John Gielgud
Born: 1904-04-14 in London, England
Died: 2000-05-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2018
- Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied ... (Writer)
- Trouser Bar ... (Writer)
- Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film as Self
2014
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2005
- Revisiting Brideshead as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film as Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
2001
- Catastrophe as The Protagonist
2000
- Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance as Self
1999
- The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
1998
- Merlin as King Constant
- Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
- Elizabeth as The Pope
- Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1997
- A Dance to the Music of Time as St. John Clarke
- David as Stimme Gottes
1996
- DragonHeart as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
- Gulliver's Travels as Professor of Light
- The Portrait of a Lady as Mr. Touchett
- Hamlet as Priam
- Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- Shine as Cecil Parkes
- The Leopard Son as Narrator
1995
- First Knight as Oswald
- Stick with Me, Kid as Grandpa
- Haunted as Dr Henry Doyle
- The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)
1994
- Scarlett as Pierre Robillard
- A Summer Day's Dream
1993
1992
- The Power of One as St. John
- Shining Through as Sunflower
- A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero
- Swan Song as Svetlovidov
1991
- Performance as Stephen Dawlish
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- Prospero's Books as Prospero
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) as Virgil (voice)
1990
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
- A TV Dante as Virgil(voice)
- Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther
- A TV Dante as Virgil
- Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes as Narrator (voice)
1989
- Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
- Getting It Right as Sir Gordon Munday
- Barbablù, Barbablù as Barbablù
1988
- War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
- Appointment with Death as Colonel Carbury
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Hobson
- A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self
1987
- Inspector Morse as Lord Hinksey
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as British Lord
- Quartermaine's Terms as Eddie Loomis
1986
- Lovejoy as Lord Wakering
- The Whistle Blower as Sir Adrian Chappie
- The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
- Time After Time as Jasper Swift
- Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
1985
- Screen Two as Eddie Loomis
- Romance on the Orient Express as Theodore Woodward
- Plenty as Sir Leonard Darwin
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- The Shooting Party as Cornelius Cardew
- Leave All Fair as John Middleton Murry
1984
- Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Presenter
- The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
- The Master of Ballantrae as Lord Durrisdeer
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
- Camille as Duke de Charles
- Scandalous as Uncle Willie
- Frankenstein as De Lacey
1983
- Wagner as Pfistermeister
- The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
- The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
- Invitation to the Wedding
1982
- Marco Polo as Doge di Venezia
- Gandhi as Lord Irwin
- Inside the Third Reich as Albert Speer Sr.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue
- Laurence Olivier: A Life as Self
- The Critic as Lord Burleigh
1981
- Brideshead Revisited as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
- Chariots of Fire as Master of Trinity
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery as Marquis of Caterhan
- Lion of the Desert as Sharif El Gariani
- Sphinx as Abdu-Hamdi
- Arthur as Hobson
- Priest of Love as Herbert G. Muskett
1980
- The Elephant Man as Carr Gomm
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Reverend Jones
- The Formula as Dr. Abraham Esau
- The Conductor as John Lasocki
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Jelks
- Caligula as Nerva
- Murder by Decree as Prime Minister
- The Human Factor as Brigadier Tomlinson
1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare as Chorus
- Les Misérables as Gillenormand
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- No Man's Land as Spooner
- Richard II as John of Gaunt
1977
- Providence as Clive Langham
- Joseph Andrews as The Doctor
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as The Preacher
- Heartbreak House as Captain Shotover
- The Grand Inquisitor as Inquisitor
1976
- Second City Television as Self
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- Aces High as Headmaster
- Peter Pan as Narrator
1975
- Galileo as The Old Cardinal
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
- QB VII as Clinton-Meek
- Gold as Farrell
- Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
- 11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
1973
- Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
- Lost Horizon as Chang
- William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special as Various Roles
- Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
- Home as Harry
- Probe as Harold L. Streeter
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- Play for Today as Harry
- Menace as Frederick William Densham
- Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
- Hamlet as The Ghost
1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder Pope
- The Love Song of Barney Kempinski as Rich Man
- Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
- From Chekhov with Love as Anton Chekhov
- Sebastian as Head of Intelligence
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- October Revolution as Narrator (voice)
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
- Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
- Ivanov as Nikolai ivanov
- Ages of Man
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Chorus
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as The Writer
- Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
- The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Gabriel Quantara
- Hamlet as Ghost (voice)
- Becket as King Louis VII of France
1963
- To Die in Madrid as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1962
- The Cherry Orchard as Gaev
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- The Big Party as Self
1958
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1956
- Around the World in 80 Days as Foster
1955
- Richard III as George, Duke of Clarence
- ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall as John Worthing, JP
1954
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- Hamlet: The Actor's View as Self
1953
- Julius Caesar as Cassius
- Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five as Narrator
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Ghost
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1945
- A Diary for Timothy as Hamlet
1941
- The Prime Minister as Disraeli
- An Airman's Letter to His Mother as Narrator
1937
- Heredity in Man as Self
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