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    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/ GHEEL-guud; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight...
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    the greatest star of the family for many decades, but her great-nephew John Gielgud became at least as celebrated from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century...
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  • actor and theatre director John Gielgud (1904–2000) received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of five...
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    and film for decades. He and his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud made up a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the...
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  • include: John Gielgud (1904–2000), English actor, director, and producer Lewis Gielgud (1894–1953), English scholar and intelligence officer Maina Gielgud (born...
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    Sir John Gielgud, OM, CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 1904–2000) was an English actor and theatre director. He appeared on stage, television and radio and in film in a...
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    The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, at the corner of Rupert Street, in the City of Westminster, London. The house...
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  • Dangerous Corner. He later accepted an offer to work with Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of Hamlet. He first appeared on television in 1938 as Seigneur...
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    of the greatest British actors who, along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, made the transition from theatre to films after the Second World War...
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  • Gatiss as Gielgud, and Tuppence Middleton as Elizabeth Taylor. Mendes decided to stage the play after reading Richard L. Sterne’s John Gielgud Directs Richard...
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  • produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, Louis Calhern as Caesar, John Gielgud as Cassius...
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  • Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen, it was performed by Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was nominated...
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    Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic...
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  • newer medium of television. Val Gielgud was born in London, into a theatrical family, being the brother of Sir John Gielgud (who acted in several of his...
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    Sir John Gielgud (1956, 1957) Tom Fleming (1963) Ian Richardson (1970) Michael Aldridge (1974) Sir Michael Hordern (1978) Derek Jacobi (1982) John Wood...
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    Alan Bennett play The Madness of George III (2018). He portrayed Sir John Gielgud in the Jack Thorne play The Motive and the Cue (2023) for which he earned...
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  • Richard Burton as Thomas Becket and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, with John Gielgud as King Louis VII, Donald Wolfit as Gilbert Foliot, Paolo Stoppa as Pope...
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    (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the trinity of male actors who dominated...
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  • John F. Andrews, OBE, to "honor Sir John and perpetuate his legacy." The award is named in honor of the English actor Sir John Gielgud. The Gielgud Award...
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  • that year John Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe (now Gielgud) Theatre. Gielgud took the play...
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  • Shelley Winters, Viggo Mortensen, Valentina Cervi, Christian Bale, and John Gielgud. It received two nominations at the 69th Academy Awards: Best Supporting...
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  • debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave...
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    alongside Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, and Anne Bancroft. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised his performance writing, "John Hurt, in complex and intricate...
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  • Raleigh) David Wood as Lieutenant "Tommy" Thompson (2nd Lt. Trotter) John Gielgud as Headmaster at Eton Trevor Howard as Lieutenant Colonel Silkin Richard...
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  • England, with Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, and Richard Attenborough in supporting roles. The film is based on the...
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    buildings. Edward, Prince of Wales, opened the theatre. In 1923, Sir John Gielgud studied at RADA for a year. He later became president of the academy...
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  • Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Googie Withers, Sonia Todd and John Gielgud. Shine had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January...
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    drama directed by Michael Winner and starring Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, and Hugh Millais. It was screened out of competition...
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  • Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles. It is based on the novel of the same name by Susan...
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    ensembles, she did much of her work for the Old Vic in the early 1930s, John Gielgud's companies in the 1930s and 1940s, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and...
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