Barry Olivier (November 2, 1935 – September 24, 2023) was an American guitar teacher who was the creator and producer of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival from 1958 to 1970.
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He was the father of five children. Olivier’s life again changed radically: His marriage to Leigh clashed to a close, he embraced the new wave of drama then swelling in England, he met and married Joan Plowright and started a family with her, and headed another new theater at Chichester, England.
He also turned in some memorable performances: a revival of “Coriolanus” in 1959 and Archie Rice in John Osborne’s “The Entertainer.” Also in 1959, he made “Spartacus,” the first of several big-budget spectaculars that exposed him to a new audience. He also tried another modern dramatist, Eugene Ionesco, in “Rhinoceros.”
That was followed by “Becket,” costarring Anthony Quinn. He married Plowright in 1961 in Wilton, Conn., with Richard Burton as best man.