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John Gielgud

AKA: Arthur John Gielgud
Birthday: 1904-04-14
Died: 2000-05-21
Birthplace: South Kensington, London, England, UK


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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gielgud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Chimes at Midnight
Character: Henry IV
Gandhi
Character: Lord Irwin
Frankenstein
Character: De Lacey

Frankenstein: The True Story
Character: Chief Constable
To Be Hamlet
Character: Self
Hamlet: The Actor's View
Character: Self

The Elephant Man
Character: Carr Gomm
David
Character: Stimme Gottes
Secret Agent
Character: Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Mr. Beddoes
Appointment with Death
Character: Colonel Carbury
Les Misérables
Character: Gillenormand

Elizabeth
Character: The Pope
Prospero's Books
Character: Prospero
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Count Leopold Von Berchtold

First Knight
Character: Oswald
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Character: Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
The Formula
Character: Dr. Abraham Esau

Shining Through
Character: Sunflower
DragonHeart
Character: King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
Chariots of Fire
Character: Master of Trinity

Caligula
Character: Nerva
The Whistle Blower
Character: Sir Adrian Chappie
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Character: Hobson

Lion of the Desert
Character: Sharif El Gariani
Murder by Decree
Character: Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
Arthur
Character: Hobson

The Power of One
Character: St. John
Alice in Wonderland
Character: Mock Turtle
Plenty
Character: Sir Leonard Darwin

The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Lord Raglan
Julius Caesar
Character: Julius Caesar
Richard III
Character: George, Duke of Clarence

Becket
Character: King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France
Aces High
Character: Headmaster
The Scarlet and the Black
Character: Pope Pius XII

The Loved One
Character: Sir Francis Hinsley
Time After Time
Character: Jasper Swift
Sphinx
Character: Abdu-Hamdi

The Canterville Ghost
Character: Sir Simon de Canterville
The Human Factor
Character: Brigadier Tomlinson
The Leopard Son
Character: Narrator

Julius Caesar
Character: Cassius
Gold
Character: Farrell
Haunted
Character: Doctor Doyle

Priest of Love
Character: Herbert G. Muskett
Quest for Camelot
Character: Merlin (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Charmolue

The Grand Inquisitor
Character: Inquisitor
Catastrophe
Character: The Protagonist
Providence
Character: Clive Langham

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Character: Marquis of Caterhan
Romeo and Juliet
Character: Chorus

The Shooting Party
Character: Cornelius Cardew
Lost Horizon
Character: Chang
The Good Companions
Character: Inigo Jollifant

Quartermaine's Terms
Character: Eddie Loomis
The Cherry Orchard
Character: Gaev
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Character: Reverend Jones

Saint Joan
Character: Earl of Warwick
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Character: Ghost (voice)
The Wicked Lady
Character: Hogarth

A Diary for Timothy
Character: Hamlet
To Die in Madrid
Character: Narrator (English version) (voice)

Assignment to Kill
Character: Curt Valayan
The Master of Ballantrae
Character: Lord Durrisdeer
A Man for All Seasons
Character: Cardinal Wolsey

Scandalous
Character: Uncle Willie
No Man's Land
Character: Spooner
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character: Edward Moulton-Barrett

Galileo
Character: The Old Cardinal
Camille
Character: Duke de Charles
Eagle in a Cage
Character: Lord Sissal

Probe
Character: Harold L. Streeter
Joseph Andrews
Character: The Doctor
Discovering Hamlet
Character: King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

The Critic
Character: Lord Burleigh

Revisiting Brideshead
Character: Self (archive footage)
Swan Song
Character: Svetlovidov

The Best of Friends
Character: Sydney Cockerell

11 Harrowhouse
Character: Meecham
Richard II
Character: John of Gaunt
Romance on the Orient Express
Character: Theodore Woodward

Looking for Richard
Character: Self - Interviewee
Hamlet
Character: Priam
Home
Character: Harry

Sebastian
Character: Head of Intelligence
The Prime Minister
Character: Disraeli
The Strauss Dynasty
Character: Drechsler

Getting It Right
Character: Sir Gordon Munday
The Portrait of a Lady
Character: Mr. Touchett

Insult
Character: Henri Dubois
Shine
Character: Cecil Parkes
Inside the Third Reich
Character: Albert Speer Sr.

The Mayfly and the Frog
Character: Gabriel Quantara
The Conductor
Character: John Lasocki
Heredity in Man
Character: Self

A TV Dante
Character: Virgil
Leave All Fair
Character: John Middleton Murry

The Shoes of the Fisherman
Character: The Elder pope

Strike It Rich
Character: Herbert Dreuther
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Lord Henry Wotton

Romeo and Juliet
Character: Chorus
Who Is the Man?
Character: Daniel

Romeo & Juliet
Character: Chorus
The Clue of the New Pin
Character: Rex Trasmere
The Tichborne Claimant
Character: Cockburn

Heartbreak House
Character: Captain Shotover
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character: Tieresias
Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Tiresias

Peter Pan
Character: Narrator
October Revolution
Character: Narrator (voice)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Self (archive footage)

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Character: Self (Voice)
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Character: Virgil (voice)

Nothing Like a Dame
Character: Self (archive footage)

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Narrator (voice)