John Gielgud

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AKA: Arthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 04/14/1904
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 05/21/2000

biography

Considered with Sir Laurence Olivier as one of the finest actors of the 20th century, the versatile and prolific Sir John Gielgud has fashioned a career spanning more than 75 years of theater, film and television. Scion of an illustrious stage family--his maternal grand-aunt was the celebrated 19th Century actress Ellen Terry and his paternal great-grandmother was famed Lithuanian actress Anielia Aszpergerowa--Gielgud trained on a one-year scholarship at Lady Benson's Acting School and at RADA before making his stage debut at age 17 in 1921 at the Old Vic with a single line as a herald in Continued

Credits

The Pope
1998
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
1998
Narration--Voice of Hugo Van Lawick
1996
Oswald
1995
Headmaster St John
1992
Leonard Darwin
1985
Lord Irwin
1982
Herbert G Muskett
1981
Hobson
1981
Carr Gomm
1980
Clive Langham
1977
Count Berchtold
1969
Narration
1963
Chang
Nerva
Sir Francis Hinsley
Lord Salisbury--Prime Minister
Master of Trinity
Old Cardinal
Sharif El Gariani
Farrell
Sir Adrian Chapple
Headmaster
Earl of Warwick
Clarence
Pfistermeister
Cornelius Cardew
Sunflower
Colonel Carbury
Head of Intelligence
Sir Gordon Munday
Abu Hamdi
Dr Doyle
Brigadier Tomlinson
Dr Abraham Esau
Curt Valayan
Cassius
Herbert Dreuther
Meecham
King Louis VII of France
Actor
Julias Caesar
Hogarth
Reverend Clyde Ormiston
Uncle Willie
Director
of Virgil
Disraeli
Narration
Lord Sissal
Jasper Swift
Prospero
The Conductor
John Middleton Murry

milestones

Year
Milestone
1921 
Stage acting debut at Old Vic with one-line role in "Henry V"
1924 
Feature debut in a silent film, "Who Is The Man?"
1928 
Made New York acting debut, "The Patriot"
1929 
Joined Old Vic Theatre Company
1932 
Feature debut in a sound film, "Insult"
Continued

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