John Gielgud
Actor
Born April 14, 1904 in London, England
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
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Self
Trouser Bar
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 (archive footage)
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
Catastrophe
The Protagonist
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 - Interviewee
The Leopard Son
Narrator
Shine
Cecil Parkes
DragonHeart
King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
Gulliver's Travels
Professor of Light
Haunted
Dr Henry Doyle
First Knight
Oswald
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Self (Voice)
Scarlett
Pierre Robillard
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
The Power of One
St. John
Shining Through
Sunflower
The Strauss Dynasty
Drechsler
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
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
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
Camille
Duke de Charles
Frankenstein
De Lacey
Six Centuries of Verse
Self - Presenter
The Far Pavilions
Cavagnari
The Master of Ballantrae
Lord Durrisdeer
Scandalous
Uncle Willie
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
Wagner
Pfistermeister
The Wicked Lady
Hogarth
The Scarlet and the Black
Pope Pius XII
Invitation to the Wedding
Marco Polo
Doge di Venezia
Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Laurence Olivier: a life
Self
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer Sr.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Charmolue
Brideshead Revisited
Edward 'Ned' Ryder
Priest of Love
Herbert G. Muskett
Arthur
Hobson
Chariots of Fire
Master of Trinity
Lion of the Desert
Sharif El Gariani
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Marquis of Caterhan
Sphinx
Abdu-Hamdi
The Formula
Dr. Abraham Esau
The Elephant Man
Carr Gomm
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Reverend Jones
The Conductor
John Lasocki
The Human Factor
Brigadier Tomlinson
Caligula
Nerva
Tales of the Unexpected
Jelks
Murder by Decree
Prime Minister
Les Misérables
Gillenormand
Richard II
John of Gaunt
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Chorus
No Man's Land
Spooner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Preacher
Heartbreak House
Captain Shotover
Joseph Andrews
The Doctor
Providence
Clive Langham
Peter Pan
Narrator
Second City Television
Self
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
Aces High
Headmaster
Galileo
The Old Cardinal
Murder on the Orient Express
Mr. Beddoes
11 Harrowhouse
Meecham
Frankenstein: The True Story
Chief Constable
Gold
Farrell
QB VII
Clinton-Meek
Frankenstein: The True Story
Chief Constable
Lost Horizon
Chang
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Various
ABC Afterschool Special
Various Roles
Probe
Harold L. Streeter
Eagle in a Cage
Lord Sissal
Home
Harry
Great Performances
Self
Hamlet
The Ghost
Play for Today
Harry
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Oh! What a Lovely War
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Elder Pope
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Rich Man
Assignment to Kill
Curt Valayan
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lord Raglan
Sebastian
Head of Intelligence
Omnibus
Self
October Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
Alice in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
ABC Stage 67
Rich Man
Ivanov
Nikolai ivanov
Ages of Man
Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV
BBC Play of the Month
Chorus
The Loved One
Sir Francis Hinsley
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Writer
The Wednesday Play
Gabriel Quantara
Hamlet
Ghost (voice)
Becket
King Louis VII of France
To Die in Madrid
Narrator (English version) (voice)
The Cherry Orchard
Gaev
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
Saint Joan
Earl of Warwick
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Moulton-Barrett
Around the World in 80 Days
Foster
Richard III
George, Duke of Clarence
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
Hamlet: The Actor's View
Self
Julius Caesar
Cassius
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Ghost
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
A Diary for Timothy
Hamlet
The Prime Minister
Disraeli
Heredity in Man
Self
Secret Agent
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
The Good Companions
Inigo Jollifant
Insult
Henri Dubois