John Gielgud Movies

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

Semi-Biographical film documenting the life of The Reverend Wilbert Awdry, creator of the beloved Thomas The tank Engine Stories

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...

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov.

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

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

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

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...

A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.

Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother ,...

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

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

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

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

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...