Gielgud, later star of Hollywood films such as Arthur, Gandhi and Chariots Of Fire, was the subject of 'special enquiries' by civil servants.

There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John Gielgud and ...

Sir John won the best supporting actor Academy Award in 1982 for playing Dudley Moore’s valet in Arthur. Sir John was knighted in 1953 and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1996.

This month, a plaque will be unveiled in Westminster Abbey to honour John Gielgud. Stanley Wells looks back at the life and work of the great actor – from performing Shakespeare at school, to a ...

John Gielgud was the last, and the most durable, of the three great English actors whose work defined an era and whose careers in theater, film and television made them classic and popular performe… ...

Dudley Moore played the titular role in 'Arthur' (1981), with Liza Minnelli portraying waitress Linda Marolla and Sir John Gielgud in an Oscar-winning performance as Arthur's dryly sarcastic ...

The interesting reason why? Because it was written by Sir John Gielgud, the famed British actor who won an Oscar in 1981 for Arthur and died in 2000 at age 93, and a charitable trust which acts as ...

Russell Brand and Helen Mirren in “Arthur,” a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore film that is painfully unfunny despite a graceful turn by Mirren in the role originally played by John Gielgud.

In 1981's "Arthur," Dudley Moore played a lovable drunk with a fatherly butler, Hobson (John Gielgud).

They had the blueprint for a great movie in the 1981 Dudley Moore-John Gielgud "Arthur." Sublime performances. Wicked jokes.

Arthur arrives back in movie theaters starring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren in an update of the Dudley Moore classic that won an Oscar for Sir John Gielgud. The Arthur story has been brought to ...

Rediscover the music of the spoken word as John Gielgud (Arthur) conducts a grand tour of English-language poetry through the centuries. Compiled by poet and literary critic Anthony Thwaite, these ...