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- Gielgud never publicly came out, but he quietly donated funds to LGBTI rights groups, and lived with his partner Martin Hensler for four decades.
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Gielgud's partner, Martin Hensler, died in 1999. After this, Gielgud went into a physical and psychological decline; he died at home on 21 May 2000, at the age of 96. At his request there was no memorial service, and his funeral at All Saints' Church, Wotton Underwood, was private, for family and close friends.
Aug 27, 2009 · Sir John's nephew, Piers Gielgud, claimed that Morley's 'account of my relationship with my Uncle John is completely untrue. The events you describe never happened'.
Feb 15, 2010 · The playwright Nicholas de Jongh reveals how he learned about Gielgud's cruising habit and his arrest in 1953. He also shares his doubts and dilemmas about portraying the actor's sexuality in his play Plague over England.
Longtime partner Martin Hensler died in December 1998, 16 months before Gielgud's own death in 2000. [6] . He publicly acknowledged Hensler as his lover only in 1988, in the programme notes for 'The Best of Friends', which was his final stage performance.
May 3, 2023 · Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s dramatic encounter brilliantly portrayed in The Motive and the Cue. Also opening in London: Sidney Poitier is embroiled in blacklisting and betrayal in...
But in June 1956 his relationship with Gielgud became troubled after the actor revealed that he was still occasionally involved with George Pitcher, a Princeton professor of philosophy with a long-term partner – the composer Ed Cone.
May 17, 2020 · The other obstacle would be Gielgud’s partner of 35 years, Martin Hensler, a mysterious Hungarian, whom friends believed had him in his thrall.
