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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, 1904-04-14

Died: 2000-05-21

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	Who Is the Man?	Daniel	0
2	1929	The Clue of the New Pin	Rex Trasmere	0
3	1932	Insult	Henri Dubois	0
4	1933	The Good Companions	Inigo Jollifant	58
5	1936	Secret Agent	Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie	61
6	1937	Heredity in Man	Self	0
7	1941	The Prime Minister	Disraeli	60
8	1941	An Airman's Letter to His Mother	Narrator	60
9	1945	A Diary for Timothy	Hamlet	66
10	1953	Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five	Narrator	0
11	1953	Julius Caesar	Cassius	71
12	1954	Hamlet: The Actor's View	Self	0
13	1954	Romeo and Juliet	Chorus	52
14	1955	ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall	John Worthing, JP	0
15	1955	Richard III	George, Duke of Clarence	71
16	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Foster	66
17	1957	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Edward Moulton-Barrett	62
18	1957	Saint Joan	Earl of Warwick	65
19	1958	The Immortal Land		0
20	1962	The Cherry Orchard	Gaev	80
21	1963	To Die in Madrid	Narrator (English version) (voice)	75
22	1964	Becket	King Louis VII of France	71
23	1964	Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre	Ghost (voice)	65
24	1965	The Loved One	Sir Francis Hinsley	63
25	1965	Chimes at Midnight	Henry IV	72
26	1966	Ages of Man		0
27	1966	Ivanov	Nikolai ivanov	0
28	1966	The Mayfly and the Frog	Gabriel Quantara	0
29	1966	Alice in Wonderland	Mock Turtle	58
30	1967	Romeo and Juliet	Chorus	0
31	1967	October Revolution	Narrator (voice)	0
32	1968	Sebastian	Head of Intelligence	60
33	1968	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Lord Raglan	61
34	1968	Assignment to Kill	Curt Valayan	60
35	1968	The Love Song of Barney Kempinski	Rich Man	0
36	1968	The Shoes of the Fisherman	The Elder Pope	67
37	1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Count Leopold Von Berchtold	68
38	1970	Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	57
39	1972	Home	Harry	78
40	1972	Eagle in a Cage	Lord Sissal	50
41	1972	Probe	Harold L. Streeter	55
42	1973	William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare	Various	0
43	1973	Lost Horizon	Chang	54
44	1974	Gold	Farrell	57
45	1974	Frankenstein: The True Story	Chief Constable	75
46	1974	11 Harrowhouse	Meecham	57
47	1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Mr. Beddoes	71
48	1975	Galileo	The Old Cardinal	59
49	1976	Aces High	Headmaster	59
50	1976	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Lord Henry Wotton	80
51	1976	Peter Pan	Narrator	60
52	1977	Providence	Clive Langham	68
53	1977	Joseph Andrews	The Doctor	47
54	1977	The Grand Inquisitor	Inquisitor	0
55	1977	Heartbreak House	Captain Shotover	0
56	1977	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	The Preacher	60
57	1978	No Man's Land	Spooner	70
58	1978	Romeo and Juliet	Chorus	74
59	1978	Richard II	John of Gaunt	75
60	1978	Les Misérables	Gillenormand	72
61	1979	Murder by Decree	Prime Minister	64
62	1979	Caligula	Nerva	60
63	1979	The Human Factor	Brigadier Tomlinson	59
64	1980	The Conductor	John Lasocki	63
65	1980	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?	Reverend Jones	64
66	1980	The Elephant Man	Carr Gomm	81
67	1980	The Formula	Dr. Abraham Esau	55
68	1981	Sphinx	Abdu-Hamdi	56
69	1981	Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery	Marquis of Caterhan	67
70	1981	Lion of the Desert	Sharif El Gariani	73
71	1981	Chariots of Fire	Master of Trinity	68
72	1981	Arthur	Hobson	65
73	1981	Priest of Love	Herbert G. Muskett	50
74	1982	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Charmolue	58
75	1982	Inside the Third Reich	Albert Speer Sr.	72
76	1982	The Critic	Lord Burleigh	0
77	1982	Laurence Olivier: a life	Self	100
78	1982	Gandhi	Lord Irwin	76
79	1983	Invitation to the Wedding		0
80	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Pope Pius XII	70
81	1983	The Wicked Lady	Hogarth	49
82	1984	James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate	Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)	0
83	1984	Scandalous	Uncle Willie	25
84	1984	The Master of Ballantrae	Lord Durrisdeer	60
85	1984	Frankenstein	De Lacey	58
86	1984	Camille	Duke de Charles	56
87	1985	To Be Hamlet	Self	0
88	1985	The Shooting Party	Cornelius Cardew	66
89	1985	Romance on the Orient Express	Theodore Woodward	55
90	1985	Leave All Fair	John Middleton Murry	70
91	1985	Plenty	Sir Leonard Darwin	57
92	1986	Time After Time	Jasper Swift	0
93	1986	Theban Plays: Oedipus the King	Tieresias	20
94	1986	Theban Plays: Antigone	Tiresias	0
