GIELGUD JOHN: (1904-2000) English actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1981 for his role as Hobson in Arthur. A good signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait depicting Gielgud seated in an engaging semi-profile head and shoulders pose and with a printed caption to the verso stating, in part, ´John Gielgud....distinguished star of the London stage, England´s foremost Shakespearean actor, makes his American picture debut in the M-G-M production of Julius Caesar....´. Signed by Gielgud in black ink with his name alone to a light area at the head of the image. A few very light, minor corner creases, VG

Gielgud portrayed Cassius in William Shakespeare´s Julius Caesar (1953) which also starred Marlon Brando in the role of Mark Antony.