Three of the four nominations for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1982 were John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews (who won) for their roles in which period drama?
"intensive care. He married Georgina Simpson of the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store family. Their daughter Amy is a god-daughter of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal. Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV"
"television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). First broadcast on ITV, the show ranks among the greatest British television dramas, with Irons receiving a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. ""Brideshead"" reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in ""The Pallisers"" seven years earlier. In the same year he starred in the film ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" opposite Meryl Streep. After these major successes, in 1982 he played the leading role of an exiled Polish building contractor, working in the Twickenham area of southwest London, in Jerzy Skolimowski's independent film ""Moonlighting"". The film was widely seen"
"who have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, these being an Oscar (for ""Arthur"", 1981); an Emmy, (for ""Summer's Lease"", 1991); a Grammy (for ""Ages of Man"", 1979); and Tony Awards (for ""The Importance of Being Earnest"", 1948; ""Ages of Man"", 1959; ""Big Fish, Little Fish"", 1961). He also won BAFTAs, (for ""Julius Caesar"", 1953; ""Murder on the Orient Express"", 1975; special Fellowship award, 1992); Golden Globes, (for ""Arthur"" and ""War and Remembrance"", 1988); and a Laurence Olivier Award (Special Award, 1985). He died on 21 May 2000, at the age of 96. This table contains Gielgud's known"
"John Gielgud Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades, and who, along with his contemporaries Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, and Ralph Richardson, dominated the British stage of much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at"
"and ""Julius Caesar"" (1953), he did not begin a regular film career until his sixties. Gielgud appeared in more than sixty films between ""Becket"" (1964), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for playing Louis VII of France, and ""Elizabeth"" (1998). As the acid-tongued Hobson in ""Arthur"" (1981) he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film work further earned him a Golden Globe Award and two BAFTAs. Although largely indifferent to awards, Gielgud had the rare distinction of winning an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He was famous from the start of"
"""Mysterious Island"" (1961), ""The Iron Maiden"" (1962), ""Modesty Blaise"" (1966), ""Turkey Shoot"" (1982), ""Ride a Wild Pony"" (1975) and ""Appointment with Death"" (1988). He received a BAFTA Best actor nomination for his performance in ""Sea of Sand"" (1958). His television credits include appearing in: ""Arthur of the Britons"" (1973), ""The Emigrants"" (1976), ""Rush"" (1976), ""The Professionals"" (1980), ""Shoestring"" (1980), ""The Timeless Land"" (1980), ""Triangle"" (1981–83), ""Tales of the Unexpected"" (1982), ""Robin of Sherwood"" (1986), ""Doctor Who"" (in the serial ""Terror of the Vervoids"" 1986), the Australian series ""G.P."" (1989–95), ""Brides of Christ"" (1991), ""Grass Roots"" (2000) and ""Always Greener"" (2003)."
"me it has been a life'."" Notes References John Gielgud Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades, and who, along with his contemporaries Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, and Ralph Richardson, dominated the British stage of much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and"
"ever arrive: ""I became an actor to be a rogue and a vagabond so I don't think it would be apt for the establishment to pull me in as one of their own, for I ain't."" Jeremy Irons Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions, including ""The Winter's Tale"", ""Macbeth"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""Godspell"", ""Richard II"", and ""Embers"". In 1984,"
"Brideshead Revisited (TV serial) Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge; a few sequences were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The serial is an adaptation of the novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945) by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder—including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. The"
"has also made several notable appearances on TV. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his break-out role in the ITV series ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). In 2005, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries ""Elizabeth I"", for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series ""The Borgias"". He is one of the few actors who have achieved the ""Triple Crown of Acting"", winning an Academy Award for film, an Emmy Award for television and a Tony Award"
"the end there is madness in him: good and evil are all mixed up. Thomas had fenced since he was 14 years old and still did it several times a week but this was the first time he'd been able to do it on film. For the duel with York, neither used doubles. The ""Christian Science Monitor"" called it ""engrossing 20th century entertainment."" The ""New York Times"" said it was ""well acted, swiftly paced and eminently watchable."" John Gielgud's performance earned him an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special. The Master of Ballantrae (1984"
"him an unprecedented status as a romantic leading man. Moore followed up with the comedy film ""Wholly Moses!"", which was not a major success. In 1981 Moore appeared in the title role of the comedy ""Arthur"", an even bigger hit than ""10"". Co-starring Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud, it was both commercially and critically successful, Moore receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, whilst Gielgud won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Arthur's stern but compassionate manservant. Moore lost to Henry Fonda (for ""On Golden Pond""). He did, however, win a Golden Globe award for Best"
