Gielgud had a long and illustrious career, with a great theatrical heritage and more than 60 films to his name. He appeared in many BBC Shakespeare adaptations on television and radio.

Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare's Ages of Man is a solo recital of some thirty speeches from the plays and about a dozen sonnets--which are read entire. I suspect that the production was invented ...

Since then one of the great Shakespeare-interpreters of the last ... Hamlet performances at Kronborg which count 1939 with John Gielgud, 1954 with Richard Burton, and 1979 with Derek Jacobi.

It made a profound impression on me. At the final performance, Gielgud broke Prospero's staff and pronounced that Shakespeare would never again be performed at the Theatre Royal as it would be ...