Laurence Olivier honoured with blue plaque unveiled by Ian McKellen

Ceremony takes place at actor’s former home in Pimlico, central London, where he lived from the age of five to 12 Laurence Olivier has joined David Garrick, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward in having an English Heritage blue plaque outside his former London home. Ian McKellen unveiled the plaque at 22 Lupus Street in Pimlico, where Olivier lived from the age of five to 12 and discovered a talent for acting under the watchful eye of his father, a curate at St Saviour’s church across t...

By Michael Billington