
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk". Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.272 |
Birthday | 1904-04-14 |
Place of Birth | South Kensington, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Arthur John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, A Gentleman, Джон Гилгуд, |

1965

Chimes at Midnight
7.1/215
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry'...
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Chimes at Midnight

1982

Gandhi
7.6/2323
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi

1984

Frankenstein
5.8/12
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
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Frankenstein

1974

Frankenstein: The True Story
7.6/31
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
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Frankenstein: The True Story

1985

To Be Hamlet
0/0
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play...
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To Be Hamlet

1954

Hamlet: The Actor's View
0/0
One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title character with which he used to be intimately asso...
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Hamlet: The Actor's View

1980

The Elephant Man
8.046/3584
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
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The Elephant Man

1997

David
6.6/51
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be...
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David

1936

Secret Agent
6.1/153
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to th...
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Secret Agent

1974

Murder on the Orient Express
7.14/1435
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Murder on the Orient Express

1988

Appointment with Death
6.1/134
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed...
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Appointment with Death

1978

Les Misérables
7.2/30
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables

1998

Elizabeth
7.173/1402
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the C...
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Elizabeth

1991

Prospero's Books
6.8/94
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un...
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Prospero's Books

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
6.7/44
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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Oh! What a Lovely War

1995

First Knight
6.1/1227
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancel...
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First Knight

1984

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
0/0
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1980

The Formula
5.5/39
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthe...
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The Formula

1992

Shining Through
6.5/207
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...
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Shining Through

1996

DragonHeart
6.539/1995
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dra...
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DragonHeart

1981

Chariots of Fire
6.8/933
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire

1979

Caligula
6.001/861
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravit...
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Caligula

1986

The Whistle Blower
5.8/39
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold...
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The Whistle Blower

1988

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
5.5/146
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way t...
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks

1981

Lion of the Desert
7.3/174
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a...
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Lion of the Desert

1979

Murder by Decree
6.4/142
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using informat...
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Murder by Decree

1981

Arthur
6.5/434
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Arthur

1992

The Power of One
7.474/141
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel...
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The Power of One

1966

Alice in Wonderland
7.3/26
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th...
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Alice in Wonderland

1985

Plenty
5.7/41
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
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Plenty

1968

The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.1/65
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade

1970

Julius Caesar
5.7/28
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide...
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Julius Caesar

1955

Richard III
7.1/90
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...
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Richard III

1964

Becket
7.1/184
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of C...
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Becket

1976

Aces High
5.864/70
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By...
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Aces High

1983

The Scarlet and the Black
7/57
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His...
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The Scarlet and the Black

1965

The Loved One
6.3/42
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
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The Loved One

1986

Time After Time
0/0
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three...
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Time After Time

1981

Sphinx
5.6/22
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, a...
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Sphinx

1986

The Canterville Ghost
6.6/25
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estat...
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The Canterville Ghost

1979

The Human Factor
5.9/29
A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant...
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The Human Factor

1996

The Leopard Son
0/1
The true story of the birth, growth and coming of age of a leopard cub in Africa's Serengeti plain. The journey of "The Leopard Son" begins at his mot...
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The Leopard Son

1953

Julius Caesar
7.021/216
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
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Julius Caesar

1974

Gold
5.7/53
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drillin...
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Gold

1995

Haunted
6.1/154
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. So...
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Haunted

1981

Priest of Love
5/12
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When...
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Priest of Love

1998

Quest for Camelot
6.8/815
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants t...
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Quest for Camelot

1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.8/28
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1977

The Grand Inquisitor
0/0
The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University.
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The Grand Inquisitor

2001

Catastrophe
6/9
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentati...
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Catastrophe

1977

Providence
6.8/62
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing sc...
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Providence

1981

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
6.7/21
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashi...
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

1973

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
0/0
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

1954

Romeo and Juliet
5.1/14
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one fami...
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Romeo and Juliet

1985

The Shooting Party
6.6/22
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal d...
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The Shooting Party

1973

Lost Horizon
5.4/37
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon...
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Lost Horizon

1933

The Good Companions
5.8/4
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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The Good Companions

1987

Quartermaine's Terms
0/0
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher...
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Quartermaine's Terms

1962

The Cherry Orchard
8/1
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pa...
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The Cherry Orchard

1980

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.4/15
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the myst...
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1957

Saint Joan
6.5/22
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battle...
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Saint Joan

1964

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
6.5/4
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but perf...
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

1983

The Wicked Lady
4.8/20
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
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The Wicked Lady

1977

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6/5
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1945

A Diary for Timothy
6.6/21
A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.
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A Diary for Timothy

1963

To Die in Madrid
7.5/13
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the c...
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To Die in Madrid

1968

Assignment to Kill
6/5
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance mon...
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Assignment to Kill

