1904-04-14 London, England
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.
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Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-02 |
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self | 2016-07-18 |
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Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
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Behind The Scenes of Caligula | 2009-01-06 | |
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Revisiting Brideshead | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-15 |
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Catastrophe | The Protagonist | 2001-09-01 |
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Elizabeth | The Pope | 1998-09-13 |
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The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | 1998-08-01 |
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Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow | 1998-01-01 | |
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Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
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David | Stimme Gottes | 1997-03-23 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | 1996-10-17 |
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DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-05-31 |
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Shine | Cecil Parkes | 1996-08-15 |
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Hamlet | Priam | 1996-12-25 |
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Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
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The Leopard Son | Narrator | 1996-09-27 |
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First Knight | Oswald | 1995-07-07 |
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Haunted | Doctor Doyle | 1995-10-27 |
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The Thomas The Tank Engine Man | Self (Voice) | 1995-02-25 |
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A Summer Day's Dream | 1994-11-26 | |
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The South Bank Show: Noël Coward | Self | 1992-03-01 |
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A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | 1992-01-01 |
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Swan Song | Svetlovidov | 1992-01-01 |
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The Power of One | St. John | 1992-03-27 |
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Shining Through | Sunflower | 1992-01-31 |
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The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991-01-01 |
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) | Virgil (voice) | 1991-03-06 |
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) | 1991-10-28 |
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Prospero's Books | Prospero | 1991-08-30 |
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The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | 1991-01-01 |
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Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | 1990-01-26 |
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self | 1990-10-22 |
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Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes | Narrator (voice) | 1990-09-01 |
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A TV Dante | Virgil | 1990-06-13 |
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Barbablù, Barbablù | Barbablù | 1989-11-17 |
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Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday | 1989-05-05 |
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Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury | 1988-04-15 |
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson | 1988-07-08 |
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self | 1988-09-20 |
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A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | 1988-12-21 |
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | British Lord | 1987-10-12 |
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Quartermaine's Terms | Eddie Loomis | 1987-03-29 |
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The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | 1986-12-31 |
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | 1986-09-16 |
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Time After Time | Jasper Swift | 1986-01-26 |
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The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | 1986-11-21 |
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Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | 1986-09-19 |
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Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | 1985-09-20 |
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The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew | 1985-02-01 |
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Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | 1985-06-24 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | 1985-03-04 |
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Camille | Duke de Charles | 1984-12-11 |
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The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer | 1984-01-31 |
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Scandalous | Uncle Willie | 1984-01-29 |
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Frankenstein | De Lacey | 1984-06-17 |
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate | Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited) | 1984-01-01 |
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The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | 1983-02-02 |
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The Wicked Lady | Hogarth | 1983-04-21 |
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Invitation to the Wedding | 1983-01-01 | |
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The Critic | Lord Burleigh | 1982-08-28 |
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Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. | 1982-05-09 |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue | 1982-02-02 |
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Laurence Olivier: a life | Self | 1982-10-24 |
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Gandhi | Lord Irwin | 1982-12-01 |
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Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | 1981-04-17 |
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Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | 1981-05-15 |
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Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett | 1981-10-11 |
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Arthur | Hobson | 1981-07-17 |
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Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | 1981-02-11 |
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan | 1981-03-08 |
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Dyrygent | John Lasocki | 1980-02-27 |
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The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau | 1980-12-19 |
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The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm | 1980-10-09 |
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | 1980-03-30 |
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Murder by Decree | Prime Minister | 1979-02-01 |
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The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | 1979-12-18 |
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Caligola | Nerva | 1979-08-14 |
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Richard II | John of Gaunt | 1978-12-10 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1978-12-03 |
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Les Misérables | Gillenormand | 1978-12-27 |
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No Man's Land | Spooner | 1978-10-03 |
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Providence | Clive Langham | 1977-01-25 |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | 1977-09-01 |
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Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | 1977-03-09 |
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Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover | 1977-05-19 |
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The Grand Inquisitor | Inquisitor | 1977-04-10 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1976-09-19 |
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Peter Pan | Narrator | 1976-12-12 |
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Aces High | Headmaster | 1976-05-19 |
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Galileo | The Old Cardinal | 1975-01-27 |
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11 Harrowhouse | Meecham | 1974-09-26 |
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Gold | Farrell | 1974-06-08 |
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Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | 1974-11-22 |
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Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1974-09-19 |
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Various | 1973-01-03 |
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Lost Horizon | Chang | 1973-03-14 |
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Probe | Harold L. Streeter | 1972-02-21 |
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Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal | 1972-01-09 |
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Home | Harry | 1972-01-06 |
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Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1970-06-04 |
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Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | 1969-03-10 |
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Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan | 1968-05-01 |
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Rich Man | 1968-05-10 |
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Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | 1968-01-24 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | 1968-04-10 |
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The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder Pope | 1968-11-14 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1967-03-12 |
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Révolution d'octobre | Narrator (voice) | 1967-10-11 |
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The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara | 1966-12-21 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | 1966-12-28 |
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Ivanov | Nikolai ivanov | 1966-05-03 |
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Ages of Man | 1966-01-23 | |
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The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley | 1965-10-11 |
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Campanadas a medianoche | Henry IV | 1965-12-22 |
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Becket | King Louis VII of France | 1964-03-11 |
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Ghost (voice) | 1964-09-23 |
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Mourir à Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) | 1963-04-18 |
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The Cherry Orchard | Gaev | 1962-04-17 |
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The Immortal Land | 1958-01-01 | |
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Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick | 1957-05-08 |
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | 1957-01-16 |
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Around the World in Eighty Days | Foster | 1956-10-17 |
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ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall | John Worthing, JP | 1955-09-22 |
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Richard III | George, Duke of Clarence | 1955-12-13 |
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Hamlet: The Actor's View | Self | 1954-05-16 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1954-09-01 |
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Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1953-06-04 |
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Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five | Narrator | 1953-01-01 |
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A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | 1945-11-01 |
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An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator | 1941-06-05 |
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The Prime Minister | Disraeli | 1941-03-04 |
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Heredity in Man | Self | 1937-01-01 |
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Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie | 1936-05-31 |
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The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant | 1933-02-28 |
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Insult | Henri Dubois | 1932-07-27 |
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The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere | 1929-03-01 |
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Who Is the Man? | Daniel | 1924-09-01 |
