John Gielgud Movies

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his...

Set in a London gentleman's outfitters in 1976, and taking inspiration from the emotions aroused by a fetishist love of corduroy, leather and tight...

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

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An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

In the late 19th century, Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his...

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is...

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of...

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie...

A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.