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Ian Charleson
Acting

Ian Charleson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1949-08-11,Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film 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 Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi. Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in Guys and Dolls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fool for Love, and Hamlet, among many others. Over the course of his life Charleson performed numerous major Shakespearean roles, and the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established in his honour in 1991, to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography describes Charleson as "a leading player of charm and power" and "one of the finest British actors of his generation." Alan Bates wrote that Charleson 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 in 1990 at the age of 40. He requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, in order to publicize the condition. This was the first show-business death in the United Kingdom openly attributed to AIDS, and helped to promote awareness of the disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Charleson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

7.555

Gandhi
1982-12-01

Chariots of Fire

6.78

Chariots of Fire
1981-05-15

6

Jubilee
1978-02-01

4.7

Ascendancy
1983-01-01

4.7

Louisiana
1984-01-25

The Paradise Run

0

The Paradise Run
1976-04-05

6.3

Car Trouble
1986-02-28

Something's Got to Give

0

Something's Got to Give
1982-06-19

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

6.4

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984-03-30

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

0

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1972-12-24

6.2

Hamlet
1980-05-25

All's Well That Ends Well

6.5

All's Well That Ends Well
1981-01-04

Antony & Cleopatra

7.2

Antony & Cleopatra
1981-05-08

6.7

Opera
1987-12-19

A Month in the Country

0

A Month in the Country
1985-04-14

7

Oxbridge Blues
1984-11-14

9

Troubles
1988-05-01

The Sun Also Rises

7.7

The Sun Also Rises
1984-12-09

5.6

Wogan
1982-05-04

Master of the Game

6.2

Master of the Game
1984-02-19

7.5

Lady Killers
1980-07-20

Reilly: Ace of Spies

7

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983-09-05

Codename: Kyril

6

Codename: Kyril
1988-03-29

Churchill's People

5

Churchill's People
1974-12-30

Plays for Britain

6

Plays for Britain
1976-04-06

7

ITV Playhouse
1967-09-25

The Search for Alexander the Great

0

The Search for Alexander the Great
1981-05-06