

Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

The Tichborne Claimant
as Cockburn

Elizabeth
as The Pope

Quest for Camelot
as Merlin (voice)

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

David
as Stimme Gottes

Hamlet
as Priam

The Portrait of a Lady
as Mr. Touchett

Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee

The Leopard Son
as Narrator

Shine
as Cecil Parkes

DragonHeart
as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

Haunted
as Dr Henry Doyle

First Knight
as Oswald

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
as Self (Voice)
A Summer Day's Dream

The Power of One
as St. John

Shining Through
as Sunflower
Swan Song
as Svetlovidov
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
as Prospero

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)

Prospero's Books
as Prospero

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
as Virgil (voice)

The Best of Friends
as Sydney Cockerell

The Strauss Dynasty
as Drechsler

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
as Narrator (voice)

A TV Dante
as Virgil

Strike It Rich
as Herbert Dreuther

Barbablù, Barbablù
as Barbablù

Getting It Right
as Sir Gordon Munday

A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Hobson

Appointment with Death
as Colonel Carbury

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as British Lord

Quartermaine's Terms
as Eddie Loomis

The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville

The Whistle Blower
as Sir Adrian Chappie

Theban Plays: Antigone
as Tiresias

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Tieresias

Time After Time
as Jasper Swift

Plenty
as Sir Leonard Darwin

Leave All Fair
as John Middleton Murry

Romance on the Orient Express
as Theodore Woodward

The Shooting Party
as Cornelius Cardew

To Be Hamlet
as Self

Camille
as Duke de Charles

Frankenstein
as De Lacey

The Master of Ballantrae
as Lord Durrisdeer

Scandalous
as Uncle Willie

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)

The Wicked Lady
as Hogarth

The Scarlet and the Black
as Pope Pius XII

Invitation to the Wedding

Gandhi
as Lord Irwin

Laurence Olivier: A Life
as Self
The Critic
as Lord Burleigh

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Charmolue

Priest of Love
as Herbert G. Muskett

Arthur
as Hobson

Chariots of Fire
as Master of Trinity

Lion of the Desert
as Sharif El Gariani

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
as Marquis of Caterhan

Sphinx
as Abdu-Hamdi

The Formula
as Dr. Abraham Esau

The Elephant Man
as Carr Gomm

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Reverend Jones

The Conductor
as John Lasocki

The Human Factor
as Brigadier Tomlinson

Caligula
as Nerva

Murder by Decree
as Prime Minister

Les Misérables
as Gillenormand

Richard II
as John of Gaunt

Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus

No Man's Land
as Spooner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as The Preacher

Heartbreak House
as Captain Shotover
The Grand Inquisitor
as Inquisitor

Joseph Andrews
as The Doctor

Providence
as Clive Langham

Peter Pan
as Narrator

The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton

Aces High
as Headmaster

Galileo
as The Old Cardinal

Murder on the Orient Express
as Mr. Beddoes

11 Harrowhouse
as Meecham

Frankenstein: The True Story
as Chief Constable

Gold
as Farrell

Lost Horizon
as Chang

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
as Various

Probe
as Harold L. Streeter

Eagle in a Cage
as Lord Sissal

Home
as Harry

Hamlet
as The Ghost

Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar

Oh! What a Lovely War
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Elder Pope

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Rich Man

Assignment to Kill
as Curt Valayan

The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Lord Raglan
From Chekhov with Love
as Anton Chekhov

Sebastian
as Head of Intelligence

October Revolution
as Narrator (voice)

Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus

Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
The Mayfly and the Frog
as Gabriel Quantara

Ivanov
as Nikolai ivanov

Ages of Man

Chimes at Midnight
as Henry IV

The Loved One
as Sir Francis Hinsley

Hamlet
as Ghost (voice)

Becket
as King Louis VII of France

To Die in Madrid
as Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Cherry Orchard
as Gaev
The Immortal Land

Saint Joan
as Earl of Warwick

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Around the World in 80 Days
as Foster

Richard III
as George, Duke of Clarence
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
as John Worthing, JP

Romeo and Juliet
as Chorus

Hamlet: The Actor's View
as Self

Julius Caesar
as Cassius

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
as Narrator