John Gielgud
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Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.
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Gielgud as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, 1959
Centre: Marion, Kate and Ellen Terry and, far right, Fred Terry at Ellen's Silver Jubilee matinée, Drury Lane, 12 June 1906. Everyone shown was a member of the Terry family.
Noël Coward with Lilian Braithwaite, his, and later Gielgud's, co-star in The Vortex
Mrs Patrick Campbell and Edith Evans, 1920s co-stars with Gielgud
The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Gielgud honed his skill as a Shakespearean
Mabel Terry-Lewis, Gielgud's aunt and co-star in The Importance of Being Earnest
Peggy Ashcroft in 1936
Gielgud in a publicity photograph for Secret Agent (1936)Filmography 40
Caligula
The Elephant Man
Gandhi
DragonHeart
Murder on the Orient Express
First Knight
Elizabeth
Chariots of Fire
Quest for Camelot
Around the World in 80 Days
Shine
Hamlet
Arthur
Julius Caesar
Chimes at Midnight
Lion of the Desert
The Portrait of a Lady
Shining Through
Haunted
Becket
Murder by Decree
Appointment with Death
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
The Power of One
Looking for Richard
Secret Agent
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
David
Richard III
Prospero's Books
Aces High
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Gold
The Scarlet and the Black
Providence
Nothing Like a Dame
Plenty
The Formula
Oh! What a Lovely War196 credits on file
Television 24
Play for Today
Great Performances
The Dick Cavett Show
Tales of the Unexpected
BBC Play of the Month
The Ed Sullivan Show
Inspector Morse
Screen Two
Omnibus
ABC Afterschool Special
Lovejoy
Merlin
The Wednesday Play
War and Remembrance
Second City Television
Brideshead Revisited
Gulliver's Travels
Scarlett
Performance
Marco Polo
The BBC Television Shakespeare
ABC Stage 67Awards 12
In their orbit 4
Connected to John 6
About this person
Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929-31.
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