
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.

Henry IV
Campanadas a medianoche

Lord Irwin
Gandhi

De Lacey
Frankenstein

Chief Constable
Frankenstein: The True Story

Self
To Be Hamlet

Self
Hamlet: The Actor's View

Carr Gomm
The Elephant Man

Stimme Gottes
David

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Secret Agent

Mr. Beddoes
Murder on the Orient Express

Colonel Carbury
Appointment with Death

Gillenormand
Les Misérables

The Pope
Elizabeth

Prospero
Prospero's Books

Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Oh! What a Lovely War

Oswald
First Knight

Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

Dr. Abraham Esau
The Formula

Sunflower
Shining Through

King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
DragonHeart

Master of Trinity
Chariots of Fire

Nerva
Caligola

Sir Adrian Chappie
The Whistle Blower

Hobson
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Sharif El Gariani
Lion Of The Desert

Prime Minister
Murder by Decree

Hobson
Arthur

St. John
The Power of One

Mock Turtle
Alice in Wonderland

Sir Leonard Darwin
Plenty

Lord Raglan
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

George, Duke of Clarence
Richard III

King Louis VII of France
Becket

Headmaster
Aces High

Pope Pius XII
The Scarlet and the Black

Sir Francis Hinsley
The Loved One

Jasper Swift
Time After Time

Abdu-Hamdi
Sphinx

Sir Simon de Canterville
The Canterville Ghost

Brigadier Tomlinson
The Human Factor

Narrator
The Leopard Son

Cassius
Julius Caesar

Farrell
Gold

Doctor Doyle
Haunted

Herbert G. Muskett
Priest of Love

Merlin (voice)
Quest for Camelot

Charmolue
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor

The Protagonist
Catastrophe

Clive Langham
Providence

Marquis of Caterhan
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

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

Chorus
Romeo and Juliet

Cornelius Cardew
The Shooting Party

Chang
Lost Horizon

Inigo Jollifant
The Good Companions

Eddie Loomis
Quartermaine's Terms

Gaev
The Cherry Orchard

Reverend Jones
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Earl of Warwick
Saint Joan

Ghost (voice)
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Hogarth
The Wicked Lady

The Preacher
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Hamlet
A Diary for Timothy

Narrator (English version) (voice)
Mourir à Madrid

Curt Valayan
Assignment to Kill

Lord Durrisdeer
The Master of Ballantrae

Cardinal Wolsey
A Man for All Seasons

Uncle Willie
Scandalous

Spooner
No Man's Land

Edward Moulton-Barrett
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Old Cardinal
Galileo

Duke de Charles
Camille

Lord Sissal
Eagle in a Cage

Harold L. Streeter
Probe

The Doctor
Joseph Andrews

King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet

Narrator
An Airman's Letter to His Mother

Rich Man
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

Lord Burleigh
The Critic

A Summer Day's Dream

Self (archive footage)
Revisiting Brideshead

Svetlovidov
Swan Song

Sydney Cockerell
The Best of Friends

Ages of Man

Invitation to the Wedding

Meecham
11 Harrowhouse

John of Gaunt
Richard II

Theodore Woodward
Romance on the Orient Express

Self - Interviewee
Looking for Richard

Priam
Hamlet

Harry
Home

Head of Intelligence
Sebastian

Disraeli
The Prime Minister

Drechsler
The Strauss Dynasty

Sir Gordon Munday
Getting It Right

Mr. Touchett
The Portrait of a Lady

Prospero
A Walk Through Prospero's Library

Henri Dubois
Insult

Cecil Parkes
Shine

Albert Speer Sr.
Inside the Third Reich

Gabriel Quantara
The Mayfly and the Frog

John Lasocki
Dyrygent

Self
Heredity in Man

The Immortal Land

Virgil
A TV Dante

John Middleton Murry
Leave All Fair

The Elder Pope
The Shoes of the Fisherman

Foster
Around the World in Eighty Days

Self
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

Herbert Dreuther
Strike It Rich

Lord Henry Wotton
The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Chorus
Romeo and Juliet

Daniel
Who Is the Man?

Chorus
Romeo and Juliet

Rex Trasmere
The Clue of the New Pin

Cockburn
The Tichborne Claimant

Captain Shotover
Heartbreak House

Tieresias
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Tiresias
Theban Plays: Antigone

Narrator
Peter Pan

Narrator (voice)
Révolution d'octobre

Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Self (Voice)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

Virgil (voice)
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

Self
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

Self
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

Self (archive footage)
Nothing Like a Dame

Narrator
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five

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

Barbablù
Barbablù, Barbablù

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

John Worthing, JP
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

Self
Laurence Olivier: a life

Nikolai ivanov
Ivanov

Anton Chekhov
From Chekhov with Love

Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
140
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-04-14
Place of Birth
London, England
Also Known As
Arthur John Gielgud