Highlighted works
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The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.
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Hugh Hudson’s exhilarating account of the struggle by Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell to compete on their own terms at the 1924 Olympics seemed to herald a new highpoint in British cinema.
Filmography
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cast member
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reader
2016
Written by
2004
[Subject of Film]
2000
Theatre Games/Sir John Gielgud
cast member
on-screen participant2000
Protagonist
2000
on-screen participant
1999
narrator
1999
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
1998
King Constant
1998
voice of Merlin
1998
Pope Pius V, the Pope
1998
The Noël Coward Trilogy The Boy Actor
interviewee
1998
The Noël Coward Trilogy Captain Coward
interviewee
1997
Thanks to
1997
A Dance to the Music of Time Film One: The Twenties
St. John Clarke
1997
Professor Cecil Parkes
1997
Mr Touchett
1997
Priam
1997
Special kind thanks to
1996
narrator
1996
[voice of King Arthur]
1996
Professor of sunlight
1996
Interviewee
1995
narrator
1995
narrator
1995
narrator
1995
narrator
1995
narrator
1995
Prediction of the Destruction of Jerusalem
narrator
1995
narrator
1995
Dr Doyle
1995
Oswald
1995
interviewee
1994
Gielgud Scenes from Nine Decades
[Subject of Film]
interviewee1994
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
narrator
1994
Stephen Dawlish
1994
cast member
1994
Hugo Lunt
1994
Percival Pyke Period
1993
[Subject of Film]
1993
cast member
1993
cast member
1993
interviewee
1993
Thanks
1992
Svetlovidov
1992
Headmaster St. John
1992
Konrad Friedrichs, 'Sunflower'
1992
on-screen participant
1991
Prospero
1991
Sir Sydney Cockerell
1991
A Tribute to Dame Peggy Ashcroft
on-screen participant
1990
Hindemith - A Pilgrim's Progress
narrator
1990
A TV Dante[29/07/90]: Cantos 1 and 2
Virgil
1990
A TV Dante[30/07/90]: Cantos 3 and 4
Virgil
1990
A TV Dante[01/08/90]: Cantos 7 and 8
Virgil
1990
A TV Dante[31/07/90]: Cantos 5 and 6
Virgil
1990
Vivien Leigh Scarlett and Beyond
interviewee
1990
Aaron Jastrow
1990
Aaron Jastrow
1990
Aaron Jastrow
1990
Aaron Jastrow
1990
Aaron Jastrow
1990
Coral Browne Caviar to the General
interviewee
1989
cast member
1989
cast member
1989
cast member
1989
cast member
1989
A TV Dante The Inferno: Cantos I-viii
Virgil
1989
Dreuther
1989
Sir Gordon Munday
1989
Hamlet (1944)
1989
Hamlet (1944)
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Aaron Jastrow
1989
Laurence Olivier - A Service of Thanksgiving from Westminster Abbey
reading
1988
[Subject of Film]
interviewee1988
[Subject of Film]
1988
Cardinal Wolsey
1988
Hobson
1988
Colonel Carbury
1988
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
cast member
1988
cast member
1987
narrator
1987
cast member
1987
Eddie Loomis
1986
Jasper Swift
1986
Teiresias
1986
Sir Adrian Chapple
1986
Teiresias
1986
Doge of Venice
1986
Sir Simon de Canterville
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View Richard Attenborough Slates 17-19 John Gielgud Interview
Interviewee
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View Richard Attenborough Slates 20 John Gielgud Interview
Interviewee
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View Richard Attenborough Slates 21 John Gielgud Interview
Interviewee
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View Richard Attenborough Slates 22 John Gielgud Interview
Interviewee
1986
on-screen participant
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View (Production Material) (Slates 14-22) 1/24
interviewee
1986
interviewee
1985
cast member
1985
Sir Leonard Darwin
1985
Mr Woodward
1985
on-screen participant
1984
presenter
1984
presenter
1984
Medieval to Elizabethan 1400-1600
presenter
1984
presenter
1984
Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
presenter
1984
Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
presenter
1984
presenter
on-screen participant1984
presenter
1984
presenter
1984
narrator
1984
narrator
1984
Uncle Willie
1984
