John Gielgud

Biography

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.

Known For

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

140

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-04-14

Place of Birth

London, England

Also Known As

Arthur John Gielgud