This filmography lists the film appearances of British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020), as well as her television, stage, and radio credits. De Havilland's career spanned fifty-three years, from 1935 to 1988. During that time, she appeared in forty-nine feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). De Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's film adaptation A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. She began her career playing demure ingénues opposite popular leading men of that time, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made her breakout film Captain Blood in 1935. They would go on to make seven more feature films together, and became one of Hollywood's most popular romantic on-screen pairings.
De Havilland's range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. She achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedy films, such as The Great Garrick (1937) and Hard to Get (1938), and in Western adventure films, such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and They Died with Their Boots On. Her natural beauty and refined acting style made her particularly effective in historical dramas, such as Anthony Adverse (1936) and My Cousin Rachel (1952), and romantic drama films, such as Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In her later career, she was most successful in drama films, such as In This Our Life (1942) and Light in the Piazza (1962), and unglamorous roles in psychological dramas, such films as The Dark Mirror (1946) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
In addition to her active film career, deHavilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962) with Henry Fonda. She also worked in television, appearing in two successful miniseries, (1979) and North and South II (1986), and television feature films, such as , for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. During her career, deHavilland won two Academy Awards for To Each His Own and The Heiress, two Golden Globe Awards for The Heiress and , two New York Film Critics Circle Awards for The Snake Pit and The Heiress, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for The Snake Pit.
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Leading man | Studio | Notes | ||
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| 1935 | Alibi Ike | Dolly Stevens | Ray Enright | Joe E. Brown | Warner Bros. | |||
| Lucille Jackson | Lloyd Bacon | James Cagney | Warner Bros. | |||||
| Hermia | Max Reinhardt William Dieterle | Dick Powell | Warner Bros. | Film debut | ||||
| Captain Blood | Arabella Bishop | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Angela Guisseppi | Mervyn LeRoy | Fredric March | Warner Bros. | |||
| Elsa Campbell | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | |||||
| 1937 | Call It a Day | Catherine Hilton | Archie Mayo | Ian Hunter | Warner Bros. | |||
| It's Love I'm After | Marcia West | Archie Mayo | Leslie Howard | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Germaine de la Corbe | James Whale | Brian Aherne | Warner Bros. | |||||
| 1938 | Gold Is Where You Find It | Serena Ferris | Michael Curtiz | George Brent | Warner Bros. | |||
| Maid Marian | Michael Curtiz William Keighley | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | |||||
| Four's a Crowd | Lorri Dillingwell | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Hard to Get | Margaret 'Maggie' Richards | Ray Enright | Dick Powell | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1939 | Wings of the Navy | Irene Dale | Lloyd Bacon | George Brent | Warner Bros. | |||
| Dodge City | Abbie Irving | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Lady Penelope Gray | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | |||||
| Raffles | Gwen Manders | Sam Wood | David Niven | United Artists | ||||
| Gone with the Wind | Melanie Hamilton Wilkes | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable | MGM | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |||
| 1940 | My Love Came Back | Amelia Cornell | Curtis Bernhardt | Jeffrey Lynn | Warner Bros. | |||
| Santa Fe Trail | Kit Carson Holliday | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1941 | Amy Lind Grimes | Raoul Walsh | James Cagney | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Hold Back the Dawn | Emmy Brown | Mitchell Leisen | Charles Boyer | Paramount | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress | |||
| They Died with Their Boots On | Elizabeth Bacon Custer | Raoul Walsh | Errol Flynn | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1942 | Ellen Turner | Elliott Nugent | Henry Fonda | Warner Bros. | ||||
| In This Our Life | Roy Timberlake | John Huston | George Brent | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1943 | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Herself | David Butler | Eddie Cantor | Warner Bros. | Cameo | ||
| Princess O'Rourke | Princess Maria, also known as Mary Williams | Norman Krasna | Robert Cummings | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Government Girl | Elizabeth "Smokey" Allard | Dudley Nichols | Sonny Tufts | RKO | ||||
| 1946 | To Each His Own | Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris | Mitchell Leisen | John Lund | Paramount | Won – Academy Award for Best Actress | ||
