Yes, he was the greatest Hamlet ever, but Sir John Gielgud was also the actor who, as the butler in Arthur, perched at the end of Dudley Moore's bathtub and said, "I suppose I am now expected to wash your dick."
Arthur John Gielgud, 96, died Sunday at his home near Aylesbury in Bucking-hamshire west of London. His death is the end of an era in theatre; his peers included Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Sir Laurence Olivier.
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