Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 14, 1904
Died
May 21, 2000
Place of Birth
London, England
Credits
184 titles
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
Filmography
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Writer
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Self
Trouser Bar
Writer
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
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Self
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
Stick with Me, Kid
Grandpa
First Knight
Oswald
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Self (Voice)
A Summer Day's Dream
Scarlett
Pierre Robillard
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
The Power of One
St. John
Shining Through
Sunflower
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
Prospero
Swan Song
Svetlovidov
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 Strauss Dynasty
Drechsler
The Best of Friends
Sydney Cockerell
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