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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 14, 1904
Place of Birth:
London, England
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John Gielgud
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Behind The Scenes of Caligula | |
| 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Catastrophe | The Protagonist |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | The Pope |
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) |
| 1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn |
| 1998 | Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow | |
| 1997 | David | Stimme Gottes |
| 1996 | DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1996 | The Leopard Son | Narrator |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Priam |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett |
| 1996 | Shine | Cecil Parkes |
| 1995 | First Knight | Oswald |
| 1995 | Haunted | Doctor Doyle |
| 1995 | The Thomas The Tank Engine Man | Self (Voice) |
| 1994 | A Summer Day's Dream | |
| 1992 | Shining Through | Sunflower |
| 1992 | The Power of One | St. John |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Svetlovidov |
| 1992 | A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero |
| 1992 | The South Bank Show: Noël Coward | Self |
| 1991 | Prospero's Books | Prospero |
| 1991 | The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) | Virgil (voice) |
| 1990 | A TV Dante | Virgil |
| 1990 | Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther |
| 1990 | Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self |
| 1990 | Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes | Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday |
| 1989 | Barbablù, Barbablù | Barbablù |
| 1988 | Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury |
| 1988 | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey |
| 1988 | In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self |
| 1987 | Quartermaine's Terms | Eddie Loomis |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | British Lord |
| 1986 | The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie |
| 1986 | Time After Time | Jasper Swift |
| 1986 | The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias |
| 1985 | To Be Hamlet | Self |
| 1985 | Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin |
| 1985 | The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew |
| 1985 | Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward |
| 1985 | Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry |
| 1984 | Frankenstein | De Lacey |
| 1984 | James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate | Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited) |
| 1984 | The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer |
| 1984 | Scandalous | Uncle Willie |
| 1984 | Camille | Duke de Charles |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII |
| 1983 | The Wicked Lady | Hogarth |
| 1983 | Invitation to the Wedding | |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Lord Irwin |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue |
| 1982 | The Critic | Lord Burleigh |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. |
| 1982 | Laurence Olivier: a life | Self |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity |
| 1981 | Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani |
| 1981 | Arthur | Hobson |
| 1981 | Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi |
| 1981 | Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett |
| 1981 | Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm |
| 1980 | The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau |
| 1980 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones |
| 1980 | The Conductor | John Lasocki |
| 1979 | Caligula | Nerva |
| 1979 | Murder by Decree | Prime Minister |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson |
| 1978 | Les Misérables | Gillenormand |
| 1978 | No Man's Land | Spooner |
| 1978 | Richard II | John of Gaunt |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus |
| 1977 | The Grand Inquisitor | Inquisitor |
| 1977 | Providence | Clive Langham |
| 1977 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | The Doctor |
| 1977 | Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover |
| 1976 | Aces High | Headmaster |
| 1976 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton |
| 1976 | Peter Pan | Narrator |
| 1975 | Galileo | The Old Cardinal |
| 1974 | Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes |
| 1974 | Gold | Farrell |
| 1974 | 11 Harrowhouse | Meecham |
| 1973 | William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Various |
| 1973 | Lost Horizon | Chang |
| 1972 | Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal |
| 1972 | Probe | Harold L. Streeter |
| 1972 | Home | Harry |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan |
| 1968 | Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan |
| 1968 | The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Rich Man |
| 1968 | Sebastian | Head of Intelligence |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder Pope |
| 1967 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus |
| 1967 | October Revolution | Narrator (voice) |
| 1966 | Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle |
| 1966 | Ages of Man | |
| 1966 | The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara |
| 1965 | Chimes at Midnight | Henry IV |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley |
| 1964 | Becket | King Louis VII of France |
| 1964 | Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Ghost (voice) |
| 1963 | To Die in Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | Gaev |
| 1958 | The Immortal Land | |
| 1957 | Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick |
| 1957 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett |
| 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Foster |
| 1955 | Richard III | George, Duke of Clarence |
| 1955 | ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall | John Worthing, JP |
| 1954 | Hamlet: The Actor's View | Self |
| 1954 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Cassius |
| 1953 | Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five | Narrator |
| 1945 | A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet |
| 1941 | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator |
| 1941 | The Prime Minister | Disraeli |
| 1937 | Heredity in Man | Self |
| 1936 | Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie |
| 1933 | The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant |
| 1932 | Insult | Henri Dubois |
| 1929 | The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere |
| 1924 | Who Is the Man? | Daniel |