John Gielgud
Acting • Born 1904-04-14 – Died 2000-05-21
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
186 credits
Chimes at Midnight
Movie • 1965
Henry IV
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Lord Irwin
Frankenstein
Movie • 1984
De Lacey
Frankenstein: The True Story
Movie • 1974
Chief Constable
To Be Hamlet
Movie • 1985
Self
Hamlet: The Actor's View
Movie • 1954
Self
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1980
Carr Gomm
David
Movie • 1997
Stimme Gottes
Secret Agent
Movie • 1936
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Mr. Beddoes
Appointment with Death
Movie • 1988
Colonel Carbury
Les Misérables
Movie • 1978
Gillenormand
Elizabeth
Movie • 1998
The Pope
Prospero's Books
Movie • 1991
Prospero
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie • 1969
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
First Knight
Movie • 1995
Oswald
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Movie • 1984
Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
The Formula
Movie • 1980
Dr. Abraham Esau
Shining Through
Movie • 1992
Sunflower
DragonHeart
Movie • 1996
King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Master of Trinity
Caligula
Movie • 1979
Nerva
The Whistle Blower
Movie • 1986
Sir Adrian Chappie
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Movie • 1988
Hobson
Lion of the Desert
Movie • 1981
Sharif El Gariani
Murder by Decree
Movie • 1979
Prime Minister
Arthur
Movie • 1981
Hobson
The Power of One
Movie • 1992
St. John
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1966
Mock Turtle
Plenty
Movie • 1985
Sir Leonard Darwin
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie • 1968
Lord Raglan
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1970
Julius Caesar
Richard III
Movie • 1955
George, Duke of Clarence
Becket
Movie • 1964
King Louis VII of France
Aces High
Movie • 1976
Headmaster
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie • 1983
Pope Pius XII
The Loved One
Movie • 1965
Sir Francis Hinsley
Time After Time
Movie • 1986
Jasper Swift
Sphinx
Movie • 1981
Abdu-Hamdi
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 1986
Sir Simon de Canterville
The Human Factor
Movie • 1979
Brigadier Tomlinson
The Leopard Son
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1953
Cassius
Gold
Movie • 1974
Farrell
Haunted
Movie • 1995
Dr Henry Doyle
Priest of Love
Movie • 1981
Herbert G. Muskett
Quest for Camelot
Movie • 1998
Merlin (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1982
Charmolue
The Grand Inquisitor
Movie • 1977
Inquisitor
Catastrophe
Movie • 2001
The Protagonist
Providence
Movie • 1977
Clive Langham
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Movie • 1981
Marquis of Caterhan
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Movie • 1973
Various
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1954
Chorus
The Shooting Party
Movie • 1985
Cornelius Cardew
Lost Horizon
Movie • 1973
Chang
The Good Companions
Movie • 1933
Inigo Jollifant
Quartermaine's Terms
Movie • 1987
Eddie Loomis
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1962
Gaev
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Movie • 1980
Reverend Jones
Saint Joan
Movie • 1957
Earl of Warwick
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Movie • 1964
Ghost (voice)
The Wicked Lady
Movie • 1983
Hogarth
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Movie • 1977
The Preacher
A Diary for Timothy
Movie • 1945
Hamlet
To Die in Madrid
Movie • 1963
Narrator (English version) (voice)
Assignment to Kill
Movie • 1968
Curt Valayan
The Master of Ballantrae
Movie • 1984
Lord Durrisdeer
A Man for All Seasons
Movie • 1988
Cardinal Wolsey
Scandalous
Movie • 1984
Uncle Willie
No Man's Land
Movie • 1978
Spooner
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Movie • 1957
Edward Moulton-Barrett
Galileo
Movie • 1975
The Old Cardinal
Camille
Movie • 1984
Duke de Charles
Eagle in a Cage
Movie • 1972
Lord Sissal
Probe
Movie • 1972
Harold L. Streeter
Joseph Andrews
Movie • 1977
The Doctor
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
Movie • 1941
Narrator
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Movie • 1968
Rich Man
The Critic
Movie • 1982
Lord Burleigh
A Summer Day's Dream
Movie • 1994
Revisiting Brideshead
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Swan Song
Movie • 1992
Svetlovidov
The Best of Friends
Movie • 1991
Sydney Cockerell
Ages of Man
Movie • 1966
Invitation to the Wedding
Movie • 1983
11 Harrowhouse
Movie • 1974
Meecham
Richard II
Movie • 1978
John of Gaunt
Romance on the Orient Express
Movie • 1985
Theodore Woodward
Looking for Richard
Movie • 1996
Self - Interviewee
