John Gielgud
1904-04-14THE 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
ALSO APPEARS IN MOVIES
Chimes at Midnight
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Gandhi
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein: The True Story
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To Be Hamlet
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Hamlet: The Actor's View
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The Elephant Man
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David
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Secret Agent
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Appointment with Death
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Les Misérables
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Elizabeth
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Prospero's Books
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Oh! What a Lovely War
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First Knight
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
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The Formula
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Shining Through
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DragonHeart
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Chariots of Fire
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Caligula
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The Whistle Blower
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
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Lion Of The Desert
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Murder by Decree
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Arthur
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The Power of One
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Alice in Wonderland
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Plenty
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Julius Caesar
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Richard III
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Becket
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Aces High
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The Scarlet and the Black
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The Loved One
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Time After Time
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Sphinx
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The Canterville Ghost
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The Human Factor
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The Leopard Son
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Julius Caesar
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Gold
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Haunted
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Priest of Love
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Quest for Camelot
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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The Grand Inquisitor
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Catastrophe
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Providence
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Shooting Party
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Lost Horizon
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The Good Companions
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Quartermaine's Terms
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The Cherry Orchard
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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Saint Joan
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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The Wicked Lady
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Diary for Timothy
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To Die in Madrid
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Assignment to Kill
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The Master of Ballantrae
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A Man for All Seasons
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Scandalous
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No Man's Land
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Galileo
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Camille
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Eagle in a Cage
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Probe
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Joseph Andrews
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Discovering Hamlet
⭐ 7An Airman's Letter to His Mother
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
⭐ 0The Critic
⭐ 0A Summer Day's Dream
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Revisiting Brideshead
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Ages of Man
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The Best of Friends
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Invitation to the Wedding
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11 Harrowhouse
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Richard II
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Romance on the Orient Express
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Looking for Richard
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Hamlet
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Home
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Sebastian
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The Prime Minister
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The Strauss Dynasty
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Getting It Right
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The Portrait of a Lady
⭐ 5.964A Walk Through Prospero's Library
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Insult
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Shine
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Inside the Third Reich
⭐ 7.2The Mayfly and the Frog
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The Conductor
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Heredity in Man
⭐ 0The Immortal Land
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A TV Dante
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Leave All Fair
⭐ 7The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
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Strike It Rich
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
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Romeo and Juliet
⭐ 0Who Is the Man?
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Romeo and Juliet
⭐ 7.4The Clue of the New Pin
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The Tichborne Claimant
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Heartbreak House
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
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Theban Plays: Antigone
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Peter Pan
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October Revolution
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
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The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
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Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
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Nothing Like a Dame
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Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
⭐ 0Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
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Barbablù, Barbablù
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Behind The Scenes of Caligula
⭐ 0ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
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Laurence Olivier: a life
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Ivanov
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