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)
- Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied ... (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
1999
- The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
1998
- Merlin as King Constant
- Elizabeth as The Pope
- Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
- 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
- Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- Hamlet as Priam
- The Portrait of a Lady as Mr. Touchett
- Shine as Cecil Parkes
- The Leopard Son as Narrator
1995
- First Knight as Oswald
- Haunted as Dr Henry Doyle
- Stick with Me, Kid as Grandpa
- The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)
1994
- Scarlett as Pierre Robillard
- A Summer Day's Dream
1993
1992
- Shining Through as Sunflower
- The Power of One as St. John
- Swan Song as Svetlovidov
- A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero
1991
- Performance as Stephen Dawlish
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- Prospero's Books as Prospero
- The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
- A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) as Virgil (voice)
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
- 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
- Time After Time as Jasper Swift
- The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
- The Whistle Blower as Sir Adrian Chappie
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
- Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
1985
- Screen Two as Eddie Loomis
- Plenty as Sir Leonard Darwin
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Leave All Fair as John Middleton Murry
- The Shooting Party as Cornelius Cardew
- Romance on the Orient Express as Theodore Woodward
1984
- The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
- Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Presenter
- Camille as Duke de Charles
- Frankenstein as De Lacey
- Scandalous as Uncle Willie
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
- The Master of Ballantrae as Lord Durrisdeer
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
- Arthur as Hobson
- Lion of the Desert as Sharif El Gariani
- Sphinx as Abdu-Hamdi
- Priest of Love as Herbert G. Muskett
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery as Marquis of Caterhan
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
- No Man's Land as Spooner
- Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- 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
- The Grand Inquisitor as Inquisitor
- Heartbreak House as Captain Shotover
1976
- Second City Television as Self
- Aces High as Headmaster
- Peter Pan as Narrator
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
1975
- Galileo as The Old Cardinal
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
- QB VII as Clinton-Meek
- Gold as Farrell
- 11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
- Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
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
- Home as Harry
- Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
- 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
- Hamlet as The Ghost
- Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder Pope
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
- Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
- Sebastian as Head of Intelligence
- 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
- ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
- Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- Ivanov as Nikolai ivanov
- The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
- 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
- Becket as King Louis VII of France
- Hamlet 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
- 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