Movie
The Entertainer
Overview
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Details
- Release date
- 1960-07-25
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Woodfall Film Productions, Continental
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice
- Brenda De Banzie as Phoebe Rice
- Roger Livesey as Billy Rice
- Joan Plowright as Jean Rice
- Alan Bates as Frank Rice
- Daniel Massey as Graham
- Albert Finney as Mick Rice
- Shirley Anne Field as Tina Lapford
- Thora Hird as Mrs. Ada Lapford
- Miriam Karlin as Renée Baxter
- Geoffrey Toone as Harold Hubbard
- MacDonald Hobley as McDonald Hobley (as McDonald Hobley)
Crew
- Tony Richardson - Director
- John Osborne - Screenplay
- Nigel Kneale - Screenplay
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