After delivering a monologue, the Eighth Doctor said that Laurence Olivier could "eat [his] heart out". (AUDIO: The Gift)
The Ninth Doctor knew him as Larry. He once "embroiled" the Doctor in a game of duck, duck, goose at the National Theatre with Joan Plowright and Peter O'Toole. (AUDIO: A Theatre of Cruelty [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
Behind the scenes
Olivier's daughter Tamsin was once married to Simon Dutton.