John Gielgud
Acting
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.
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Play for Today
1970
Great Performances
1971
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
Film '72
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Screen Two
1985
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Wednesday Play
1964
Inspector Morse
1987
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Performance
1991
Second City Television
1976
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
Hamlet
1996
The Elephant Man
1980
Caligula
1979
Lovejoy
1986
War and Remembrance
1988
Merlin
1998
ABC Stage 67
1966
DragonHeart
1996
Gandhi
1982
Marco Polo
1982
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Shine
1996
Scarlett
1994
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
Brideshead Revisited
1981
Quest for Camelot
1998
First Knight
1995
The Whistle Blower
1986
Elizabeth
1998
Chariots of Fire
1981
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
Inside the Third Reich
1982
Shining Through
1992
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Appointment with Death
1988
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Lion of the Desert
1981
Menace
1970
David
1997
Becket
1964
Arthur
1981
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
The Power of One
1992
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
Wagner
1983
Murder by Decree
1979
Julius Caesar
1953
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
The Far Pavilions
1984
Sphinx
1981
Looking for Richard
1996
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
Haunted
1995
Prospero's Books
1991
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
Chimes at Midnight
1965
Catastrophe
2001
The Human Factor
1979
The Big Party
1959
Secret Agent
1936
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Frankenstein: The True Story
1973
QB VII
1974
The Loved One
1965
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988
Gold
1974
The Wicked Lady
1983
Les Misérables
1978
Aces High
1976
Summer's Lease
1989
Lost Horizon
1973
Joseph Andrews
1977
Julius Caesar
1970
The Formula
1980
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Richard III
1955
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
Saint Joan
1957
Camille
1984
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Peter Pan
1976
Stick with Me, Kid
1995
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
The Shooting Party
1985
Providence
1977
Assignment to Kill
1968
Plenty
1985
Hamlet
1964
The Canterville Ghost
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
A Man for All Seasons
1988
Scandalous
1984
11 Harrowhouse
1974
Alice in Wonderland
1966
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
Frankenstein: The True Story
1974
Home
1972
Hamlet
1970
Romance on the Orient Express
1985
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Priest of Love
1981
No Man's Land
1978
Romeo and Juliet
1978
Time After Time
1986
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982
Sebastian
1968
Getting It Right
1989
Richard II
1978
A Diary for Timothy
1945
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990
Romeo and Juliet
1967
Strike It Rich
1990
Ivanov
1966
Galileo
1975
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986
Romeo and Juliet
1954
Heredity in Man
1937
Frankenstein
1984
The Cherry Orchard
1962
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957
To Be Hamlet
1985
The Immortal Land
1958
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
1955
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1976
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
The Tichborne Claimant
1999
A TV Dante
1990
The Prime Minister
1941
The Conductor
1980
Probe
1972
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977
The Master of Ballantrae
1984
The Best of Friends
1991
Eagle in a Cage
1972
The Good Companions
1933
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Invitation to the Wedding
1983
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
2009
October Revolution
1967
A TV Dante
1990
To Die in Madrid
1963
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1973
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
Quartermaine's Terms
1987
The Clue of the New Pin
1929
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968
Leave All Fair
1985
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1992
Heartbreak House
1977
Revisiting Brideshead
2005
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
1953
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984
Who Is the Man?
1924
Swan Song
1992
Insult
1932
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
1995
From Chekhov with Love
1968
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
Barbablù, Barbablù
1989
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
2016
The Critic
1982
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
1991
The Leopard Son
1996
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
1990
The Grand Inquisitor
1977
Ages of Man
1966
Hamlet: The Actor's View
1954
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
1941
