John Gielgud
Director, Actor
- Formula, The (1980)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller…
- Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…
- Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series) (1981)
- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick…
- Famous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel chronicles one Charles Ryder and his relationship with the Marchmain family in England between the wars.…
- Seven Dials Mystery, The (1981)
- Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Cheryl Campbell, James Warwick, John Gielgud…
- Detective Bundle enters into the world of espionage when she sets off to solve the grizzly murders of two Foreign Officers.
- Priest Of Love (1981)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner…
- Ian McKellen stars as D.H Lawrence in this biopic, chronicling the author's tempestuous relationship with his wife Frieda (Suzman), and his battle…
- Gandhi (1982)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox…
- Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
- Wagner (1983)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…
- Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
- Scarlet and the Black, The (1983)
- Dir. Jerry London
Feat. Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud…
- Thrilling cat–and–mouse tale of Vatican attempts to save Allied POWs and downed Allied airman from Nazi imprisonment.
- Shooting Party, The (1984)
- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. James Mason, Edward Fox, John Gielgud
- A weekend hunt in 1913 paints a disquieting portrait of British class exploitation and chauvinism.
- Camille (1984)
- Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth, John Gielgud…
- Greta Scacchi and a young Colin Firth play courtesan and lover respectively in this British revival of Alexander Dumas' novel.
- Plenty (1985)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…
- Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
- Leave All Fair (1985)
- Dir. John Reid
Feat. John Gielgud, Jane Birkin
- A rewarding drama set among the memories of John Middleton Murray (John Gielgud), husband of NZ writer Katherine Mansfield (Jane Birkin). Well worth…
- Whistle Blower, The (1986)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers…
- Michael Caine gives one of his best performances in a reasonably realistic spy drama, as the father of a GCHQ officer bumped off during a Cold War…
- Appointment with Death (1988)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud
- Agatha Christie mystery with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot, and Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud among the suspects.
- War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner…
- Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
- A TV Dante (The Inferno Cantos I - VIII) (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley
- Striking recitation by Gielgud and company of the first eight cantos. Greenaway superimposes some truly potent images over a series of talking heads.…
- Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
- BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…
- Prospero's Books (1991)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud
- A radically stylised take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with John Gielgud in the title role upstaged by the graphic opulence on display. Like a good…
- Strauss Dynasty, The (1991)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Anthony Higgins…
- Lavish historical drama that tells in four feature length episodes the saga of Johann Strauss and his sons, often considered "music's finest family".…
- Scarlett (TV Mini-Series) (1994)
- Dir. John Erman
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Joanne Whalley, Stephen Collins…
- The epic miniseries sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND has Scarlett, Rhett go from tragedy to triumph in an action packed saga of international scope…
- Gulliver's Travels (1995)
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole…
- Epic, state–of–the–art version of Jonathan Swift's classic fairytale stars Ted Danson as the long–shipwrecked doctor who must…
- Haunted (1995)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud
- Sceptical investigator Aidan Quinn becomes steadily embroiled in the paranormal and the ambiguous inhabitants of a British country mansion.…
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. John Gielgud, Miranda Richardson, Alan Bennett…
- Adapted from Anthony Powell's 12 volume sequence of novels which begins among the aspiring classes of Edwardian Britain and continues across the…
- Beckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001)
- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons…
- An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors.
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