John Gielgud

As ageing thespians go, he kept his lust for life. A new archive reveals how Sir John Gielgud, one of Britain's most venerable actors, took a fancy to Iggy Pop, the American punk rocker more than 40 years his junior. ... Full Article

AM Turner Classic Movies The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 GB): I'm not a huge admirer of director Tony Richardson, but this marks the widescreen television premiere of his revisionist take on one of the British army's most embarrassing... ... Full Article

When the Royal Court was casting David Storey's play Home in 1970, it secured Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud despite the fact that neither actor had any idea what the play was about. ... Full Article

Sir John Gielgud , arguably the greatest Shakespearean actor of the 20th Century, had a theatrical career that spanned 64 years, from a role in a 1924 London production of "The Constant Nymph" to the 1988 production of " Sir... ... Full Article

In 1958, John Gielgud brought his one-man show, Ages of Man , to Goucher College. The legendary British actor had assembled the evening of Shakespearean monologues and sonnets himself and had even written the brief narrations that stitched the pieces... ... Full Article

Nicholas de Jongh's Plague Over England presents a semi-factual version of events surrounding Gielgud's arrest. Mr de Jongh, a veteran Fleet Street drama critic, has written a witty docu-drama about an era he clearly recalls with horror. ... Full Article