John Gielgud

**Sir Arthur John Gielgud**,  (; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and director. Gielgud was born in South Kensington, London and attended Westminster School. He acted in theatre, on radio, television and in movies.

Gielgud won many awards, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, a Grammy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. In 1992 he received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award. The Globe Theatre in London was renamed the Gielgud Theatre in 1994 in his honour.

In 1991, Gielgud became an EGOT winner. At aged 87, he is the oldest person to became an EGOT winner and the first LGBT person to do so.

Gielgud was gay. He was in a long-term relationship until his partner died in 1998. Gielgud died in Wootton Underwood, Buckinghamshire.

### Laurence Olivier Awards

- 1985: Special Award

### Academy Awards

- 1964: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, for _Becket_
- 1981: Winner for Best Supporting Actor, for _Arthur_

### Emmy Awards

- 1966: Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Program, for Gielgud's Ages of Man_
- 1982: Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special, for _Brideshead Revisited_
- 1984: Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special, for _The Master of Ballantrae_
- 1985: Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special, for _Romance on the Orient Express_
- 1989: Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a miniseries or Special, for _War and Remembrance_
- 1991: Winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, for _Summer's Lease_

### Tony Awards

- 1948: Winner for Outstanding Foreign Company, _The Importance of Being Earnest_
- 1959: Winner, Special Award, for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man show, _Ages of Man_
- 1961: Winner for Best Director (Dramatic), for _Big Fish, Little Fish_, a play by Hugh Wheeler
- 1963: Nominated for Best Director (Dramatic), for _The School for Scandal_
- 1965: Nominated for Best Actor (Dramatic), for _Tiny Alice_
- 1971: Nominated for Best Actor (Dramatic), for _Home_

### _Evening Standard_ Awards

- 1970 Co-winner for Best Actor for _Home_ (with Ralph Richardson)
- 1975 Winner for Best Actor for _No Man's Land_
- 1982 Winner, Special Award for Lifetime Achievement

### Grammy Awards

- 1959: Nominated for Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording, for _Ages of Man_
- 1964: Nominated for Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording, for _Hamlet_ with Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield and George Rose
- 1964: Nominated for Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording, for _Ages of Man, Volume 2 (One Man in His Time) Part Two - Shakespeare_
- 1979: Winner for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording, for _Ages of Man - Recordings from Shakespeare_
- 1982: Nominated for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording, for _No Man's Land_ with Ralph Richardson
- 1983: Nominated for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording, for _Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats_ with Irene Worth
- 1986: Nominated for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording, for _Gulliver_
- 1988: Nominated for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording, for _A Christmas Carol_
- 1989: Nominated for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording, for _Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in Wonderland_
- 1991: Nominated for Best Album for Children, for _The Emperor's New Clothes_ with Mark Isham

### New York Film Critics Circle Awards

- 1977: Best Actor, for _Providence_
- 1981: Best Supporting Actor, for _Arthur_

### Los Angeles Movie Critics Association Awards

- 1981: Best Supporting Actor, for _Arthur_
- 1985: Best Supporting Actor, for _Plenty_

### Golden Globe Awards

- 1981: Winner for Best Supporting Actor, for _Arthur_
- 1988: Winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, for _War and Remembrance_
- 1989: Nominated for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, for _War and Remembrance''

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Sir John Gielgud
- **post-nominals**: OM CH
- **image**: John Gielgud Allan Warren cropped.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **caption**: Gielgud in 1973, by Allan Warren
- **birth name**: Arthur John Gielgud
- **birth place**: South Kensington, London, England
- **death place**: Wotton House, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England
- **years active**: 19242000