John Gielgud

John Gielgud

acting Apr 14, 1904 May 21, 2000 London, England

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oscars

1 win

  • 1981 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Hobson) Arthur

1 nomination

  • 1964 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (King Louis VII of France) Becket

143 of 143 films rated

IMDb avg 6.7
IMDb median 6.8
RT avg 65%
RT median 75%

highest rated

acting

  1. Nothing Like a Dame → Self (archive footage)
  2. Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film → Self
  3. Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films → Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
  4. Discovering Hamlet → King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
  5. Behind The Scenes of Caligula
  6. Revisiting Brideshead → Self (archive footage)
  7. Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film → Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
  8. Catastrophe → The Protagonist
  9. The Tichborne Claimant → Cockburn
  10. Merlin (TV) → King Constant
  11. Elizabeth → The Pope
  12. Quest for Camelot → Merlin (voice)
  13. Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
  14. A Dance to the Music of Time (TV) → St. John Clarke
  15. David → Stimme Gottes
  16. DragonHeart → King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
  17. Gulliver's Travels (TV) → Professor of Light
  18. Hamlet → Priam
  19. Shine → Cecil Parkes
  20. Looking for Richard → Self - Interviewee
  21. The Portrait of a Lady → Mr. Touchett
  22. The Leopard Son → Narrator
  23. First Knight → Oswald
  24. Haunted → Dr Henry Doyle
  25. Stick with Me, Kid (TV) → Grandpa
  26. The Thomas The Tank Engine Man → Self (Voice)
  27. Scarlett (TV) → Pierre Robillard
  28. A Summer Day's Dream
  29. Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (TV) → Self
  30. Shining Through → Sunflower
  31. The Power of One → St. John
  32. Swan Song → Svetlovidov
  33. A Walk Through Prospero's Library → Prospero
  34. Performance (TV) → Stephen Dawlish
  35. The Strauss Dynasty (TV) → Drechsler
  36. Prospero's Books → Prospero
  37. Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker → Self (archive footage)
  38. The Strauss Dynasty → Drechsler
  39. The Best of Friends → Sydney Cockerell
  40. A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) → Virgil (voice)
  41. Strike It Rich → Herbert Dreuther
  42. Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond → Self
  43. A TV Dante → Virgil
  44. Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes → Narrator (voice)
  45. Summer's Lease (TV) → Haverford Downs
  46. Getting It Right → Sir Gordon Munday
  47. Barbablù, Barbablù → Barbablù
  48. War and Remembrance (TV) → Aaron Jastrow
  49. Appointment with Death → Colonel Carbury
  50. Arthur 2: On the Rocks → Hobson
  51. A Man for All Seasons → Cardinal Wolsey
  52. In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton → Self
  53. Inspector Morse (TV) → Lord Hinksey
  54. Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville → British Lord
  55. Quartermaine's Terms → Eddie Loomis
  56. Lovejoy (TV) → Lord Wakering
  57. The Whistle Blower → Sir Adrian Chappie
  58. The Canterville Ghost → Sir Simon de Canterville
  59. Theban Plays: Oedipus the King → Tieresias
  60. Theban Plays: Antigone → Tiresias
  61. Time After Time → Jasper Swift
  62. Screen Two (TV)
  63. Plenty → Sir Leonard Darwin
  64. To Be Hamlet → Self
  65. The Shooting Party → Cornelius Cardew
  66. Romance on the Orient Express → Theodore Woodward
  67. Leave All Fair → John Middleton Murry
  68. The Far Pavilions (TV) → Cavagnari
  69. Six Centuries of Verse (TV) → Self - Presenter
  70. Camille → Duke de Charles
  71. Scandalous → Uncle Willie
  72. The Master of Ballantrae → Lord Durrisdeer
  73. Frankenstein → De Lacey
  74. James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate → Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
  75. The Scarlet and the Black → Pope Pius XII
  76. Wagner (TV) → Pfistermeister
  77. The Wicked Lady → Hogarth
  78. Invitation to the Wedding
  79. Marco Polo (TV) → Doge di Venezia
  80. Gandhi → Lord Irwin
  81. Inside the Third Reich (TV) → Albert Speer Sr.
  82. The Hunchback of Notre Dame → Charmolue
  83. The Critic → Lord Burleigh
  84. Laurence Olivier: a life → Self
  85. Brideshead Revisited (TV) → Edward 'Ned' Ryder
  86. Chariots of Fire → Master of Trinity
  87. Arthur → Hobson
  88. Lion of the Desert → Sharif El Gariani
  89. Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery → Marquis of Caterhan
