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Acting

Known Credits

179

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.

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Acting

2018

Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)

2016

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film as Self

2011

Discovering Hamlet as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

2009

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

2005

Revisiting Brideshead as Self (archive footage)

2001

Catastrophe as The Protagonist

1998		Elizabeth as The Pope
1998		The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
1998		Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
1998		Merlin as King Constant
1998		Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

1997		A Dance to the Music of Time as St. John Clarke
1997		David as Stimme Gottes

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		Stick With Me, Kid as Grandpa
1995		First Knight as Oswald
1995		The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)

1994		A Summer Day's Dream
1994		Scarlett

1993

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self

1992		The Power of One as St. John
1992		The South Bank Show: Noël Coward as Self
1992		Shining Through as Sunflower
1992		Swan Song as Svetlovidov
1992		A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero

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 Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
1991		The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
1991		Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler

1990		Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
1990		Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes as Narrator (voice)
1990		A TV Dante as Virgil
1990		Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther

1989		Barbablù, Barbablù as Barbablù
1989		Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
1989		Getting It Right as Sir Gordon Munday

1988		A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
1988		War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
1988		In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self
1988		Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Hobson
1988		Appointment with Death as Colonel Carbury

1987		Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as British Lord
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		Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
1986		Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
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
1985		Screen Two

1984		Camille as Duke de Charles
1984		Frankenstein as De Lacey
1984		Six Centuries of Verse as Himself - Presenter
1984		The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
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)

1983		Wagner as Pfistermeister
1983		The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
1983		The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
1983		Invitation to the Wedding

1982		Marco Polo as Doge di Venezia
1982		Gandhi as Lord Irwin
1982		The Critic as Lord Burleigh
1982		Inside the Third Reich as Albert Speer Sr.
1982		The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue

1981		Brideshead Revisited as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
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		Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery as Marquis of Caterhan
1981		Sphinx as Abdu-Hamdi

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		Tales of the Unexpected as Jelks
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Boggis
1979		Murder by Decree as Prime Minister

1978		Les Misérables as Gillenormand
1978		Richard II as John of Gaunt
1978		Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare as Chorus
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare as John of Gaunt
1978		No Man's Land as Spooner

1977		A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as The Preacher
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		Second City Television as Self - Special Guest Star
1976		The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
1976		Aces High as Headmaster

1975

Galileo as The Old Cardinal

1974		Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
1974		11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
1974		Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
1974		Gold as Farrell
1974		QB VII as Clinton-Meek

1973		Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
1973		Lost Horizon as Chang
1973		William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various

1972		ABC Afterschool Special as Various Roles
1972		Probe as Harold L. Streeter
1972		Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
1972		Home as Harry

1971

Great Performances as Self

1970		Play for Today as Harry
1970		Menace
1970		Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

1968		The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder pope
1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968		The Love Song of Barney Kempinski as Rich Man
1968		Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
1968		The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
1968		Sebastian as Head of Intelligence

1967		Omnibus as Self
1967		October Revolution as Narrator (voice)
1967		Romeo and Juliet as Chorus

1966		Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
1966		The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
1966		ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
1966		Ages of Man

1965		Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
1965		BBC Play of the Month as Captain Shotover
1965		BBC Play of the Month as Lord Burleigh
1965		BBC Play of the Month as Chorus
1965		The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley

1964		The Wednesday Play as Gabriel Quantara
1964		Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Ghost (voice)
1964		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 Big Party as Self
1959		The Bell Telephone Hour as Self

1958

The Immortal Land

1957		Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957		Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
1957		The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days as Foster

1955

Richard III as George, Duke of Clarence

1954		Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
1954		Hamlet: The Actor's View as Self

1953		Julius Caesar as Cassius
1953		Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five as Narrator

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Ghost
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Charmolue
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lord Durrisdeer
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Duke