John Gielgud
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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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Second City Television
7.5
Inspector Morse
7.8
Frankenstein: The True Story
8.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
QB VII
7.7
Brideshead Revisited
7.9
Play for Today
6.333
Gulliver's Travels
7.1
ABC Stage 67
6.2
Menace
0
Scarlett
6.6
A Dance to the Music of Time
5.3
BBC Play of the Month
5
Summer's Lease
7.5
ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
War and Remembrance
7.871
Merlin
6.875
BBC Play of the Month
5
Screen Two
6.833
Wagner
6.3
Lovejoy
7.3
Stick with Me, Kid
0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Six Centuries of Verse
6
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
0
La dynastie des Strauss
0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Big Party
0
BBC Play of the Month
5
Omnibus
7.2
The Wednesday Play
4.5
The Bell Telephone Hour
7.333
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Marco Polo
6.8
The Far Pavilions
7.5
Great Performances
5.3
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Performance
6
Movies
Chimes at Midnight
7.145
Gandhi
7.555
Frankenstein
5.8
Frankenstein: The True Story
7.5
To Be Hamlet
0
Hamlet: The Actor's View
0
The Elephant Man
8.049
David
6.6
Secret Agent
6.065
Murder on the Orient Express
7.137
Appointment with Death
6.139
Les Misérables
7.197
Elizabeth
7.167
Prospero's Books
6.8
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.75
First Knight
6.087
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
0
The Formula
5.512
Shining Through
6.474
DragonHeart
6.5
Chariots of Fire
6.787
Caligula
5.997
The Whistle Blower
5.841
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
5.5
Lion of the Desert
7.289
Murder by Decree
6.413
Arthur
6.525
The Power of One
7.481
Alice in Wonderland
5.841
Plenty
5.7
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.104
Julius Caesar
5.665
Richard III
7.129
Becket
7.141
Aces High
5.88
The Scarlet and the Black
7
The Loved One
6.3
Time After Time
0
Sphinx
5.6
The Canterville Ghost
6.6
The Human Factor
5.9
The Leopard Son
0
Julius Caesar
7.059
Gold
5.7
Haunted
6.067
Priest of Love
5
Quest for Camelot
6.8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.8
The Grand Inquisitor
0
Catastrophe
6
Providence
6.8
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
6.7
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
0
Romeo and Juliet
5.167
The Shooting Party
6.6
Lost Horizon
5.395
The Good Companions
5.8
Quartermaine's Terms
0
The Cherry Orchard
8
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.4
Saint Joan
6.5
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
6.5
The Wicked Lady
4.929
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6
A Diary for Timothy
6.6
To Die in Madrid
7.5
Assignment to Kill
6
The Master of Ballantrae
6
A Man for All Seasons
6.818
Scandalous
2.5
No Man's Land
7
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6.2
Galileo
5.9
Camille
5.6
Eagle in a Cage
5
Probe
5.5
Joseph Andrews
4.7
Discovering Hamlet
7
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
6
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
0
The Critic
0
A Summer Day's Dream
0
Revisiting Brideshead
0
Swan Song
6.8
The Best of Friends
1
Ages of Man
0
Invitation to the Wedding
0
11 Harrowhouse
5.7
Richard II
7.5
Romance on the Orient Express
5.5
Looking for Richard
6.8
Hamlet
7.334
Home
7.8
Sebastian
6
The Prime Minister
6
The Strauss Dynasty
8.2
Getting It Right
7
The Portrait of a Lady
5.964
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
0
Insult
0
Shine
7.374
Inside the Third Reich
7.2
The Mayfly and the Frog
0
The Conductor
6.3
Heredity in Man
0
The Immortal Land
0
A TV Dante
6.4
Leave All Fair
7
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
0
The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.727
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.648
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
5.8
Strike It Rich
5
The Picture of Dorian Gray
8
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
0
Romeo and Juliet
0
Who Is the Man?
0
Romeo and Juliet
7.4
The Clue of the New Pin
0
The Tichborne Claimant
8
Heartbreak House
0
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
2
Theban Plays: Antigone
0
Peter Pan
6
October Revolution
0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
0.5
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
0
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
5.5
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
6
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
10
Nothing Like a Dame
6.8
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
0
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
0
Barbablù, Barbablù
0
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
0
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
0
Laurence Olivier: a life
10
Merlin
0