  90. Sphinx → Abdu-Hamdi
  91. Priest of Love → Herbert G. Muskett
  92. The Elephant Man → Carr Gomm
  93. The Formula → Dr. Abraham Esau
  94. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? → Reverend Jones
  95. The Conductor → John Lasocki
  96. Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Jelks
  97. Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Cyril Boggis
  98. Caligula → Nerva
  99. Murder by Decree → Prime Minister
  100. The Human Factor → Brigadier Tomlinson
  101. Les Misérables → Gillenormand
  102. Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
  103. Richard II → John of Gaunt
  104. No Man's Land → Spooner
  105. Joseph Andrews → The Doctor
  106. Providence → Clive Langham
  107. Heartbreak House → Captain Shotover
  108. The Grand Inquisitor → Inquisitor
  109. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man → The Preacher
  110. Second City Television (TV) → Self
  111. Aces High → Headmaster
  112. Peter Pan → Narrator
  113. The Picture of Dorian Gray → Lord Henry Wotton
  114. Galileo → The Old Cardinal
  115. Murder on the Orient Express → Mr. Beddoes
  116. QB VII (TV) → Clinton-Meek
  117. Gold → Farrell
  118. Frankenstein: The True Story → Chief Constable
  119. 11 Harrowhouse → Meecham
  120. Frankenstein: The True Story (TV) → Chief Constable
  121. Lost Horizon → Chang
  122. William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare → Various
  123. ABC Afterschool Special (TV) → Various Roles
  124. Probe → Harold L. Streeter
  125. Eagle in a Cage → Lord Sissal
  126. Home → Harry
  127. Great Performances (TV) → Self
  128. Play for Today (TV) → Harry
  129. Julius Caesar → Julius Caesar
  130. Menace (TV)
  131. Hamlet → The Ghost
  132. Oh! What a Lovely War → Count Leopold Von Berchtold
  133. The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
  134. The Charge of the Light Brigade → Lord Raglan
  135. The Shoes of the Fisherman → The Elder Pope
  136. Sebastian → Head of Intelligence
  137. Assignment to Kill → Curt Valayan
  138. The Love Song of Barney Kempinski → Rich Man
  139. From Chekhov with Love → Anton Chekhov
  140. Omnibus (TV) → Self
  141. Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
  142. October Revolution → Narrator (voice)
  143. ABC Stage 67 (TV) → Rich Man
  144. Alice in Wonderland → Mock Turtle
  145. The Mayfly and the Frog → Gabriel Quantara
  146. Ivanov → Nikolai ivanov
  147. Ages of Man
  148. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Chorus
  149. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → The Inquisitor
  150. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Charles II
  151. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton
  152. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Capt. Shotover
  153. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Lord Burleigh
  154. Chimes at Midnight → Henry IV
  155. The Loved One → Sir Francis Hinsley
  156. The Wednesday Play (TV) → Gabriel Quantara
  157. Becket → King Louis VII of France
  158. Hamlet → Ghost (voice)
  159. To Die in Madrid → Narrator (English version) (voice)
  160. The Cherry Orchard → Gaev
  161. The Bell Telephone Hour (TV) → Self
  162. The Big Party (TV) → Self
  163. The Immortal Land
  164. Tonight Starring Jack Paar (TV) → Self
  165. Saint Joan → Earl of Warwick
  166. The Barretts of Wimpole Street → Edward Moulton-Barrett
  167. Around the World in 80 Days → Foster
  168. Richard III → George, Duke of Clarence
  169. ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall → John Worthing, JP
  170. Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
  171. Hamlet: The Actor's View → Self
  172. Julius Caesar → Cassius
  173. Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five → Narrator
  174. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → The Ghost
  175. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Charmolue
  176. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Lord Durrisdeer
  177. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Duke
  178. The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
  179. A Diary for Timothy → Hamlet
  180. The Prime Minister → Disraeli
  181. An Airman's Letter to His Mother → Narrator
  182. Heredity in Man → Self
  183. Secret Agent → Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
  184. The Good Companions → Inigo Jollifant
  185. Insult → Henri Dubois
  186. The Clue of the New Pin → Rex Trasmere
  187. Who Is the Man? → Daniel

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