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| 3 | Sir Arthur John Gielgud [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OM, CH]] (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director. |
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| 5 | Along with Creator/RalphRichardson and Creator/LaurenceOlivier, he was one of the three theatre giants who dominated the British stage for most of the 20th century, establishing himself as one of the most eminent and acclaimed [[ShakespeareanActors Shakespeare interpreters]] of his time. |
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| 7 | Gielgud was primarily a stage actor for the majority of his career, only sporadically appearing in films until the 1960's. He stated that in most instances, apart from films that were adapted from stage plays, he had rather little interest in the material and [[MoneyDearBoy usually only appeared in movies for the additional income]]. For example, even though Gielgud won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as sarcastic and witty valet Hobson in ''Film/Arthur1981'', the actor himself didn't find the material particularly funny. Most of his other numerous film appearances tended to be OneSceneWonder supporting roles or cameos. |
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| 9 | In 1991, he completed his [[MediaNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]], winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, becoming only the fourth person to do so, and the first non-American and first LBGT creator at that. |
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| 11 | !!His works on TV Tropes |
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| 13 | * ''Film/{{Secret Agent|1936}}'' (1936) |
| 14 | * ''Theatre/TheLadysNotForBurning'' (1949) |
| 15 | * ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1953}}'' (1953) |
| 16 | * ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (1954) |
| 17 | * ''Theatre/{{Richard III}}'' (1955) |
| 18 | * ''Film/{{Around the World in Eighty Days|1956}}'' (1956) |
| 19 | * ''Film/{{Becket}}'' (1964) |
| 20 | * ''Film/TheLovedOne'' (1965) |
| 21 | * ''Film/ChimesAtMidnight'' (1966) |
| 22 | * ''Film/TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade'' (1968) |
| 23 | * ''Film/TheShoesOfTheFisherman'' (1968) |
| 24 | * ''Film/OhWhatALovelyWar'' (1969) |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1970}}'' (1970) |
| 26 | * ''Film/FrankensteinTheTrueStory'' (1973) |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express|1974}}'' (1974) |
| 28 | * ''Theatre/{{Galileo}}'' (1975) |
| 29 | * ''Series/EdwardTheSeventh'' (1975) |
| 30 | * ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' (1976) |
| 31 | * ''Theatre/RichardII'' (1978) |
| 32 | * ''Film/{{Caligula}}'' (1979) |
| 33 | * ''Film/TheHumanFactor'' (1979) |
| 34 | * ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979) |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheElephantMan'' (1980) |
| 36 | * ''Film/LionOfTheDesert'' (1981) |
| 37 | * ''Film/{{Arthur|1981}}'' (1981) |
| 38 | * ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' (1982) |
| 39 | * ''Film/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|1982}}'' (1982) |
| 40 | * ''Film/TheScarletAndTheBlack'' (1983) |
| 41 | * ''Film/TheShootingParty'' (1985) |
| 42 | * ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'' (1988 TV Series) |
| 43 | * ''[[Theatre/TheTempest Prospero's Books]]'' (1991) |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Swan Song|1992}}'' (1992) (short film) |
| 45 | * ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' (1998) |
| 46 | * ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}'' (1998) |
| 47 | * ''[[Creator/SamuelBeckett Catastrophe]]'' (2000) (short film) |
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