Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in American director John Huston's epic adaptation of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' in 1956.
Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.
Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor.
Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in American director John Huston's epic adaptation of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" in 1956, starring Gregory Peck as the obsessed Captain Ahab. One love letter Olivier sent summed up his love: "I sometimes feel such a peacefulness come over me when I think of you, or write to you — a gentle tenderness and serenity. A feeling devoid of all violence, passion or shattering longing... it makes me go out into the street with a smile on my face and in my heart for everybody."
She starred opposite Walter Matthau in the big screen adaptation of the classic comic strip "Dennis the Menace," and made a brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing satire "Last Action Hero" in 1993.
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