hand Signed Card

Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey (1 October 1928 – 25 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films . Harvey's breakthrough to international stardom came in 1959 when he was cast by director Jack Clayton as the social climber Joe Lampton in Room at the Top produced by British film producing brothers Sir John and James Woolf of Romulus Films and Remus Films. For his performance, Harvey received a BAFTA Award nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first person of Lithuanian descent to be nominated for an acting  Oscar . Harvey was now a star. He was cast in the role that had made Peter O'Toole prominent in the West End: the film version of The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961); O'Toole was unestablished in the films and Harvey was more "bankable". During the late 1950s and 1960s, Harvey appeared in several major films. In 1960 he starred in Butterfield 8 and John Wayne's epic The Alamo, both films being released within a month of each other. Other films included Walk on the Wild Side (1962) with Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda and Capucine, the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke (1961) with Geraldine Page, and Darling (1965) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde. In this period, he appeared as the brainwashed Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), the role for which he is best remembered .

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