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
- Trouser Bar ... (Writer)
- Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film as Self
- Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied ... (Writer)
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)
2001
- Catastrophe as The Protagonist
1999
- The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
1998
- Elizabeth as The Pope
- Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
- Merlin as King Constant
- Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1997
- David as Stimme Gottes
- A Dance to the Music of Time as St. John Clarke
1996
- Hamlet as Priam
- DragonHeart as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
- Shine as Cecil Parkes
- The Portrait of a Lady as Mr. Touchett
- Gulliver's Travels as Professor of Light
- Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- The Leopard Son as Narrator
1995
- Haunted as Doctor Doyle
- First Knight as Oswald
- The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)
- Stick with Me, Kid as Grandpa
1994
- Scarlett as Pierre Robillard
- A Summer Day's Dream
1993
1992
- Shining Through as Sunflower
- The Power of One as St. John
- A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero
- Swan Song as Svetlovidov
1991
- Performance as Stephen Dawlish
- Prospero's Books as Prospero
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) as Virgil (voice)
- The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
1990
- A TV Dante as Virgil
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
- Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther
- Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes as Narrator (voice)
1989
- Barbablù, Barbablù as Barbablù
- Getting It Right as Sir Gordon Munday
- Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
1988
- Appointment with Death as Colonel Carbury
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Hobson
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self
- War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
- A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
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
- Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
- The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
- Time After Time as Jasper Swift
1985
- Screen Two
- Plenty as Sir Leonard Darwin
- Romance on the Orient Express as Theodore Woodward
- The Shooting Party as Cornelius Cardew
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Leave All Fair as John Middleton Murry
1984
- Camille as Duke de Charles
- Frankenstein as De Lacey
- The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
- The Master of Ballantrae as Lord Durrisdeer
- Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Presenter
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
- Scandalous as Uncle Willie
1983
- The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
- The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
- Invitation to the Wedding
- Wagner as Pfistermeister
1982
- Gandhi as Lord Irwin
- The Critic as Lord Burleigh
- Marco Polo as Doge di Venezia
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue
- Laurence Olivier: a life as Self
- Inside the Third Reich as Albert Speer Sr.
1981
- Lion Of The Desert as Sharif El Gariani
- Sphinx as Abdu-Hamdi
- Brideshead Revisited as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery as Marquis of Caterhan
- Chariots of Fire as Master of Trinity
- Arthur as Hobson
- Priest of Love as Herbert G. Muskett
1980
- The Formula as Dr. Abraham Esau
- The Elephant Man as Carr Gomm
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Reverend Jones
- 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
- Les Misérables as Gillenormand
- Richard II as John of Gaunt
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- No Man's Land as Spooner
1977
- Heartbreak House as Captain Shotover
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as The Preacher
- Providence as Clive Langham
- Joseph Andrews as The Doctor
- The Grand Inquisitor as Inquisitor
1976
- Aces High as Headmaster
- Peter Pan as Narrator
- Second City Television as Self
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
1975
- Galileo as The Old Cardinal
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
- 11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
- Gold as Farrell
- QB VII as Clinton-Meek
- Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
1973
- Lost Horizon as Chang
- Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
- William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special as Various Roles
- Probe as Harold L. Streeter
- Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
- Home as Harry
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- Play for Today as Harry
- Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
- Menace
1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Sebastian as Head of Intelligence
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder Pope
- Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
- From Chekhov with Love as Anton Chekhov
- The Love Song of Barney Kempinski as Rich Man
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- October Revolution as Narrator (voice)
1966
- Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
- ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
- Ivanov as Nikolai ivanov
- Ages of Man
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Chorus
- The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley
- Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Gabriel Quantara
- Becket as King Louis VII of France
- Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Ghost (voice)
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
- Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 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