John Gielgud
Birthday
1904/04/14
Day of death
2000/05/21 (96 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
London, England
Also know as
Arthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, A Gentleman, Джон Гилгуд
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.
Acting
(1965) Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
(1982) Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
(1984) Frankenstein
as De Lacey
(1974) Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
(1985) To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1954) Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self
(1980) The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
(1997) David
as Stimme Gottes
(1936) Secret Agent
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
(1974) Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes
(1988) Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
(1978) Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
(1998) Elizabeth
as The Pope
(1991) Prospero's Books
as Prospero
(1969) Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
(1995) First Knight
as Oswald
(1984) James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
(1980) The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
(1992) Shining Through
as Sunflower
(1996) DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
(1981) Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
(1979) Caligula
as Nerva
(1986) The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie
(1988) Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
(1981) Lion Of The Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
(1979) Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister
(1981) Arthur
as Hobson
(1992) The Power of One
as St. John
(1966) Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
(1985) Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin
(1968) The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
(1970) Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
(1955) Richard III
as George, Duke of Clarence
(1964) Becket
as King Louis VII of France
(1976) Aces High
as Headmaster
(1983) The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
(1965) The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
(1986) Time After Time
as Jasper Swift
(1981) Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
(1986) The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville
(1979) The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
(1996) The Leopard Son
as Narrator
(1953) Julius Caesar
as Cassius
(1974) Gold
as Farrell
(1995) Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
(1981) Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
(1998) Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
(1982) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
(1977) The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
(2001) Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
(1977) Providence
as Clive Langham
(1981) Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
(1973) William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
as Various
(1954) Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1985) The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
(1973) Lost Horizon
as Chang
(1933) The Good Companions
as Inigo Jollifant
(1987) Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
(1962) The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
(1980) Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
(1957) Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick
(1964) Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
(1983) The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
(1977) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
(1945) A Diary for Timothy
as Hamlet
(1963) To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
(1968) Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan
(1984) The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
(1988) A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
(1984) Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
(1978) No Man's Land
as Spooner
(1957) The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
(1975) Galileo
as The Old Cardinal
(1984) Camille
as Duke de Charles
(1972) Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
(1972) Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
(1977) Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
(2011) Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
(1941) An Airman's Letter to His Mother
as Narrator
(1968) The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
(1982) The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
(1994) A Summer Day's Dream
as ---
(2005) Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
(1992) Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
(1991) The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell
(1966) Ages of Man
as ---
(1983) Invitation to the Wedding
as ---
(1974) 11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
(1978) Richard II
as John of Gaunt
(1985) Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
(1996) Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
(1996) Hamlet
as Priam
(1972) Home
as Harry
(1968) Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence
(1941) The Prime Minister
as Disraeli
(1991) The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
(1989) Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
(1996) The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
(1992) A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
(1932) Insult
as Henri Dubois
(1996) Shine
as Cecil Parkes
(1982) Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
(1966) The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara
(1980) The Conductor
as John Lasocki
(1937) Heredity in Man
as Self
(1958) The Immortal Land
as ---
(1990) A TV Dante
as Virgil
(1985) Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
(1968) The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder Pope
(1956) Around the World in 80 Days
as Foster
(2016) Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
as Self
(1990) Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
(1976) The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
(1987) Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord
(1967) Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1924) Who Is the Man?
as Daniel
(1978) Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1929) The Clue of the New Pin
as Rex Trasmere
(1999) The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
(1977) Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
(1986) Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias
(1986) Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias
(1976) Peter Pan
as Narrator
(1967) October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
(1991) Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
(1995) The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
(1998) Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
as ---
(1991) A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)
(1988) In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self
(1990) Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self
(2018) Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
(1953) Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
as Narrator
(1990) Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)
(1989) Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
(2009) Behind The Scenes of Caligula
as ---
(1955) ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
as John Worthing, JP
(1982) Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self
(1966) Ivanov
as Nikolai ivanov
(1968) From Chekhov with Love
as Anton Chekhov
(2014) Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Jelks
(1976) Second City Television
as Self
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Lord Hinksey
(1973) Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Ghost
(1974) QB VII
as Clinton-Meek
(1981) Brideshead Revisited
as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
(1970) Play for Today
as Harry
(1996) Gulliver's Travels
as Professor of Light
(1966) ABC Stage 67
as Rich Man
(1970) Menace
as ---
(1994) Scarlett
as ---
(1997) A Dance to the Music of Time
as St. John Clarke
(1989) Summer's Lease
as Haverford Downs
(1972) ABC Afterschool Special
as Various Roles
(1988) War and Remembrance
as Aaron Jastrow
(1998) Merlin
as King Constant
(1985) Screen Two
as ---
(1983) Wagner
as Pfistermeister
(1986) Lovejoy
as Lord Wakering
(1995) Stick with Me, Kid
as Grandpa
(1984) Six Centuries of Verse
as Self - Presenter
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1993) Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
(1991) The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Charmolue
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lord Durrisdeer
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duke
(1959) The Big Party
as Self
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Chorus
(1967) Omnibus
as Self
(1964) The Wednesday Play
as Gabriel Quantara
(1959) The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1982) Marco Polo
as Doge di Venezia
(1984) The Far Pavilions
as Cavagnari
(1971) Great Performances
as Self
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Cyril Boggis
(1991) Performance
as Stephen Dawlish
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as The Inquisitor
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Charles II
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Capt. Shotover
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Lord Burleigh
(1982) Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.