John Gielgud

Known For: Acting
Born: April 14, 1904
Place of Birth: London, England
Died: May 21, 2000

John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH, was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to a silver trumpet muffled in silk. Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.

Filmography

Nothing Like a Dame

2018 · Self (archive footage)

Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied

2016 · Writer

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

2016 · Self

Trouser Bar

2016 · Writer

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014 · Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)

Discovering Hamlet

2011 · King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

2009

Revisiting Brideshead

2005 · Self (archive footage)

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003 · Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

Catastrophe

2001 · The Protagonist

The Tichborne Claimant

1999 · Cockburn

Elizabeth

1998 · The Pope

Quest for Camelot

1998 · Merlin (voice)

Merlin

1998 · King Constant

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

1998

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997 · St. John Clarke

David

1997 · Stimme Gottes

Hamlet

1996 · Priam

The Portrait of a Lady

1996 · Mr. Touchett

Looking for Richard

1996 · Self - Interviewee

The Leopard Son

1996 · Narrator

Shine

1996 · Cecil Parkes

DragonHeart

1996 · King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

Gulliver's Travels

1996 · Professor of Light

Haunted

1995 · Dr Henry Doyle

Stick with Me, Kid

Stick with Me, Kid

1995 · Grandpa

First Knight

1995 · Oswald

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

1995 · Self (Voice)

A Summer Day's Dream

A Summer Day's Dream

1994

Scarlett

1994 · Pierre Robillard

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993 · Self

The Power of One

1992 · St. John

Shining Through

1992 · Sunflower

Swan Song

1992 · Svetlovidov

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

1992 · Prospero

The Strauss Dynasty

1991 · Drechsler

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991 · Self (archive footage)

Performance

1991 · Stephen Dawlish

Prospero's Books

1991 · Prospero

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1991 · Virgil (voice)

The Best of Friends

1991 · Sydney Cockerell

The Strauss Dynasty

1991 · Drechsler

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

1990 · Self

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes

1990 · Narrator (voice)

A TV Dante

1990 · Virgil

Strike It Rich

1990 · Herbert Dreuther

Barbablù, Barbablù

1989 · Barbablù

Summer's Lease

1989 · Haverford Downs

Getting It Right

1989 · Sir Gordon Munday

A Man for All Seasons

1988 · Cardinal Wolsey

War and Remembrance

1988 · Aaron Jastrow

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

1988 · Self

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

1988 · Hobson

Appointment with Death

1988 · Colonel Carbury

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

1987 · British Lord

Quartermaine's Terms

1987 · Eddie Loomis

Inspector Morse

1987 · Lord Hinksey

The Canterville Ghost

1986 · Sir Simon de Canterville

The Whistle Blower

1986 · Sir Adrian Chappie

Theban Plays: Antigone

1986 · Tiresias

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986 · Tieresias

Time After Time

1986 · Jasper Swift

Lovejoy

1986 · Lord Wakering

Plenty

1985 · Sir Leonard Darwin

Leave All Fair

1985 · John Middleton Murry

Romance on the Orient Express

1985 · Theodore Woodward

The Shooting Party

1985 · Cornelius Cardew

To Be Hamlet

1985 · Self

Screen Two

1985 · Eddie Loomis, Jasper Swift

Camille

1984 · Duke de Charles

Frankenstein

1984 · De Lacey

Six Centuries of Verse

1984 · Self - Presenter

The Far Pavilions

1984 · Cavagnari

The Master of Ballantrae

1984 · Lord Durrisdeer

Scandalous

1984 · Uncle Willie

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984 · Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)

Wagner

1983 · Pfistermeister

The Wicked Lady

1983 · Hogarth

The Scarlet and the Black

1983 · Pope Pius XII

Invitation to the Wedding

1983

Marco Polo

1982 · Doge di Venezia

Gandhi

1982 · Lord Irwin

Laurence Olivier: a life

1982 · Self

The Critic

1982 · Lord Burleigh

Inside the Third Reich

1982 · Albert Speer Sr.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982 · Charmolue

