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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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-10-06 |
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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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Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film | Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe") | 2003-02-05 |
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Catastrophe | The Protagonist | 2001-09-01 |
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The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | 1999-11-12 |
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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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Elizabeth | The Pope | 1998-09-13 |
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David | Stimme Gottes | 1997-03-23 |
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DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-05-31 |
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The Leopard Son | Narrator | 1996-09-27 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | 1996-10-17 |
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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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Haunted | Dr Henry Doyle | 1995-10-27 |
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First Knight | Oswald | 1995-07-07 |
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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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Swan Song | Svetlovidov | 1992-01-01 |
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Shining Through | Sunflower | 1992-01-31 |
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A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | 1992-01-01 |
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The Power of One | St. John | 1992-03-27 |
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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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The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | 1991-01-01 |
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The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | 1991-01-01 |
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Prospero's Books | Prospero | 1991-08-30 |
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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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Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | 1990-01-26 |
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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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A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | 1988-12-21 |
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self | 1988-09-20 |
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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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Quartermaine's Terms | Eddie Loomis | 1987-03-29 |
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | British Lord | 1987-10-12 |
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Time After Time | Jasper Swift | 1986-01-26 |
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The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | 1986-12-31 |
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Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | 1986-09-19 |
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The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | 1986-11-21 |
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | 1986-09-16 |
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Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | 1985-06-24 |
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Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | 1985-03-04 |
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Die Letzte Jagd | Cornelius Cardew | 1985-02-01 |
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Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | 1985-09-20 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Frankenstein | De Lacey | 1984-06-17 |
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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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Camille | Duke de Charles | 1984-12-11 |
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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 Wicked Lady | Hogarth | 1983-04-21 |
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Invitation to the Wedding | 1983-01-01 | |
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The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | 1983-02-02 |
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The Critic | Lord Burleigh | 1982-08-28 |
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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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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan | 1981-03-08 |
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Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | 1981-02-11 |
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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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Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | 1981-05-15 |
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Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | 1981-04-17 |
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Dyrygent | John Lasocki | 1980-02-27 |
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | 1980-03-30 |
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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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The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | 1979-12-18 |
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Caligola | Nerva | 1979-08-14 |
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Murder by Decree | Prime Minister | 1979-02-01 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1978-12-03 |
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Richard II | John of Gaunt | 1978-12-10 |
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No Man's Land | Spooner | 1978-10-03 |
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Les Misérables | Gillenormand | 1978-12-27 |
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The Grand Inquisitor | Inquisitor | 1977-04-10 |
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Providence | Clive Langham | 1977-01-25 |
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Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover | 1977-05-19 |
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Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | 1977-03-09 |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | 1977-09-01 |
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Aces High | Headmaster | 1976-05-19 |
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Peter Pan | Narrator | 1976-12-12 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1976-09-19 |
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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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Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | 1974-09-19 |
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Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | 1974-11-22 |
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Gold | Farrell | 1974-06-08 |
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Lost Horizon | Chang | 1973-03-14 |
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Various | 1973-01-03 |
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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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Hamlet | The Ghost | 1970-11-17 |
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Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | 1969-03-10 |
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The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder Pope | 1968-11-14 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | 1968-04-10 |
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Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | 1968-01-24 |
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From Chekhov with Love | Anton Chekhov | 1968-02-11 |
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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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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1967-03-12 |
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Révolution d'octobre | Narrator (voice) | 1967-10-11 |
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Ages of Man | 1966-01-23 | |
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Ivanov | Nikolai ivanov | 1966-05-03 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | 1966-12-28 |
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The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara | 1966-12-21 |
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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 | 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 80 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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Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | 1954-09-01 |
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Hamlet: The Actor's View | Self | 1954-05-16 |
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Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five | Narrator | 1953-01-01 |
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Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1953-06-04 |
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A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | 1945-11-01 |
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The Prime Minister | Disraeli | 1941-03-04 |
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An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator | 1941-06-05 |
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Heredity in Man | Self | 1937-01-01 |
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Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie | 1936-05-11 |
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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 |