"in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, ""Richard II"", was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as ""The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses"", a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses,"
"seven months. Early into the period, ITV decided two-hour episodes were too lengthy, and Sturridge was forced to restructure the entire serial, beginning and ending it with expanded episodes that would bookend nine episodes running slightly less than an hour each. Brideshead Revisited (TV serial) Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge; a few sequences were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The serial is an adaptation of the novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945) by"
"Jeremy Irons Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions, including ""The Winter's Tale"", ""Macbeth"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""Godspell"", ""Richard II"", and ""Embers"". In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's ""The Real Thing"" and received a Tony Award for Best Actor. Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", for which"
"novels, detailed the successful rescue of the Dauphin from a French prison. Anthony Andrews had recently won the BAFTA for Best Actor for his performance in the 1981 serial ""Brideshead Revisited"", and was cast as Sir Percy Blakeney/Scarlet Pimpernel. In addition to that serial, Andrews was also known to American audiences through the PBS ITV& BBC shows ""Danger UXB"" and ""The Duchess of Duke Street"" as well as several other productions. London Films hoped that this popularity would lead to Andrews starring in a ""Scarlet Pimpernel"" series in the US, but this never occurred. Other cast members included Ian McKellen"
"grandmother was a famous Polish actress, Aniela Aszpergerowa. Frank married into a family with wide theatrical connections. His wife, who was on the stage until she married, was the daughter of the actress Kate Terry, and a member of the stage dynasty that included Ellen, Fred and Marion Terry, Mabel Terry-Lewis and Edith and Edward Gordon Craig. Frank had no theatrical ambitions and worked all his life as a stockbroker in the City of London. In 1912, aged eight, Gielgud went to Hillside preparatory school in Surrey as his elder brothers had done. For a child with no interest in"
"the previous year. Gielgud's state honours were Knight Bachelor (1953), Legion of Honour (France, 1960), Companion of Honour (1977), and Order of Merit (UK, 1996). He was awarded honorary degrees by St Andrews, Oxford and Brandeis universities. From 1977 to 1989 Gielgud was president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art—a symbolic position—and was the academy's first honorary fellow (1989). In 1996 the Globe Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue was renamed the Gielgud Theatre. He had not acted on stage for eight years, and felt out of touch with the West End: he commented on the renaming of the theatre, ""At"
"Emmy Award after its 1991 American broadcast. Gielgud's final West End play was Hugh Whitemore's ""The Best of Friends"" (1988). He played Sir Sydney Cockerell, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in a representation of a friendship between Cockerell, Bernard Shaw and Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun. Gielgud had some trouble learning his lines; at one performance he almost forgot them, momentarily distracted by seeing in a 1938 copy of ""The Times"", read by his character, a review of his own portrayal of Vershinin in ""Three Sisters"" fifty years earlier. In 1990 Gielgud appeared in the James Scott-directed ""Strike It Rich"","
"Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television. Val Gielgud was born in London, into a theatrical family, being the brother of Sir John Gielgud (who acted in several of his productions) and a great-nephew of the Victorian actress Ellen Terry. Following education at Oxford University, Gielgud began his career as a secretary to a Member of Parliament, before moving into writing"
"his own reputation. He told an interviewer, ""They pay me very well for two or three days' work a month, so why not? It's nice at my age to be able to travel all over the world at other people's expense."" Gielgud's most successful film performance of the decade was Steve Gordon's comedy ""Arthur"" (1981), which starred Dudley Moore as a self-indulgent playboy. Gielgud played Hobson, Moore's butler. He turned the part down twice before finally accepting it, nervous, after the ""Caligula"" débâcle, of the strong language used by the acerbic Hobson. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor"
"appeasement, the play is rarely revived. However, Laurence Payne played the King at the old theatre at Guildford after the War, when Kenneth Williams was John Maudelyn. Gielgud himself reprised his stage role at the microphone in 1941 and 1952. Some of the latter broadcast can be heard on a commercially released recording of Gielgud's audio work. Martin Jarvis was well-received as Richard in a 1974 radio production. Gielgud wrote a letter of congratulation to Jarvis on his performance. Gielgud tried to make one of his then rare film appearances in the role in the 1930s and teamed with Alexander"
"John Gielgud, roles and awards Sir John Gielgud, OM, CH (; 1904–2000) was an English actor and theatre director. He appeared on stage, television and radio and in film in a career that spanned eight decades. Film historian Brian McFarlane, writing for the British Film Institute, wrote of Gielgud that ""in terms of the performing arts, it is no exaggeration to say that he towered over the century"". Gielgud, a member of the theatrical dynasty the Terry family, began working on stage in 1921 before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After completing his studies he worked in repertory"
