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John Gielgud Acting Filmography (141)

Nothing Like a Dame

2018·Self (archive footage)

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014·Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)

Discovering Hamlet

2011·King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

Revisiting Brideshead

2005·Self (archive footage)

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003·Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

2001·The Protagonist

The Tichborne Claimant

Quest for Camelot

1998·Merlin (voice)

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

1997·Stimme Gottes

1996·King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

The Leopard Son

Looking for Richard

1996·Self - Interviewee

The Portrait of a Lady

1996·Mr. Touchett

1996·Cecil Parkes

1995·Dr Henry Doyle

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

1995·Self (Voice)

A Summer Day's Dream

Shining Through

1992·Sunflower

The Power of One

1992·Svetlovidov

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

Prospero's Books

The Best of Friends

1991·Sydney Cockerell

The Strauss Dynasty

1991·Drechsler

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991·Self (archive footage)

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1991·Virgil (voice)

1990·Herbert Dreuther

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes

1990·Narrator (voice)

Getting It Right

1989·Sir Gordon Munday

Barbablù, Barbablù

1989·Barbablù

Appointment with Death

1988·Colonel Carbury

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

A Man for All Seasons

1988·Cardinal Wolsey

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

Quartermaine's Terms

1987·Eddie Loomis

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

1987·British Lord

The Whistle Blower

1986·Sir Adrian Chappie

Time After Time

1986·Jasper Swift

The Canterville Ghost

1986·Sir Simon de Canterville

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986·Tieresias

Theban Plays: Antigone

1985·Sir Leonard Darwin

The Shooting Party

1985·Cornelius Cardew

Romance on the Orient Express

1985·Theodore Woodward

1985·John Middleton Murry

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984·Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)

The Master of Ballantrae

1984·Lord Durrisdeer

1984·Uncle Willie

1984·Duke de Charles

The Scarlet and the Black

1983·Pope Pius XII

The Wicked Lady

Invitation to the Wedding

1982·Lord Irwin

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982·Charmolue

1982·Lord Burleigh

Laurence Olivier: a life

Chariots of Fire

1981·Master of Trinity

Lion of the Desert

1981·Sharif El Gariani

1981·Abdu-Hamdi

1981·Herbert G. Muskett

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

1981·Marquis of Caterhan

The Elephant Man

1980·Carr Gomm

1980·Dr. Abraham Esau

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980·Reverend Jones

1980·John Lasocki

Murder by Decree

1979·Prime Minister

The Human Factor

1979·Brigadier Tomlinson

Les Misérables

1978·Gillenormand

1978·John of Gaunt

Romeo and Juliet

The Grand Inquisitor

1977·Inquisitor

1977·Clive Langham

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977·The Preacher

1977·The Doctor

Heartbreak House

1977·Captain Shotover

1976·Headmaster

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1976·Lord Henry Wotton

1975·The Old Cardinal

Frankenstein: The True Story

1974·Chief Constable

Murder on the Orient Express

1974·Mr. Beddoes

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

Eagle in a Cage

1972·Lord Sissal

1972·Harold L. Streeter

1970·Julius Caesar

1970·The Ghost

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969·Count Leopold Von Berchtold

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968·Lord Raglan

Assignment to Kill

1968·Curt Valayan

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

1968·Head of Intelligence

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968·The Elder Pope

From Chekhov with Love

1968·Anton Chekhov

Romeo and Juliet

October Revolution

1967·Narrator (voice)

Alice in Wonderland

1966·Mock Turtle

The Mayfly and the Frog

1966·Gabriel Quantara

1966·Nikolai ivanov

Chimes at Midnight

1965·Sir Francis Hinsley

1964·King Louis VII of France

1964·Ghost (voice)

To Die in Madrid

1963·Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Cherry Orchard

The Immortal Land

1957·Earl of Warwick

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1957·Edward Moulton-Barrett

Around the World in 80 Days

1955·George, Duke of Clarence

ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

1955·John Worthing, JP

Hamlet: The Actor's View

Romeo and Juliet

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five

A Diary for Timothy

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

The Prime Minister

Heredity in Man

1936·Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

The Good Companions

1933·Inigo Jollifant

1932·Henri Dubois

The Clue of the New Pin

1929·Rex Trasmere

Who Is the Man?