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
Priam
Home
Movie • 1972
Harry
Sebastian
Movie • 1968
Head of Intelligence
The Prime Minister
Movie • 1941
Disraeli
The Strauss Dynasty
Movie • 1991
Drechsler
Getting It Right
Movie • 1989
Sir Gordon Munday
The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1996
Mr. Touchett
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
Movie • 1992
Prospero
Insult
Movie • 1932
Henri Dubois
Shine
Movie • 1996
Cecil Parkes
The Mayfly and the Frog
Movie • 1966
Gabriel Quantara
The Conductor
Movie • 1980
John Lasocki
Heredity in Man
Movie • 1937
Self
The Immortal Land
Movie • 1958
A TV Dante
Movie • 1990
Virgil
Leave All Fair
Movie • 1985
John Middleton Murry
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Movie • 1968
The Elder Pope
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Foster
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Movie • 2016
Self
Strike It Rich
Movie • 1990
Herbert Dreuther
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 1976
Lord Henry Wotton
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Movie • 1987
British Lord
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1967
Chorus
Who Is the Man?
Movie • 1924
Daniel
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1978
Chorus
The Clue of the New Pin
Movie • 1929
Rex Trasmere
The Tichborne Claimant
Movie • 1999
Cockburn
Heartbreak House
Movie • 1977
Captain Shotover
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Movie • 1986
Tieresias
Theban Plays: Antigone
Movie • 1986
Tiresias
Peter Pan
Movie • 1976
Narrator
October Revolution
Movie • 1967
Narrator (voice)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Movie • 1995
Self (Voice)
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Movie • 1998
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Movie • 1991
Virgil (voice)
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Movie • 1988
Self
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Movie • 1990
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Movie • 1953
Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Barbablù, Barbablù
Movie • 1989
Barbablù
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Movie • 2009
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
Movie • 1955
John Worthing, JP
Laurence Olivier: a life
Movie • 1982
Self
Ivanov
Movie • 1966
Nikolai ivanov
From Chekhov with Love
Movie • 1968
Anton Chekhov
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie • 2014
Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hamlet
Movie • 1970
The Ghost
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Jelks
Second City Television
TV • 1976
Self
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Lord Hinksey
Frankenstein: The True Story
TV • 1973
Chief Constable
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Ghost
QB VII
TV • 1974
Clinton-Meek
Brideshead Revisited
TV • 1981
Edward 'Ned' Ryder
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Harry
Gulliver's Travels
TV • 1996
Professor of Light
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Rich Man
Menace
TV • 1970
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
St. John Clarke
Summer's Lease
TV • 1989
Haverford Downs
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Various Roles
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
Aaron Jastrow
Merlin
TV • 1998
King Constant
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Wagner
TV • 1983
Pfistermeister
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Lord Wakering
Stick with Me, Kid
TV • 1995
Grandpa
Six Centuries of Verse
TV • 1984
Self - Presenter
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self
The Strauss Dynasty
TV • 1991
Drechsler
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Charmolue
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Lord Durrisdeer
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Duke
The Big Party
TV • 1959
Self
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Chorus
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Gabriel Quantara
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Marco Polo
TV • 1982
Doge di Venezia
The Far Pavilions
TV • 1984
Cavagnari
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Cyril Boggis
Performance
TV • 1991
Stephen Dawlish
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
The Inquisitor
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Charles II
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Capt. Shotover
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Lord Burleigh
Inside the Third Reich
TV • 1982
Albert Speer Sr.
Scarlett
TV • 1994
Pierre Robillard