| Devotion | Charlotte Brontë | Curtis Bernhardt | Paul Henreid | Warner Bros. | ||||
| The Well Groomed Bride | Margie Dawson | Sidney Lanfield | Ray Milland | Paramount | ||||
| Terry Collins / Ruth Collins | Robert Siodmak | Lew Ayres | Universal | |||||
| 1948 | Virginia Stuart Cunningham | Anatole Litvak | Mark Stevens | 20th Century Fox | ||||
| 1949 | Catherine Sloper | William Wyler | Montgomery Clift | Paramount | ||||
| 1952 | My Cousin Rachel | Rachel Sangalletti Ashley | Henry Koster | Richard Burton | 20th Century Fox | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | ||
| 1955 | That Lady | Ana de Mendoza | Terence Young | Gilbert Roland | 20th Century Fox | |||
| Not as a Stranger | Kristina Hedvigson | Stanley Kramer | Robert Mitchum | United Artists | ||||
| 1956 | The Ambassador's Daughter | Joan Fisk | Norman Krasna | John Forsythe | United Artists | |||
| 1958 | Linnett Moore | Michael Curtiz | Alan Ladd | Buena Vista | ||||
| 1959 | Libel | Lady Margaret Loddon | Anthony Asquith | Dirk Bogarde | MGM | |||
| 1962 | Light in the Piazza | Meg Johnson | Guy Green | Rossano Brazzi | MGM | |||
| 1964 | Lady in a Cage | Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard | Walter Grauman | James Caan | Paramount | |||
| Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Miriam Deering | Robert Aldrich | Joseph Cotten | 20th Century Fox | ||||
| 1970 | Deborah Hadley | Lewis Gilbert | Charles Aznavour | Paramount | ||||
| 1972 | Pope Joan | Mother Superior | Michael Anderson | Franco Nero | Columbia | |||
| 1977 | Airport '77 | Emily Livingston | Jerry Jameson | Jack Lemmon | Universal | |||
| 1978 | Maureen Schuester | Irwin Allen | Michael Caine | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1979 | Queen Anne | Ken Annakin | Beau Bridges | Columbia | Filmed in 1976 | |||
| 2009 | I Remember Better When I Paint | Narrator | Eric Ellena Berna Huebner | — | French Connection Films | Voice |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Leading man | Studio | Notes | ||
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| 1935 | Herself (uncredited) | — | — | Warner Bros. | About the making of A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| 1936 | Herself (uncredited) | — | — | Warner Bros. | About the making of Anthony Adverse | |||
| 1937 | Herself (uncredited) | Bobby Connolly | — | Warner Bros. | Stars attended a horse race at the famed racetrack | |||
| 1937 | Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 10 | Herself | Ralph Staub | — | Columbia | Stars and their pets attend a swim meet | ||
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Herself | — | — | Warner Bros. | Highlights of acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 | ||
| 1942 | Breakdowns of 1942 | Herself (uncredited) | — | — | Warner Bros. | Annual dinner for the staff at Warner Bros. | ||
| 1943 | Show Business at War | Herself | Louis de Rochemont | — | 20th Century Fox | Newsreel about progress of the Hollywood war effort |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Leading man | Network | Notes | ||
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| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 | Ellie Thompson | Sam Peckinpah | Jason Robards | ABC | Episode: "Noon Wine" | ||
| 1972 | The Screaming Woman | Laura Wynant | Jack Smight | Ed Nelson | ABC | Movie | ||
| 1979 | Mrs. Warner | John Erman Charles S. Dubin | James Earl Jones | ABC | Miniseries (2 episodes) | |||
| 1981 | The Love Boat | Aunt Hilly | Ray Austin | Gavin MacLeod | ABC | Episode: "Aunt Hilly" | ||
| 1982 | Murder Is Easy | Honoria Waynflete | Claude Whatham | Bill Bixby | CBS | Movie | ||
| 1982 | The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana | Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother | Peter Levin | Christopher Baines | CBS | Movie | ||
| 1986 | North and South: Book II | Mrs. Neal | Kevin Connor | Patrick Swayze | ABC | Miniseries (6 episodes) | ||
| 1986 | Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | Marvin J. Chomsky | Rex Harrison | NBC | ||||
| 1988 | The Woman He Loved | Aunt Bessie Merryman | Charles Jarrott | Anthony Andrews | CBS | Movie (final film role) |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Leading man | Theater | ||
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| 1934 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hermia | Max Reinhardt | — | Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA | ||
| 1946 | What Every Woman Knows | Maggie Wylie | Phyllis Loughton | — | Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT | ||
| 1951 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | Peter Glenville | Douglass Watson | Broadhurst Theatre, NYC, Broadway debut | ||
| 1952 | Candida | Candida | Herman Shumlin | Bramwell Fletcher | National Theatre, NYC | ||
| 1962 | A Gift of Time | Lael Tucker Wertenbaker | Garson Kanin | Henry Fonda | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Leading man | Episode | ||
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| 1937 | Lux Radio Theatre | Arabella Bishop | — | Errol Flynn | Captain Blood | ||
| 1946 | Academy Award Theater | Ella Bishop | — | Cheers for Miss Bishop |