John Gielgud
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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- Born:
- Apr 14, 1904 In South Kensington, London, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 100
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Who Is the Man? 1924-09-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film 2016-07-18
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self | 2016-07-18 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
| Movie | Catastrophe | The Protagonist | 2001-09-01 |
| Series | Merlin | King Constant | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
| Movie | The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | 1998-08-01 |
| Movie | Elizabeth | The Pope | 1998-09-13 |
| Series | A Dance to the Music of Time | 1997-10-09 | |
| Series | Gulliver's Travels | Professor of Light | 1996-02-04 |
| Movie | DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-05-31 |
| Movie | Shine | Cecil Parkes | 1996-08-15 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Priam | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | 1996-10-17 |
| Movie | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | First Knight | Oswald | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Haunted | Doctor Doyle | 1995-10-27 |
| Movie | A Summer Day's Dream | 1994-11-26 | |
| Movie | A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | 1992-01-01 |
| Movie | The Power of One | St. John | 1992-03-27 |
| Movie | Shining Through | Sunflower | 1992-01-31 |
| Movie | The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Prospero's Books | Prospero | 1991-08-30 |
| Movie | Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | 1990-01-26 |
| Movie | A TV Dante | Virgil | 1990-06-13 |
| Series | Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs | 1989-11-01 |
| Movie | Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday | 1989-05-05 |
| Movie | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson | 1988-07-08 |
| Movie | Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury | 1988-04-15 |
| Series | War and Remembrance | Aaron Jastrow | 1988-11-13 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | 1986-09-19 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | 1986-09-16 |
| Movie | The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | 1986-11-21 |
| Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | 1986-12-31 |
| Movie | Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | 1985-03-04 |
| Movie | The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | 1985-06-24 |
| Movie | Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer | 1984-01-31 |
| Movie | Scandalous | Uncle Willie | 1984-01-29 |
| Movie | Frankenstein | De Lacey | 1984-06-17 |
| Movie | Camille | Duke de Charles | 1984-12-11 |
| Movie | Invitation to the Wedding | 1983-01-01 | |
| Movie | Wagner | Pfistermeister | 1983-01-01 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | 1983-02-02 |
| Movie | The Wicked Lady | Hogarth | 1983-04-21 |
| Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. | 1982-05-09 |
| Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue | 1982-02-02 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Lord Irwin | 1982-12-01 |
| Movie | Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | 1981-02-11 |
| Movie | Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | 1981-05-15 |
| Movie | Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | 1981-04-17 |
| Movie | Arthur | Hobson | 1981-07-17 |
| Series | Brideshead Revisited | Edward 'Ned' Ryder | 1981-10-12 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | The Conductor | John Lasocki | 1980-02-27 |
| Movie | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | 1980-03-30 |
| Movie | The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm | 1980-10-09 |
| Movie | Murder by Decree | Prime Minister Lord Salisbury | 1979-02-01 |
| Movie | Caligula | Nerva | 1979-08-14 |
| Movie | The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | 1979-12-18 |
| Movie | No Man's Land | Spooner | 1978-10-03 |
| Movie | Romeo & Juliet | Chorus | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | 1977-03-09 |
| Movie | Providence | Clive Langham | 1977-01-25 |
| Movie | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | 1977-09-01 |
| Movie | Aces High | Headmaster | 1976-05-19 |
| Movie | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1976-09-19 |
| Movie | Galileo | The Old Cardinal | 1975-01-27 |
| Movie | Gold | Farrell | 1974-06-08 |
| Movie | 11 Harrowhouse | Meecham | 1974-09-26 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | 1974-11-22 |
| Movie | Lost Horizon | Chang | 1973-03-14 |
| Movie | Probe | Harold L. Streeter | 1972-02-21 |
| Movie | Home | Harry | 1972-01-06 |
| Movie | Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal | 1972-01-09 |
| Movie | Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | 1969-03-10 |
| Movie | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | 1968-04-10 |
| Movie | Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | 1968-01-24 |
| Movie | Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder pope | 1968-11-14 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | 1966-12-28 |
| Movie | The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley | 1965-10-11 |
| Movie | Chimes at Midnight | Henry IV | 1965-12-22 |
| Movie | Becket | King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France | 1964-03-11 |
| Movie | Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Ghost (voice) | 1964-09-23 |
| Movie | To Die in Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) | 1963-04-18 |
| Movie | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | 1957-01-16 |
| Movie | Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick | 1957-05-08 |
| Movie | Around the World in Eighty Days | Foster | 1956-10-17 |
| Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1954-09-01 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1953-06-04 |
| Movie | A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | 1945-12-31 |
| Movie | The Prime Minister | Disraeli | 1941-03-04 |
| Movie | Heredity in Man | Self | 1937-01-01 |
| Movie | The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant | 1933-02-28 |
| Movie | The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere | 1929-03-01 |
| Movie | Who Is the Man? | Daniel | 1924-09-01 |