Spartacus (film) Spartacus (film) Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the novel of the same title by Howard Fast. It is inspired by the life story of Spartacus, the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity, and the events of the Third Servile War, and stars Kirk Douglas in the title role, Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles
Olaf Johannessen (actor) Olaf Johannessen (actor) Olaf Heine Johannessen (born 8 July 1961 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese stage and film actor. He finished his education as an actor from the Odense Teater skuespillerskole (now Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole) in 1986. He works as an actor on stage in Denmark and Germany and as a film actor in Danish TV-series and films. After finishing his education Johannessen was employed at the Aarhus Teater, where he played the main role in the drama "Lykke-Peer" (1988) and the title role in "Hamlet" (1992) and the title role in Roberto Zucco. In 1994 he started working