* In the 1983 television miniseries Wagner, Richard Wagner ( Richard Burton ), referring to the rumors surrounding his own relationship with Ludwig II, tells John Gielgud's character, " I am no Lola Montez!

Gielgud's Hamlet was later taken to Elsinore Castle in Denmark ( the actual setting of the play ), there was a 1944 production directed by George Rylands, and finally a 1945 production that toured the Far East under Gielgud's own direction.

* In the 1950s radio series starring John Gielgud as Sherlock Holmes, Gielgud's own brother, Val Gielgud, played the part.

Gielgud's performance is preserved on an audio recording dating from 1952, which also captures Edith Evans's legendary embodiment of Lady Bracknell.

Olivier's performance won him an engagement as the leading man of the Old Vic Theatre the following season, starting his career as a classical actor, but he was said to have resented Gielgud's direction and developed a wary relationship with Gielgud which resulted in Olivier turning down Gielgud's request to play the Chorus in Olivier's film of Henry V and later doing his best to block Gielgud from appearing at the Royal National Theatre when Olivier was its director.

" Laurence Olivier said that Gielgud's performance in The School for Scandal was " the best light comedy performance I have ever seen-or ever shall!

The reconstructed theatre opened 8 July 1959 with John Gielgud's solo performance in Shakespeare speeches and sonnets, Ages of Man.

One of Baylis ' greatest achievements was Gielgud's first performance as Hamlet in 1930, which became the first Old Vic production to be transferred to the West End for a run.

In the 1960s, Richardson appeared successfully as Sir Peter Teazle in Gielgud's production of The School for Scandal, as the Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1963 ), a return to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1964 ) and the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce What the Butler Saw in the West End at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Stanley Baxter, Coral Browne and Hayward Morse.

Sir John Gielgud's autobiography, An Actor and His Time is dedicated " To Ralph and Mu Richardson, with gratitude and affection ".

In his later years, Gielgud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to Richard Burton's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, then on television with Richard Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé Kenneth Branagh.

Productions under the new management included Flowering Cherry by Robert Bolt ( 1957 ) starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson ; Ross by Terence Rattigan ( 1960 ) and John Gielgud's production of The School for Scandal, with Ralph Richardson and Margaret Rutherford.

In the pre-war years Hawkins often worked with the latter and the high-point of this collaboration was Gielgud's staging, during the period of the Phoney War, of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in which Hawkins played the role of Algernon Moncrieff.

While still in the army, Minton, with Ayrton, designed the costumes and scenery for John Gielgud's 1942 production of Macbeth.

Reviews in Toronto were mixed, and when Reynolds was stricken with a throat ailment, the producers, rather than cancel the sell-out performances, had her mime her dialogue and songs on stage to director John Gielgud's reading of them from the wings, much to the dismay of angry audiences.

On December 22, 1947, he opened with John Gielgud in Rodney Ackland's dramatization of Crime and Punishment at the National Theatre in New York, playing Razournikhim, friend to Gielgud's Raskolnikoff.

" He continued classical work with John Gielgud's company at the Haymarket Theatre ( 1944 – 45 ), where he appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Osric in Hamlet, and Tattle in William Congreve's Love for Love.

In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielgud's Hamlet in a production which featured Lillian Gish as Ophelia.

Wartime presentations included the London premiere of Noël Coward's Design for Living ( 1939 ) and John Gielgud's repertory season of The Circle ( Somerset Maugham ), Love for Love ( Congreve ), Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Duchess of Malfi.

This was Gielgud's first connection to the Corporation, and although he was not involved in any radio production, he often used his position at the magazine to make his thoughts on radio dramas felt: in his autobiography, he later confessed to having written several of the letters appearing on the magazine's correspondence page, supposedly from listeners, criticising various aspects of the Corporation's programming.

On April 22, 2010 it was announced that Helen Mirren would star opposite Brand, taking on John Gielgud's part.

In the ensuing years, John played many of his greatest stage roles on BBC Radio including Richard of Bordeaux, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured Emlyn Williams as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude ( the part she played in Gielgud's debut in the role at the Old Vic in 1930 ).

During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as Ophelia, opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet, and Katherine, opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V. In the 1930s, she also worked in a couple of British films.

* Orson Welles played Professor Moriarty opposite John Gielgud's Holmes in the 1950s series broadcast of " The Final Problem.

