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May 21, 2000 · Born Arthur John Gielgud on April 14, 1904 in South Kensington, London, U.K., he was the son of Kate and Franciszek "Frank" Gielgud, the latter a descendent of Polish nobility. On his mother's side, he was the scion of an illustrious acting family, with his grandmother, Kate Terry, great-aunt, Ellen Terry, and great-uncle, Fred Terry, all being luminaries of the London stage.
May 3, 2023 · Gielgud, picking up Hamlet’s preoccupation with acting, set his modern-dress production in the rehearsal room; Thorne and Mendes, focusing on rehearsals for that production, add yet another ...
Feb 28, 2008 · In Gielgud's version, he had not gone looking for sex, but his account was punctuated by his longtime companion, Martin Hensler, growling, "No, no, John, you always lie!" Gielgud was known, de ...
1928 John Gielgud made the first of 15 appearances at the theatre in a short-lived farce entitled Holding Out the Apple. 1937 H M Tennent presented their first production, of G B Shaw's Candida , at the theatre that subsequently became the company's headquarters until 1991.
Jun 21, 2001 · John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life. by Gyles Brandreth. Sutton, 196 pp., £6.99, April 2001, 0 7509 2752 6. These biographies of John Gielgud by Jonathan Croall and Sheridan Morley are quite hard to tell apart. They are of much the same size, bear handsome pictures of the actor in old age on the front of their dust-jackets, and are, inevitably ...
Sir John Gielgud. A memorial stone for Sir John Gielgud, actor, director and producer, was unveiled in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 26th April 2022. The blue Purbeck marble stone was designed and cut by Wayne Hart and adjoins the grave of fellow actor Laurence Olivier and is near the memorial to Dame Peggy Ashcroft , Sir John's ...
Jan 31, 2011 · It was the most controversial incident of Sir John Gielgud's life, when the great actor was caught giving the glad eye to an undercover policeman in a public lavatory. In unenlightened 1950s ...
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