95	1986	The Whistle Blower	Sir Adrian Chappie	58
96	1986	The Canterville Ghost	Sir Simon de Canterville	66
97	1987	Quartermaine's Terms	Eddie Loomis	0
98	1987	Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville	British Lord	0
99	1988	Appointment with Death	Colonel Carbury	61
100	1988	Arthur 2: On the Rocks	Hobson	55
101	1988	In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton	Self	60
102	1988	A Man for All Seasons	Cardinal Wolsey	68
103	1989	Getting It Right	Sir Gordon Munday	70
104	1989	Barbablù, Barbablù	Barbablù	0
105	1990	Strike It Rich	Herbert Dreuther	50
106	1990	A TV Dante	Virgil	64
107	1990	Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes	Narrator (voice)	0
108	1990	Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond	Self	100
109	1991	The Best of Friends	Sydney Cockerell	10
110	1991	The Strauss Dynasty	Drechsler	82
111	1991	A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)	Virgil (voice)	55
112	1991	Prospero's Books	Prospero	68
113	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self (archive footage)	77
114	1992	Swan Song	Svetlovidov	68
115	1992	A Walk Through Prospero's Library	Prospero	0
116	1992	Shining Through	Sunflower	65
117	1992	The South Bank Show: Noël Coward	Self	0
118	1992	The Power of One	St. John	75
119	1994	A Summer Day's Dream		0
120	1995	The Thomas The Tank Engine Man	Self (Voice)	5
121	1995	First Knight	Oswald	61
122	1995	Haunted	Doctor Doyle	61
123	1996	DragonHeart	King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)	65
124	1996	Shine	Cecil Parkes	74
125	1996	The Leopard Son	Narrator	0
126	1996	Looking for Richard	Self - Interviewee	68
127	1996	The Portrait of a Lady	Mr. Touchett	60
128	1996	Hamlet	Priam	73
129	1997	David	Stimme Gottes	65
130	1998	Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow		0
131	1998	Merlin	Roi Constant	0
132	1998	Quest for Camelot	Merlin (voice)	68
133	1998	The Tichborne Claimant	Cockburn	80
134	1998	Elizabeth	The Pope	72
135	2001	Catastrophe	The Protagonist	60
136	2005	Revisiting Brideshead	Self (archive footage)	0
137	2009	Behind The Scenes of Caligula		0
138	2011	Discovering Hamlet	King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)	70
139	2016	Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film	Self	58
140	2018	Nothing Like a Dame	Self (archive footage)	68
141	2024	Caligula: The Ultimate Cut	Nerva	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	The Ghost	86
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Charmolue	86
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Lord Durrisdeer	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Duke	86
6	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
7	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self	73
8	1959	The Big Party	Self	0
9	1964	The Wednesday Play	Gabriel Quantara	45
10	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Chorus	50
11	1965	BBC Play of the Month	The Inquisitor	50
12	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Charles II	50
13	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton	50
14	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Capt. Shotover	50
15	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Lord Burleigh	50
16	1966	ABC Stage 67	Rich Man	62
17	1967	Omnibus	Self	72
18	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
19	1970	Menace		0
20	1970	Play for Today	Harry	63
21	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
22	1972	ABC Afterschool Special	Various Roles	64
23	1973	Frankenstein: The True Story	Chief Constable	85
24	1974	QB VII	Clinton-Meek	77
25	1976	Second City Television	Self	76
26	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Chorus	60
27	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	John of Gaunt	60
28	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Jelks	67
29	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Cyril Boggis	67
30	1981	Brideshead Revisited	Edward 'Ned' Ryder	79
31	1982	Marco Polo	Doge di Venezia	68
32	1983	Wagner	Pfistermeister	63
33	1984	The Far Pavilions	Cavagnari	75
34	1984	Six Centuries of Verse	Self - Presenter	60
35	1985	Screen Two		68
36	1986	Lovejoy	Lord Wakering	73
37	1987	Inspector Morse	Lord Hinksey	78
38	1988	War and Remembrance	Aaron Jastrow	79
39	1989	Summer's Lease	Haverford Downs	75
40	1991	Performance	Stephen Dawlish	60
41	1991	The Strauss Dynasty	Drechsler	0
42	1993	Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties	Self	0
43	1994	Scarlett		66
44	1995	Stick with Me, Kid	Grandpa	0
45	1996	Gulliver's Travels	Professor of Light	71
46	1997	A Dance to the Music of Time	St. John Clarke	53
47	1998	Merlin	King Constant	69