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 of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
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Filmography
all 171
Movies 136
TV Shows 35
self 20
Narrator 7
Voice 3
Writer 2
Director 1
Self (archive footage)
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
Movie
Writer
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied (2016)
Movie
Self
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016)
Movie
Writer
Trouser Bar (2016)
Movie
King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Revisiting Brideshead (2005)
Movie
Carr Gomm
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed (2001)
Movie
The Protagonist
Catastrophe (2001)
Movie
The Pope
Elizabeth (1998)
Movie
6.2
Cockburn
The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
Movie
Merlin (voice)
Quest for Camelot (1998)
Movie
8
King Constant
Merlin (1998)
TV
6
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
Movie
St. John Clarke
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
TV
Stimme Gottes
David (1997)
Movie
Priam
Hamlet (1996)
Movie
Mr. Touchett
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Movie
Self / Interview
Looking for Richard (1996)
Movie
Narrator
The Leopard Son (1996)
Movie
Cecil Parkes
Shine (1996)
Movie
5
King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
DragonHeart (1996)
Movie
4.64
Professor of Light
Gulliver's Travels (1996)
TV
6
Doctor Doyle
Haunted (1995)
Movie
Grandpa
Stick With Me, Kid (1995)
TV
Oswald
First Knight (1995)
Movie
4.33
Himself (Voice)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man (1995)
Movie
Stephen Dawlish
A Summer Day's Dream (1994)
Movie
Scarlett (1994)
TV
6
Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
TV
St. John
The Power of One (1992)
Movie
Self - Actor
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward (1992)
Movie
Sunflower
Shining Through (1992)
Movie
Prospero
A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992)
Movie
Svetlovidov
Swan Song (1992)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
Movie
Prospero
Prospero's Books (1991)
Movie
Virgil (voice)
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) (1991)
Movie
Sydney Cockerell
The Best of Friends (1991)
Movie
Drechsler
Strauss Dynasty (1991)
TV
Drechsler
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)
Movie
Self
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
Movie
Virgil
A TV Dante (1990)
TV
Virgil
A TV Dante (1990)
Movie
Herbert Dreuther
Strike It Rich (1990)
Movie
Haverford Downs
Summer's Lease (1989)
TV
Sir Gordon Munday
Getting It Right (1989)
Movie
Cardinal Wolsey
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
Movie
Aaron Jastrow
War and Remembrance (1988)
TV
Self
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988)
Movie
Hobson
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Movie
6
Colonel Carbury
Appointment with Death (1988)
Movie
4.5
Eddie Loomis
Quartermaine's Terms (1987)
Movie
Lord Hinksey
Inspector Morse (1987)
TV
4.83
Sir Simon de Canterville
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
Movie
Sir Adrian Chapple
The Whistle Blower (1986)
Movie
Tiresias
Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)
Movie
Teiresias
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Movie
Jasper Swift
Time After Time (1986)
Movie
Lord Wakering
Lovejoy (1986)
TV
5
Sir Leonard Darwin
Plenty (1985)
Movie
John Middleton Murry
Leave All Fair (1985)
Movie
Theodore Woodward
Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
Movie
Cornelius Cardew
The Shooting Party (1985)
Movie
John Gielgud
To Be Hamlet (1985)
Movie
Screen Two (1985)
TV
Duke de Charles
Camille (1984)
Movie
6
De Lacey
Frankenstein (1984)
Movie
Self - Presenter / Self - Host
Six Centuries of Verse (1984)
TV
Cavagnari
The Far Pavilions (1984)
TV
Lord Durrisdeer
The Master of Ballantrae (1984)
Movie
Uncle Willie
Scandalous (1984)
Movie
Archive Footage
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984)
Movie
Pfistermeister
Wagner (1983)
TV
Hogarth
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Movie
Pope Pius XII
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Movie
Reverend Clyde Ormiston
Invitation to the Wedding (1983)
Movie
Doge di Venezia
Marco Polo (1982)
TV
Lord Irwin
Gandhi (1982)
Movie
4.44
Lord Burleigh
The Critic (1982)
Movie
Albert Speer Sr.
