John Gielgud

English actor and theatre director (1904–2000) · United Kingdom · Male · Born 1904-04-14 · Died 2000-05-21

18 films · 6 shows

Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. He and his contemporaries Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31. Wikipedia ↗