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Wonderful actor Wonderful voice !!!!❤

I found this and startedcto watch.when they bought his richard3rd crown i had a good old weep. What an extraordinary yalent and wonderful life he had. I often look at his richard 3rd speeches.

I to the hills will lift mine eyes (DUNDEE) - 10:30

Gandalf, Charlie Croker/Milo Tindle, Lawrence of Arabia, 'M', Claudius, Obi-Wan Kenobi, 'Mcdonald', 'Big X', Porthos all visible

22:26 - 24:02 I don't know what Albert Finney thought he was doing but it didn't work. That was really bad.

I didn't know this was televised. Why wasn't Tarquin's attendance noted?😮 The presentation of his theater 🎭 awards and gifts was very moving.

RIP to the white angel

I only saw Sir Laurence Olivier act in "The Jazz Singer" and he did a great job in acting as Cantor Rabinovitch!

A bit over the top. He was just an actor.

This will be playing when charles and camilla make the way out after the coronation 😊

..... & Gielgud's ashes, we're placed beneath a tree, amongst a wood He had conserved.

Remember this well. I was living in London at the time. Such a great actor. So many great actors, actresses and entertainers paying their respect. Beatiful memorial service. Rest in Peace Sir. Laurence Olivier. 🌹

Charming

For me, I will always remember him most for "The World at War".

LAURENCE, WE WILL MISS YOU, you had talent and charm.

He was a great actor there is no doubt.

I recognized Lord Grade, who died in 1998. He was head of Associated Television Corp. Ltd.(ATV) and it's affiliate ITC Entertainment. These companies produced such TV series as "The Julie Andrews Hour", "The Prisoner", and "Space:1999".

…of course he was an Anglo-Catholic. The Church was the original theatre, the William Walton send off is brilliant….and all celebrated within an ancient Abbey governed over by our Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The whole affair is a magnificent Performance. Crown Imperial by Edward Elgar. This funeral is of Nobility, and the cozy embers of Empire.

Are there any black folk living in England?

43:43 for Alec Guinness’s excellent eulogy.

GIelgud falters quite a bit in the Donne, but invests every word with such meaning it doesn't matter.

Please, please, can we finally, at last, avoid notes of jealousy now he has gone? And please, even more, can we just leave it that nobody knows, understands, or can dare to even guess how Larry achieved what he did at his best. Lets us allow the word love, and - climbing inside the word - just admire him, and thank him. Please. John Windsor-Cunningham

Service overblown like his acting

Deep, deep weeping........

What wonderful "performances" by all those actors - male and female. They teach the Abbey clergy how to declaim the prayers and Gospels. If only the clergy wouly would attend to their "ssons".

Dazzling array of immortals........

Can’t say I was a fan although I do like Rebecca. Quite impressive.Has any other actor had such a send off since???🤔

'Jack Lemmon, the American comedian...' 🤦‍♂

Amazing. A Royal Event!

Fantastic music, under the direction of the wonderful Dr Martin Neary, who was so abominably treated by the Abbey authorities, particularly that nasty piece of work, Dean Carr.

The John Gilgud reading! Not a syllable wasted.

Anybody have a list of the music used?

Tears at 56:00.

where's Dirk Bogarde?

Fascinating watching this and much satisfaction to be had in people spotting. I hope people will add to names I've missed out of the congregation cutaways: Prior to the service: (9.40). Joan Collins, Jill Bennett, Edward Fox, Joanna David, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack (obscured), Cyril Shaps (glasses), Peter Egan ?? (far right), Patricia Routledge (centre back). Procession: Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, Dorothy Tutin, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Frank Finlay (23.35) John Mortimer, Bernard Levin, Mr & Mrs Ronnie Corbett (27.12) , Sara Kestelman (?), Simon Callow & Partner, Edward Woodward, Jack Lemmon, Robert Hardy (43.02) Michael Denison/Dulcie Gray ?, Penelope Keith & Partner, Tony Britton (48.37) Michael Williams, Alan Bennett (52.22) Gordon Jackson (52.44) Peter Barkworth, Lady Antonia Fraser & Harold Pinter (obscured), Geraldine McEwan, Michael Jayston, Oliver Tobias, Judi Dench.

I can't see any actor since having a funeral such as this, there is no one who is held in such high regard.

Oliviers father would have been amazed.

Fascinating that LO wanted AG to eulogize him…because they were never close, and in fact had their conflicts. At bottom I suspect LO wanted to be known, and wanted someone to tell the truth about him.

Jack lemmon the comedian!

Great actor...The boys from Brazil and Marathon man❤

Rebecca and WUTHERING HIGHTS , one of the best movies l saw in my life.........

I really loved L. Olivier as HEATHCLIFF in wuthering hights......

This is an amazing video production for 1989. Sound quality is excellent, and of course the music is first class. Nobody does this like the British!

You can almost feel the stories the people there have

So many of the people of the congregation now gone too. RIP

It’s impossible to imagine a better, more appropriate address than this one by Sir Alec Guinness: perfection in thought, expression and delivery. Lady Olivier must have been deeply moved.

54:48 Olivier's voice: his performance of the St. Crispin's Day speech from his film of "Henry V."

Hearing his voice mid service…💕💕

Watching this service brings back happy memory's of knowing the dean of Westminster abbey and many others who are or are no longer with us

On a whim I thought of searching for Olivier's funeral video and found this one which happened to have just been uploaded today (thanks)---which happens to be the date of Shakespeare's death. Very interesting to see Jill Esmond there. Sadly, Vivien Leigh was long gone, who truly loved him.