John Gielgud
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One of the theatre's greatest legends, Sir John Gielgud spent almost 80 of the 96 years of his life appearing in countless plays that saw him portray every major Shakespearean role. The last surviving member of a generation of classical actors that... more
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Cast: John Gielgud Armin Mueller-Stahl Lynn Redgrave Geoffrey Rush Scott Hicks   
Tags: Psychological Drama Biopic Drama 
Length: 105min
The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David Helfgott, a pianist with a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy...

Cast: John Gielgud Stewart Copeland Hugo van Lawick   
Length: 82min
Filmmaker Hugo Van Lawick, who previously collaborated with naturalist Jane Goodall on documentaries (and was also her husband at one time), spent two years on the plains of the African Serengeti patiently following the birth and development of a...

Cast: John Gielgud Stephen Fry Dudley Sutton David Yates Robert Hardy   
Tags: Period Film Historical Film 
Length: 98min
David Yates directed this 4 million fact-based British period drama, set in Victorian England and reminiscent of The Return of Martin Guerre and Sommersby. An elderly African-American man, Andrew Bogle (John Kani), dying in a London workhouse in 1895,...

Cast: John Gielgud Francis Ford Coppola Kate Beckinsale Anna Massey Aidan Quinn   
Tags: Period Film Haunted House Film Mystery Horror Gothic Film 
Length: 108min
Adapted from the novel by James Herbert, this subtle, melancholy British chiller owes a great deal to Henry James's ~The Turn of the Screw. The story opens with a chilling prologue in 1905 England, in which a young boy fails to prevent the accidental...

Cast: Michael Douglas John Gielgud Liam Neeson Melanie Griffith Joely Richardson   
Tags: Spy Film Romantic Drama Action Drama War Spy Film 
Length: 133min
Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel ~Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with...

Cast: John Gielgud Morgan Freeman Armin Mueller-Stahl Stephen Dorff Daniel Craig   
Tags: Message Movie Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 126min
John G. Avildsen, director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, adapts Bryce Courtenay's compassionate novel about the coming of age of a white anti-apartheid activist during the years of World War II in South Africa. Avildsen cumbersomely grafts Courtenay's...

Cast: John Gielgud Graham Greene Molly Ringwald Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 86min
Ian Bertram (Robert Lindsay) is a mathematical genius who works as an accountant for a multinational firm based in England. When he meets Cary Porter (Molly Ringwald), who recently started working for the same company, Ian immediately falls in love...

Cast: John Gielgud Kenneth Branagh Richard Briers   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 23min
Fresh from the success of Henry V and Dead Again, British actor/director Kenneth Branagh recharged his creative batteries with a 23-minute short subject. Swan Song is a faithful adaptation of a one-act play by Anton Chekhov. John Gielgud stars as an...

Cast: John Gielgud Jeremy Kemp Annette Crosbie Martyn Friend Susan Fleetwood   
Tags: Drama Mystery Family Drama 
Length: 220min
Adapted by John Mortimer from his own novel, the British miniseries Summer's Lease starred Susan Fleetwood as British housewife Molly Pargeter who, with her family, spent an eventful summer vacation at La Felicita, a villa in Tuscany. Molly had hoped...

Cast: John Gielgud William Shakespeare Peter Greenaway Michel Blanc Erland Josephson   
Tags: Fantasy Surrealist Film Art Film 
Length: 129min
Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books uses Shakespeare as a foundation and then skips along to define its own lush territory. The books of the title are briefly...

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