John Gielgud Movies

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet,...

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...

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

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

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...

A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother upon his death.

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

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....

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

Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews. John Gielgud reads from...

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

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...

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.