John Gielgud (Sir)
Filmography...
2000 |
Catastrophe (short) - The Protagonist |
1998 |
Elizabeth - The Pope |
1998 |
The Tichborne Claimant - Cockburn |
1998 |
The Magic Sword - Quest for Camelot - Merlin (voice) |
1998 |
Merlin (TV mini-series) - King Constant |
1997 |
A Dance to the Music of Time (TV mini-series) – The Twenties… St. John Clarke |
1997 |
David (TV movie) - God(voice) (uncredited) |
1996 |
Hamlet - Priam |
1996 |
The Portrait of a Lady - Mr. Touchett |
1996 |
DragonHeart - King Arthur(voice) (uncredited) |
1996 |
Gulliver's Travels (TV movie) - Professor of Sunlight |
1996 |
Shine - Cecil Parkes |
1995 |
Haunted - Doctor Doyle |
1995 |
First Knight - Oswald |
1994 |
A Summer Day's Dream (TV movie) - Stephen Dawlish |
1994 |
Performance (TV series) – A Summer Day's Dream… Stephen Dawlish |
1994 |
Scarlett (TV mini-series) - Pierre Robillard |
1994 |
Under the Hammer (TV series) – The Fatal Attribution… Hugo Lunt |
1994 |
Alleyn Mysteries (TV series) – Hand in Glove… Percival Pyke Period |
1993 |
Lovejoy (TV series) – The Lost Colony… Lord Wakering |
1993 |
Inspector Morse (TV series) – Twilight of the Gods… Lord Hinksey |
1992 |
The Power of One - St. John; |
1992 |
Shining Through - Sunflower |
1992 |
Swan Song (short) - Svetlovidov |
1991 |
Prospero's Books - Prospero |
1991 |
The Strauss Dynasty (TV mini-series) - Drechsler |
1991 |
A TV Dante (TV mini-series) - Virgil |
1991 |
The Best of Friends (TV movie) - Sydney Cockerell |
1990 |
Barbablù, Barbablù - Barbablù |
1990 |
Strike It Rich - Herbert Dreuther |
1989 |
Summer's Lease (TV mini-series) - Haverford Downs |
1988 |
War and Remembrance (TV mini-series) - Aaron Jastrow |
1989 |
Getting It Right - Sir Gordon Munday |
1988 |
A Man for All Seasons (TV movie) - Cardinal Wolsey |
1988 |
Arthur 2 - On the Rocks - Hobson |
1988 |
Appointment with Death - Colonel Carbury |
1987 |
The Whistle Blower - Sir Adrian Chapple |
1986 |
Screen Two (TV series) – Quartermaine's Terms(1987)… Eddie – Time After Time(1986)… Jasper Swift |
1987 |
The Canterville Ghost (TV movie) - Sir Simon de Canterville |
1985 |
Leave All Fair - John Middleton Murry |
1985 |
Plenty - Sir Leonard Darwin |
1985 |
Romance on the Orient Express (TV movie) - Theodore Woodward |
1985 |
The Shooting Party - Cornelius Cardew |
1984 |
Frankenstein (TV movie) - DeLacey |
1970 |
Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV series) – Camille (1984)… Duke de Charles – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)… Charmolue – Peter Pan (1976)… Narrator – Hamlet (1970)… The Ghost |
1984 |
The Master of Ballantrae (TV movie) - Lord Durrisdeer |
1984 |
Scandalous - Uncle Willie |
1984 |
The Far Pavilions (TV mini-series) - Cavagnari |
1984 |
Oedipus the King (TV movie) - Teiresias |
1984 |
Antigone (TV movie) - Teiresias |
1983 |
Wagner (TV series) - Pfistermeister |
1983 |
The Wicked Lady - Hogarth |
1983 |
The Scarlet and the Black (TV movie) - Pope Pius XII(as Sir John Gielgud) |
1983 |
Invitation to the Wedding - Reverend Clyde Ormiston |
1982 |
Marco Polo (TV mini-series) - Doge of Venice |
1982 |
Gandhi - Lord Irwin |
1967 |
BBC Play of the Month (TV series) – The Critic (1982)… Lord Burleigh – Heartbreak House (1977)… Captain Shotover – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)… Lord Henry Wotton – In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1970) – St. Joan (1968)… The Inquisitor |
1982 |
Inside the Third Reich (TV movie) - Albert Speer Sr. |
1982 |
A Christmas Carol (TV movie) - Narrator |
1981 |
Brideshead Revisited (TV mini-series) - Edward Ryder |
1981 |
Priest of Love - Herbert G. Muskett |
1981 |
Arthur - Hobson |
1981 |
Lion of the Desert - Sharif El Gariani |
1981 |
Chariots of Fire - Master of Trinity (as Sir John Gielgud) |
1981 |
The Seven Dials Mystery (TV movie) - Marquis of Caterhan |
1981 |
Sphinx - Abdu-Hamdi |
1980 |
The Formula - Dr. Abraham Esau, Director Reich Energy |
1980 |
The Elephant Man - Carr Gomm |
1980 |
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (TV movie) - Reverend Jones |
