John Gielgud
Acting
1904-04-14 · London, England
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.
Filmography
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Movie
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
2016 · Movie
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
2016 · Movie
Trouser Bar
2016 · Movie
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Movie
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Movie
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009 · Movie
Revisiting Brideshead
2005 · Movie
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Movie
Catastrophe
2001 · Movie
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Movie
The Tichborne Claimant
1999 · Movie
Elizabeth
1998 · Movie
Quest for Camelot
1998 · Movie
Merlin
1998 · Series
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 · Movie
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · Series
David
1997 · Movie
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
The Portrait of a Lady
1996 · Movie
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
The Leopard Son
1996 · Movie
Shine
1996 · Movie
DragonHeart
1996 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Series
Haunted
1995 · Movie
Stick with Me, Kid
1995 · Series
First Knight
1995 · Movie
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
1995 · Movie
A Summer Day's Dream
1994 · Movie
Scarlett
1994 · Series
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Series
The Power of One
1992 · Movie
Shining Through
1992 · Movie
Swan Song
1992 · Movie
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1992 · Movie
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Series
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
Performance
1991 · Series
Prospero's Books
1991 · Movie
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
1991 · Movie
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Movie
The Best of Friends
1991 · Movie
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
1990 · Movie
A TV Dante
1990 · Series
A TV Dante
1990 · Movie
Strike It Rich
1990 · Movie
Barbablù, Barbablù
1989 · Movie
Summer's Lease
1989 · Series
Getting It Right
1989 · Movie
A Man for All Seasons
1988 · Movie
War and Remembrance
1988 · Series
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Movie
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988 · Movie
Appointment with Death
1988 · Movie
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 · Movie
Quartermaine's Terms
1987 · Movie
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
The Canterville Ghost
1986 · Movie
The Whistle Blower
1986 · Movie
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986 · Movie
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · Movie
Time After Time
1986 · Movie
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
Plenty
1985 · Movie
Leave All Fair
1985 · Movie
Romance on the Orient Express
1985 · Movie
The Shooting Party
1985 · Movie
To Be Hamlet
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Camille
1984 · Movie
Frankenstein
1984 · Movie
Six Centuries of Verse
1984 · Series
The Far Pavilions
1984 · Series
The Master of Ballantrae
1984 · Movie
Scandalous
1984 · Movie
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984 · Movie
Wagner
1983 · Series
The Wicked Lady
1983 · Movie
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Movie
Invitation to the Wedding
1983 · Movie
Marco Polo
1982 · Series
Gandhi
1982 · Movie
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982 · Movie
The Critic
1982 · Movie
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Series
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Movie
Brideshead Revisited
1981 · Series
Priest of Love
1981 · Movie
Arthur
1981 · Movie
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Movie
Lion of the Desert
1981 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981 · Movie
Sphinx
1981 · Movie
The Formula
1980 · Movie
The Elephant Man
1980 · Movie
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 · Movie
The Conductor
1980 · Movie
The Human Factor
1979 · Movie
Caligula
1979 · Movie
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Murder by Decree
1979 · Movie
Les Misérables
1978 · Movie
Richard II
1978 · Movie
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Series
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · Movie
No Man's Land
1978 · Movie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977 · Movie
Heartbreak House
1977 · Movie
The Grand Inquisitor
1977 · Movie
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Movie
Providence
1977 · Movie
Peter Pan
1976 · Movie
Second City Television
1976 · Series
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1976 · Movie
Aces High
1976 · Movie
Galileo
1975 · Movie
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Movie
11 Harrowhouse
1974 · Movie
Frankenstein: The True Story
1974 · Movie
Gold
1974 · Movie
QB VII
1974 · Series
Frankenstein: The True Story
1973 · Series
Lost Horizon
1973 · Movie
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1973 · Movie
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Series
Probe
1972 · Movie
Eagle in a Cage
1972 · Movie
Home
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Hamlet
1970 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Menace
1970 · Series
Julius Caesar
1970 · Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Movie
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968 · Movie
Assignment to Kill
1968 · Movie
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 · Movie
From Chekhov with Love
1968 · Movie
Sebastian
1968 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
October Revolution
1967 · Movie
Romeo and Juliet
1967 · Movie
Alice in Wonderland
1966 · Movie
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966 · Movie
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Series
Ivanov
1966 · Movie
Ages of Man
1966 · Movie
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
The Loved One
1965 · Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Hamlet
1964 · Movie
Becket
1964 · Movie
To Die in Madrid
1963 · Movie
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Movie
The Big Party
1959 · Series
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Series
The Immortal Land
1958 · Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
Saint Joan
1957 · Movie
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
Richard III
1955 · Movie
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
1955 · Movie
Romeo and Juliet
1954 · Movie
Hamlet: The Actor's View
1954 · Movie
Julius Caesar
1953 · Movie
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
1953 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
A Diary for Timothy
1945 · Movie
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
1941 · Movie
The Prime Minister
1941 · Movie
Heredity in Man
1937 · Movie
Secret Agent
1936 · Movie
The Good Companions
1933 · Movie
Insult
1932 · Movie
The Clue of the New Pin
1929 · Movie
Who Is the Man?
1924 · Movie