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Acting

John Gielgud

Career: Active from 1924 to 2016, with a break from 2002 to 2015, busiest in 1968 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 65
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Chimes at Midnight
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 90 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Gielgud Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.9, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Scare
1.6, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 15
Historical Drama 15
Character Study 10
Social Commentary 5
Shakespearean Adaptation 5
Period Drama 4
Literary Adaptation 4
Character-Driven 4
Tragic Romance 3
Espionage 3
Conspiracy Thriller 3
Shakespearean Tragedy 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

153

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

4 titles · average score 84

Trouser Bar

Writer

Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied

Writer

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

84

as Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)

Discovering Hamlet

as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

2000s

1 title · average score 63

Catastrophe

63

as The Protagonist

1990s

30 titles · average score 66

Elizabeth

77

as The Pope

Gulliver's Travels

71

TV show · as Professor of Light

Haunted

68

as Dr Henry Doyle

Stick with Me, Kid

TV show · as Grandpa

Shining Through

53

as Sunflower

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

as Prospero

The Strauss Dynasty

TV show · as Drechsler

Prospero's Books

67

as Prospero

The Best of Friends

as Sydney Cockerell

The Strauss Dynasty

as Drechsler

A TV Dante

69

as Virgil

A TV Dante

71

TV show · as Virgil(voice)

1980s

45 titles · average score 64

Summer's Lease

73

TV show · as Haverford Downs

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

28

as Hobson

A Man for All Seasons

70

as Cardinal Wolsey

Plenty

58

as Sir Leonard Darwin

The Scarlet and the Black

78

as Pope Pius XII

The Wicked Lady

45

as Hogarth

Gandhi

82

as Lord Irwin

Inside the Third Reich

71

TV show · as Albert Speer Sr.

Arthur

74

as Hobson

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

61

as Marquis of Caterhan

The Elephant Man

85

as Carr Gomm

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

68

as Reverend Jones

1970s

34 titles · average score 63

Murder by Decree

61

as Prime Minister

The Human Factor

50

as Brigadier Tomlinson

No Man's Land

as Spooner

Richard II

80

as John of Gaunt

Providence

74

as Clive Langham

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

50

as The Preacher

The Picture of Dorian Gray

81

as Lord Henry Wotton

Aces High

64

as Headmaster

Gold

50

as Farrell

Home

as Harry

Eagle in a Cage

59

as Lord Sissal

Julius Caesar

46

as Julius Caesar

1960s

22 titles · average score 66

The Charge of the Light Brigade

65

as Lord Raglan

Assignment to Kill

60

as Curt Valayan

The Shoes of the Fisherman

57

as The Elder Pope

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

as Rich Man

Sebastian

44

as Head of Intelligence

The Mayfly and the Frog

as Gabriel Quantara

Chimes at Midnight

87

as Henry IV

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Capt. Shotover / The Inquisitor

Becket

74

as King Louis VII of France

Hamlet

73

as Ghost (voice)

To Die in Madrid

77

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Cherry Orchard

as Gaev

1950s

9 titles · average score 68

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

62

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Saint Joan

42

as Earl of Warwick

Around the World in 80 Days

67

as Foster

Richard III

77

as George, Duke of Clarence

ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall

as John Worthing, JP

Romeo and Juliet

57

as Chorus

Julius Caesar

85

as Cassius

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five

as Narrator

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Lord Durrisdeer / Charmolue

1940s

3 titles · average score 64

A Diary for Timothy

66

as Hamlet

The Prime Minister

62

as Disraeli

An Airman's Letter to His Mother

65

as Narrator

1930s

3 titles · average score 62

Secret Agent

59

as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

The Good Companions

66

as Inigo Jollifant

Insult

as Henri Dubois

1920s

2 titles

The Clue of the New Pin

as Rex Trasmere

Who Is the Man?

as Daniel