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.
Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV
Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Frankenstein
De Lacey
Frankenstein: The True Story
Chief Constable
To Be Hamlet
Self
Hamlet: The Actor's View
Self
The Elephant Man
Carr Gomm
David
Stimme Gottes
Secret Agent
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Murder on the Orient Express
Mr. Beddoes
Appointment with Death
Colonel Carbury
Les Misérables
Gillenormand
Elizabeth
The Pope
Prospero's Books
Prospero
Oh! What a Lovely War
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
First Knight
Oswald
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
The Formula
Dr. Abraham Esau
Shining Through
Sunflower
DragonHeart
King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
Chariots of Fire
Master of Trinity
Caligula
Nerva
The Whistle Blower
Sir Adrian Chappie
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Hobson
Lion of the Desert
Sharif El Gariani
Murder by Decree
Prime Minister
Arthur
Hobson
The Power of One
St. John
Alice in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
Plenty
Sir Leonard Darwin
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lord Raglan
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Richard III
George, Duke of Clarence
Becket
King Louis VII of France
Aces High
Headmaster
The Scarlet and the Black
Pope Pius XII
The Loved One
Sir Francis Hinsley
Time After Time
Jasper Swift
Sphinx
Abdu-Hamdi
The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon de Canterville
The Human Factor
Brigadier Tomlinson
The Leopard Son
Narrator
Julius Caesar
Cassius
Gold
Farrell
Haunted
Dr Henry Doyle
Priest of Love
Herbert G. Muskett
Quest for Camelot
Merlin (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Charmolue
Catastrophe
The Protagonist
Providence
Clive Langham
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Marquis of Caterhan
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Various
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
The Shooting Party
Cornelius Cardew
Lost Horizon
Chang
The Good Companions
Inigo Jollifant
Quartermaine's Terms
Eddie Loomis
The Cherry Orchard
Gaev
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Reverend Jones
Saint Joan
Earl of Warwick
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Ghost (voice)
The Wicked Lady
Hogarth
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Preacher
A Diary for Timothy
Hamlet
To Die in Madrid
Narrator (English version) (voice)
Assignment to Kill
Curt Valayan
The Master of Ballantrae
Lord Durrisdeer
A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey
Scandalous
Uncle Willie
No Man's Land
Spooner
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Moulton-Barrett
Galileo
The Old Cardinal
Camille
Duke de Charles
Eagle in a Cage
Lord Sissal
Probe
Harold L. Streeter
Joseph Andrews
The Doctor
Discovering Hamlet
King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Rich Man
Revisiting Brideshead
Self (archive footage)
Ages of Man
The Best of Friends
Sydney Cockerell
Invitation to the Wedding
11 Harrowhouse
Meecham
Richard II
John of Gaunt
Romance on the Orient Express
Theodore Woodward
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
Hamlet
Priam
Home
Harry
Sebastian
Head of Intelligence
The Prime Minister
Disraeli
The Strauss Dynasty
Drechsler
Getting It Right
Sir Gordon Munday
The Portrait of a Lady
Mr. Touchett
Insult
Henri Dubois
Shine
Cecil Parkes
The Conductor
John Lasocki
Heredity in Man
Self
A TV Dante
Virgil
Leave All Fair
John Middleton Murry
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Elder Pope
Around the World in 80 Days
Foster
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Self
Strike It Rich
Herbert Dreuther
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
British Lord
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
Romeo and Juliet
Chorus
The Tichborne Claimant
Cockburn
Heartbreak House
Captain Shotover
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Tieresias
Theban Plays: Antigone
Tiresias
Peter Pan
Narrator
October Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Self (Voice)
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Virgil (voice)
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Self
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Narrator
Barbablù, Barbablù
Barbablù
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Laurence Olivier: a life
Self
Ivanov
Nikolai ivanov
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)