Personal Info
Known Credits
134
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1904-04-14 (121 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
South Kensington, London, England, UK
Also Known For
Arthur John GielgudSir John GielgudA GentlemanДжон Гилгуд
John Gielgud
Biography
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 o ...
Known For
Acting
2018 --
Nothing Like a Dame
| Self (archive footage)
2016 --
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
| Self
2011 --
Discovering Hamlet
| King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
2005 --
Revisiting Brideshead
| Self (archive footage)
2001 --
Catastrophe
| The Protagonist
1998 --
Elizabeth
| The Pope
1998 --
The Tichborne Claimant
| Cockburn
1998 --
Quest for Camelot
| Merlin (voice)
1998 --
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
|
1997 --
David
| Stimme Gottes
1996 --
Hamlet
| Priam
1996 --
The Portrait of a Lady
| Mr. Touchett
1996 --
Looking for Richard
| Self - Interviewee
1996 --
The Leopard Son
| Narrator
1996 --
Shine
| Cecil Parkes
1996 --
DragonHeart
| King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
1995 --
Haunted
| Doctor Doyle
1995 --
First Knight
| Oswald
1995 --
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
| Self (Voice)
1994 --
A Summer Day's Dream
|
1992 --
The Power of One
| St. John
1992 --
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
| Self
1992 --
Shining Through
| Sunflower
1992 --
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
| Prospero
1992 --
Swan Song
| Svetlovidov
1991 --
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
| Self (archive footage)
1991 --
Prospero's Books
| Prospero
1991 --
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
| Virgil (voice)
1991 --
The Strauss Dynasty
| Drechsler
1991 --
The Best of Friends
| Sydney Cockerell
1990 --
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
| Self
1990 --
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
| Narrator (voice)
1990 --
A TV Dante
| Virgil
1990 --
Strike It Rich
| Herbert Dreuther
1989 --
Getting It Right
| Sir Gordon Munday
1988 --
A Man for All Seasons
| Cardinal Wolsey
1988 --
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
| Self
1988 --
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
| Hobson
1988 --
Appointment with Death
| Colonel Carbury
1987 --
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
| British Lord
1987 --
Quartermaine's Terms
| Eddie Loomis
1986 --
The Canterville Ghost
| Sir Simon de Canterville
1986 --
The Whistle Blower
| Sir Adrian Chappie
1986 --
Theban Plays: Antigone
| Tiresias
1986 --
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
| Tieresias
1986 --
Time After Time
| Jasper Swift
1985 --
Plenty
| Sir Leonard Darwin
1985 --
Leave All Fair
| John Middleton Murry
1985 --
Romance on the Orient Express
| Theodore Woodward
1985 --
The Shooting Party
| Cornelius Cardew
1985 --
To Be Hamlet
| Self
1984 --
Camille
| Duke de Charles
1984 --
Frankenstein
| De Lacey
1984 --
The Master of Ballantrae
| Lord Durrisdeer
1984 --
Scandalous
| Uncle Willie
1984 --
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
| Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
1983 --
The Wicked Lady
| Hogarth
1983 --
The Scarlet and the Black
| Pope Pius XII
1983 --
Invitation to the Wedding
|
1982 --
Gandhi
| Lord Irwin
1982 --
The Critic
| Lord Burleigh
1982 --
Inside the Third Reich
| Albert Speer Sr.
1982 --
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
| Charmolue
1981 --
Priest of Love
| Herbert G. Muskett
1981 --
Arthur
| Hobson
1981 --
Chariots of Fire
| Master of Trinity
1981 --
Lion of the Desert
| Sharif El Gariani
1981 --
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
| Marquis of Caterhan
1981 --
Sphinx
| Abdu-Hamdi
1980 --
The Formula
| Dr. Abraham Esau
1980 --
The Elephant Man
| Carr Gomm
1980 --
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
| Reverend Jones
1980 --
The Conductor
| John Lasocki
1979 --
The Human Factor
| Brigadier Tomlinson
1979 --
Caligula
| Nerva
1979 --
Murder by Decree
| Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
1978 --
Les Misérables
| Gillenormand
1978 --
Richard II
| John of Gaunt
1978 --
Romeo & Juliet
| Chorus
1978 --
No Man's Land
| Spooner
1977 --
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
| The Preacher
1977 --
Heartbreak House
| Captain Shotover
1977 --
The Grand Inquisitor
| Inquisitor
1977 --
Joseph Andrews
| The Doctor
1977 --
Providence
| Clive Langham
1976 --
Peter Pan
| Narrator
1976 --
The Picture of Dorian Gray
| Lord Henry Wotton
1976 --
Aces High
| Headmaster
1975 --
Galileo
| The Old Cardinal
1974 --
Murder on the Orient Express
| Mr. Beddoes
1974 --
11 Harrowhouse
| Meecham
1974 --
Frankenstein: The True Story
| Chief Constable
1974 --
Gold
| Farrell
1973 --
Lost Horizon
| Chang
1973 --
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
| Various
1972 --
Probe
| Harold L. Streeter
1972 --
Eagle in a Cage
| Lord Sissal
1972 --
Home
| Harry
1970 --
Julius Caesar
| Julius Caesar
1969 --
Oh! What a Lovely War
| Count Leopold Von Berchtold
1968 --
The Shoes of the Fisherman
| The Elder pope
1968 --
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
| Rich Man
1968 --
Assignment to Kill
| Curt Valayan
1968 --
The Charge of the Light Brigade
| Lord Raglan
1968 --
Sebastian
| Head of Intelligence
1967 --
October Revolution
| Narrator (voice)
1967 --
Romeo and Juliet
| Chorus
1966 --
Alice in Wonderland
| Mock Turtle
1966 --
The Mayfly and the Frog
| Gabriel Quantara
1966 --
Ages of Man
|
1965 --
Chimes at Midnight
| Henry IV
1965 --
The Loved One
| Sir Francis Hinsley
1964 --
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
| Ghost (voice)
1964 --
Becket
| King Louis VII of France
1963 --
To Die in Madrid
| Narrator (English version) (voice)
1962 --
The Cherry Orchard
| Gaev
1958 --
The Immortal Land
|
1957 --
Saint Joan
| Earl of Warwick
1957 --
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
| Edward Moulton-Barrett
1956 --
Around the World in Eighty Days
| Foster
1955 --
Richard III
| George, Duke of Clarence
1954 --
Romeo and Juliet
| Chorus
1954 --
Hamlet: The Actor's View
| Self
1953 --
Julius Caesar
| Cassius
1953 --
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
| Narrator
1945 --
A Diary for Timothy
| Hamlet
1941 --
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
| Narrator
1941 --
The Prime Minister
| Disraeli
1937 --
Heredity in Man
| Self
1936 --
Secret Agent
| Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
1933 --
The Good Companions
| Inigo Jollifant
1932 --
Insult
| Henri Dubois
1929 --
The Clue of the New Pin
| Rex Trasmere
1924 --
Who Is the Man?
| Daniel