John Gielgud
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-04-14
Day of Death
2000-05-21 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England
John Gielgud
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
Acting
(2018)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
(2011)
Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
(2009)
(2005)
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
(1998)
Elizabeth
as The Pope
(1998)
Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
(1998)
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
(1998)
(1997)
David
as Stimme Gottes
(1996)
DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
(1996)
Hamlet
as Priam
(1996)
Shine
as Cecil Parkes
(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
(1996)
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
(1996)
The Leopard Son
as Narrator
(1995)
First Knight
as Oswald
(1995)
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
(1995)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
(1994)
(1992)
Shining Through
as Sunflower
(1992)
The Power of One
as St. John
(1992)
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
(1992)
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
(1992)
(1991)
Prospero's Books
as Prospero
(1991)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
(1991)
The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
(1991)
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)
(1991)
The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell
(1990)
(1990)
Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
(1990)
A TV Dante
as Virgil
(1990)
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
(1989)
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
(1988)
Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
(1988)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
(1988)
(1987)
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord
(1987)
Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
(1986)
The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie
(1986)
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias
(1986)
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville
(1986)
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias
(1986)
Time After Time
as Jasper Swift
(1985)
Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin
(1985)
The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
(1985)
Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
(1985)
Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1984)
Camille
as Duke de Charles
(1984)
The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
(1984)
Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
(1984)
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
(1984)
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
(1983)
The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
(1983)
(1982)
Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
(1982)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
(1982)
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
(1982)
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
(1981)
Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
(1981)
Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
(1981)
Arthur
as Hobson
(1981)
Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
(1981)
Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
(1981)
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
(1980)
The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
(1980)
The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
(1980)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
(1980)
The Conductor
as John Lasocki
(1979)
Caligula
as Nerva
(1979)
Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister
(1979)
The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
(1978)
Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
(1978)
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1978)
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
(1978)
No Man's Land
as Spooner
(1977)
Providence
as Clive Langham
(1977)
Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
(1977)
Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
(1977)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
(1977)
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
(1976)
Aces High
as Headmaster
(1976)
Peter Pan
as Narrator
(1976)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
(1975)
Galileo
as The Old Cardinal
(1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes
(1974)
Gold
as Farrell
(1974)
11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
(1974)
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
(1973)
Lost Horizon
as Chang
(1973)
(1972)
Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
(1972)
Home
as Harry
(1972)
Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
(1968)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder Pope
(1968)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
(1968)
Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence
(1968)
Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan
(1968)
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
(1967)
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1967)
October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
(1966)
Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
(1966)
The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara
(1966)
(1965)
Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
(1965)
The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
(1964)
Becket
as King Louis VII of France
(1964)
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
(1963)
To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
(1962)
The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
(1958)
(1957)
Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick
(1957)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
(1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Foster
(1955)
Richard III
as George, Duke of Clarence
(1954)
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1954)
Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self
(1953)
Julius Caesar
as Cassius
(1953)
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
as Narrator
(1945)
A Diary for Timothy
as Hamlet
(1941)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
as Narrator
(1941)
The Prime Minister
as Disraeli
(1937)
Heredity in Man
as Self
(1936)
Secret Agent
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
(1933)
The Good Companions
as Inigo Jollifant
(1932)
Insult
as Henri Dubois
(1929)
The Clue of the New Pin
as Rex Trasmere
(1924)
Who Is the Man?
as Daniel
Crew
(2016)
(2016)
Trouser bar
Writer
(1964)
(1962)
The Cherry Orchard
Writer