John Gielgud

Personal Info

Birthday

April 14, 1904

Day of Death

2000-05-21

(96 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England

Also Known As

Arthur John Gielgud

Sir John Gielgud

A Gentleman

Джон Гилгуд

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

Play for Today

Tales of the Unexpected

ABC Afterschool Special

BBC Play of the Month

Inspector Morse

Performance

The Wednesday Play

Brideshead Revisited

Filmography

2018
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
as Self
2011
Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2005
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
1998
Elizabeth
as The Pope
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
1997
David
as Stimme Gottes
1996
Hamlet
as Priam
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
The Leopard Son
as Narrator
Shine
as Cecil Parkes
DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
1995
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
First Knight
as Oswald
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
1992
The Power of One
as St. John
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
as Self
Shining Through
as Sunflower
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
Prospero's Books
as Prospero
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)
The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell
1990
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)
A TV Dante
as Virgil
Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
1989
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
1988
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord
Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
1986
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville
The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias
Time After Time
as Jasper Swift
1985
Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin
Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1984
Camille
as Duke de Charles
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
1983
The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
1982
Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
1981
Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
Arthur
as Hobson
Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
1980
The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
The Conductor
as John Lasocki
1979
The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
Caligula
as Nerva
Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister
1978
Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
No Man's Land
as Spooner
1977
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
Providence
as Clive Langham
1976
Peter Pan
as Narrator
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
Aces High
as Headmaster
1975
Galileo
as The Old Cardinal
1974
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes
11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
Gold
as Farrell
1973
Lost Horizon
as Chang
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
as Various
1972
Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
Home
as Harry
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder Pope
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence
1967
October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
1966
Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara
Ivanov
as Nikolai ivanov
1965
Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
1964
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
Becket
as King Louis VII of France
1963
To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1962
The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
1957
Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick
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
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
as John Worthing, JP
1954
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self
1953
Julius Caesar
as Cassius
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
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