What the butler paid for Sir John Gielgud despised the Hollywood role that won him an Oscar, but without it he could not have bought his country house. The Sunday Telegraph London | June 5, 2005| | Copyright 2005 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The death of Sir John Gielgud, perhaps our finest Shakespearian actor, was announced in the Daily Sport with the magnificent put- down: "Butler in Dudley Moore film dies.'' It was a reference to Gielgud's role in Arthur, for which he won an Oscar that he held in so little regard that he hid the statuette in his en suite bathroom. Yet, for all his disdain for the lightweight comedy, Gielgud had good reason to be thankful for his brief foray into Hollywood: it paid for his house.

Gielgud was already in his late 60s when, after losing a treasured painting in a burglary in 1973, he decided to ...

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