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Movie
Charmolue
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
Movie
Edward Ryder
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
TV
6
Herbert G. Muskett
Priest of Love (1981)
Movie
Hobson
Arthur (1981)
Movie
5.25
Master of Trinity
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Movie
6
Sharif El Gariani
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Movie
Marquis of Caterhan
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Movie
Abdu-Hamdi
Sphinx (1981)
Movie
Dr. Esau
The Formula (1980)
Movie
Carr Gomm
The Elephant Man (1980)
Movie
4.9
Reverend Jones
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
Movie
John Lasocki
The Conductor (1980)
Movie
Brigadier Tomlinson
The Human Factor (1979)
Movie
Nerva
Caligula (1979)
Movie
6
Jelks / Cyril Boggis
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
TV
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
Murder by Decree (1979)
Movie
Gillenormand
Les Misérables (1978)
Movie
John of Gaunt
Richard II (1978)
Movie
Chorus / John of Gaunt
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
TV
Chorus
Romeo & Juliet (1978)
Movie
Spooner
No Man's Land (1978)
Movie
The Preacher
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
Movie
Captain Shotover
Heartbreak House (1977)
Movie
Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor (1977)
Movie
The Doctor
Joseph Andrews (1977)
Movie
Clive Langham
Providence (1977)
Movie
Narrator
Peter Pan (1976)
Movie
Second City Television (1976)
TV
Lord Henry Wotton
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)
Movie
Headmaster
Aces High (1976)
Movie
The Old Cardinal
Galileo (1975)
Movie
Mr. Beddoes
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Movie
6
Meecham
11 Harrowhouse (1974)
Movie
Chief Constable
Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)
Movie
Farrell
Gold (1974)
Movie
Clinton-Meek
QB VII (1974)
TV
Chief Constable
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
TV
Chang
Lost Horizon (1973)
Movie
Various
William: The Life, Works, And Times Of William Shakespeare (1973)
Movie
Various Roles
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
TV
Harold L. Streeter
Probe (1972)
Movie
Lord Sissal
Eagle in a Cage (1972)
Movie
Harry
Home (1972)
Movie
Self
Great Performances (1971)
TV
1
Harry
Play for Today (1970)
TV
Menace (1970)
TV
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (1970)
Movie
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Movie
The Elder pope
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Movie
Self - Guest
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
TV
Rich Man
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski (1968)
Movie
Curt Valayan
Assignment to Kill (1968)
Movie
Lord Raglan
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Movie
Head of Intelligence
Sebastian (1968)
Movie
Chorus
Romeo and Juliet (1967)
Movie
Self / Self - subject
Omnibus (1967)
TV
Narrator
October Revolution (1967)
Movie
Mock Turtle
Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Movie
Gabriel Quantara
The Mayfly and the Frog (1966)
Movie
Rich Man
ABC Stage 67 (1966)
TV
Self
Ages of Man (1966)
Movie
Henry IV
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Movie
6
Captain Shotover / Charles II / Chorus
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
TV
Sir Francis Hinsley
The Loved One (1965)
Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
TV
Director
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (1964)
Movie
King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France
Becket (1964)
Movie
Narrator (English version)
To Die in Madrid (1963)
Movie
Leonid Andreyevich Gaev, Lyubov's brother
The Cherry Orchard (1962)
Movie
Self
The Big Party (1959)
TV
Narrator
The Immortal Land (1958)
Movie
Earl of Warwick
Saint Joan (1957)
Movie
Edward Moulton-Barrett
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Movie
Foster
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Self
Sunshine in Soho (1956)
Movie
George, Duke of Clarence
Richard III (1955)
Movie
Chorus
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Movie
Self
Hamlet: The Actor's View (1954)
Movie
Cassius
Julius Caesar (1953)
Movie
Narrator
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five (1953)
Movie
The Ghost / Lord Durrisdeer / Charmolue / Duke
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
TV
8.33
Shakespearean Reader / Self
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
TV
6
Hamlet
A Diary for Timothy (1945)
Movie
Narrator
An Airman's Letter to His Mother (1941)
Movie
Benjamin Disraeli
The Prime Minister (1941)
Movie
Self
Heredity in Man (1937)
Movie
Ashenden
Secret Agent (1936)
Movie
4.8
Inigo Jollifant
The Good Companions (1933)
Movie
Henri Dubois
Insult (1932)
Movie
Rex Trasmere
The Clue of the New Pin (1929)
Movie
Daniel
Who Is the Man? (1924)
Movie
Ratings
Average 5.9
Based on 1.46 Million movie and tv ratings over time
1924
1969
1981
1972
2018
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1904-04-14
Deathday2000-05-21 (96 years old)
Birth PlaceSouth Kensington, United Kingdom
Height
FatherHenry Lex Franciszek Adam Gielgud
MotherKate Terry-Lewis
SiblingsVal Gielgud, Lewis Gielgud, Frances Eleanor Gielgud
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsArthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, A Gentleman, Джон Гилгуд
AwardsKnight Bachelor, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Companion of Honour, Society of London Theatre Special Award, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Praemium Imperiale, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Order of Merit, Laurence Olivier Award
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