1984

The Master of Ballantrae
6/3
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England fo...
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The Master of Ballantrae

1988

A Man for All Seasons
6.8/10
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his integri...
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A Man for All Seasons

1984

Scandalous
4/1
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
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Scandalous

1978

No Man's Land
7/2
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home...
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No Man's Land

1957

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6.2/3
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1975

Galileo
5.9/13
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion...
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Galileo

1984

Camille
5.6/15
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...
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Camille

1972

Eagle in a Cage
5/2
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Eagle in a Cage

1972

Probe
5.5/4
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detect...
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Probe

1977

Joseph Andrews
4.7/9
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews

2011

Discovering Hamlet
7/1
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great trag...
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Discovering Hamlet

1941

An Airman's Letter to His Mother
6/3
A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother upon his death.
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An Airman's Letter to His Mother

1968

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
0/0
On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the...
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

1982

The Critic
0/0
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacu...
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The Critic

1994

A Summer Day's Dream
0/0
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in...
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A Summer Day's Dream

2005

Revisiting Brideshead
0/0
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
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Revisiting Brideshead

1992

Swan Song
6.8/5
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre. The film was nominated for an Oscar f...
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Swan Song

1966

Ages of Man
0/0
Performance of extracts from The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a collection of speeches in Shakespeare's plays. Wh...
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Ages of Man

1991

The Best of Friends
1/1
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Si...
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The Best of Friends

1983

Invitation to the Wedding
0/1
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
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Invitation to the Wedding

1974

11 Harrowhouse
5.7/25
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...
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11 Harrowhouse

1978

Richard II
7.5/2
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet...
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Richard II

1985

Romance on the Orient Express
5.2/5
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who me...
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Romance on the Orient Express

1996

Looking for Richard
6.8/140
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...
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Looking for Richard

1996

Hamlet
7.333/480
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Hamlet

1972

Home
7.8/6
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
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Home

1968

Sebastian
6/11
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian f...
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Sebastian

1941

The Prime Minister
6/1
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
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The Prime Minister

1991

The Strauss Dynasty
8.2/4
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The Strauss Dynasty

1989

Getting It Right
7/10
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva...
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Getting It Right

1996

The Portrait of a Lady
6/236
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill fathe...
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The Portrait of a Lady

1992

A Walk Through Prospero's Library
0/0
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (...
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A Walk Through Prospero's Library

1932

Insult
0/0
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Insult

1996

Shine
7.384/657
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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Shine

1982

Inside the Third Reich
7.3/6
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...
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Inside the Third Reich

1966

The Mayfly and the Frog
0/0
When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.
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The Mayfly and the Frog

1980

The Conductor
6.3/13
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned sym...
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The Conductor

1937

Heredity in Man
0/0
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
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Heredity in Man

1958

The Immortal Land
0/0
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
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The Immortal Land

1990

A TV Dante
6.4/5
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos...
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A TV Dante

1985

Leave All Fair
7/1
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The pub...
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Leave All Fair

1992

The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
0/0
Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.
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The South Bank Show: Noël Coward

1968

The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.7/69
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.649/522
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days

2016

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
5.8/4
A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Rich...
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

1990

Strike It Rich
5/1
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
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Strike It Rich

1976

The Picture of Dorian Gray
8/1
In Victorian England, handsome Dorian Gray makes a Faustian deal that his portrait painted by Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett) will age while he remains...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

1987

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
0/0
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done by Disne...
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

1967

Romeo and Juliet
0/0
BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
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Romeo and Juliet

1924

Who Is the Man?
0/0
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother , Genevieve...
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Who Is the Man?

1978

Romeo & Juliet
7.4/5
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil ha...
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Romeo & Juliet

1929

The Clue of the New Pin
0/0
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
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The Clue of the New Pin

1998

The Tichborne Claimant
8/2
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwrec...
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The Tichborne Claimant

1977

Heartbreak House
0/0
Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge i...
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Heartbreak House

1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
2/1
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986

Theban Plays: Antigone
0/0
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of d...
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Theban Plays: Antigone

1976

Peter Pan
6/1
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark H...
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Peter Pan

1967

October Revolution
0/0
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage...
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October Revolution

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7/6
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1995

The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
0.5/1
Semi-Biographical film documenting the life of The Reverend Wilbert Awdry, creator of the beloved Thomas The tank Engine Stories
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The Thomas The Tank Engine Man

1998

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
0/0
Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews. John Gielgud reads from Rachm...
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Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

1991

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
5.5/1
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never complet...
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1988

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
6/2
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

1990

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
10/1
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

2018

Nothing Like a Dame
6.9/54
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...
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Nothing Like a Dame

1953

Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
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Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.
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Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five

1990

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
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Like everyone else in the kingdom, two clever swindlers understand the king's passion for new clothes. Claiming to be creators of the richest and most...
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Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes

1989

Barbablù, Barbablù
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An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them.
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