John Gielgud facts for kids

Sir John Gielgud
Quick facts for kids Sir John Gielgud ; OM CH
	Gielgud in 1973, by Allan Warren
Born	Arthur John Gielgud ; 14 April 1904; South Kensington, London, England
Died	21 May 2000 (aged 96); Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation	Actor, singer, director
Years active	1924–2000
Partner(s)	Martin Hensler (ca. 1963–1998)

Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM CH (14 April 1904 - 21 May 2000) was a British 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.

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

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

Gielgud in a 1930s publicity photograph

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

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

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

Gielgud as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, 1959
Centre: Marion, Kate and Ellen Terry and, far right, Fred Terry at Ellen's Silver Jubilee matinée, Drury Lane, 12 June 1906. Everyone shown was a member of the Terry family.
Noël Coward with Lilian Braithwaite, his, and later Gielgud's, co-star in The Vortex
Mrs Patrick Campbell and Edith Evans, 1920s co-stars with Gielgud
The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Gielgud honed his skill as a Shakespearean
Mabel Terry-Lewis, Gielgud's aunt and co-star in The Importance of Being Earnest
Peggy Ashcroft in 1936
Interior of the Queen's Theatre
Edmond O'Brien (Casca, left) and Gielgud (Cassius) in Julius Caesar (1953)
Gielgud, 1953
Much Ado About Nothing: Gielgud as Benedick and Margaret Leighton as Beatrice, 1959
Gielgud (left) as Joseph Surface, and Ralph Richardson as Sir Peter Teazle, The School for Scandal, 1962
Gielgud in 1973, by Allan Warren