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.
Known For
| Birth Location | South Kensington, London, England, UK |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904-04-14 |
| Died | 2000-05-21 |
Movies
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018
2016
Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2011
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
2001
Elizabeth
as The Pope
1998
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
1998
Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
1998
David
as Stimme Gottes
1997
Hamlet
as Priam
1996
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
1996
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1996
The Leopard Son
as Narrator
1996
Shine
as Cecil Parkes
1996
DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
1996
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
1995
First Knight
as Oswald
1995
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Himself (Voice)
1995
1994
The Power of One
as St. John
1992
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
as Self
1992
Shining Through
as Sunflower
1992
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
1992
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Prospero's Books
as Prospero
1991
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)
1991
The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
1991
The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell
1991
1990
A TV Dante
as Virgil
1990
Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
1990
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
1989
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
1988
1988
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
1988
Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
1988
Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
1987
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville
1986
The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie
1986
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias
1986
Time After Time
as Jasper Swift
1986
Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin
1985
Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
1985
Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
1985
The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
1985
To Be Hamlet
as John Gielgud
1985
Camille
as Duke de Charles
1984
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
1984
The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
1984
Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
1984
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
1984
The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
1983
Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
1982
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
1982
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
1982
Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
1981
Arthur
as Hobson
1981
Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
1981
Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
1981
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
1981
Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
1981
The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
1980
The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
1980
The Conductor
as John Lasocki
1980
The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
1979
Caligula
as Nerva
1979
Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
1979
Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
1978
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
1978
Romeo & Juliet
as Chorus
1978
No Man's Land
as Spooner
1978
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
1977
Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
1977
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
1977
Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
1977
Providence
as Clive Langham
1977
Peter Pan
as Narrator
1976
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
1976
Aces High
as Headmaster
1976
Galileo
as The Old Cardinal
1975
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes
1974
11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
1974
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
1974
Gold
as Farrell
1974
Lost Horizon
as Chang
1973
1973
Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
1972
Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
1972
Home
as Harry
1972
Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
1970
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1969
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder pope
1968
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
1968
Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
1968
Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence
1968
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
1967
October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
1967
Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
1966
The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara
1966
1966
Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
1965
The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
1965
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
1964
Becket
as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France
1964
To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1963
The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
1962
1958
Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick
1957
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1957
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Foster
1956
Richard III
as George, Duke of Clarence
1955
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
1954
Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self
1954
Julius Caesar
as Cassius
1953
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
as Narrator
1953
A Diary for Timothy
as Hamlet
1945
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
as Narrator
1941
The Prime Minister
as Disraeli
1941
Heredity in Man
as Self
1937
Secret Agent
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
1936
The Good Companions
as Inigo Jollifant
1933
Insult
as Henri Dubois
1932
The Clue of the New Pin
as Rex Trasmere
1929
Who Is the Man?
as Daniel
1924
Movies
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Writer
2016
Trouser Bar
Writer
2016
1964
The Cherry Orchard
Writer
1962
