John Gielgud
- Acting
- April 14, 1904 · London, England
- May 21, 2000
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
- Nothing Like a Dame · Self
- Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied · Writer
- Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film · Self
- Trouser Bar · Writer
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films · Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Discovering Hamlet · King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
- Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- Revisiting Brideshead · Self
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film · Self
- Catastrophe · The Protagonist
- Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance · Self
- The Tichborne Claimant · Cockburn
- Elizabeth · The Pope
- Quest for Camelot · Merlin (Voice)
- Merlin · King Constant
- Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
- A Dance to the Music of Time · St. John Clarke
- David · Stimme Gottes
- Hamlet · Priam
- The Portrait of a Lady · Mr. Touchett
- Looking for Richard · Self
- The Leopard Son · Narrator
- Shine · Cecil Parkes
- DragonHeart · King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
- Gulliver's Travels · Professor of Light
- Haunted · Dr Henry Doyle
- Stick with Me, Kid · Grandpa
- First Knight · Oswald
- The Thomas The Tank Engine Man · Self
- A Summer Day's Dream
- Scarlett · Pierre Robillard
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties · Self
- The Power of One · St. John
- Shining Through · Sunflower
- Swan Song · Svetlovidov
- A Walk Through Prospero's Library · Prospero
- The Strauss Dynasty · Drechsler
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · Self
- Performance · Stephen Dawlish
- Prospero's Books · Prospero
- A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) · Virgil (Voice)
- The Best of Friends · Sydney Cockerell
- The Strauss Dynasty · Drechsler
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond · Self
- Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes · Narrator (Voice)
- A TV Dante · Virgil (Voice)
- A TV Dante · Virgil
- Strike It Rich · Herbert Dreuther
- Barbablù, Barbablù · Barbablù
- Summer's Lease · Haverford Downs
- Getting It Right · Sir Gordon Munday
- A Man for All Seasons · Cardinal Wolsey
- War and Remembrance · Aaron Jastrow
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton · Self
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks · Hobson
- Appointment with Death · Colonel Carbury
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville · British Lord
- Quartermaine's Terms · Eddie Loomis
- Inspector Morse · Lord Hinksey
- The Canterville Ghost · Sir Simon de Canterville
- The Whistle Blower · Sir Adrian Chappie
- Theban Plays: Antigone · Tiresias
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King · Tieresias
- Time After Time · Jasper Swift
- Lovejoy · Lord Wakering
- Plenty · Sir Leonard Darwin
- Leave All Fair · John Middleton Murry
- Romance on the Orient Express · Theodore Woodward
- The Shooting Party · Cornelius Cardew
- To Be Hamlet · Self
- Screen Two · Eddie Loomis, Jasper Swift
- Camille · Duke de Charles
- Frankenstein · De Lacey
- Six Centuries of Verse · Self
- The Far Pavilions · Cavagnari
- The Master of Ballantrae · Lord Durrisdeer
- Scandalous · Uncle Willie
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate · Self
- Wagner · Pfistermeister
- The Wicked Lady · Hogarth