John Gielgud: movies and TV shows
John Gielgud has 198 credits in the archive: 147 films and 51 TV series, from 1924 to 2018. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1924 – 2018 · busiest year: 1965 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 114 |
| 2016 | Trouser Bar | Film | 3.9 | 112 | |
| 2016 | Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied | Film | 7.4 | 112 | |
| 2016 | Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film | Self | Film | 5.8 | 112 |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 110 |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 107 |
| 2009 | Behind The Scenes of Caligula | Film | — | 105 | |
| 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 101 |
| 2003 | Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film | Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe") | Film | 10.0 | 99 |
| 2001 | Catastrophe | The Protagonist | Film | 6.4 | 97 |
| 2000 | Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance | Self | Film | — | 96 |
| 1999 | The Tichborne Claimant | Cockburn | Film | 8.7 | 95 |
| 1998 | Merlin | King Constant | TV | 6.9 | 94 |
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot | Merlin (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 94 |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | The Pope | Film | 7.2 | 94 |
| 1998 | Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow | Film | — | 94 | |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | St. John Clarke | TV | 5.7 | 93 |
| 1997 | David | Stimme Gottes | Film | 6.6 | 93 |
| 1996 | DragonHeart | King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 92 |
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Professor of Light | TV | 7.2 | 92 |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Mr. Touchett | Film | 6.0 | 92 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Priam | Film | 7.3 | 92 |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | Film | 6.8 | 92 |
| 1996 | Shine | Cecil Parkes | Film | 7.4 | 92 |
| 1996 | The Leopard Son | Narrator | Film | 9.5 | 92 |
| 1995 | First Knight | Oswald | Film | 6.1 | 91 |
| 1995 | Haunted | Dr Henry Doyle | Film | 6.1 | 91 |
| 1995 | Stick with Me, Kid | Grandpa | TV | 9.0 | 91 |
| 1995 | The Thomas The Tank Engine Man | Self (Voice) | Film | 0.5 | 91 |
| 1994 | Scarlett | Pierre Robillard | TV | 6.6 | 90 |
| 1994 | A Summer Day's Dream | Film | — | 90 | |
| 1993 | Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self | TV | 7.0 | 89 |
| 1992 | Shining Through | Sunflower | Film | 6.5 | 88 |
| 1992 | The Power of One | St. John | Film | 7.5 | 88 |
| 1992 | A Walk Through Prospero's Library | Prospero | Film | 7.0 | 88 |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Svetlovidov | Film | 6.8 | 88 |
| 1991 | Performance | Stephen Dawlish | TV | 6.3 | 87 |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | TV | — | 87 |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Drechsler | Film | 8.4 | 87 |
| 1991 | Prospero's Books | Prospero | Film | 6.8 | 87 |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 87 |
| 1991 | The Best of Friends | Sydney Cockerell | Film | 3.7 | 87 |
| 1991 | A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) | Virgil (voice) | Film | 5.5 | 87 |
| 1990 | A TV Dante | Virgil | Film | 6.5 | 86 |
| 1990 | Strike It Rich | Herbert Dreuther | Film | 6.5 | 86 |
| 1990 | Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self | Film | 8.5 | 86 |
| 1990 | Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 86 |
| 1989 | Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs | TV | 7.3 | 85 |
| 1989 | Getting It Right | Sir Gordon Munday | Film | 6.8 | 85 |
| 1989 | Barbablù, Barbablù | Barbablù | Film | 8.0 | 85 |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Aaron Jastrow | TV | 7.9 | 84 |
| 1988 | Appointment with Death | Colonel Carbury | Film | 6.1 | 84 |
| 1988 | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Hobson | Film | 5.5 | 84 |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey | Film | 7.0 | 84 |
| 1988 | In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self | Film | 6.0 | 84 |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Lord Hinksey | TV | 7.9 | 83 |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | British Lord | Film | 8.0 | 83 |
| 1987 | Quartermaine's Terms | Eddie Loomis | Film | 7.0 | 83 |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Lord Wakering | TV | 7.4 | 82 |
| 1986 | The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | Film | 6.7 | 82 |
| 1986 | The Whistle Blower | Sir Adrian Chappie | Film | 5.8 | 82 |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Antigone | Tiresias | Film | 9.0 | 82 |
