“I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.”
Quoted in Arthur Marshall, I'll Let You Know, p. 63, 1981.
John Arthur Gielgud, né le 14 avril 1904 à Londres et mort le 21 mai 2000, est un acteur britannique. Il est le petit-neveu d'Ellen Terry.
Il est considéré comme l’un des plus grands interprètes du théâtre britannique, et shakespearien en particulier. En 1994, le Globe Theatre de Londres a été renommé le Gielgud Theatre en son honneur. Outre sa carrière sur les planches, il a également tenu de nombreux rôles au cinéma.
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“I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.”
Quoted in Arthur Marshall, I'll Let You Know, p. 63, 1981.
“I feel so sorry for those poor men sitting up there all day. They must be so cold.”
Quoted in Alec Guinness, Journals, February 1988. [Guinness: " John's grasp of public events was always rather tenuous. His heart however, was in the right place. [This remark] - he was pointing to the barrage balloons tethered over London."]