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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 14, 1904
Died
May 21, 2000
Place of Birth
London, England
Also Known As
- Arthur John Gielgud
- Sir John Gielgud
- A Gentleman
- Джон Гилгуд
John Gielgud
0.7 Popularity
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
6.8
Self (archive footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
5.8
Self
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
2016
7.0
King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
2011
0.0
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Revisiting Brideshead
2005
6.0
The Protagonist
Catastrophe
2001
7.2
The Pope
Elizabeth
1998
8.0
Cockburn
The Tichborne Claimant
1998
6.8
Merlin (voice)
Quest for Camelot
1998
6.9
King Constant
Merlin
1998
Credits
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.8
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
as Self
2016
5.8
Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2011
7.0
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009
0.0
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
2005
0.0
Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
2001
6.0
Elizabeth
as The Pope
1998
7.2
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
1998
8.0
Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
1998
6.8
Merlin
as King Constant
1998
6.9
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
0.0
A Dance to the Music of Time
as St. John Clarke
1997
5.3
David
as Stimme Gottes
1997
6.6
Hamlet
as Priam
1996
7.3
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett
1996
6.0
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1996
6.8
The Leopard Son
as Narrator
1996
0.0
Shine
as Cecil Parkes
1996
7.4
DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
1996
6.5
Gulliver's Travels
as Professor of Light
1996
7.1
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
1995
6.1
🎬
Stick with Me, Kid
as Grandpa
1995
0.0
First Knight
as Oswald
1995
6.1
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
1995
0.5
🎬
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
0.0
Scarlett
1994
6.6
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
0.0
The Power of One
as St. John
1992
7.5
🎬
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
as Self
1992
0.0
Shining Through
as Sunflower
1992
6.5
🎬
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
1992
6.8
🎬
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
1992
0.0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
1991
7.7
Prospero's Books
as Prospero
1991
6.8
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)
1991
5.5
Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
1991
0.0
The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
1991
8.2
The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell
1991
1.0
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self
1990
10.0
🎬
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
A TV Dante
as Virgil
1990
6.4
Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther
1990
5.0
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
1989
0.0
Summer's Lease
as Haverford Downs
1989
7.5
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
1989
7.0
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
1988
6.8
War and Remembrance
as Aaron Jastrow
1988
7.9
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self
1988
6.0
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson
1988
5.5
Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury
1988
6.1
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord
1987
0.0
Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis
1987
0.0
Inspector Morse
as Lord Hinksey
1987
7.8
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville
1986
6.6
The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie
1986
5.8
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias
1986
0.0
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias
1986
2.0
Time After Time
as Jasper Swift
1986
0.0
Lovejoy
as Lord Wakering
1986
7.3
Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin
1985
5.7
Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry
1985
7.0
Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward
1985
5.5
The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew
1985
6.6
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
0.0
Screen Two
1985
6.8
Camille
as Duke de Charles
1984
5.6
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
1984
5.8
Six Centuries of Verse
as Self - Presenter
1984
6.0
The Far Pavilions
as Cavagnari
1984
7.5
The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer
1984
6.0
Scandalous
as Uncle Willie
1984
2.5
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
1984
0.0
Wagner
as Pfistermeister
1983
6.3
The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth
1983
4.9
The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII
1983
7.0
Invitation to the Wedding
1983
0.0
Marco Polo
as Doge di Venezia
1982
6.8
Gandhi
as Lord Irwin
1982
7.6
Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self
1982
10.0
🎬
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh
1982
0.0
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer Sr.
1982
7.2
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue
1982
5.8
Brideshead Revisited
as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
1981
7.9
Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett
1981
5.0
Arthur
as Hobson
1981
6.5
Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity
1981
6.8
Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani
1981
7.3
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan
1981
6.7
Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi
1981
5.6
The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau
1980
5.5
The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm
1980
8.0
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones
1980
6.4
The Conductor
as John Lasocki
1980
6.3
The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson
1979
5.9
Caligula
as Nerva
1979
6.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Jelks
1979
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as Cyril Boggis
1979
6.7
Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister
1979
6.4
Les Misérables
as Gillenormand
1978
7.2
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
1978
7.5
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Chorus
1978
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as John of Gaunt
1978
6.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
1978
7.4
No Man's Land
as Spooner
1978
7.0
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher
1977
6.0
Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
1977
0.0
🎬
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor
1977
0.0
Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor
1977
4.7
Providence
as Clive Langham
1977
6.8
Peter Pan
as Narrator
1976
6.0
🎬
Second City Television
as Self
1976
7.5
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
1976
8.0
Aces High
as Headmaster
1976
5.9
Galileo
as The Old Cardinal
1975
5.9
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes
1974
7.1
11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham
1974
5.7
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
1974
7.5
Gold
as Farrell
1974
5.7
QB VII
as Clinton-Meek
1974
7.7
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable
1973
8.5
Lost Horizon
as Chang
1973
5.4
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
as Various
1973
0.0
ABC Afterschool Special
as Various Roles
1972
6.4
Probe
as Harold L. Streeter
1972
5.5
Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal
1972
5.0
Home
as Harry
1972
7.8
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.3
Play for Today
as Harry
1970
6.3
🎬
Menace
1970
0.0
Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
1970
5.7
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1969
6.7
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder Pope
1968
6.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.7
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man
1968
0.0
Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan
1968
6.0
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
1968
6.1
Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence
1968
6.0
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
1967
0.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
1967
0.0
Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
1966
5.8
🎬
The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara
1966
0.0
ABC Stage 67
as Rich Man
1966
6.2
Ages of Man
1966
0.0
Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV
1965
7.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Captain Shotover
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Lord Burleigh
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Chorus
1965
5.0
The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley
1965
6.3
The Wednesday Play
as Gabriel Quantara
1964
4.5
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Ghost (voice)
1964
6.5
Becket
as King Louis VII of France
1964
7.1
To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1963
7.5
The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
1962
8.0
🎬
The Big Party
as Self
1959
0.0
🎬
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
🎬
The Immortal Land
1958
0.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick
1957
6.5
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1957
6.2
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Foster
1956
6.6
Richard III
as George, Duke of Clarence
1955
7.1
🎬
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
as John Worthing, JP
1955
0.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus
1954
5.1
Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self
1954
0.0
Julius Caesar
as Cassius
1953
7.1
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
as Narrator
1953
0.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Ghost
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Charmolue
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lord Durrisdeer
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duke
1951
8.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
A Diary for Timothy
as Hamlet
1945
6.6
🎬
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
as Narrator
1941
6.0
The Prime Minister
as Disraeli
1941
6.0
Heredity in Man
as Self
1937
0.0
Secret Agent
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
1936
6.1
The Good Companions
as Inigo Jollifant
1933
5.8
Insult
as Henri Dubois
1932
0.0
🎬
The Clue of the New Pin
as Rex Trasmere
1929
0.0
🎬
Who Is the Man?
as Daniel
1924
0.0