Ian Charleson
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Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fi
Charleson as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire
Charleson performed often at the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe from 1967 to 1973.
The National Theatre, where Charleson gave some of his most memorable performances
Ian McKellen
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Sir Ian Murray McKellen is an English actor. Widely considered one of Britain’s greatest actors, he is noted for his versatile roles on stage and screen, in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas an
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…power" and "one of the finest British actors of his generation". Alan Bates wrote that he was "definitely among the top ten actors of his age group". Ian McKellen said Charleson was "the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest". Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, and died…
McKellen in 2013
McKellen (Antonio Salieri) alongside Jane Seymour (Constanze Mozart) in Amadeus, c. 1981
McKellen at the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in Wellington, 1 December 2003
McKellen with Kate Winslet at the 60th British Academy Film Awards in 2007