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

• 2016Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied — Writer
• 2016Trouser Bar — Writer
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2011Discovering Hamlet — King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
• 2009Behind The Scenes of Caligula
• 2001Catastrophe — The Protagonist
• 1999The Tichborne Claimant — Cockburn
• 1998Elizabeth — The Pope
• Merlin — King Constant
• 1998Quest for Camelot — Merlin (voice)
• 1998Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
• A Dance to the Music of Time — St. John Clarke
• 1997David — Stimme Gottes
• 1996DragonHeart — King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
• Gulliver's Travels — Professor of Light
• 1996Hamlet — Priam
• 1996Shine — Cecil Parkes
• 1996The Leopard Son — Narrator
• 1996The Portrait of a Lady — Mr. Touchett
• 1995First Knight — Oswald
• 1995Haunted — Dr Henry Doyle
• Stick with Me, Kid — Grandpa
• 1994A Summer Day's Dream
• Scarlett — Pierre Robillard
• 1992A Walk Through Prospero's Library — Prospero
• 1992Shining Through — Sunflower
• 1992Swan Song — Svetlovidov
• 1992The Power of One — St. John
• 1991A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) — Virgil (voice)
• Performance — Stephen Dawlish
• 1991Prospero's Books — Prospero
• 1991The Best of Friends — Sydney Cockerell
• 1991The Strauss Dynasty — Drechsler
• The Strauss Dynasty — Drechsler
• 1990A TV Dante — Virgil
• A TV Dante — Virgil(voice)
• 1990Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes — Narrator (voice)
• 1990Strike It Rich — Herbert Dreuther
• 1989Barbablù, Barbablù — Barbablù
• 1989Getting It Right — Sir Gordon Munday
• Summer's Lease — Haverford Downs
• 1988A Man for All Seasons — Cardinal Wolsey
• 1988Appointment with Death — Colonel Carbury
• 1988Arthur 2: On the Rocks — Hobson
• War and Remembrance — Aaron Jastrow
• 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville — British Lord
• Inspector Morse — Lord Hinksey
• 1987Quartermaine's Terms — Eddie Loomis
• Lovejoy — Lord Wakering
• 1986The Canterville Ghost — Sir Simon de Canterville
• 1986The Whistle Blower — Sir Adrian Chappie
• 1986Theban Plays: Antigone — Tiresias
• 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King — Tieresias
• 1986Time After Time — Jasper Swift
• 1985Leave All Fair — John Middleton Murry
• 1985Plenty — Sir Leonard Darwin
• 1985Romance on the Orient Express — Theodore Woodward
• Screen Two — Eddie Loomis, Jasper Swift
• 1985The Shooting Party — Cornelius Cardew
• 1984Camille — Duke de Charles
• 1984Frankenstein — De Lacey
• 1984Scandalous — Uncle Willie
• The Far Pavilions — Cavagnari
• 1984The Master of Ballantrae — Lord Durrisdeer
• 1983Invitation to the Wedding
• 1983The Scarlet and the Black — Pope Pius XII
• 1983The Wicked Lady — Hogarth
• Wagner — Pfistermeister
• 1982Gandhi — Lord Irwin
• Inside the Third Reich — Albert Speer Sr.
• Marco Polo — Doge di Venezia
• 1982The Critic — Lord Burleigh
• 1982The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Charmolue
• 1981Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery — Marquis of Caterhan
• 1981Arthur — Hobson
• Brideshead Revisited — Edward 'Ned' Ryder
• 1981Chariots of Fire — Master of Trinity
• 1981Lion of the Desert — Sharif El Gariani
• 1981Priest of Love — Herbert G. Muskett
• 1981Sphinx — Abdu-Hamdi
• 1980The Conductor — John Lasocki
• 1980The Elephant Man — Carr Gomm
• 1980The Formula — Dr. Abraham Esau
• 1980Why Didn't They Ask Evans? — Reverend Jones
• 1979Caligula — Nerva
• 1979Murder by Decree — Prime Minister
• Tales of the Unexpected — Jelks, Cyril Boggis
• 1979The Human Factor — Brigadier Tomlinson
• 1978Les Misérables — Gillenormand
• 1978No Man's Land — Spooner
• 1978Richard II — John of Gaunt
• 1978Romeo and Juliet — Chorus
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Chorus, John of Gaunt
• 1977A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — The Preacher
