John Gielgud

British actor and theatre director

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.Wikipedia

Born	April 14, 1904
Hometown	South Kensington, United Kingdom
Height	5'11" (1.81m)

Parents

Kate Terry-Lewis , Henry Lex Franciszek Adam Gielgud

Profile

How was it for you, 1974? Scrolling back through half a century, I land on my second year at university. I was busily losing the last of my innocence, “sexuality” was the new buzzword and we all earnestly regarded Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook as gospel. Our politics were noisy and sentimentally Leftist, but well-intentioned. Hair was generally shaggy and I think that by today’s standards we were a bit dirty and smelly, the whiff of Players No 6 (“numbies”) being pervasive. The coffe

AWARDS

Year	Associations	Category	Work	Result
1997	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Shine (film)	Nominated
1997	British Academy of Film & Television Arts	Actor in a Supporting Role	Shine (film)	Nominated
1990	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made	War and Remembrance	Nominated
1989	Golden Globe	Best Performance by An Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made	War and Remembrance	Winner
1989	Emmy (Primetime)	Outstanding Lead Actor	War and Remembrance	Nominated