Theatre: Professional to the very end Robert Butler recalls a memorable encounter with the late Sir Gielgud

The Independent - London | May 28, 2000| | Copyright

Sir John Gielgud was the outstanding classical actor of the last century and I, like others who only started going regularly to London theatres at the end of the 1970s, had one late chance to check that out. That was in 1988 when the 83-year old Gielgud played the urbane museum curator, Sir Sidney Cockerell, in Hugh Whitemore's The Best of Friends. The night I went, the main tension in this elegant conversation piece came from worrying about whether Gielgud was going to remember his next line.

I didn't think I'd ever see him perform. When I was 18, a magazine editor had handed me an ...

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