A merchant’s son, Thomas Becket rose to fame and fortune as a royal chancellor and then archbishop of England — all due to the patronage of Henry II, whose eventual fury over Becket’s ecclesiastical ...
On Broadway in Anouilh’s Becket (TIME, Oct. 17), Sir Laurence Olivier played the title role against Anthony Quinn’s Henry II. In Boston last week—Quinn having exited for Hollywood—Olivier played Henry ...