Hamlet1996
As Priam
TMDb 7.3 / 10
John Gielgud
Born
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.
Filmography (142)
The Elephant Man1980
As Carr Gomm
TMDb 8.1 / 10
Caligula1979
As Nerva
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Murder on the Orient Express1974
As Mr. Beddoes
TMDb 7.1 / 10
DragonHeart1996
As King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Around the World in 80 Days1956
As Foster
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Gandhi1982
As Lord Irwin
TMDb 7.6 / 10
First Knight1995
As Oswald
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Quest for Camelot1998
As Merlin (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Chariots of Fire1981
As Master of Trinity
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Elizabeth1998
As The Pope
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Shine1996
As Cecil Parkes
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Appointment with Death1988
As Colonel Carbury
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Julius Caesar1953
As Cassius
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Lion of the Desert1981
As Sharif El Gariani
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Shining Through1992
As Sunflower
TMDb 6.5 / 10
David1997
As Stimme Gottes
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Arthur1981
As Hobson
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Becket1964
As King Louis VII of France
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Portrait of a Lady1996
As Mr. Touchett
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Whistle Blower1986
As Sir Adrian Chappie
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Catastrophe2001
As The Protagonist
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Power of One1992
As St. John
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Secret Agent1936
As Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Murder by Decree1979
As Prime Minister
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Charge of the Light Brigade1968
As Lord Raglan
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Haunted1995
As Dr Henry Doyle
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Joseph Andrews1977
As The Doctor
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Aces High1976
As Headmaster
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Prospero's Books1991
As Prospero
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Sphinx1981
As Abdu-Hamdi
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Scarlet and the Black1983
As Pope Pius XII
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Chimes at Midnight1965
As Henry IV
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Gold1974
As Farrell
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Lost Horizon1973
As Chang
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Richard III1955
As George, Duke of Clarence
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Formula1980
As Dr. Abraham Esau
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films2014
As Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Looking for Richard1996
As Self - Interviewee
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Wicked Lady1983
As Hogarth
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Loved One1965
As Sir Francis Hinsley
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Julius Caesar1970
As Julius Caesar
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Human Factor1979
As Brigadier Tomlinson
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Hamlet1964
As Ghost (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Shooting Party1985
As Cornelius Cardew
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Camille1984
As Duke de Charles
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Oh! What a Lovely War1969
As Count Leopold Von Berchtold
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery1981
As Marquis of Caterhan
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film2003
As Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Les Misérables1978
As Gillenormand
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Hamlet1970
As The Ghost
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Providence1977
As Clive Langham
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Arthur 2: On the Rocks1988
As Hobson
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Saint Joan1957
As Earl of Warwick
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Home1972
As Harry
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Nothing Like a Dame2018
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Plenty1985
As Sir Leonard Darwin
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Shoes of the Fisherman1968
As The Elder Pope
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Canterville Ghost1986
As Sir Simon de Canterville
TMDb 6.7 / 10
11 Harrowhouse1974
As Meecham
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Frankenstein: The True Story1974
As Chief Constable
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Peter Pan1976
As Narrator
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow1998
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?1980
As Reverend Jones
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance2000
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Frankenstein1984
As De Lacey
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Romeo and Juliet1954
As Chorus
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Sebastian1968
As Head of Intelligence
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Laurence Olivier: A Life1982
As Self
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville1987
As British Lord
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Romeo and Juliet1978
As Chorus
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Galileo1975
As The Old Cardinal
TMDb 6.1 / 10
A Man for All Seasons1988
As Cardinal Wolsey
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King1986
As Tieresias
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Priest of Love1981
As Herbert G. Muskett
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Theban Plays: Antigone1986
As Tiresias
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Alice in Wonderland1966
As Mock Turtle
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Getting It Right1989
As Sir Gordon Munday
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Time After Time1986
As Jasper Swift
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Hunchback of Notre Dame1982
As Charmolue
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond1990
As Self
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Ivanov1966
As Nikolai ivanov
No Man's Land1978
As Spooner
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A TV Dante1990
As Virgil
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Picture of Dorian Gray1976
As Lord Henry Wotton
TMDb 9.0 / 10
A Diary for Timothy1945
As Hamlet
TMDb 6.8 / 10
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man1977
As The Preacher
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Conductor1980
As John Lasocki
TMDb 6.2 / 10
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall1955
As John Worthing, JP
Richard II1978
As John of Gaunt
TMDb 8.0 / 10
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton1988
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Barretts of Wimpole Street1957
As Edward Moulton-Barrett
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Scandalous1984
As Uncle Willie
TMDb 4.7 / 10
The Best of Friends1991
As Sydney Cockerell
TMDb 3.7 / 10
Assignment to Kill1968
As Curt Valayan
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Romance on the Orient Express1985
As Theodore Woodward
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Romeo and Juliet1967
As Chorus
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin1929
As Rex Trasmere
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Master of Ballantrae1984
As Lord Durrisdeer
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Strauss Dynasty1991
As Drechsler
TMDb 8.4 / 10
To Be Hamlet1985
As Self
The Cherry Orchard1962
As Gaev
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Strike It Rich1990
As Herbert Dreuther
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Probe1972
As Harold L. Streeter
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Prime Minister1941
As Disraeli
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Invitation to the Wedding1983
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five1953
As Narrator
Heredity in Man1937
As Self
Quartermaine's Terms1987
As Eddie Loomis
TMDb 7.0 / 10
October Revolution1967
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Eagle in a Cage1972
As Lord Sissal
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Immortal Land
The Immortal Land1958
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Leave All Fair1985
As John Middleton Murry
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Discovering Hamlet2011
As King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Good Companions1933
As Inigo Jollifant
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Tichborne Claimant1999
As Cockburn
TMDb 8.7 / 10
From Chekhov with Love
From Chekhov with Love1968
As Anton Chekhov
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Mayfly and the Frog
The Mayfly and the Frog1966
As Gabriel Quantara
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Revisiting Brideshead2005
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film2016
As Self
TMDb 5.8 / 10
To Die in Madrid1963
As Narrator (English version) (voice)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski1968
As Rich Man
Behind The Scenes of Caligula2009
TMDb 2.0 / 10
Swan Song
Swan Song1992
As Svetlovidov
TMDb 6.8 / 10
A Summer Day's Dream
A Summer Day's Dream1994
Who Is the Man?
Who Is the Man?1924
As Daniel
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Barbablù, Barbablù1989
As Barbablù
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Insult1932
As Henri Dubois
TMDb 7.0 / 10
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare1973
As Various
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
A Walk Through Prospero's Library1992
As Prospero
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Critic
The Critic1982
As Lord Burleigh
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate1984
As Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man1995
As Self (Voice)
TMDb 0.5 / 10
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes1990
As Narrator (voice)
The Leopard Son1996
As Narrator
TMDb 9.5 / 10
Heartbreak House1977
As Captain Shotover
The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor1977
As Inquisitor
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)1991
As Virgil (voice)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
An Airman's Letter to His Mother1941
As Narrator
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Hamlet: The Actor's View1954
As Self
Ages of Man1966
Filmography and biography: TMDb