John Gielgud
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.
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Movies (40)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Writer (Writing)
2016
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
as Self
2016
Trouser Bar
Writer (Writing)
2016
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Discovering Hamlet
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2011
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Catastrophe
as The Protagonist
2001
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn
1999
Elizabeth
as The Pope
1998
Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)
1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
David
as Stimme Gottes
1997
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
Haunted
as Doctor Doyle
1995
First Knight
as Oswald
1995
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
1995
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
The Power of One
as St. John
1992
Shining Through
as Sunflower
1992
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
1992
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero
1992
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
1991
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
1990
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù
1989
Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday
1989
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
1988
TV Shows (10)
Merlin
as King Constant
1998
A Dance to the Music of Time
as St. John Clarke
1997
Gulliver's Travels
as Professor of Light
1996
Stick with Me, Kid
as Grandpa
1995
Scarlett
1994
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler
1991
Performance
as Stephen Dawlish
1991
Summer's Lease
as Haverford Downs
1989
War and Remembrance
as Aaron Jastrow
1988