The Entertainer
As the applause grew fainter … As the spotlight grew dimmer … His women were younger!
Overview
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
- Production
- Woodfall Film Productions, Continental
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Cast
Laurence Olivier
Archie Rice
Brenda De Banzie
Phoebe Rice
Roger Livesey
Billy Rice
Joan Plowright
Jean Rice
Alan Bates
Frank Rice
Daniel Massey
Graham
Albert Finney
Mick Rice
Shirley Anne Field
Tina Lapford
Thora Hird
Mrs. Ada Lapford
Miriam Karlin
Renée Baxter
Geoffrey Toone
Harold Hubbard
Max Bacon
Charlie Klein
James Culliford
Cobber Carson
Charles Gray
Columnist
Tony Selby
Teddy Boy (uncredited)
Nigel Davenport
Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Writers
- John Osborne,Nigel Kneale
- Producers
- Harry Saltzman
- Cinematography
- Oswald Morris
- Composer
- John Addison
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CinemaSerf
April 4, 2022
Certainly, Laurence Olivier is superb in this drama, but he is surrounded by a superior supporting cast that lend huge poignancy to this story. He is "Archie Rice", a seaside entertainer who has long since passed his use-by date. His quick witted, slightly risqué and smutty humour no longer amuses the theatre audiences who now require much greater sophistication. He can't adapt though - it's in his blood. As he desperately tries to stay one step ahead of the bailiffs and the taxman, he puts his …