• 1977Heartbreak House — Captain Shotover
• 1977Joseph Andrews — The Doctor
• 1977Providence — Clive Langham
• 1977The Grand Inquisitor — Inquisitor
• 1976Aces High — Headmaster
• 1976Peter Pan — Narrator
• 1976The Picture of Dorian Gray — Lord Henry Wotton
• 1975Galileo — The Old Cardinal
• 197411 Harrowhouse — Meecham
• 1974Frankenstein: The True Story — Chief Constable
• 1974Gold — Farrell
• 1974Murder on the Orient Express — Mr. Beddoes
• QB VII — Clinton-Meek
• Frankenstein: The True Story — Chief Constable
• 1973Lost Horizon — Chang
• 1973William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare — Various
• ABC Afterschool Special — Various Roles
• 1972Eagle in a Cage — Lord Sissal
• 1972Home — Harry
• 1972Probe — Harold L. Streeter
• 1970Hamlet — The Ghost
• 1970Julius Caesar — Julius Caesar
• Menace — Frederick William Densham
• Play for Today — Harry
• 1969Oh! What a Lovely War — Count Leopold Von Berchtold
• 1968Assignment to Kill — Curt Valayan
• 1968From Chekhov with Love — Anton Chekhov
• 1968Sebastian — Head of Intelligence
• 1968The Charge of the Light Brigade — Lord Raglan
• 1968The Love Song of Barney Kempinski — Rich Man
• 1968The Shoes of the Fisherman — The Elder Pope
• 1967October Revolution — Narrator (voice)
• 1967Romeo and Juliet — Chorus
• ABC Stage 67 — Rich Man
• 1966Ages of Man
• 1966Alice in Wonderland — Mock Turtle
• 1966Ivanov — Nikolai ivanov, Director
• 1966The Mayfly and the Frog — Gabriel Quantara
• BBC Play of the Month — Chorus, The Inquisitor, Charles II, Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton, Capt. Shotover, Lord Burleigh
• 1965Chimes at Midnight — Henry IV
• 1965The Loved One — Sir Francis Hinsley
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — The Writer
• 1964Becket — King Louis VII of France
• 1964Hamlet — Ghost (voice), Director
• The Wednesday Play — Gabriel Quantara
• 1963To Die in Madrid — Narrator (English version) (voice)
• 1962The Cherry Orchard — Gaev, Writer
• 1958The Immortal Land
• 1957Saint Joan — Earl of Warwick
• 1957The Barretts of Wimpole Street — Edward Moulton-Barrett
• 1956Around the World in 80 Days — Foster
• 1955ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall — John Worthing, JP
• 1955Richard III — George, Duke of Clarence
• 1954Romeo and Juliet — Chorus
• 1953Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five — Narrator
• 1953Julius Caesar — Cassius
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — The Ghost, Charmolue, Lord Durrisdeer, Duke
• 1945A Diary for Timothy — Hamlet
• 1941An Airman's Letter to His Mother — Narrator
• 1941The Prime Minister — Disraeli
• 1936Secret Agent — Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
• 1933The Good Companions — Inigo Jollifant
• 1932Insult — Henri Dubois
• 1929The Clue of the New Pin — Rex Trasmere
• 1924Who Is the Man? — Daniel

Appearances as themselves (26)

• 2018Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film — Self
• 2005Revisiting Brideshead — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
• 2000Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance — Self
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self - Interviewee
• 1995The Thomas The Tank Engine Man — Self (Voice)
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond — Self
• 1988In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton — Self
• 1985To Be Hamlet — Self
• 1984James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate — Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
• Six Centuries of Verse — Self - Presenter
• 1982Laurence Olivier: A Life — Self
• Second City Television — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Omnibus — Self
• The Bell Telephone Hour — Self
• The Big Party — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• 1954Hamlet: The Actor's View — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1937Heredity in Man — Self