John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

14/04/1904

Day of Death

21/05/2000
(96) years old

Place of Birth

London, England

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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

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

1998

The Tichborne Claimant

as Cockburn

1998

Quest for Camelot

as Merlin (voice)

1997

David

as Stimme Gottes

1996

Hamlet

as Priam

1996

The Portrait of a Lady

as Mr. Touchett

1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

1996

The Leopard Son

as Narrator

1996

Shine

as Cecil Parkes

1996

DragonHeart

as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

1995

Haunted

as Doctor Doyle

1995

First Knight

as Oswald

1992

The Power of One

as St. John

1992

Shining Through

as Sunflower

1992

Swan Song

as Svetlovidov

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Prospero's Books

as Prospero

1991

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

as Virgil (voice)

1991

The Best of Friends

as Sydney Cockerell

1991

The Strauss Dynasty

as Drechsler

1990

A TV Dante

as Virgil

1990

Strike It Rich

as Herbert Dreuther

1989

Barbablù, Barbablù

as Barbablù

1989

Getting It Right

as Sir Gordon Munday

1988

A Man for All Seasons

as Cardinal Wolsey

1988

Appointment with Death

as Colonel Carbury

1987

Quartermaine's Terms

as Eddie Loomis

1986

The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon de Canterville

1986

The Whistle Blower

as Sir Adrian Chappie

1986

Theban Plays: Antigone

as Tiresias

1986

Time After Time

as Jasper Swift

1985

Plenty

as Sir Leonard Darwin

1985

Leave All Fair

as John Middleton Murry

1985

Romance on the Orient Express

as Theodore Woodward

1985

The Shooting Party

as Cornelius Cardew

1985

To Be Hamlet

as Self

1984

Camille

as Duke de Charles

1984

Frankenstein

as De Lacey

1984

The Master of Ballantrae

as Lord Durrisdeer

1984

Scandalous

as Uncle Willie

1984

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party...

1983

The Wicked Lady

as Hogarth

1983

The Scarlet and the Black

as Pope Pius XII

1982

Gandhi

as Lord Irwin

1982

The Critic

as Lord Burleigh

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Albert Speer Sr.

1981

Priest of Love

as Herbert G. Muskett

1981

Arthur

as Hobson

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Master of Trinity

1981

Lion of the Desert

as Sharif El Gariani

1981

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

as Marquis of Caterhan

1981

Sphinx

as Abdu-Hamdi

1980

The Formula

as Dr. Abraham Esau

1980

The Elephant Man

as Carr Gomm

1980

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

as Reverend Jones

1980

The Conductor

as John Lasocki

1979

The Human Factor

as Brigadier Tomlinson

1979

Caligula

as Nerva

1979

Murder by Decree

as Prime Minister

1978

Les Misérables

as Gillenormand

1978

Richard II

as John of Gaunt

1978

Romeo and Juliet

as Chorus

1978

No Man's Land

as Spooner

1977

Heartbreak House

as Captain Shotover

1977

The Grand Inquisitor

as Inquisitor

1977

Joseph Andrews

as The Doctor

1977

Providence

as Clive Langham

1976

Peter Pan

as Narrator

1976

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Lord Henry Wotton

1976

Aces High

as Headmaster

1975

Galileo

as The Old Cardinal

1974

11 Harrowhouse

as Meecham

1974

Frankenstein: The True Story

as Chief Constable

1974

Gold

as Farrell

1973

Lost Horizon

as Chang

1972

Probe

as Harold L. Streeter

1972

Eagle in a Cage

as Lord Sissal

1972

Home

as Harry

1970

Julius Caesar

as Julius Caesar

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

1968

The Shoes of the Fisherman

as The Elder Pope

1968

Assignment to Kill

as Curt Valayan

1968

Sebastian

as Head of Intelligence

1967

October Revolution

as Narrator (voice)

1967

Romeo and Juliet

as Chorus

1966

Alice in Wonderland

as Mock Turtle

1966

The Mayfly and the Frog

as Gabriel Quantara

1966

Ivanov

as Nikolai ivanov

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Henry IV

1965

The Loved One

as Sir Francis Hinsley

1964

Becket

as King Louis VII of France

1963

To Die in Madrid

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1957

Saint Joan

as Earl of Warwick

1957

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1955

Richard III

as George, Duke of Clarence

1955

ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

as John Worthing, JP

1954

Romeo and Juliet

as Chorus

1953

Julius Caesar

as Cassius

1945

A Diary for Timothy

as Hamlet

1941

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

Crew

2016

Trouser bar

as Writer

1966

Ivanov

as Director

1962

The Cherry Orchard

as Writer