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Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland was a true star, giving memorable performances in such films as To Each His Own (1946), The Heiress (1949), Gone With the Wind (1939), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Snake Pit (1948) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). At the time of her death, 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.

Aliases
  • Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE
  • Olivia DeHaviland
English
Filmography

Gone with the Wind

1939
as Melanie Hamilton

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

1986
as Dowager Empress Maria

They Died with Their Boots On

1941
as Elizabeth Bacon

Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years

2001
as Self (archive footage)

The Strawberry Blonde

1941
as Amy Lind

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

Stars on Horseback

1943
as Olivia de Havilland

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Herself (archive footage)

The Fifth Musketeer

1979
as Anne d'Autriche

The Swarm

1978
as Maureen

Raffles

1939
as Gwen

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938
as Maid Marian

Not as a Stranger

1955
as Kristina Hedvigson

Murder Is Easy

1982
as Honoria Waynflete

The Snake Pit

1948
as Virginia Stuart Cunningham

Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano

1983
as Olivia de Havilland

In This Our Life

1942
as Roy Timberlake

My Cousin Rachel

1952
as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

1982
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Princess O'Rourke

1943
as Princess Maria

Roots: The Next Generations

1979
as Mrs. Warner

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1936

The Woman He Loved

1988
as Aunt Bessie Merryman

That Lady

1955
as Ana de Mendoza

Libel

1959
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939
as Lady Penelope Gray

The Great Garrick

1937
as Germaine de la Corbe

My Love Came Back

1940
as Amelia Cornell

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005
as Herself - Actress (also archive footage)

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943
as Herself

Devotion

1946
as Charlotte Bronte

The Dark Mirror

1946
as Terry / Ruth Collins

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1987
as Olivia de Havilland

The Male Animal

1942
as Ellen Turner

It's Love I'm After

1937
as Marcia West

The Heiress

1949
as Catherine Sloper

The Screaming Woman

1972
as Laura Wynant

Out Where the Stars Begin

1938
as Herself, clip from 'Gold Is Where You Find It' (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988
as Herself

The Irish in Us

1935
as Lucille Jackson

The Well Groomed Bride

1946
as Margie Dawson

Santa Fe Trail

1940
as Kit Carson Holliday

Lady in a Cage

1964
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard

To Each His Own

1946
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris

Pope Joan

1972
as Mother Superior

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia DeHavilland

2004
as Herself

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935
as Hermia, In love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)

Hold Back the Dawn

1941
as Emmy Brown

Light in the Piazza

1962
as Meg Johnson

The Ambassador's Daughter

1956
as Joan Fisk

Breakdowns of 1944

1944
as Herself

Anthony Adverse

1936
as Angela Guiseppe

Alibi Ike

1935
as Dolly Stevens

Wings of the Navy

1939
as Irene Dale

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

Insight: Anthony Asquith

1960
as Olivia de Havilland

Airport '77

1977
as Emily Livingston

Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born

2005
as Arabella Bishop

Show-Business at War

1943
as Herself

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964
as Miriam Deering

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

1986
as Dowager Empress Maria

Government Girl

1943
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard

The Adventurers

1970
as Deborah Hadley

Breakdowns of 1942

1942
as Olivia de Havilland

Call It a Day

1937
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton

The Proud Rebel

1958
as Linnett Moore

Four's a Crowd

1938
as Lorri Dillingwell

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936
as Elsa Campbell

Noon Wine

1966
as Ellie Thompson

Dodge City

1939
as Abbie Irving

Gold Is Where You Find It

1938
as Serena Ferris

Captain Blood

1935
as Arabella Bishop

Guest Star

Episode The Merv Griffin Show
Nov 29 1973 Bette Davis/Walter Pidgeon/Olivia De Havilland 		1973
Episode I've Got a Secret
Bette Davis,Olivia de Havilland 		1965
Episode I've Got a Secret
Olivia de Havilland 		1960
Episode What's My Line?
Olivia de Havilland 		1964
Episode What's My Line?
Olivia de Havilland 		1962
Episode I've Got a Secret
Olivia de Havilland 		1964
Episode What's My Line?
Olivia de Havilland 		1965
Episode I've Got a Secret
Olivia de Havilland 		1958