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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PHOTOS
TV Series
Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Second City Television
7.558
Inspector Morse
7.845
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
7.14
ABC Stage 67
6.2
Menace
0
Scarlett
6.6
A Dance to the Music of Time
5.3
Summer's Lease
7.286
ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
War and Remembrance
8
Merlin
6.875
Screen Two
6.833
Wagner
6.3
Lovejoy
7.35
Stick with Me, Kid
0
Six Centuries of Verse
6
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
0
The Strauss Dynasty
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
6.8
Marco Polo
6.8
The Far Pavilions
7.5
Great Performances
5.5
Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Performance
6
BBC Play of the Month
5
BBC Play of the Month
5
BBC Play of the Month
5
BBC Play of the Month
5
BBC Play of the Month
5
Movies
Chimes at Midnight
7.144
Gandhi
7.553
Frankenstein
5.8
Frankenstein: The True Story
7.5
To Be Hamlet
0
Hamlet: The Actor's View
0
The Elephant Man
8.05
David
6.5
Secret Agent
6.071
Murder on the Orient Express
7.145
Appointment with Death
6.143
Les Misérables
7.197
Elizabeth
7.173
Prospero's Books
6.8
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.75
First Knight
6.106
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
0
The Formula
5.5
Shining Through
6.5
DragonHeart
6.5
Chariots of Fire
6.787
Caligula
6
The Whistle Blower
5.821
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
5.5
Lion of the Desert
7.301
Murder by Decree
6.438
Arthur
6.509
The Power of One
7.5
Alice in Wonderland
5.9
Plenty
5.767
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.1
Julius Caesar
5.7
Richard III
7.128
Becket
7.154
Aces High
5.9
The Scarlet and the Black
6.983
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
7.1
Gold
5.7
Haunted
6.072
Priest of Love
5
Quest for Camelot
6.838
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.8
The Grand Inquisitor
0
Catastrophe
6
Providence
6.81
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
6.841
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
0
Romeo and Juliet
5.167
The Shooting Party
6.696
Lost Horizon
5.395
The Good Companions
5.8
Quartermaine's Terms
0
The Cherry Orchard
8
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.563
Saint Joan
6.5
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
6.5
The Wicked Lady
4.9
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6
A Diary for Timothy
6.6
To Die in Madrid
7.533
Assignment to Kill
6
The Master of Ballantrae
6
A Man for All Seasons
6.8
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
5.769
Richard II
7.5
Romance on the Orient Express
5.5
Looking for Richard
6.8
Hamlet
7.324
Home
7.8
Sebastian
6
The Prime Minister
6
The Strauss Dynasty
8.2
Getting It Right
7
The Portrait of a Lady
5.961
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
0
Insult
0
Shine
7.368
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
6.785
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6
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
6.772
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
Ivanov
0