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John Gielgud

English
Filmography

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

2016
as John Gielgud

Never Apologize

2007
as John Gielgud

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003
as The Protagonist

Catastrophe

2000
as The Protagonist

The Tichborne Claimant

1998
as Cockburn

Quest for Camelot

1998
as Merlin (voice)

Elizabeth

1998
as The Pope

The Harvest of Sorrow

1998
as Sergei Rachmaninoff

David

1997
as Stimme Gottes

Looking for Richard

1996
as Himself/Interview

Shine

1996
as Cecil Parkes

Hamlet

1996
as Priam

The Leopard Son

1996
as Narrator

The Portrait of a Lady

1996
as Mr. Touchett

First Knight

1995
as Oswald

Haunted

1995
as Doctor Doyle

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

1995
as John Gielgud

Shining Through

1992
as Sunflower

The Power of One

1992
as St. john

Swan Song

1992

The South Bank Show: Noel Coward

1992
as Self - Actor

The Best of Friends

1991
as Sydney Cockerell

Prospero's Books

1991
as Prospero

Strike It Rich

1990
as Herbert Dreuther

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

1990
as John Gielgud

Penthouse: On the Wild Side

1989
as Self playing Nerva

Getting It Right

1989
as Sir Gordon Munday

Appointment with Death

1988
as Colonel Carbury

A Man for All Seasons

1988
as Cardinal Wolsey

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

1988
as Hobson

Quartermaine's Terms

1987
as Eddie

An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa

1987
as John Gielgud

The Canterville Ghost

1986
as Sir Simon de Canterville

Oedipus the King

1986
as Teiresias

The Whistle Blower

1986
as Sir Adrian Chappie

Plenty

1985
as Sir Leonard Darwin

Romance on the Orient Express

1985
as Theodore Woodward

The Shooting Party

1985
as Cornelius Cardew

Leave All Fair

1985
as John Middleton Murry

Scandalous

1984
as Uncle Willie

Frankenstein

1984
as Blind Hermit

Camille

1984
as Duke de Charles

The Master of Ballantrae

1984
as Lord Durrisdeer

Invitation to the Wedding

1983
as Reverend Clyde Ormiston

The Scarlet and the Black

1983
as Pope Pius XII

The Wicked Lady

1983
as Hogarth

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982
as Charmolue

Gandhi

1982
as Lord Irwin

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Albert Speer Sr.

Sphinx

1981
as Abdu-Hamdi

Priest of Love

1981
as Herbert G. Muskett

Lion of the Desert

1981
as Sharif El Gariani

Arthur

1981
as Hobson

Chariots of Fire

1981
as Master of Trinity

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

1981
as Marquis of Caterhan

The Conductor

1980
as John Lasocki

The Formula

1980
as Dr. Abraham Esau, Director Reich Energy

The Elephant Man

1980
as Carr Gomm

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980
as Reverend Jones

The Human Factor

1979
as Brigadier Tomlinson

Murder by Decree

1979
as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury

Caligula

1979
as Nerva

Les Misérables

1978
as Gillenormand

Heartbreak House

1977
as Captain Shotover

Providence

1977
as Clive Langham

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977
as The Preacher

Peter Pan

1976
as Narrator

Aces High

1976
as Headmaster

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1976
as Lord Henry Wotton

Galileo

1975
as The Old Cardinal

Murder on the Orient Express

1974
as Mr. Beddoes

Gold

1974
as Farrell

11 Harrowhouse

1974
as Meecham

Frankenstein: The True Story

1973
as Chief Constable

Lost Horizon

1973
as Chang

Eagle in a Cage

1972
as Lord Sissal

Probe

1972
as Harold L. Streeter

Julius Caesar

1970
as Julius Caesar

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968
as The Elder pope

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968
as Lord Raglan

Sebastian

1968
as Head of Intelligence

Assignment to Kill

1968
as Curt Valayan

Révolution d'octobre

1967
as Narrator

Alice in Wonderland

1966
as Mock Turtle

Age of man

1966
as Himself

The Mayfly and the Frog

1966
as Gabriel Quantara

The Loved One

1965
as Sir Francis Hinsley

Chimes at Midnight

1965
as Henry IV

Hamlet

1964
as Ghost (voice)

Becket

1964
as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France

To Die in Madrid

1963
as Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Cherry Orchard

1962
as Gaev

Saint Joan

1957
as Earl of Warwick

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1957
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Sunshine in Soho

1956
as John Gielgud

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as Foster

Richard III

1955
as George, Duke of Clarence

Romeo and Juliet

1954
as Chorus

Julius Caesar

1953
as Cassius

A Diary for Timothy

1945
as Hamlet

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

1941
as Narrator

Secret Agent

1936
as Edgar Brodie/Richard Ashenden

The Good Companions

1933
as Inigo Jollifant

The Clue of the New Pin

1929
as Rex Trasmere

Who Is the Man?

1924
as Daniel

Director

Movie Hamlet 1964