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)
Hamlet
as Priam
(1996)
DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
(1996)
Shine
as Cecil Parkes
(1996)
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
(1996)
The Leopard Son
as Narrator
(1995)
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
(1995)
First Knight
as Oswald
(1995)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
(1994)
(1992)
The Power of One
as St. John
(1992)
Shining Through
as Sunflower
(1992)
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
(1992)
(1992)
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
(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)
Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
(1990)
A TV Dante
as Virgil
(1990)
(1990)
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
(1989)
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
(1988)
Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
(1988)
(1988)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
(1987)
Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
(1987)
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord
(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)
Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1985)
The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
(1985)
Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
(1984)
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
(1984)
Camille
as Duke de Charles
(1984)
Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
(1984)
The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
(1984)
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
(1983)
The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
(1983)
(1982)
Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
(1982)
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
(1982)
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
(1982)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
(1982)
Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self
(1981)
Arthur
as Hobson
(1981)
Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
(1981)
Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
(1981)
Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
(1981)
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
(1981)
Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
(1980)
The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
(1980)
The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
(1980)
The Conductor
as John Lasocki
(1980)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
(1979)
Caligula
as Nerva
(1979)
Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister
(1979)
The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
(1978)
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
(1978)
Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
(1978)
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
(1978)
No Man's Land
as Spooner
(1977)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
(1977)
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
(1977)
Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
(1977)
Providence
as Clive Langham
(1977)
Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
(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)
11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
(1974)
Gold
as Farrell
(1974)
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
(1973)
Lost Horizon
as Chang
(1973)
(1972)
Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
(1972)
Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
(1972)
Home
as Harry
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
(1968)
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
(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)
From Chekhov with Love
as Anton Chekhov
(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)
Ivanov
as Nikolai ivanov
(1966)
(1965)
The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
(1965)
Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
(1964)
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
(1964)
Becket
as King Louis VII of France
(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
(1955)
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
as John Worthing, JP
(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)
The Prime Minister
as Disraeli
(1941)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
as Narrator
(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
(1966)
Ivanov
Director
(1964)
(1962)
The Cherry Orchard
Writer