Laurence Olivier

Dear, dear Larry - "was a lifelong Conservative. In 1983 he wrote to congratulate Margaret Thatcher following her victory in that year's General Election. He declined the offer of a peerage from Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1967, despite Wilson's insistence that it was not a political honour, but later accepted a peerage from Edward Heath's Conservative government in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1970" - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/bio