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John Gielgud
Born · April 14, 1904
Died · May 21, 2000 (96 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: South Kensington, London, England, UK
Bio
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.
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
6.9
2018
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Self
5.8
2016
Discovering Hamlet
King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
7.0
2011
Revisiting Brideshead
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2005
Catastrophe
The Protagonist
6.0
2001
Elizabeth
The Pope
7.2
1998
The Tichborne Claimant
Cockburn
8.0
1998
Quest for Camelot
Merlin (voice)
6.8
1998
Merlin
King Constant · (2 episodes)
6.9
1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
0.0
1998
A Dance to the Music of Time
St. John Clarke · (4 episodes)
5.3
1997
David
Stimme Gottes
6.6
1997
Hamlet
Priam
7.3
1996
The Portrait of a Lady
Mr. Touchett
6.0
1996
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
6.8
1996
The Leopard Son
Narrator
0.0
1996
Shine
Cecil Parkes
7.4
1996
DragonHeart
King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
6.5
1996
Gulliver's Travels
Professor of Light · (2 episodes)
7.1
1996
Haunted
Doctor Doyle
6.1
1995
Stick With Me, Kid
Grandpa · (13 episodes)
0.0
1995
First Knight
Oswald
6.1
1995
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Self (Voice)
0.5
1995
A Summer Day's Dream
0.0
1994
Scarlett
(4 episodes)
6.6
1994
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1993
The Power of One
St. John
7.5
1992
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
Self
0.0
1992
Shining Through
Sunflower
6.5
1992
Swan Song
Svetlovidov
6.8
1992
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
Prospero
0.0
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
7.7
1991
Prospero's Books
Prospero
6.8
1991
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Virgil (voice)
5.5
1991
The Best of Friends
Sydney Cockerell
1.0
1991
The Strauss Dynasty
Drechsler
8.2
1991
Strauss Dynasty
Drechsler · (12 episodes)
0.0
1991
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self
10.0
1990
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1990
A TV Dante
Virgil
6.4
1990
Strike It Rich
Herbert Dreuther
5.0
1990
Barbablù, Barbablù
Barbablù
0.0
1989
Summer's Lease
Haverford Downs · (4 episodes)
7.5
1989
Getting It Right
Sir Gordon Munday
7.0
1989
A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey
6.8
1988
War and Remembrance
Aaron Jastrow · (12 episodes)
7.9
1988
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Self
6.0
1988
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Hobson
5.5
1988
Appointment with Death
Colonel Carbury
6.1
1988
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
British Lord
0.0
1987
Quartermaine's Terms
Eddie Loomis
0.0
1987
Inspector Morse
Lord Hinksey · (2 episodes)
7.8
1987
The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon de Canterville
6.6
1986
The Whistle Blower
Sir Adrian Chappie
5.8
1986
Theban Plays: Antigone
Tiresias
0.0
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Tieresias
2.0
1986
Time After Time
Jasper Swift
0.0
1986
Lovejoy
Lord Wakering · (1 episode)
7.3
1986
Plenty
Sir Leonard Darwin
5.7
1985
Leave All Fair
John Middleton Murry
7.0
1985
Romance on the Orient Express
Theodore Woodward
5.2
1985
The Shooting Party
Cornelius Cardew
6.6
1985
To Be Hamlet
Self
0.0
1985
Screen Two
(1 episode)
6.8
1985
Camille
Duke de Charles
5.6
1984
Frankenstein
De Lacey
5.8
1984
Six Centuries of Verse
Himself - Presenter · (16 episodes)
6.0
1984
The Far Pavilions
Cavagnari · (2 episodes)
7.5
1984
The Master of Ballantrae
Lord Durrisdeer
6.0
1984
Scandalous
Uncle Willie
4.0
1984
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
0.0
1984
Wagner
Pfistermeister · (10 episodes)
6.3
1983
The Wicked Lady
Hogarth
4.8
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Pope Pius XII
7.0
1983
Invitation to the Wedding
0.0
1983
Marco Polo
Doge di Venezia · (1 episode)
6.8
1982
Gandhi
Lord Irwin
7.6
1982
The Critic
Lord Burleigh
0.0
1982
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer Sr.
