John Gielgud

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1904-04-14

Deathday 2000-05-21 (96 years old)

Place of Birth South Kensington, London, England, UK

Also Known As Arthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, A Gentleman, Джон Гилгуд

John Gielgud

Biography

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gielgud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2018
Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

2011
Discovering Hamlet

as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

2005
Revisiting Brideshead

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Catastrophe

as The Protagonist

1998
Elizabeth

as The Pope

1998
1998
Quest for Camelot

as Merlin (voice)

1998
Merlin

as King Constant

1997
David

as Stimme Gottes

1997
A Dance to the Music of Time

as St. John Clarke

1996
Hamlet

as Priam

1996
The Portrait of a Lady

as Mr. Touchett

1996
Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

1996
The Leopard Son

as Narrator

1996
Shine

as Cecil Parkes

1996
DragonHeart

as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

1996
Gulliver's Travels

as Professor of Light

1995
Haunted

as Doctor Doyle

1995
First Knight

as Oswald

1995
1995
1992
The Power of One

as St. John

1992
Shining Through

as Sunflower

1992
Swan Song

as Svetlovidov

1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Self (archive footage)

1991
Prospero's Books

as Prospero

1991
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

as Virgil (voice)

1991
The Best of Friends

as Sydney Cockerell

1991
The Strauss Dynasty

as Drechsler

1991
Strauss Dynasty

as Drechsler

1990
A TV Dante

as Virgil

1990
Strike It Rich

as Herbert Dreuther

1989
Getting It Right

as Sir Gordon Munday

1989
Summer's Lease

as Haverford Downs

1988
A Man for All Seasons

as Cardinal Wolsey

1988
Appointment with Death

as Colonel Carbury

1988
War and Remembrance

as Aaron Jastrow

1987
Quartermaine's Terms

as Eddie Loomis

1987
Inspector Morse

as Lord Hinksey

1986
The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon de Canterville

1986
The Whistle Blower

as Sir Adrian Chappie

1986
1986
Time After Time

as Jasper Swift

1986
Lovejoy

as Lord Wakering

1985
Plenty

as Sir Leonard Darwin

1985
Leave All Fair

as John Middleton Murry

1985
Romance on the Orient Express

as Theodore Woodward

1985
The Shooting Party

as Cornelius Cardew

1985
To Be Hamlet

as Self

1984
Camille

as Duke de Charles

1984
Frankenstein

as De Lacey

1984
The Master of Ballantrae

as Lord Durrisdeer

1984
Scandalous

as Uncle Willie

1984
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

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

1984
Six Centuries of Verse

as Himself - Presenter

1984
The Far Pavilions

as Cavagnari

1983
The Wicked Lady

as Hogarth

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as Pope Pius XII

1983
Wagner

as Pfistermeister

1982
Gandhi

as Lord Irwin

1982
The Critic

as Lord Burleigh

1982
Inside the Third Reich

as Albert Speer Sr.

1982
Marco Polo

as Doge di Venezia

1981
Priest of Love

as Herbert G. Muskett

1981
Arthur

as Hobson

1981
Chariots of Fire

as Master of Trinity

1981
Lion of the Desert

as Sharif El Gariani

1981
1981
Sphinx

as Abdu-Hamdi

1981
Brideshead Revisited

as Edward 'Ned' Ryder

1980
The Formula

as Dr. Abraham Esau

1980
The Elephant Man

as Carr Gomm

1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

as Reverend Jones

1980
The Conductor

as John Lasocki

1979
The Human Factor

as Brigadier Tomlinson

1979
Caligula

as Nerva

1979
Murder by Decree

as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury

1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Cyril Boggis

1978
Les Misérables

as Gillenormand

1978
Richard II

as John of Gaunt

1978
Romeo & Juliet

as Chorus

1978
No Man's Land

as Spooner

1978
1977
Heartbreak House

as Captain Shotover

1977
The Grand Inquisitor

as Inquisitor

1977
Joseph Andrews

as The Doctor

1977
Providence

as Clive Langham

1976
Peter Pan

as Narrator

1976
The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Lord Henry Wotton

1976
Aces High

as Headmaster

1976
Second City Television

as Self - Special Guest Star

1975
Galileo

as The Old Cardinal

1974
1974
11 Harrowhouse

as Meecham

1974
Frankenstein: The True Story

as Chief Constable

1974
Gold

as Farrell

1974
QB VII

as Clinton-Meek

1973
Lost Horizon

as Chang

1973
Frankenstein: The True Story

as Chief Constable

1972
Probe

as Harold L. Streeter

1972
Eagle in a Cage

as Lord Sissal

1972
Home

as Harry

1972
ABC Afterschool Special

as Various Roles

1971
1970
Julius Caesar

as Julius Caesar

1970
1970
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman

as The Elder pope

1968
Assignment to Kill

as Curt Valayan

1968
Sebastian

as Head of Intelligence

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
October Revolution

as Narrator (voice)

1967
1967
Omnibus

as Self

1966
Alice in Wonderland

as Mock Turtle

1966
The Mayfly and the Frog

as Gabriel Quantara

1966
ABC Stage 67

as Rich Man

1965
Chimes at Midnight

as Henry IV

1965
The Loved One

as Sir Francis Hinsley

1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Captain Shotover

1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Lord Burleigh

1965
1964
Becket

as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France

1964
The Wednesday Play

as Gabriel Quantara

1963
To Die in Madrid

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1962
1959
1957
Saint Joan

as Earl of Warwick

1957
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1955
Richard III

as George, Duke of Clarence

1954
1953
Julius Caesar

as Cassius

1951
1951
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Lord Durrisdeer

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Shakespearean Reader

1945
1941
The Prime Minister

as Disraeli

1937
1936
Secret Agent

as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

1933
The Good Companions

as Inigo Jollifant

1932
Insult

as Henri Dubois

1929
The Clue of the New Pin

as Rex Trasmere

1924
Who Is the Man?

as Daniel

Writer

2016
Trouser bar

as Writer

1962