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John Gielgud

English
Filmography

Quest for Camelot

1998
as Merlin (voice)

Elizabeth

1998
as The Pope

The Elephant Man

1980
as Carr Gomm

First Knight

1995
as Oswald

Murder on the Orient Express

1974
as Mr. Beddoes

The Harvest of Sorrow

1998
as Sergei Rachmaninoff

David

1997
as Stimme Gottes

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Albert Speer Sr.

Saint Joan

1957
as Earl of Warwick

Chimes at Midnight

1965
as Henry IV

Gold

1974
as Farrell

Gandhi

1982
as Lord Irwin

To Die in Madrid

1963
as Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Scarlet and the Black

1983
as Pope Pius XII

Frankenstein: The True Story

1973
as Chief Constable

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982
as Charmolue

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

1988
as Hobson

Shine

1996
as Cecil Parkes

An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa

1987
as John Gielgud

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1976
as Lord Henry Wotton

The Wicked Lady

1983
as Hogarth

The Clue of the New Pin

1929
as Rex Trasmere

Les Misérables

1978
as Gillenormand

Sunshine in Soho

1956
as John Gielgud

Shining Through

1992
as Sunflower

The South Bank Show: Noel Coward

1992
as Self - Actor

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968
as The Elder pope

The Cherry Orchard

1962
as Gaev

Sebastian

1968
as Head of Intelligence

Swan Song

1992

Galileo

1975
as The Old Cardinal

Penthouse: On the Wild Side

1989
as Self playing Nerva

Probe

1972
as Harold L. Streeter

Priest of Love

1981
as Herbert G. Muskett

Caligula

1979
as Nerva

Invitation to the Wedding

1983
as Reverend Clyde Ormiston

Haunted

1995
as Doctor Doyle

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003
as The Protagonist

Appointment with Death

1988
as Colonel Carbury

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980
as Reverend Jones

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as Foster

Assignment to Kill

1968
as Curt Valayan

Lion of the Desert

1981
as Sharif El Gariani

Becket

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

Oedipus the King

1986
as Teiresias

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977
as The Preacher

Romance on the Orient Express

1985
as Theodore Woodward

Sphinx

1981
as Abdu-Hamdi

A Diary for Timothy

1945
as Hamlet

11 Harrowhouse

1974
as Meecham

Lost Horizon

1973
as Chang

The Tichborne Claimant

1998
as Cockburn

Plenty

1985
as Sir Leonard Darwin

Looking for Richard

1996
as Himself/Interview

Romeo and Juliet

1954
as Chorus

Frankenstein

1984
as Blind Hermit

The Canterville Ghost

1986
as Sir Simon de Canterville

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968
as Lord Raglan

The Portrait of a Lady

1996
as Mr. Touchett

Révolution d'octobre

1967
as Narrator

Catastrophe

2000
as The Protagonist

Richard III

1955
as George, Duke of Clarence

The Shooting Party

1985
as Cornelius Cardew

Aces High

1976
as Headmaster

Peter Pan

1976
as Narrator

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

1981
as Marquis of Caterhan

Scandalous

1984
as Uncle Willie

Julius Caesar

1953
as Cassius

The Conductor

1980
as John Lasocki

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

1990
as John Gielgud

Secret Agent

1936
as Edgar Brodie/Richard Ashenden

Getting It Right

1989
as Sir Gordon Munday

The Whistle Blower

1986
as Sir Adrian Chappie

The Loved One

1965
as Sir Francis Hinsley

Who Is the Man?

1924
as Daniel

Arthur

1981
as Hobson

The Power of One

1992
as St. john

Never Apologize

2007
as John Gielgud

The Master of Ballantrae

1984
as Lord Durrisdeer

Age of man

1966
as Himself

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

Eagle in a Cage

1972
as Lord Sissal

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

2016
as John Gielgud

The Human Factor

1979
as Brigadier Tomlinson

Heartbreak House

1977
as Captain Shotover

The Formula

1980
as Dr. Abraham Esau, Director Reich Energy

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1957
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Strike It Rich

1990
as Herbert Dreuther

Julius Caesar

1970
as Julius Caesar

Quartermaine's Terms

1987
as Eddie

Leave All Fair

1985
as John Middleton Murry

The Mayfly and the Frog

1966
as Gabriel Quantara

Hamlet

1996
as Priam

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

1995
as John Gielgud

The Leopard Son

1996
as Narrator

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

1941
as Narrator

Chariots of Fire

1981
as Master of Trinity

Camille

1984
as Duke de Charles

Murder by Decree

1979
as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury

A Man for All Seasons

1988
as Cardinal Wolsey

Providence

1977
as Clive Langham

The Best of Friends

1991
as Sydney Cockerell

The Good Companions

1933
as Inigo Jollifant

Hamlet

1964
as Ghost (voice)

Alice in Wonderland

1966
as Mock Turtle

Prospero's Books

1991
as Prospero

Director

Movie Hamlet 1964