John Gielgud
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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- Born:
- Apr 14, 1904 In South Kensington, London, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 137
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Who Is the Man? 1924-09-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie Nothing Like a Dame 2018-05-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-02 |
| Movie | Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self | 2016-07-18 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
| Movie | Catastrophe | The Protagonist | 2001-09-01 |
| Series | Merlin | King Constant | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
| Movie | Elizabeth | The Pope | 1998-09-13 |
| Movie | The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | 1998-08-01 |
| Movie | David | Stimme Gottes | 1997-03-23 |
| Series | A Dance to the Music of Time | St. John Clarke | 1997-10-09 |
| Movie | DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-05-31 |
| Series | Gulliver's Travels | Professor of Light | 1996-02-04 |
| Movie | Shine | Cecil Parkes | 1996-08-15 |
| Movie | The Leopard Son | Narrator | 1996-09-27 |
| Movie | The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | 1996-10-17 |
| Movie | Looking for Richard | Self / Interview | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Priam | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | First Knight | Oswald | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Haunted | Doctor Doyle | 1995-10-27 |
| Movie | A Summer Day's Dream | 1994-11-26 | |
| Series | Scarlett | 1994-11-13 | |
| Movie | Swan Song | Svetlovidov | 1992-01-01 |
| Movie | A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | 1992-01-01 |
| Movie | Shining Through | Sunflower | 1992-01-31 |
| Movie | The Power of One | St. John | 1992-03-27 |
| Movie | The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | 1991-01-01 |
| Series | Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) | 1991-10-28 |
| Movie | Prospero's Books | Prospero | 1991-08-30 |
| Movie | Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | 1990-01-26 |
| Movie | A TV Dante | Virgil | 1990-06-13 |
| Movie | Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday | 1989-05-05 |
| Series | Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs | 1989-11-01 |
| Movie | Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury | 1988-04-15 |
| Movie | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson | 1988-07-08 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | 1988-12-21 |
| Series | War and Remembrance | Aaron Jastrow | 1988-11-13 |
| Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
| Movie | Time After Time | Jasper Swift | 1986-01-26 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | 1986-09-16 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | 1986-09-19 |
| Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | 1986-12-31 |
| Movie | The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | 1986-11-21 |
| Movie | The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | 1985-03-04 |
| Movie | Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | 1985-06-24 |
| Movie | Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Scandalous | Uncle Willie | 1984-01-29 |
| Movie | The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer | 1984-01-31 |
| Series | Six Centuries of Verse | Himself - Presenter | 1984-05-02 |
| Movie | Camille | Duke de Charles | 1984-12-11 |
| Movie | Frankenstein | De Lacey | 1984-06-17 |
| Movie | Invitation to the Wedding | 1983-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | 1983-02-02 |
| Series | Wagner | Pfistermeister | 1983-10-03 |
| Movie | The Wicked Lady | Hogarth | 1983-04-21 |
| Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue | 1982-02-02 |
| Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. | 1982-05-09 |
| Series | Marco Polo | Doge di Venezia | 1982-12-05 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Lord Irwin | 1982-12-01 |
| Movie | Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan | 1981-03-08 |
| Movie | Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | 1981-02-11 |
| Movie | Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | 1981-04-17 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | 1981-05-15 |
| Series | Brideshead Revisited | Edward 'Ned' Ryder | 1981-10-12 |
| Movie | Arthur | Hobson | 1981-07-17 |
| Movie | The Conductor | John Lasocki | 1980-02-27 |
| Movie | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | 1980-03-30 |
| Movie | The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm | 1980-10-09 |
| Movie | Murder by Decree | Prime Minister Lord Salisbury | 1979-02-01 |
| Series | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown | 1979-03-24 |
| Movie | The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | 1979-12-18 |
| Movie | Caligula | Nerva | 1979-08-14 |
| Movie | No Man's Land | Spooner | 1978-10-03 |
| Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Romeo & Juliet | Chorus | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Les Misérables | Gillenormand | 1978-12-27 |
| Movie | Richard II | John of Gaunt | 1978-12-10 |
| Movie | Providence | Clive Langham | 1977-01-25 |
| Movie | Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | 1977-03-09 |
| Movie | Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover | 1977-05-19 |
| Movie | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | 1977-09-01 |
| Movie | Aces High | Headmaster | 1976-05-19 |
| Movie | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1976-09-19 |
| Series | Second City Television | Unknown | 1976-09-21 |
| Movie | Peter Pan | Narrator | 1976-12-12 |
| Movie | Galileo | The Old Cardinal | 1975-01-27 |
| Series | QB VII | Clinton-Meek | 1974-04-29 |
| Movie | Gold | Farrell | 1974-06-08 |
| Movie | 11 Harrowhouse | Meecham | 1974-09-26 |
| Movie | Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1974-09-19 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | 1974-11-22 |
| Movie | Lost Horizon | Chang | 1973-03-14 |
| Series | Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1973-11-30 |
| Movie | Probe | Harold L. Streeter | 1972-02-21 |
| Movie | Home | Harry | 1972-01-06 |
| Movie | Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal | 1972-01-09 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1970-06-04 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Series | Menace | Unknown | 1970-09-29 |
| Movie | Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | 1969-03-10 |
| Movie | Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | 1968-01-24 |
| Movie | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | 1968-04-10 |
| Movie | Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder pope | 1968-11-14 |
| Movie | The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Rich Man | 1968-05-10 |
| Movie | Ages of Man | 1966-01-23 | |
| Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
| Movie | The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara | 1966-12-21 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | 1966-12-28 |
| Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
| Movie | The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley | 1965-10-11 |
| Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
| Movie | Chimes at Midnight | Henry IV | 1965-12-23 |
| Movie | Becket | King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France | 1964-03-11 |
| Movie | Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Ghost (voice) | 1964-09-23 |
| Movie | To Die in Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) | 1963-04-18 |
| Movie | The Cherry Orchard | Gaev | 1962-04-17 |
| Series | The Big Party | 1959-10-08 | |
| Movie | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | 1957-01-16 |
| Movie | Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick | 1957-05-08 |
| Movie | Around the World in Eighty Days | Foster | 1956-10-17 |
| Movie | Richard III | George, Duke of Clarence | 1955-12-13 |
| Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1954-09-01 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1953-06-04 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
| Movie | A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | 1945-12-31 |
| Movie | The Prime Minister | Disraeli | 1941-03-04 |
| Movie | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator | 1941-06-05 |
| Movie | Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie | 1936-05-31 |
| Movie | The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant | 1933-02-28 |
| Movie | The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere | 1929-03-01 |
| Movie | Who Is the Man? | Daniel | 1924-09-01 |