Brideshead Revisited

1981 · Edward 'Ned' Ryder

Priest of Love

1981 · Herbert G. Muskett

Arthur

1981 · Hobson

Chariots of Fire

1981 · Master of Trinity

Lion of the Desert

1981 · Sharif El Gariani

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

1981 · Marquis of Caterhan

Sphinx

1981 · Abdu-Hamdi

The Formula

1980 · Dr. Abraham Esau

The Elephant Man

1980 · Carr Gomm

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980 · Reverend Jones

The Conductor

1980 · John Lasocki

The Human Factor

1979 · Brigadier Tomlinson

Caligula

1979 · Nerva

Tales of the Unexpected

1979 · Jelks, Cyril Boggis

Murder by Decree

1979 · Prime Minister

Les Misérables

1978 · Gillenormand

Richard II

1978 · John of Gaunt

Romeo and Juliet

1978 · Chorus

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978 · Chorus, John of Gaunt

No Man's Land

1978 · Spooner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977 · The Preacher

Heartbreak House

1977 · Captain Shotover

The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor

1977 · Inquisitor

Joseph Andrews

1977 · The Doctor

Providence

1977 · Clive Langham

Peter Pan

1976 · Narrator

Second City Television

1976 · Self

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1976 · Lord Henry Wotton

Aces High

1976 · Headmaster

Galileo

1975 · The Old Cardinal

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 · Mr. Beddoes

11 Harrowhouse

1974 · Meecham

Frankenstein: The True Story

1974 · Chief Constable

Gold

1974 · Farrell

QB VII

1974 · Clinton-Meek

Frankenstein: The True Story

1973 · Chief Constable

Lost Horizon

1973 · Chang

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

1973 · Various

ABC Afterschool Special

1972 · Various Roles

Probe

1972 · Harold L. Streeter

Eagle in a Cage

1972 · Lord Sissal

Home

1972 · Harry

Film '72

1971 · Self

Great Performances

1971 · Self

Hamlet

1970 · The Ghost

Play for Today

1970 · Harry

Menace

1970 · Frederick William Densham

Julius Caesar

1970 · Julius Caesar

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969 · Count Leopold Von Berchtold

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968 · The Elder Pope

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

1968 · Rich Man

Assignment to Kill

1968 · Curt Valayan

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968 · Lord Raglan

From Chekhov with Love

From Chekhov with Love

1968 · Anton Chekhov

Sebastian

1968 · Head of Intelligence

Omnibus

1967 · Self

October Revolution

1967 · Narrator (voice)

Romeo and Juliet

1967 · Chorus

Alice in Wonderland

1966 · Mock Turtle

The Mayfly and the Frog

The Mayfly and the Frog

1966 · Gabriel Quantara

ABC Stage 67

1966 · Rich Man

Ivanov

1966 · Nikolai ivanov, Director

Ages of Man

1966

Chimes at Midnight

1965 · Henry IV

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Chorus, The Inquisitor, Charles II, Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton, Capt. Shotover, Lord Burleigh

The Loved One

1965 · Sir Francis Hinsley

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965 · The Writer

The Wednesday Play

1964 · Gabriel Quantara

Hamlet

1964 · Ghost (voice), Director

Becket

1964 · King Louis VII of France

To Die in Madrid

1963 · Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Cherry Orchard

1962 · Gaev, Writer

The Big Party

1959 · Self

The Bell Telephone Hour

1959 · Self

The Immortal Land

The Immortal Land

1958

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957 · Self

Saint Joan

1957 · Earl of Warwick

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1957 · Edward Moulton-Barrett

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Foster

Richard III

1955 · George, Duke of Clarence

ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

1955 · John Worthing, JP

Romeo and Juliet

1954 · Chorus

Hamlet: The Actor's View

1954 · Self

Julius Caesar

1953 · Cassius

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five

1953 · Narrator

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · The Ghost, Charmolue, Lord Durrisdeer, Duke

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

A Diary for Timothy

1945 · Hamlet

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

1941 · Narrator

The Prime Minister

1941 · Disraeli

Heredity in Man

1937 · Self

Secret Agent

1936 · Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

The Good Companions

1933 · Inigo Jollifant

Insult

1932 · Henri Dubois

The Clue of the New Pin

The Clue of the New Pin

1929 · Rex Trasmere

Who Is the Man?

Who Is the Man?

1924 · Daniel

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