Celebrity Film Star : John Gielgud

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the...

an introduction to Gielgud, and then he speaks of his start, Ellen Terry, and playing Shakespeares's "Hamlet". In a clip from his one man show, "The Ages Of Man", Gielgud recites...

John Gielgud & Edith Evans as John Worthing and Lady Augusta Bracknell in the famous 'handbag' interrogation scene in the play by Oscar Wilde I feel Edith Evans' portrayal far superior to that of...

A short clip of David Storey's "Home" (1970 TV) and longer bits from Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" (1978 TV) featuring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Also, John Gielgud, in...

This is Sir John Gielgud reading Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses", as part of Neil French's ad series for UBS.

A home made video about great English actor, Sir John Gielgud.

The final part of Peter Ustinov's performance at the Amnesty International benefit 'The Mermaid Frolics'. www.amnesty.org www.amazon.co.uk

Episode Six of the 1984 series. This section features the poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Presented by John Gielgud, who reads Marvell's well-known poem 'To his Coy Mistress'.

Stage Play - Sir John Gielgud reminisces about his life in this excerpt from the play "Gielgud - A Knight in the Theatre", written and performed by George Telfer.

Gielgud speaks of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", his various productions of the play, an audio clip is played, and directing Richard Burton.

A scene from the film "The Loved One" 1965 starring Rod Steiger as mortuary cosmatician Mr. Joyboy struggling to get the facial expression of John Gielgud, as the corpse Sir Francis Hinsley,...

John Gielgud speaks of Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Macbeth. In a clip from his one man show, "The Ages Of Man", Gielgud recites "I know a bank where the wild thyme...

A clip of Shakespeare's "Richard III" and Gielgud discusses his problems with filming. clips from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" (1953), and Gielgud speaks of Marlon Brando.

Orson Wells, his long-running partnerships with Irene Worth and Ralph Richardson clips from David Storey's "Home" (1970) and Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" (1978)