Poets' Corner
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Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
Memorials in Poets' Corner
Partial view of Poets' Corner
The west wall of Poets' Corner
Grave of Charles Dickens
Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the
Poets' Corner
…Name is inscribed on the Cowley gravestone. Statesman and natural philosopher Gilbert Murray 1866 1957 91 Grave & gravestone Scholar and translator Laurence, Lord Olivier 1907 1989 82 Grave & memorial stone Actor Old Tom Parr 1483 1635 152 Grave & gravestone Supposedly long-lived Englishman Matthew Prior 1664 1721 57…
Olivier in 1972
The house in Wathen Road, Dorking, Surrey, where Olivier was born in 1907
Interior of All Saints, Margaret Street, which Olivier attended
Peggy Ashcroft, a contemporary and friend of Olivier's at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London, photographed in 1936