Lord Durrisdeer
1984
cast member
1984
The Master of Ballantrae Episode Three
Lord Durrisdeer
1984
Cornelius Cardew
1984
De Lacey
1984
The Far Pavilions Episode 1 Return to India
cast member
1984
The Far Pavilions Episode 2 Journey to Bhilhor
cast member
1984
The Far Pavilions Episode 3 Wally and Anjuli
cast member
1984
on-screen participant
1984
on-screen participant
1984
on-screen participant
1984
on-screen participant
1984
Later Twentieth Century 1934-1984
on-screen participant
1984
Romantics and Realists 1870-1920
on-screen participant
1984
Earlier Twentieth Century 1914-1939
on-screen participant
1984
on-screen participant
1983
[Narrator of Cinema Version]
Pfistermeister1983
Clyde Ormiston
1983
Hogarth
1983
Pope Pius XII
1983
on-screen participant
1982
Lord Burleigh
1982
Albert Speer Sr
1982
cast member
1982
Lord Irwin
1982
cast member
1982
Herbert G. Muskett
1981
presenter
1981
Hobson
1981
Marquis of Caterham
1981
Master of Trinity
1981
A Twitch upon the Thread Episode 10
Edward Ryder
1981
Edward Ryder
1981
Sebastian against the World Episode 4
Edward Ryder
1981
Edward Ryder
1981
Edward Ryder
1981
Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches
on-screen participant
1981
interviewee
1980
Technicolour and Technology 1914-1979
presenter
1980
A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses to 1660;
presenter
1980
A Pattern for Pleasure - 1660-1725
presenter
1980
A Temple in a Grove - 1725-1755
presenter
1980
The Lake in the Landscape - 1755-1785
presenter
1980
The Picturesque Paradise - 1785-1840
presenter
1980
Perfectly Dazzling - 1840-1914
presenter
1980
Technicolor and Technology - 1914 Onward
presenter
1980
narrator
1980
Every Night Something Atrocious
cast member
1980
Cyril Boggis
1980
Abdu Hamdi
1980
Dr. Abraham Esau
1980
Carr Gomm
1980
Reverend Thomas Jones
1980
Sharif El Gariani
1980
Lord Salisbury, The Prime Minister
1980
interviewee
1979
Narrator [Elv]
1979
Jan Lasocki
1979
Jelks
1979
Brigadier Tomlinson
1979
Nerva
1978
John of Gaunt
1978
Spooner
1978
cast member
1978
Gillenormand
1978
cast member
1977
cast member
1977
The Grand Inquisitor
1977
Captain Shotover
1977
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
the preacher
1977
the doctor
1977
radio extracts
1977
Clive Langham
1977
on-screen participant
1976
cast member
1976
Lord Henry Wotton
1976
cast member
1976
headmaster
1976
on-screen participant
1975
Mr Ferraro
1975
Beddoes
1975
Benjamin Disraeli
1975
Benjamin Disraeli
1974
Farrell
1974
old cardinal
1974
Meecham
1973
narrator
1973
cast member
1973
Frederick William Densham
1973
Chief Constable
1972
Harry
1972
cast member
1972
Chang
1971
cast member
1971
Carol Channing's Mad English Tea Party
cast member
1970
narrator
1970
Julius Caesar
1970
Lord Sissal
1970
The Ghost
1969
the writer
1969
Count Berchtold
1969
The Actor's Changing Face Acting Styles in the 20th Century
on-screen participant
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lord Raglan
1968
Head of Intelligence
1968
Anton Chekhov
1968
First Pope
1968
The Inquisitor
1967
commentator
narrator1967
prologue spoken by
1967
Curt Valayan
1966
Gabriel Quantara
1966
King Henry IV
1966
Mock Turtle
1965
King Louis VII
1965
Squire Trelawney [cast only]
1965
Sir Francis Hinsley
1964
For the Stage: Stage Production
Voice of the Ghost1964
on-screen participant
1963
the count
1962
Adapted for the Stage by
Leonid Andreyevich Gaev1962
English language narrator
1959
cast member
1959
Julian Anson
1958
voice
1957
the Earl of Warwick
1957
on-screen participant
1956
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Barrett
1956
George, Duke of Clarence
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
Foster, ex-employee of Fogg
1956
on-screen participant
1955
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
1954
The Prologe
1953
Cassius
1946
on-screen participant
1944
commentator
1941
An Airman's Letter to His Mother
narrator
1941
Benjamin Disraeli
1937
on-screen participant
1936
Richard Ashenden/Captain Edgar Brodie
1935
voice
1933
Inigo Jollifant
1932
Henri Dubois
1929
Rex Trasmere
1925
cast member
1924
Living Paintings (Romeo and Juliet)
Romeo