1980 |
Dyrygent - John Lasocki |
1979 |
Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) – Parson's Pleasure (1980)… Cyril Boggis – Neck (1979)… Jelks |
1979 |
The Human Factor - Brig. Tomlinson |
1979 |
Caligula, My Son - Nerva |
1979 |
Murder by Decree - Prime Minister Lord Salisbury |
1978 |
Les Miserables (TV movie) - Gillenormand |
1978 |
King Richard the Second (TV movie) - John of Gaunt |
1978 |
Romeo & Juliet (TV movie) - Chorus |
1978 |
No Man's Land (TV movie) - Spooner |
1977 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - The Preacher |
1977 |
Joseph Andrews - The Doctor |
1977 |
Providence - Clive Langham |
1976 |
Aces High - Headmaster |
1976 |
Peter Pan (TV movie) - Narrator |
1975 |
Shades of Greene (TV series) – Special Duties… Mr. Ferraro |
1975 |
Edward the Seventh (TV series) - Benjamin Disraeli |
1975 |
Galileo - The Old Cardinal |
1974 |
Murder on the Orient Express - Beddoes |
1974 |
11 Harrowhouse - Meecham |
1974 |
Gold - Farrell |
1974 |
QB VII (TV mini-series) - Clinton-Meek |
1973 |
Frankenstein - The True Story (TV movie) - Chief Constable (Police) |
1973 |
Menace (TV series) – Deliver Us from Evil… Frederick William Densham |
1973 |
Lost Horizon - Chang |
1973 |
ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series) – William - The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare… Various Characters |
1972 |
Probe (TV movie) - Harold Streeter |
1972 |
Eagle in a Cage - Lord Sissal |
1972 |
Play for Today (TV series) – Home… Harry |
1971 |
ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV series) – Hamlet… The ghost |
1971 |
Hassan (TV movie) - Haroun al Raschid |
1970 |
Julius Caesar - Julius Caesar |
1969 |
Oh! What a Lovely War - Count Leopold Von Berchtold |
1968 |
The Shoes of the Fisherman - The Elder Pope |
1968 |
Assignment to Kill - Curt Valayan |
1968 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Raglan |
1968 |
NET Playhouse (TV series) – Home… Harry |
1968 |
From Chekhov with Love (TV movie) - Anton Chekhov |
1968 |
Sebastian - Head of Intelligence |
1966 |
The Wednesday Play (TV series) – Alice in Wonderland… Mock Turtle – The Mayfly and the Frog… Gabriel Quantara |
1966 |
ABC Stage 67 (TV series) – The Love Song of Barney Kempinski… Rich Man |
1965 |
Chimes at Midnight - Henry IV |
1965 |
The Loved One - Sir Francis Hinsley |
1964 |
Hamlet - Ghost(voice) |
1964 |
Becket - King Louis VII of France |
1963 |
ITV Play of the Week (TV series) – The Rehearsal… The Count |
1962 |
The Cherry Orchard (TV movie) - Gaev |
1959 |
The DuPont Show of the Month (TV series) – The Browning Version… Andrew Crocker-Harris |
1957 |
Saint Joan - Earl of Warwick |
1957 |
The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Edward Moulton-Barrett |
1956 |
Around the World in Eighty Days - Foster |
1955 |
Richard III - George, Duke of Clarence |
1954 |
Romeo and Juliet - Chorus |
1953 |
Julius Caesar - Cassius |
1941 |
An Airman's Letter to His Mother (short) - Narrator |
1941 |
The Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli |
1936 |
Secret Agent - Richard Ashenden/Brodie |
1933 |
The Good Companions - Inigo Jollifant |
1932 |
Insult - Henri Dubois |
1929 |
The Clue of the New Pin - Rex Trasmere |
1924 |
Who Is the Man? –Daniel |
Director…
1964 : Hamlet
1938 : Spring Meeting (TV movie)
Biographies about...
- Croall, Jonathan (12 April 2002), Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000, Continuum, p. 608, ISBN 978-0-8264-1403-8.
- Gielgud, John; Mangan, Richard (1994), John Gielgud's notes from the gods : playgoing in the twenties, Nick Hern, ISBN 978-1-85459-105-0.
- Gielgud, John; Mangan, Richard (2004-04), Richard Mangan, ed., Sir John Gielgud: a life in letters, Arcade Publishing, p. 598, ISBN 978-1-55970-729-9.
- Morley, Sheridan (2002), John Gielgud: the Authorised Biography, Simon & Schuster, p. 528, ISBN 978-0-7432-2242-6
- Young, Jordan R. (1989), Acting solo: the art of one-man shows, Moonstone Press, p. 224, ISBN 978-0-940410-85-5