| 1986 | Time After Time | Jasper Swift | Film | 10.0 | 82 |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Tieresias | Film | 4.5 | 82 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Eddie Loomis | TV | 7.1 | 81 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Jasper Swift | TV | 7.1 | 81 |
| 1985 | Plenty | Sir Leonard Darwin | Film | 5.7 | 81 |
| 1985 | To Be Hamlet | Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 1985 | Romance on the Orient Express | Theodore Woodward | Film | 5.4 | 81 |
| 1985 | The Shooting Party | Cornelius Cardew | Film | 6.6 | 81 |
| 1985 | Leave All Fair | John Middleton Murry | Film | 8.5 | 81 |
| 1984 | The Far Pavilions | Cavagnari | TV | 7.5 | 80 |
| 1984 | Six Centuries of Verse | Self - Presenter | TV | 8.0 | 80 |
| 1984 | Camille | Duke de Charles | Film | 5.5 | 80 |
| 1984 | The Master of Ballantrae | Lord Durrisdeer | Film | 6.3 | 80 |
| 1984 | Scandalous | Uncle Willie | Film | 4.7 | 80 |
| 1984 | Frankenstein | De Lacey | Film | 6.7 | 80 |
| 1984 | James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate | Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited) | Film | — | 80 |
| 1983 | The Wicked Lady | Hogarth | Film | 5.0 | 79 |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Pope Pius XII | Film | 7.0 | 79 |
| 1983 | Wagner | Pfistermeister | TV | 6.8 | 79 |
| 1983 | Invitation to the Wedding | Film | 6.0 | 79 | |
| 1982 | Marco Polo | Doge di Venezia | TV | 6.7 | 78 |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Lord Irwin | Film | 7.6 | 78 |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Charmolue | Film | 5.8 | 78 |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer Sr. | TV | 8.0 | 78 |
| 1982 | Laurence Olivier: a life | Self | Film | 10.0 | 78 |
| 1982 | The Critic | Lord Burleigh | Film | — | 78 |
| 1981 | Brideshead Revisited | Edward 'Ned' Ryder | TV | 7.8 | 77 |
| 1981 | Arthur | Hobson | Film | 6.5 | 77 |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Master of Trinity | Film | 6.8 | 77 |
| 1981 | Lion of the Desert | Sharif El Gariani | Film | 7.3 | 77 |
| 1981 | Sphinx | Abdu-Hamdi | Film | 5.7 | 77 |
| 1981 | Priest of Love | Herbert G. Muskett | Film | 5.0 | 77 |
| 1981 | Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | Marquis of Caterhan | Film | 6.9 | 77 |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Carr Gomm | Film | 8.0 | 76 |
| 1980 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Reverend Jones | Film | 6.7 | 76 |
| 1980 | The Conductor | John Lasocki | Film | 6.2 | 76 |
| 1980 | The Formula | Dr. Abraham Esau | Film | 5.6 | 76 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Jelks | TV | 6.8 | 75 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Cyril Boggis | TV | 6.8 | 75 |
| 1979 | Caligula | Nerva | Film | 6.0 | 75 |
| 1979 | Murder by Decree | Prime Minister | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Brigadier Tomlinson | Film | 5.8 | 75 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Chorus | TV | 6.0 | 74 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | John of Gaunt | TV | 6.0 | 74 |
| 1978 | Les Misérables | Gillenormand | Film | 7.2 | 74 |
| 1978 | No Man's Land | Spooner | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | Film | 7.6 | 74 |
| 1978 | Richard II | John of Gaunt | Film | 8.0 | 74 |
| 1977 | Providence | Clive Langham | Film | 6.6 | 73 |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | The Doctor | Film | 5.2 | 73 |
| 1977 | Heartbreak House | Captain Shotover | Film | — | 73 |
| 1977 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The Preacher | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 1977 | The Grand Inquisitor | Inquisitor | Film | — | 73 |
| 1976 | Second City Television | Self | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 1976 | Aces High | Headmaster | Film | 5.9 | 72 |
| 1976 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | Film | 9.0 | 72 |
| 1976 | Peter Pan | Narrator | Film | 6.0 | 72 |
| 1975 | Galileo | The Old Cardinal | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes | Film | 7.1 | 70 |
| 1974 | Gold | Farrell | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 1974 | QB VII | Clinton-Meek | TV | 7.7 | 70 |
| 1974 | Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 1974 | 11 Harrowhouse | Meecham | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 1973 | Lost Horizon | Chang | Film | 5.5 | 69 |
| 1973 | Frankenstein: The True Story | Chief Constable | TV | 8.5 | 69 |
| 1973 | William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Various | Film | — | 69 |
| 1972 | ABC Afterschool Special | Various Roles | TV | 6.5 | 68 |
| 1972 | Home | Harry | Film | 7.8 | 68 |
