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John Gielgud

John Gielgud

English actor and theatre director (1904-2000)
April 14, 1904 (May 21, 2000)
Aust. 1996. Psychological drama by Scott Hicks with Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush.
Runtime: 105 minute
G.-B. 1994. Fantasy comedy by Geoffrey Sax with Ian McShane, Barbara Barrie, John Gielgud. An eccentric English lord struggles with a haunted mansion and hidden treasure.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1993. Crime drama by Herbert Wise with John Thaw, Kevin Whately, John Gielgud. A policeofficer investigates two murders in one day in the Oxford university environment.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1991. Poetic drama by Peter Greenaway with John Gielgud, Isabelle Pasco, Michael Clark. An old duke who was the victim of a conspiracy creates a great storm that strands those who forced him into exile on his island.
Runtime: 126 min.
G.-B. 1991. Drama by Alvin Rakoff with John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Patrick McGoohan. Through letters and writings, an abbess, a museum curator and a playwright maintain a friendship that unites them for over fifty years.
Runtime: 175 min.
G.-B. 1989. Dramatic comedy by James Scott with Robert Lindsay, Molly Ringwald, John Gielgud. On his honeymoon in Monaco, an accountant devises a scheme to win at the casino in order to raise money and get back at an unscrupulous boss.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1989. Sentimental comedy by Randal Kleiser with Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Redgrave. A candid hairdresser has his first romantic experiences when a friend takes him into London's high society.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1988. Chronicle by Dan Curtis with Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner. The tribulations of an American soldier and his family during World War II.
Runtime: 1620 min.
G.-B. 1986. Fantasy comedy by Paul Bogart with John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Alyssa Milano. Punished for his cowardice, the ghost of a lord is freed from his torment by the granddaughter of an American descendant.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 1985. Psychological drama by Bill Hays with John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Helen Cherry. The arrival of a Jewish cousin thought to be dead disrupts the life of an Irish family.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1984. Melodrama by Desmond Davis with Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth, John Gielgud. An impoverished young woman who goes to live in Paris becomes the most elegant of courtesans.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1983. Police comedy by Rob Cohen with Robert Hays, Pamela Stephenson, John Gielgud. In search of a story for his TV show, a reporter is embroiled in a murder case after meeting two crooks.
Runtime: 94 min.
G.-B. 1983. Adventures by Douglas Hickox with Michael York, Richard Thomas, John Gielgud. A Scottish noble journeys around the world while his brother administers the family estate.
G.-B. 1982. Melodrama by Michael Winner with Faye Dunaway, Tony Banks, Jack Cardiff. In the seventeenth century, a young woman married to a country gentleman becomes the mistress of a notorious bandit.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1982. History by Marvin J. Chomsky with Rutger Hauer, Blythe Danner, John Gielgud. The rise of architect Albert Speer and his relationship with the Nazi leadership.
Runtime: 300 min.
G.-B. 1982. Biography by Richard Attenborough with Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangady, Roshan Seth. A profile of the life of the Hindu apostle of non-violence.
Runtime: 188 min.
G.-B. 1981. War drama by Moustapha Akkad with Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger. In the late 1920s, an elderly village teacher becomes the leader of the resistance to the Italian occupation of Libya.
Runtime: 162 min.
G.-B. 1981. Sports drama by Hugh Hudson with Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm.
Runtime: 123 min.
U.S. 1981. Comedy by Steve Gordon with Dudley Moore, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli.
Runtime: 99 min.
Runtime: 119 min.
G.-B. 1980. Biography by Christopher Miles with Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Penelope Keith.
Runtime: 125 min.
G.-B. 1980. Police comedy by Tony Wharmby with Cheryll Campbell, James Warwick, John Gielgud.
Runtime: 132 min.
G.-B. 1980. Mores drama by David Lynch with Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Wendy Hiller.
Runtime: 125 min.
G.-B. 1979. History by David Giles with Derek Jacobi, Jon Finch, John Gielgud.
Runtime: 158 min.

The Conductor

V.O.: Dyrygent
Pol. 1979. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn.
Runtime: 101 min.

Caligula

V.O.: Caligola
Runtime: 153 min.
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud. In the course of a sleepless night, a novelist stalked by death imagines the plot for a new story.
Runtime: 107 min.
G.-B. 1974. Crime drama by Sidney Lumet with Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam. Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American industrialist on board a luxury train immobilized by a snowstorm.
Runtime: 127 min.
U.S. 1972. Musical by Charles Jarrott with Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud. Europeans who have fled a revolt enter a kind of earthly paradise in the heart of the Himalayas.
U.S. 1972. Science-fiction by Russ Mayberry with Hugh O'Brian, Elke Sommer, John Gielgud. Armed with state-of-the-art equipment, an agent of an international research group finds diamonds stolen by the Nazis.
Runtime: 100 min.
G.-B. 1970. History by Stuart Burge with Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Richard Johnson. After participating in the assassination of Caesar, Brutus must confront Mark Antony and Octavian.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1968. Religious drama by Michael Anderson with Anthony Quinn, Oskar Werner, Lee McKern. A Russian bishop released from a labour camp goes to Rome and is elected pope.
Runtime: 162 min.
G.-B. 1968. War drama by Tony Richardson with Trevor Howard, David Hemmings, John Gielgud. The circumstances surrounding the massacre of an English regiment during the Crimean War.
Runtime: 138 min.
Esp. 1966. Dramatic comedy by Orson Welles with Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud. A companion of the crown prince's fredaines, Sir John Falstaff is rejected by him when he becomes king.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 1965. Satire by Tony Richardson with Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger. A young English gets a job in a luxury cemetery in Hollywood.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1957. Sentimental drama by Sidney Franklin with Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1956. Adventures by Michael Anderson with David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine. A wealthy gentleman from London bets that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days.
Runtime: 177 min.
U.S. 1953. History by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud. Worried about Caesar's power, Roman senators decide to assassinate him, in 44 BC.
Runtime: 122 min.
G.-B. 1941. Biography by Thorold Dickinson with John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe. Milestones in the career of Disraeli, Prime Minister of England under Queen Victoria.
G.-B. 1936. Spy drama by Alfred Hitchcock with John Gielgud, Robert Young, Madeleine Carroll.
Runtime: 86 min.

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