Trivia of Laurence Harvey
Trivia of Laurence Harvey (1 October 1928 - 25 November 1973)
*He was born as Zvi Mosheh Skikne to Lithuanian Jewish parents and emigrated to South Africa at an early age, before later settling in the United Kingdom after World War II.Adopt stage name Laurence Harvey after his nickname, Larry Skikne was not commercially viable.
*Harvey was born to play Joe Lampton in film Room At The Top (1958) and Life At The Top (1965). Lampton was a working-class bloke who dreams of escaping his social strata for something better. It was a perfect match of actor and role, as the icy Harvey persona made Joe's ruthless ambition to climb the greasy pole of success fittingly chilling. In bringing Joe to life on the screen, Harvey was more successful than Richard Burton (a far famous actor) had been in limning the theater's Jimmy Porter in the film adaptation of John Osborne's seminal "Look Back in Anger," despite Burton's own working-class background. Burton's volcanic use of his mellifluous voice, a great instrument, is much too hot for the the small universe on the screen, a case of projection that is so intense that it overwhelms the character and the film (it took Burton another half-decade to learn to act on film, and a half-decade more to lose that gift). Whereas Burton had to learn to rein it in, Harvey's already tightly controlled persona made the social-climbing Lampton resonate. Harvey fits the skin of the character much better than does Burton. For his role as Joe, Harvey received his first (and only) Academy Award nomination.
*During filming of The Alamo (1960) in late 1959, Harvey was seriously injured during a scene in which a cannon fired, recoiled and landed on his foot, breaking it in several places. According to witnesses, Harvey finished the scene (with director & actor John Wayne at his side) and collapsed in agony only after the cameras stopped rolling.
*He didn't get along with his co-stars in film Walk on The Wild Side (1962), Jane Fonda and Capucine. During the filming, Capucine objected to filming kissing scenes with Laurence Harvey, feeling that he was not manly enough for her. Harvey reportedly replied, "Perhaps if you were more of a woman, I would be more of a man. Honey, kissing you is like kissing the side of a beer bottle." Opposite with Capucine, Harvey had good times with actress Barbara Stanwyck.When she first encountered Laurence Harvey on the set film Walk on The Wild Side, lounging in his gold brocade bathrobe and drinking champagne, she walked up to him and said, "All right, Larry, let's go! Get your ass in gear. We've got a picture to make, and I don't have time for prima donnas!" After a moment of silence, this struck Harvey as highly amusing, and he burst into laughter. He and Stanwyck immediately became friends.
*Harvey appeared as the brainwashed US Army Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962), directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury.Film critic David Shipman wrote: "Harvey's role required him to act like a zombie and several critics cited it as his first convincing performance".The movie was a hit and has since become critically highly regarded, and is one of Harvey's better-remembered films.
*He was cast for leading role in Orson Welles' unfinished movie project The Deep.Unfortunately, the production was hampered by financial problems.In 1973, Laurence Harvey died, effectively ending any hope for Welles of finishing the picture.Actor Peter O'Toole recalls that he was approached by Welles to play the lead in the film and remembers The Deep as "a script that I thought was beautiful."
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