At the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in September 1951 she played Martina in Christopher Fry's Thor With Angels, followed in January 1952 by Hero in John Gielgud's triumphant production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Phoenix Theatre.

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.

His Old Vic roles included Caliban to the Prospero of John Gielgud, and Prince Hal to Gielgud's Hotspur, beginning a professional association and friendship that lasted for five decades.

( The production's popularity was assisted when a rival staging featuring film star Leslie Howard opened shortly afterward and was critically denounced in comparison to Gielgud's.

Gielgud's production broke the long-run record for a Broadway " Hamlet.

That production went far toward Gielgud's successful effort to establish Chekhov's's viability on the English-speaking stage.

Gielgud's crowning achievement, many believe, was Ages of Man, his one-man recital of Shakespearean excerpts which he performed throughout the 1950s and 1960s, winning a Tony Award for the Broadway production, a Grammy Award for his recording of the piece, and an Emmy Award for producer David Susskind for the 1966 telecast on CBS.

Gielgud's brother Val Gielgud became the head of BBC Radio Production in 1928, and John made his radio debut there the following year in a version of Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, which he was then performing at the Old Vic Theatre.

Gielgud's brother, Val Gielgud, appeared in one of the episodes, perhaps inevitably, as the great detective's brother Mycroft.

Between 1948 and 1952, she played Portia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Katherine the shrew, Desdemona, Katherine of Aragon, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, and Beatrice to Gielgud's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.

* Hume Cronyn won a Tony Award for playing Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet in John Gielgud's 1964 Broadway production.

Furthermore, many reluctant recruits are yielding to social demands, or compromising in the face of their own limitations of opportunity, or of ability and performance.

Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

The Lambert Report into the channel's performance in 2002 called upon News 24 to develop a better brand of its own, to allow viewers to differentiate between itself and similar channels such as Sky News.

HP's offer was regarded by analysts to be overvaluing Compaq, due to Compaq's shaky financial performance in the past recent years ( there were rumors that it could run out of money in 12 months and be forced to cease business operations had it stayed independent ), as well as Compaq's own more conservative valuation of its assets.

Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single " Sound and Vision ", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two.

Elizabeth was happy to play the part, but it is possible that in the last decade of her life she began to believe her own performance.

* Finally, the theatrical presentation of flamenco is now an extended and sophisticated performance in its own right, comparable to a ballet, by such ensembles as the Maria Pagès Company.

After a particularly dispiriting performance in Nacogdoches, Texas, Julius, Milton, and Arthur began cracking jokes onstage for their own amusement.

He has since stated he considers the films and his own performance in them to be " wack ".

( In later life, he frequently took part in the performance of his own works, whether as soloist, accompanist, or participant in chamber music.

Giving data on its own tier also improves scalability and performance.

While the army held more than its own against the armies of the kingdom's neighbors, its performance against more technologically advanced European armies deteriorated over time.

These fees or royalties are generally paid to the songwriters ; the musicians themselves typically do not get a cut of radio royalties, even if they own a share of the performance rights, unless they wrote the song themselves.

Throughout the late 18th century composers would continue to have to assemble musicians for a performance, often called an " Academy ", which would, naturally, feature their own compositions.

This emphasis on recognizing positive achievements, and comparing the student to his own prior performance, has been accused by some of " dumbing down " education ( and by others as making school much too hard ), since it recognises achievement at different levels.

For example, in the performance of traditional genres ( such as traditional dance ), adherence to guidelines dictating how an art form should be composed are given greater importance than the performer's own preferences.

The first time I heard it mentioned was in the 1980s and I immediately consulted Sir John Gielgud whose own performance of Jack Worthing in the same play was legendary and whose knowledge of theatrical lore was encyclopaedic.

Where optimum filesystem performance is required, XFS provides the option of placing the log on a separate physical device, with its own I / O path.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( center ) attended a performance of his own opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Berlin in 1789.

In any case, Mussorgsky's friends took matters into their own hands, arranging the performance of three scenes ( the Inn and both Sandomierz scenes ) at the Mariinsky Theatre on 5 February 1873, as a benefit for stage manager Gennadiy Kondratyev.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

Dean himself was amazed at his own performance on screen when he later viewed a rough cut of the film.

A typical performance of all seven movements lasts for about fifty minutes though Holst's own electric recording from 1926 lasted just over forty-two and a half minutes.