Although best known for his onstage interpretations of William Shakespeare works, Gielgud delivered a number of arresting big-screen performances. His film credits include Secret Agent (1936), Julius Caesar (1953, opposite Marlon Brando), Becket (1964) and Shine (1996). No stranger to the small screen, the classical actor co-starred in the acclaimed 1981 miniseries "Brideshead Revisited."
Gielgud made one of his last silver-screen appearances (as the Pope) in 1998's Elizabeth before his death May 21, 2000, at age 96.
AddSecret AgentIn this thriller from director Alfred Hitchcock, British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) returns home during World War I to find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. The Intelligence Service then forces him to change his name and travel to Switzerland to track... Read More
AddLion of the DesertAnthony Quinn turns in a stellar performance as Libyan hero Omar Mukhtar, who organizes troops to repel the Italian forces trying to gain a stronghold in the African desert under orders from fascist despot Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger). Though Mukhtar and his bedouin troops must fight the Italian... Read More
Add AllSummer's LeaseBritish hausfrau Molly Pargeter (Susan Fleetwood) and her family spend an idyllic summer vacation at a villa in Tuscany. Idyllic, that is, until Molly must solve a couple of local mysteries involving a paucity of fresh water and a missing landlord. Along the way, she meets an old flame and stokes... Read More
Add AllA Dance to the Music of TimeBased on Anthony Powell's literary opus, this miniseries centers on Brit Nicholas Jenkins (James Purefoy) who, over the course of decades, observes the upper crust's uncanny ability to maintain propriety while keeping their secrets and scandals under wraps. Tea cakes are spread with infidelity,... Read More
AddGalileoTopol heads a stellar cast of British actors, including Sir John Gielgud, Patrick Magee, Edward Fox and Tom Conti in playwright Bertolt Brecht's interpretation of the troubled life and times of 17th century physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist... Read More
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