Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 - November 25, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame within British and American films.

Born Laruschka Mischa Skikne to the Jewish family in Joniskis, Lithuania, he emigrated to South Africa at the age of 5. He grew higher within Johannesburg, and was inside his teens whenever he served sustaining a amusement unit of the South African Army during World War II. Fallowing moving to London, England, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, & from either there moved to perform in stage and film using the stage name "Laurence Harvey."

Harvey's 1st major role come around 1959 while he was cast by director Jack Clayton in Room at the Top produced by British film producing brothers Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and Remus Films. For his performance, Harvey received the nomination for the BAFTA Award and for an Academy Award for Best Actor, the number one human of Lithuanian descent to exist as nominated for an Academy Award.

In a period of the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared in many major films, including Butterfield 8, The Alamo, Darling and the critically acclaimed The Manchurian Candidate, for which he is most easily known.

He was married 3 days: