John Gielgud
b. 1904 — d. 2000 (aged 96)
South Kensington, London, England, UK
Actor
Director
Writer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Known For
Filmography
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Bacon's Histories: Study for a Portrait
2026 Self
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★ 6.3
Trouser Bar
2016 Writer
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★ 6.3
Catastrophe
2001 Actor
The Protagonist
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★ 7.1
Merlin
1998 Actor
King Constant
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★ 6.2
The Tichborne Claimant
1998 Actor
Cockburn
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★ 8.1
The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 Actor
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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★ 7.4
The Leopard Son
1996 Actor
Narrator
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★ 6.0
First Knight
1995 Actor
Oswald
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★ 6.2
Haunted
1995 Actor
Doctor Doyle
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★ 8.1
Stick with Me, Kid
1995 Actor
Grandpa
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★ 8.4
Westminster Abbey
1995 Self
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Words from Jerusalem
1995 Self
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★ 6.4
Shining Through
1992 Actor
Sunflower
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★ 7.3
Swan Song
1992 Actor
Svetlovidov
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★ 6.8
Prospero's Books
1991 Actor
Prospero
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★ 7.5
The Best of Friends
1991 Actor
Sydney Cockerell
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★ 7.8
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1991 Actor
Prospero
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Victims of Indulgence
1991 Actor
Narrator
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★ 7.0
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990 Self
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★ 4.9
Strike It Rich
1990 Actor
Herbert Dreuther
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★ 6.4
Getting It Right
1989 Actor
Sir Gordon Munday
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★ 7.5
Summer's Lease
1989 Actor
Haverford Downs
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★ 7.4
A TV Dante
1989 Actor
Virgil
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★ 6.1
Appointment with Death
1988 Actor
Colonel Carbury
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★ 4.7
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988 Actor
Hobson
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★ 7.0
A Man for All Seasons
1988 Actor
Cardinal Wolsey
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★ 7.3
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 Self
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★ 5.2
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 Actor
British Lord
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★ 9.1
An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa
1987 Self
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★ 7.0
Barbablù, Barbablù
1987 Actor
Barbablù
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★ 6.2
The Whistle Blower
1986 Actor
Sir Adrian Chapple
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★ 6.6
The Canterville Ghost
1986 Actor
Sir Simon de Canterville
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★ 6.6
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
1986 Actor
Teiresias
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★ 6.0
Plenty
1985 Actor
Sir Leonard Darwin
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★ 6.8
The Shooting Party
1985 Actor
Cornelius Cardew
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★ 6.2
Romance on the Orient Express
1985 Actor
Theodore Woodward
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★ 6.1
Leave All Fair
1985 Actor
John Middleton Murry
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★ 6.2
Camille
1984 Actor
Duke de Charles
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★ 4.4
Scandalous
1984 Actor
Uncle Willie
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★ 4.6
Frankenstein
1984 Actor
De Lacey
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★ 6.7
The Master of Ballantrae
1984 Actor
Lord Durrisdeer
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★ 7.8
Ingrid
1984 Self
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★ 8.8
Six Centuries of Verse
1984 Self
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★ 7.5
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 Actor
Pope Pius XII
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★ 4.9
The Wicked Lady
1983 Actor
Hogarth
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★ 7.5
Wagner
1983 Actor
Pfistermeister
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★ 5.4
Invitation to the Wedding
1983 Actor
Reverend Clyde Ormiston
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★ 6.3
The Great Hamlets
1983 Self
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★ 8.0
Gandhi
1982 Actor
Lord Irwin
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★ 6.3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 Actor
Charmolue
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★ 7.2
Inside the Third Reich
1982 Actor
Albert Speer Sr.
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★ 7.1
Chariots of Fire
1981 Actor
Master of Trinity
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★ 6.9
Arthur
1981 Actor
Hobson
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★ 8.5
Brideshead Revisited
1981 Actor
Edward Ryder
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★ 5.2
Sphinx
1981 Actor
Abdu-Hamdi
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★ 6.5
Seven Dials Mystery
1981 Actor
Marquis of Caterhan
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★ 6.0
Priest of Love
1981 Actor
Herbert G. Muskett
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Voyage to the End of the Earth
1981 Actor
Narrator
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Paperbacks
1981 Self
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★ 8.2
The Elephant Man
1980 Actor
Carr Gomm
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★ 8.2
Lion of the Desert
1980 Actor
Sharif El Gariani
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★ 5.6
The Formula
1980 Actor
Dr. Esau
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★ 6.9
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 Actor
Reverend Jones
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★ 6.9
The Conductor
1980 Actor
John Lasocki
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★ 6.2
The British Greats
1980 Self
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Every Night Something Atrocious
1980 Actor
Interviewee
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★ 5.4
Caligula
1979 Actor
Nerva
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★ 6.8
Murder by Decree
1979 Actor
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
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★ 6.1
The Human Factor
1979 Actor
Brigadier Tomlinson
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★ 7.3
Les Miserables
1978 Actor
Gillenormand
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★ 8.5
No Man's Land
1978 Actor
Spooner
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★ 7.4
Providence
1977 Actor
Clive Langham
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★ 6.2
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977 Actor
The Preacher
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★ 7.3
The Grand Inquisitor
1977 Actor
The Grand Inquisitor
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Fall In, the Stars
1977 Self
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★ 6.6
Aces High
1976 Actor
Headmaster
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★ 6.6
Peter Pan
1976 Actor
Narrator
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★ 6.5
Galileo
1975 Actor
The Old Cardinal
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★ 7.2
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Actor
Beddoes
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★ 5.7
Gold
1974 Actor
Farrell
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★ 6.2
11 Harrowhouse
1974 Actor
Meecham
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This Is Noel Coward
1974 Self
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★ 5.3
Lost Horizon
1973 Actor
Chang
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★ 7.1
Probe
1972 Actor
Harold L. Streeter
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★ 5.8
Eagle in a Cage
1972 Actor
Lord Sissal
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★ 6.1
Julius Caesar
1970 Actor
Julius Caesar
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★ 7.7
Hassan
1970 Actor
Caliph Haroun al Raschid
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A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward
1970 Self
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Carol Channing's Mad English Tea Party
1970 Self
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Hamlet Revisited: Approaches to Hamlet
1970 Self
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Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1968
1969 Self
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Ellen Terry
1969 Self
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★ 7.0
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 Actor
The Elder Pope
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★ 6.6
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 Actor
Lord Raglan
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★ 6.1
Sebastian
1968 Actor
Head of Intelligence
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★ 6.0
Assignment to Kill
1968 Actor
Curt Valayan
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★ 7.7
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 Self
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From Chekhov with Love
1968 Actor
Anton Chekhov
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★ 7.2
Omnibus
1967 Self
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Révolution d'octobre
1967 Actor
Narrator