
John Gielgud
Known for: Acting
Born: April 14, 1904
Died: May 21, 2000
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…
Known for

Hamlet: The Actor's View
1954

Prospero's Books
1991

Time After Time
1986

The Leopard Son
1996
The Grand Inquisitor
1977

Catastrophe
2001

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1973

To Die in Madrid
1963

No Man's Land
1978

Eagle in a Cage
1972
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
1941
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
Swan Song
1992

The Best of Friends
1991

Ages of Man
1966

Home
1972

The Prime Minister
1941
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1992
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966

The Conductor
1980

A TV Dante
1990

Leave All Fair
1985

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
2016

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1976
Who Is the Man?
1924

Heartbreak House
1977

October Revolution
1967

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
1991

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
1953

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
1990

Barbablù, Barbablù
1989

Ivanov
1966
From Chekhov with Love
1968

Secret Agent
1936

Quartermaine's Terms
1987

The Cherry Orchard
1962

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980

The Master of Ballantrae
1984

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968

Invitation to the Wedding
1983

Richard II
1978

Insult
1932
The Immortal Land
1958

Chimes at Midnight
1965

To Be Hamlet
1985

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988

Arthur
1981

Plenty
1985

The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968

Julius Caesar
1970

Becket
1964

The Scarlet and the Black
1983

Julius Caesar
1953

The Good Companions
1933

The Wicked Lady
1983

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977

A Diary for Timothy
1945

Assignment to Kill
1968

A Man for All Seasons
1988

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957

Camille
1984

The Strauss Dynasty
1991

Strike It Rich
1990

Romeo and Juliet
1967

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986

Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
1955

Laurence Olivier: a life
1982

Gandhi
1982

Frankenstein
1984

The Elephant Man
1980

Appointment with Death
1988

The Formula
1980

The Whistle Blower
1986

Sphinx
1981

The Canterville Ghost
1986

The Human Factor
1979

Gold
1974

Haunted
1995

The Shooting Party
1985

Scandalous
1984

Sebastian
1968

Heredity in Man
1937
The Clue of the New Pin
1929

The Tichborne Claimant
1999

Les Misérables
1978

Elizabeth
1998

Shining Through
1992

Richard III
1955

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982

Providence
1977

Saint Joan
1957
The Critic
1982

11 Harrowhouse
1974

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987

Romeo and Juliet
1978

Hamlet
1970

Lion of the Desert
1981

Murder by Decree
1979

Aces High
1976

Priest of Love
1981

Romeo and Juliet
1954

Probe
1972

Galileo
1975

Romance on the Orient Express
1985

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
1995

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

The Loved One
1965

Shine
1996

Peter Pan
1976

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984

Chariots of Fire
1981

The Portrait of a Lady
1996

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003

First Knight
1995

Lost Horizon
1973

Murder on the Orient Express
1974

Getting It Right
1989

Frankenstein: The True Story
1974

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

Caligula
1979

Looking for Richard
1996

Quest for Camelot
1998

Hamlet
1964

Theban Plays: Antigone
1986

DragonHeart
1996

Discovering Hamlet
2011

The Power of One
1992

Joseph Andrews
1977

Alice in Wonderland
1966

Hamlet
1996

Around the World in 80 Days
1956

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Revisiting Brideshead
2005

David
1997

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Second City Television
1976

Inspector Morse
1987

Frankenstein: The True Story
1973

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

QB VII
1974

Brideshead Revisited
1981

Play for Today
1970

Gulliver's Travels
1996

ABC Stage 67
1966
Menace
1970

A Dance to the Music of Time
1997

Summer's Lease
1989

ABC Afterschool Special
1972

War and Remembrance
1988

Merlin
1998

Screen Two
1985

Wagner
1983

Lovejoy
1986
Stick with Me, Kid
1995

Six Centuries of Verse
1984

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993

The Strauss Dynasty
1991
The Big Party
1959

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Omnibus
1967

The Wednesday Play
1964

The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Marco Polo
1982

The Far Pavilions
1984

Great Performances
1971

Performance
1991

Inside the Third Reich
1982

Scarlett
1994

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Film '72
1971

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965