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| rdfs:comment | - Sir John Gielgud (1904-2000) was an acclaimed Shakespearean actor who also amassed many film credits, notably Hobson the butler opposite Dudley Moore in Arthur, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in two Creature Shop TV-movies, as the professor of sunlight in Gulliver's Travels and King Constant in Merlin. The actor was spoofed on Sesame Street in Season 24 with a Muppet actor named Sir John Feelgood, who taught people how to pretend.
- A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk". Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. He narrated books one to twelve of the Railway Series for The Noel Edmonds Show on BBC Radio 1. They were also used for Nicholas Jones's The Thomas the Tank Engine Man Documentary playing over the artwork.
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| abstract | - Sir John Gielgud (1904-2000) was an acclaimed Shakespearean actor who also amassed many film credits, notably Hobson the butler opposite Dudley Moore in Arthur, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in two Creature Shop TV-movies, as the professor of sunlight in Gulliver's Travels and King Constant in Merlin. The actor was spoofed on Sesame Street in Season 24 with a Muppet actor named Sir John Feelgood, who taught people how to pretend.
- A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk". Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. He narrated books one to twelve of the Railway Series for The Noel Edmonds Show on BBC Radio 1. They were also used for Nicholas Jones's The Thomas the Tank Engine Man Documentary playing over the artwork. He died on 21 May 2000, aged 96 due to respiratory infection and was cremated at Oxford Crematorium.
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