John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, ( ; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31.During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. In the 1950s Gielgud feared that his career was threatened when he was convicted and fined for a homosexual offence, but his colleagues and the public supported him loyally. When '''' plays began to supersede traditional West End productions in the later 1950s he found no new suitable stage roles, and for several years he was best known in the theatre for his one-man Shakespeare show ''The Ages of Man''. From the late 1960s he found new plays that suited him, by authors including Alan Bennett, David Storey and Harold Pinter.
During the first half of his career Gielgud did not take the cinema seriously. Though he made his first film in 1924, and had successes with ''The Good Companions'' (1933) and ''Julius Caesar'' (1953), he did not begin a regular film career until his sixties. He appeared in more than sixty films between ''Becket'' (1964), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for playing Louis VII of France, and ''Elizabeth'' (1998). As the acid-tongued Hobson in ''Arthur'' (1981) he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film work further earned him a Golden Globe Award and two BAFTAs.
Although largely indifferent to awards, Gielgud had the rare distinction of winning an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He was famous from the start of his career for his voice and his mastery of Shakespearean verse. He broadcast more than a hundred radio and television dramas between 1929 and 1994, and made commercial recordings of many plays, including ten of Shakespeare's and three recordings from his own "Ages of Man." Among his honours, he was knighted in 1953 and the Gielgud Theatre was named after him in 1994. From 1977 to 1989, he was president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Provided by Wikipedia
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Distinguished company. by Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
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Acting Shakespeare / by Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
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Stage directions. by Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
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Sir John Gielgud : a life in letters / by Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
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Sir John Gielgud reads Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass. by Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
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Sir John Gielgud reads Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass. by Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
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Ages of man/
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Richard II/ by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet; a journal of rehearsals by Sterne, Richard L.
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Poems [read by Irene Worth]/
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Sir William Walton's film music. Macbeth ; Major Barbara. by Walton, William, 1902-1983
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The critic /
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The rime of the ancient mariner /
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The happy prince. by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
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Peter and the wolf by Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953
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My fair lady by Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988
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