A report on John Gielgud
English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.
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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
Ralph Richardson
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Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the trinity of male actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.
The Old Vic
12 links1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.
1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.
The Old Vic Company was established in 1929, led by Sir John Gielgud.
Peggy Ashcroft
16 linksEnglish actress whose career spanned more than 60 years winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and several British and European awards.
English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and several British and European awards.
Always attracted by the ideals of permanent theatrical ensembles, she did much of her work for the Old Vic in the early 1930s, John Gielgud's companies in the 1930s and 1940s, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and its successor the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1950s, and the National Theatre from the 1970s.
Noël Coward
18 linksEnglish playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Relative Values (1951) addresses the culture clash between an aristocratic English family and a Hollywood actress with matrimonial ambitions; South Sea Bubble (1951) is a political comedy set in a British colony; Quadrille (1952) is a drama about Victorian love and elopement; and Nude with Violin (1956, starring John Gielgud in London and Coward in New York) is a satire on modern art and critical pretension.
Gielgud Theatre
8 linksWest End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, at the corner of Rupert Street, in the City of Westminster, London.
West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, at the corner of Rupert Street, in the City of Westminster, London.
During reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe theatre on the South Bank, in 1994 the theatre was renamed the Gielgud Theatre in honour of John Gielgud.
Ellen Terry
7 linksLeading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kate (the grandmother of Val and John Gielgud) and Marion were particularly successful on stage.
Mabel Terry-Lewis
6 linksEnglish actress and a member of the Terry-Gielgud dynasty of actors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
English actress and a member of the Terry-Gielgud dynasty of actors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Among her celebrated roles was Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, which she played opposite her nephew John Gielgud in 1930.
Noël Coward Theatre
14 linksWest End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London.
West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London.
The following year and for most of 1927 the New was home to a dramatisation of Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph, which ran for 587 performances, starring first Coward and then the young John Gielgud as Lewis Dodd.
Royal National Theatre
22 linksOne of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.
One of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.
Oedipus by Seneca translated by Ted Hughes, directed by Peter Brook, with John Gielgud as Oedipus, Irene Worth as Jocasta (1968)