Actor John Gielgud, right, poses with actress Judith Anderson in a 1936 publicity photo for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Sir John Gielgud, a major figure on the British stage who made Hamlet his own and delighted Americans as a quintessentially English butler, has died. He was 96. Gielgud died Sunday May 21, 2000 at his home near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, west of London. London's top theaters dimmed their lights Monday night in his honor. (AP Photo)