John Gielgud
April 14, 1904 (120 years old) in South Kensington, London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film as Self
- 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)
- 1998 · Merlin as King Constant
- 1998 · Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow as
- 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as St. John Clarke
- 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)
- 1996 · Gulliver's Travels as Professor of Light
- 1995 · Haunted as Doctor Doyle
- 1995 · Stick With Me, Kid as Grandpa
- 1995 · First Knight as Oswald
- 1995 · The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)
- 1994 · A Summer Day's Dream as
- 1994 · Scarlett as
- 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- 1992 · The Power of One as St. John
- 1992 · The South Bank Show: Noël Coward as Self
- 1992 · Shining Through as Sunflower
- 1992 · Swan Song as Svetlovidov
- 1992 · A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero
- 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 · Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- 1991 · The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
- 1991 · The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
- 1990 · Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
- 1990 · Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · A TV Dante as Virgil
- 1990 · Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther
- 1989 · Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
- 1989 · Getting It Right as Sir Gordon Munday
- 1988 · A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
- 1988 · War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
- 1988 · In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self
- 1988 · Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Hobson
- 1988 · Appointment with Death as Colonel Carbury
- 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as British Lord
- 1987 · Quartermaine's Terms as Eddie Loomis
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Lord Hinksey
- 1986 · The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
- 1986 · The Whistle Blower as Sir Adrian Chappie
- 1986 · Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
- 1986 · Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
- 1986 · Time After Time as Jasper Swift
- 1986 · Lovejoy as Lord Wakering
- 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
- 1985 · Screen Two as
- 1984 · Camille as Duke de Charles
- 1984 · Frankenstein as De Lacey
- 1984 · Six Centuries of Verse as Himself - Presenter
- 1984 · The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
- 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' (uncredited)
- 1983 · Wagner as Pfistermeister
- 1983 · The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
- 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
- 1983 · Invitation to the Wedding as
- 1982 · Marco Polo as Doge di Venezia
- 1982 · Gandhi as Lord Irwin
- 1982 · The Critic as Lord Burleigh
- 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Albert Speer Sr.
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue
- 1981 · Brideshead Revisited as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
- 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 · Tales of the Unexpected as Jelks
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Boggis
- 1979 · Murder by Decree as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
- 1978 · Les Misérables as Gillenormand
- 1978 · Richard II as John of Gaunt
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as Chorus
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as John of Gaunt
- 1978 · Romeo & Juliet as Chorus
- 1978 · No Man's Land as Spooner
- 1977 · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as The Preacher
- 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 · Second City Television as Self - Special Guest Star
- 1976 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- 1976 · Aces High as Headmaster
- 1975 · Galileo as The Old Cardinal
- 1974 · Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
- 1974 · 11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
- 1974 · Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
- 1974 · Gold as Farrell
- 1974 · QB VII as Clinton-Meek
- 1973 · Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
- 1973 · Lost Horizon as Chang
- 1973 · William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Various Roles
- 1972 · Probe as Harold L. Streeter
- 1972 · Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
- 1972 · Home as Harry
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Play for Today as Harry
- 1970 · Menace as
- 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 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · The Love Song of Barney Kempinski as Rich Man
- 1968 · Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
- 1968 · The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
- 1968 · Sebastian as Head of Intelligence
- 1967 · Omnibus as Self
- 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 · ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
- 1966 · Ages of Man as
- 1965 · Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Captain Shotover
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Lord Burleigh
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Chorus
- 1965 · The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley
- 1964 · The Wednesday Play as Gabriel Quantara
- 1964 · Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Ghost (voice)
- 1964 · Becket as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France
- 1963 · To Die in Madrid as Narrator (English version) (voice)
- 1962 · The Cherry Orchard as Gaev
- 1959 · The Big Party as Self
- 1959 · The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- 1958 · The Immortal Land as
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1957 · Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
- 1957 · The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett
- 1956 · Around the World in Eighty Days as Foster
- 1955 · Richard III as George, Duke of Clarence
- 1954 · Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
- 1954 · Hamlet: The Actor's View as Self
- 1953 · Julius Caesar as Cassius
- 1953 · Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five as Narrator
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Ghost
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Charmolue
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lord Durrisdeer
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Duke
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Shakespearean Reader
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1945 · A Diary for Timothy as Hamlet
- 1941 · An Airman's Letter to His Mother as Narrator
- 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