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The current image works in that he's at his most recognisable. Ultimately that's the aim for an infobox image. We already have an image of him as a much older man (photographed by Allan Warren) in the appropriate section. Duffy BT (talk) 16:44, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've put back in the 1972 picture: it's a higher resolution and there isn't a consensus for change. Given his career was a long and rich one, to try and claim the b&w one is "in his prime" is a bit questionable, given the Warren one was in '72, the same year he was in Sleuth (1972) and before he appeared in Marathon Man (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978): he was nominated for Oscars for those three films, which suggests he was still pretty much in his prime. Feel free to open an RfC to discuss the options if you wish. - SchroCat (talk) 16:17, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Before I even saw this discussion, I was laughing at that horrible photo. It looks like a bad high school yearbook photo! I would have voted for a black and white from the '30s or '40s. Ghost writer's cat (talk) 02:20, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Someone used various websites to calculate the equivalency costs from Olivier's early career into amounts for years that were current to their entry and entered them as notes. Not only do those calculations not update with the passing years, but they are wildly different from Wikipedia's own inflation calculator (and likely contained a typo.) I replaced three of these calculation entries within the text with Wikipedia's calculations and removed the notes, but I'm preserving them here.
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