"first television play in 1930, Gielgud had worked in television again, serving on attachment to the service at Alexandra Palace in 1939 and directing a half-hour adaptation of his own short story ""Ending It"", starring John Robinson and Joan Marion and broadcast on 25 August 1939, less than a week before the service was placed on hiatus. Gielgud was an unpopular choice with many in the television service, with the channel's controller, Norman Collins, protesting that ""Anything less than complete familiarity with all aspects of television production will mean... that the Head of Television Drama is an amateur."" Gielgud himself"
"1978 and 1980. He directed ""The Ploughman's Lunch"" (written by Ian McEwan) in 1983, which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film, ""Iris"", a biographical film of writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and ""Stage Beauty"". Broadbent won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Iris"", and Dench and Winslet were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. He returned to the BBC in 1988 to direct the Falklands War story ""Tumbledown"" (starring Colin Firth), which won him the BAFTA Award for Best Director and the"
"playing Neil. He also starred in episode 11, series 5 of ""Waterloo Road"". Andrews played one of the lead roles in ITV's supernatural drama series ""Marchlands"". In 2011, he appeared in the BBC Two TV film ""United"", which tells the story of the Manchester United """"Busby Babes"""" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster. In September 2011 he appeared in the BBC drama ""The Body Farm"" as Peter Collins. In November 2012 he appeared in the six-part BBC drama ""Last Tango in Halifax"" as Robert ""Robbie"" Greenwood. He plays the lead role in the five part BBC One series ""The"
"Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 4 wins 3 wins 2 wins The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 5 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations 2 nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil"
"as Donald, Reg Rogers as Boris Kolenkhov, Fran Kranz as Tony Kirby, Kristine Nielsen as Penelope Sycamore, Karl Kenzler as Henderson, and the G-Men played by Nick Corley, Austin Durant, and Joe Tapper. Understudies include Corley, Barrett Doss, Durant, Ned Noyes, Pippa Pearthree, Tapper, and Charles Turner. The play was the basis for the 1938 film directed by Frank Capra. The film cast included James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington, Ann Miller, Dub Taylor, Charles Lane, Mischa Auer, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, and the uncredited Arthur Murray. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture and"
"thrilling engagement because it led to so many great things afterwards"". The success of ""The Cherry Orchard"" led to what one critic called a ""Chekhov boom"" in British theatres, and Gielgud was among its leading players. As Konstantin in ""The Seagull"" in October 1925 he impressed the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky, who cast him as Tusenbach in the British premiere of ""Three Sisters"". The production received enthusiastic reviews, and Gielgud's highly praised performance enhanced his reputation as a potential star. There followed three years of mixed fortunes for him, with successes in fringe productions, but West End stardom was elusive."
"was internationally recognised as one of the ""great trinity of theatrical knights"" who dominated the British stage for more than fifty years during the middle and later decades of the 20th century. The critic Michael Coveney wrote, for Gielgud's ninety-fifth birthday: In an obituary in ""The Independent"" Alan Strachan, having discussed Gielgud's work for cinema, radio and television, concluded that ""any consideration of Gielgud's rich and often astonishing career must return to the stage; as he wrote at the close of ""An Actor and his Time"" (1979), he saw the theatre as 'more than an occupation or a profession; for"
"British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil Servant"" ""'1977 Derek Jacobi in ""I, Claudius"" ""'1978 Peter Barkworth in ""Professional Foul"" ""'1979 Edward Fox in ""Edward and Mrs Simpson"" ""'1980 Alec Guinness in ""Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"" ""'1981 Denholm Elliott in ""Gentle Folk""; ""In Hiding"";"
"Julian Mitchell's ""Half-Life"" (1977) at the National, Gielgud was warmly praised by reviewers; he reprised the role at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 1978 and on tour the following year. In the latter part of the decade Gielgud worked more for cinema and television than on stage. His film work included what Morley calls ""his most embarrassing professional appearance"", in ""Caligula"" (1979), Gore Vidal's story of Ancient Rome, spiced with pornographic scenes. In Gielgud's ten other films from this period, his most substantial role was Clive Langham in Alain Resnais' ""Providence"" (1977). Gielgud thought it"
"Geoffrey Whitehead Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at Shakespeare's Globe, St Martin's Theatre and Bristol Old Vic. His film appearances have included ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), ""Kidnapped"" (1971), the vengeful woodsman in ""And Now the Screaming Starts!"" (1972), ""S.O.S. Titanic"" (1979) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, ""Inside the Third Reich"" (1982), ""Shooting Fish"" (1997) and ""Love/Loss"" (2010). His television appearances include ""Z-Cars"" (1964–1965 and 1972–1975), playing two different regular characters, ""Some Mothers Do 'Ave"