| 1972 | Eagle in a Cage | Lord Sissal | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 1972 | Probe | Harold L. Streeter | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 67 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 67 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Harry | TV | 6.6 | 66 |
| 1970 | Menace | Frederick William Densham | TV | — | 66 |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | Film | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1970 | Hamlet | The Ghost | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Count Leopold Von Berchtold | Film | 6.6 | 65 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Raglan | Film | 6.2 | 64 |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Elder Pope | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1968 | Assignment to Kill | Curt Valayan | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 1968 | Sebastian | Head of Intelligence | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1968 | From Chekhov with Love | Anton Chekhov | Film | 8.0 | 64 |
| 1968 | The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Rich Man | Film | — | 64 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self | TV | 7.2 | 63 |
| 1967 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | Film | — | 63 |
| 1967 | October Revolution | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 | Rich Man | TV | 6.8 | 62 |
| 1966 | Ivanov | Nikolai ivanov | Film | — | 62 |
| 1966 | Ivanov | Film | — | 62 | |
| 1966 | Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle | Film | 6.0 | 62 |
| 1966 | The Mayfly and the Frog | Gabriel Quantara | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1966 | Ages of Man | Film | — | 62 | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Chorus | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | The Inquisitor | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Charles II | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Capt. Shotover | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Lord Burleigh | TV | 5.3 | 61 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | The Writer | TV | 4.2 | 61 |
| 1965 | Chimes at Midnight | Henry IV | Film | 7.2 | 61 |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Sir Francis Hinsley | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Gabriel Quantara | TV | 5.2 | 60 |
| 1964 | Hamlet | Ghost (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 60 |
| 1964 | Hamlet | Film | 6.9 | 60 | |
| 1964 | Becket | King Louis VII of France | Film | 7.2 | 60 |
| 1963 | To Die in Madrid | Narrator (English version) (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 59 |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | Gaev | Film | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | Film | 8.0 | 58 | |
| 1959 | The Bell Telephone Hour | Self | TV | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1959 | The Big Party | Self | TV | — | 55 |
| 1958 | The Immortal Land | Film | 10.0 | 54 | |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | TV | 7.5 | 53 |
| 1957 | Saint Joan | Earl of Warwick | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1957 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Foster | Film | 6.7 | 52 |
| 1955 | Richard III | George, Duke of Clarence | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 1955 | ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall | John Worthing, JP | Film | — | 51 |
| 1954 | Romeo and Juliet | Chorus | Film | 5.4 | 50 |
| 1954 | Hamlet: The Actor's View | Self | Film | — | 50 |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Cassius | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1953 | Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five | Narrator | Film | — | 49 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | The Ghost | TV | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Charmolue | TV | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Lord Durrisdeer | TV | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Duke | TV | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1945 | A Diary for Timothy | Hamlet | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1941 | The Prime Minister | Disraeli | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1941 | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Narrator | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1937 | Heredity in Man | Self | Film | — | 33 |
| 1936 | Secret Agent | Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie | Film | 6.1 | 32 |
| 1933 | The Good Companions | Inigo Jollifant | Film | 6.4 | 29 |
| 1932 | Insult | Henri Dubois | Film | 7.0 | 28 |
| 1929 | The Clue of the New Pin | Rex Trasmere | Film | 8.0 | 25 |
| 1924 | Who Is the Man? | Daniel | Film | 9.0 | 20 |