7.3
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Charmolue
5.8
1982
Brideshead Revisited
Edward 'Ned' Ryder · (11 episodes)
8.0
1981
Priest of Love
Herbert G. Muskett
5.0
1981
Arthur
Hobson
6.5
1981
Chariots of Fire
Master of Trinity
6.8
1981
Lion of the Desert
Sharif El Gariani
7.3
1981
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Marquis of Caterhan
6.7
1981
Sphinx
Abdu-Hamdi
5.6
1981
The Formula
Dr. Abraham Esau
5.5
1980
The Elephant Man
Carr Gomm
8.0
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Reverend Jones
6.4
1980
The Conductor
John Lasocki
6.3
1980
The Human Factor
Brigadier Tomlinson
5.9
1979
Caligula
Nerva
6.0
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Jelks · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Cyril Boggis · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
Murder by Decree
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
6.4
1979
Les Misérables
Gillenormand
7.2
1978
Richard II
John of Gaunt
7.5
1978
Romeo & Juliet
Chorus
7.4
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Chorus · (1 episode)
5.2
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
John of Gaunt · (1 episode)
5.2
1978
No Man's Land
Spooner
7.0
1978
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Preacher
6.0
1977
Heartbreak House
Captain Shotover
0.0
1977
The Grand Inquisitor
Inquisitor
0.0
1977
Joseph Andrews
The Doctor
4.7
1977
Providence
Clive Langham
6.8
1977
Peter Pan
Narrator
6.0
1976
Second City Television
Self - Special Guest Star · (1 episode)
7.4
1976
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
8.0
1976
Aces High
Headmaster
5.9
1976
Galileo
The Old Cardinal
5.9
1975
Murder on the Orient Express
Mr. Beddoes
7.1
1974
11 Harrowhouse
Meecham
5.7
1974
Frankenstein: The True Story
Chief Constable
7.6
1974
Gold
Farrell
5.7
1974
QB VII
Clinton-Meek · (2 episodes)
7.7
1974
Frankenstein: The True Story
Chief Constable · (2 episodes)
8.5
1973
Lost Horizon
Chang
5.4
1973
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Various
0.0
1973
ABC Afterschool Special
Various Roles · (1 episode)
6.4
1972
Probe
Harold L. Streeter
5.5
1972
Eagle in a Cage
Lord Sissal
5.0
1972
Home
Harry
7.8
1972
Great Performances
Self · (3 episodes)
5.4
1971
Play for Today
Harry · (1 episode)
6.1
1970
Menace
(1 episode)
0.0
1970
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
5.7
1970
Oh! What a Lovely War
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
6.7
1969
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Elder pope
6.7
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
6.6
1968
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Rich Man
0.0
1968
Assignment to Kill
Curt Valayan
6.0
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lord Raglan
6.1
1968
Sebastian
Head of Intelligence
6.0
1968
Omnibus
Self · (3 episodes)
7.4
1967
October Revolution
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1967
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
0.0
1967
Alice in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
7.3
1966
The Mayfly and the Frog
Gabriel Quantara
0.0
1966
ABC Stage 67
Rich Man · (1 episode)
6.0
1966
Ages of Man
0.0
1966
Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV
7.1
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Captain Shotover · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Lord Burleigh · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Chorus · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
The Loved One
Sir Francis Hinsley
6.3
1965
The Wednesday Play
Gabriel Quantara · (1 episode)
4.5
1964
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Ghost (voice)
6.5
1964
Becket
King Louis VII of France
7.1
1964
To Die in Madrid
Narrator (English version) (voice)
7.5
1963
The Cherry Orchard
Gaev
8.0
1962
The Big Party
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1959
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1959
The Immortal Land
0.0
1958
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · (1 episode)
6.5
1957
Saint Joan
Earl of Warwick
6.5
1957
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Moulton-Barrett
6.2
1957
Around the World in Eighty Days
Foster
6.6
1956
Richard III
George, Duke of Clarence
7.1
1955
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
5.1
1954
Hamlet: The Actor's View
Self
0.0
1954
Julius Caesar
Cassius
7.0
1953
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Narrator
0.0
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Ghost · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Charmolue · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lord Durrisdeer · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Duke · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (2 episodes)
6.6
1948
A Diary for Timothy
Hamlet
6.6
1945
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
Narrator
6.0
1941
The Prime Minister
Disraeli
6.0
1941
Heredity in Man
Self
0.0
1937
Secret Agent
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
6.1
1936
The Good Companions
Inigo Jollifant
5.8
1933
Insult
Henri Dubois
0.0
1932
The Clue of the New Pin
Rex Trasmere
0.0
1929
Who Is the Man?
Daniel
0.0
1924