Birthday:
Apr 14, 1904
Place of Birth: South Kensington, London, England, UK
Place of Birth: South Kensington, London, England, UK
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gielgud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Chimes at Midnight | Henry IV | 1965 |
| Gandhi | Lord Irwin | 1982 |
| Frankenstein | De Lacey | 1984 |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1974 |
| To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985 |
| Hamlet: The Actor's View | Self | 1954 |
| The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm | 1980 |
| David | Stimme Gottes | 1997 |
| Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie | 1936 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | 1974 |
| Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury | 1988 |
| Les Misérables | Gillenormand | 1978 |
| Elizabeth | The Pope | 1998 |
| Prospero's Books | Prospero | 1991 |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | 1969 |
| First Knight | Oswald | 1995 |
| James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate | Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited) | 1984 |
| The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau | 1980 |
| Shining Through | Sunflower | 1992 |
| DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | 1996 |
| Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | 1981 |
| Caligula | Nerva | 1979 |
| The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | 1986 |
| Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson | 1988 |
| Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | 1981 |
| Murder by Decree | Prime Minister Lord Salisbury | 1979 |
| Arthur | Hobson | 1981 |
| The Power of One | St. John | 1992 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | 1966 |
| Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | 1985 |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | 1968 |
| Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1970 |
| Richard III | George, Duke of Clarence | 1955 |
| Becket | King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France | 1964 |
| Aces High | Headmaster | 1976 |
| The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | 1983 |
| The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley | 1965 |
| Time After Time | Jasper Swift | 1986 |
| Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | 1981 |
| The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | 1986 |
| The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | 1979 |
| The Leopard Son | Narrator | 1996 |
| Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1953 |
| Gold | Farrell | 1974 |
| Haunted | Doctor Doyle | 1995 |
| Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett | 1981 |
| Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) | 1998 |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue | 1982 |
| The Grand Inquisitor | Inquisitor | 1977 |
| Catastrophe | The Protagonist | 2001 |
| Providence | Clive Langham | 1977 |
| Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan | 1981 |
| William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Various | 1973 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1954 |
| The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew | 1985 |
| Lost Horizon | Chang | 1973 |
| The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant | 1933 |
| Quartermaine's Terms | Eddie Loomis | 1987 |
| The Cherry Orchard | Gaev | 1962 |
| Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | 1980 |
| Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick | 1957 |
| Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Ghost (voice) | 1964 |
| The Wicked Lady | Hogarth | 1983 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | 1977 |
| A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | 1945 |
| To Die in Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) | 1963 |
| Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan | 1968 |
| The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer | 1984 |
| A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | 1988 |
| Scandalous | Uncle Willie | 1984 |
| No Man's Land | Spooner | 1978 |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | 1957 |
| Galileo | The Old Cardinal | 1975 |
| Camille | Duke de Charles | 1984 |
| Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal | 1972 |
| Probe | Harold L. Streeter | 1972 |
| Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | 1977 |
| Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) | 2011 |
| An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator | 1941 |
| The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Rich Man | 1968 |
| The Critic | Lord Burleigh | 1982 |
| A Summer Day's Dream | 1994 | |
| Revisiting Brideshead | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Swan Song | Svetlovidov | 1992 |
| Ages of Man | 1966 | |
| The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | 1991 |
| Invitation to the Wedding | 1983 | |
| 11 Harrowhouse | Meecham | 1974 |
| Richard II | John of Gaunt | 1978 |
| Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | 1985 |
| Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996 |
| Hamlet | Priam | 1996 |
| Home | Harry | 1972 |
| Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | 1968 |
| The Prime Minister | Disraeli | 1941 |
| The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991 |
| Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday | 1989 |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | 1996 |
| A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | 1992 |
| Insult | Henri Dubois | 1932 |
| Shine | Cecil Parkes | 1996 |
| Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. | 1982 |
| The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara | 1966 |
| The Conductor | John Lasocki | 1980 |
| Heredity in Man | Self | 1937 |
| The Immortal Land | 1958 | |
| A TV Dante | Virgil | 1990 |
| Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | 1985 |
| The South Bank Show: Noël Coward | Self | 1992 |
| The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder pope | 1968 |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Foster | 1956 |
| Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self | 2016 |
| Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | 1990 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1976 |
| Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | British Lord | 1987 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1967 |
| Who Is the Man? | Daniel | 1924 |
| Romeo & Juliet | Chorus | 1978 |
| The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere | 1929 |
| The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | 1998 |
| Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover | 1977 |
| Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | 1986 |
| Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | 1986 |
| Peter Pan | Narrator | 1976 |
| October Revolution | Narrator (voice) | 1967 |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) | 1991 |
| The Thomas The Tank Engine Man | Self (Voice) | 1995 |
| Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow | 1998 | |
| A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) | Virgil (voice) | 1991 |
| In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self | 1988 |
| Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self | 1990 |
| Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five | Narrator | 1953 |
| Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes | Narrator (voice) | 1990 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Jelks | 1979 |
| Second City Television | Self - Special Guest Star | 1976 |
| Inspector Morse | Lord Hinksey | 1987 |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1973 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | The Ghost | 1951 |
| QB VII | Clinton-Meek | 1974 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Edward 'Ned' Ryder | 1981 |
| Play for Today | Harry | 1970 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Professor of Light | 1996 |
| ABC Stage 67 | Rich Man | 1966 |
| Menace | 1970 | |
| Scarlett | 1994 | |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | St. John Clarke | 1997 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Captain Shotover | 1965 |
| Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs | 1989 |
| ABC Afterschool Special | Various Roles | 1972 |
| BBC Television Shakespeare | Chorus | 1978 |
| War and Remembrance | Aaron Jastrow | 1988 |
| Merlin | King Constant | 1998 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Lord Burleigh | 1965 |
| Screen Two | 1985 | |
| Wagner | Pfistermeister | 1983 |
| Lovejoy | Lord Wakering | 1986 |
| Stick With Me, Kid | Grandpa | 1995 |
| BBC Television Shakespeare | John of Gaunt | 1978 |
| Six Centuries of Verse | Himself - Presenter | 1984 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self | 1993 |
| Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Charmolue | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Lord Durrisdeer | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Duke | 1951 |
| The Big Party | Self | 1959 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Chorus | 1965 |
| Omnibus | Self | 1967 |
| The Wednesday Play | Gabriel Quantara | 1964 |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | Self | 1959 |
| Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | 1957 |
| The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | 1968 |
| Marco Polo | Doge di Venezia | 1982 |
| The Far Pavilions | Cavagnari | 1984 |
| Great Performances | Self | 1971 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Cyril Boggis | 1979 |
