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Laurence Kerr Olivier , Baron Olivier , ( 22 May 1907  11 July 1989 ) was an ___MASK66___ actor who , along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud , dominated the British stage of the mid - 20th century . He also worked in films throughout his career , playing more than fifty cinema roles . Late in his career , he had considerable success in television roles . Ryan ' s Daughter is a 1970 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean . The film , set in 1916 , tells the story of a married ___MASK60___ woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I , despite moral and political opposition from her nationalist neighbours . The plot has some similarities to that of Gustave Flaubert ' s novel " Madame Bovary ". Sir John Mills , CBE ( 22 February 190823 April 2005 ) was an ___MASK66___ actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades . On screen , he often played people who are not at all exceptional , but become heroes because of their common sense , generosity and good judgment . He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in " Ryan ' s Daughter " ( 1970 ). Blind Justice is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Eva Moore , Frank Vosper , Geraldine Fitzgerald , Roger Livesey and John Mills . A woman is blackmailed by a criminal , who has discovered that her brother was shot as a coward during the First World War . It was based on Recipe for Murder , a 1932 play by Arnold Ridley . A review of the play , mentioning the forthcoming film , was the first use of the word whodunit it print . Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald ( November 24 , 1913  July 17 , 2005 ) was an ___MASK60___ - American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame . Jill Esmond ( 26 January 1908  28 July 1990 ) was an ___MASK66___ stage and screen actress . She was the first wife of Laurence Olivier . Eva Moore ( 9 February 1868  27 April 1955 ) was an ___MASK66___ actress . Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades , and she was active in the women ' s suffrage movement . In her 1923 book of reminiscences , " Exits and Entrances ", she describes approximately ninety of her roles in plays , but she continued to act on stage until 1945 . She also acted in more than two dozen films . Her daughter , Jill Esmond , was the first wife of Laurence Olivier .