Ian McKellen Photo Galleries Fotos: 1966-1969 Portrait for Guardian article Eric Wadsworth Portrait Portrait Portrait Hordyk David CopperfieldDAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966) Episode 5, Leaving Canterbury. Ian McKellen, Hannah Gordon, Noel JohnsonDAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966) Go on, hit me! David Copperfield (Ian McKellen) and Uriah Heep (Colin Jeavons)DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966) Episode 7, Why doesnt he go away?: Traddles, Dora (Tina Packer) with Gyp and David (Ian McKellen)DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966) Episode 12, The Unmasking of Heep: Mr Dill (George Benson), Twaddles, Betsey Trotwood (Flora Robinson), Agnes, David (Ian McKellen)DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966) With Ann FirbankTHEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY With Gillian MartellTHEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITYTopham Picturepoint/PA With Gillian Martell in Arnold Wesker’s Their Very Own and Golden City, directed by William Gaskill and John Dexter, at the Royal Court, LondonTHEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITYTopham Picturepoint/PA Ian McKellen (OFlaherty VC) and Shivaun OCasey (Teresa)THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC OFlaherty VCTHE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC General Bonaparte in MAN OF DESTINYTHE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC Sian Phillips as the Strange Lady and Ian McKellen as General Bonaparte in The Man of DestinyTHE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC Private OFlaherty in OFLAHERTY VCTHE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC With Judi DenchTHE PROMISE (My Poor Marat) Act III Scene 4: Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Judi DenchTHE PROMISE (My Poor Marat) "Gregory Peck with his young team of aircraftsmen planning to carry Allied aeroplane parts through occupied territory where they would be reassembled in order to bomb enemy targets. Peck kept himself privately in his caravan between shots, where he read and answered his mail. He told me about his early days in theatre, where he had been happy just to sweep the stage. He was now a huge movie star. In our film he was not well-cast as an English army Colonel — he repeatedly addressed me as Loo-tenant: and when I repeatedly corrected his pronunciation (in UK we say Left-tenant), the director David Miller told me to shut up. Never forget Ian, Great Britain is only 5% of the world market.THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING " "L to R: Ian McKellen, Burris de Benning, David Baxter The glamorous Burris de Benning was from the States. I was closer to my countryman David Baxter, who was having a mournful summer. At birth he was a blue baby and before multiple blood transfusions, had been given only 20 or so years to live. Then in his 20’s, he often mused on life’s vagaries. He and I shared our free time up and down the slopes of Gstaad and were equally relieved when the unit photographer gave us the news that the film was to be cancelled.THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LINGAl Parker" This reproduction bi-plane couldn’t fly. As it taxied, with the aid of hidden ropes, across the alp, I was Colonel Peck’s assistant onboard. THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING On the set of a film that was never completedTHE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING- Act I: Judi Dench, Ian McShane, Ian McKellenTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act II: Judi Dench and Ian McKellenTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act I: Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ian McShaneTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act IITHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act III: Ian McShane, Ian McKellen, Judi DenchTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act III: Judi Dench, Ian McShane, Ian McKellenTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Act I: Judi Dench and Ian McKellenTHE PROMISE (1967)Houston Rogers Meeting of the blondes! Dora Bryan celebrating her first year in Hello Dolly at Drury Lane Theatre, whose stage door was opposite ours at the Fortune. One Saturday, in full make-up, she nipped between her shows to see ours from a private box.THE PROMISE (1967) With Judi DenchTHE PROMISE (1967) Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins at the stage-door of Henry Millers Theatre NYCTHE PROMISE (Broadway)Duane Michals With Robert Shaw in New YorkTHE PROMISE (Broadway)Arnold Weissberger Clockwise: Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins, Frank HauserTHE PROMISE (Broadway)Bert Andrews James Bolam as Brindsley Miller, Liz Fraser as Clea and Ian McKellen as Harold Gorringe, in BLACK COMEDYTHE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY Dorothy Reynolds as Sophie and Ian McKellen as Tom in The White LiarsTHE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY Dorothy Reynolds and Ian McKellen in The White LiarsTHE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY With Liz Fraser and Angela ScoularTHE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY L-r: Charles Gray (Richard Greatham), Celia Johnson (Judith Bliss), Lynn Redgrave (Jackie), Ian McKellen (Simon Bliss), Lucy Fleming (Sorel Bliss)HAY FEVER "We were not born to sue, but to command (I.2.196)RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Richard 2RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Richard 2 (III.2)RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Therefore we banish you our territories. (I.3.139) Paul Hardwick (Gaunt), Ian McKellen (Richard 2), Andrew Crawford (Bishop), Stephen Greif (Mowbray), Robert Eddison (York)RICHARD IIJohn Gilbert" "King Richard II at the Edinburgh Festival.RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "How some have been deposed, some slain in war (3.2.157) Richard 2 with his faithful supporters Bishop of Carlisle & Earl of Salisbury.RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" King RichardRICHARD II Richard II (Ian McKellen) and Queen Isabel (Lucy Fleming)RICHARD II I.3.54RICHARD II Outside the Piccadilly TheatreRICHARD IIHilaria McCarthy King RichardRICHARD II King RichardRICHARD IIThe Times With Lucy Fleming as queen, in Richard II at the Edinburgh international festivalRICHARD IIEdinburgh International Festival/PA We will descend and fold him in our arms (I.3.54)RICHARD IIJohn Gilbert "The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he (II.1.153)RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "For Gods sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings (III.2.155) Richard 2, returning from the Irish rebellion, is in his fighting armour.RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" " — for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a King Keeps Death his court (III.2.160) Andrew Crawford (Bishop), Ian McKellen (Richard 2), Richard Morant (Salisbury)RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" How can you say to me I am King? (III.2.177)RICHARD II Act III Sc 2RICHARD II We are amazed (III.3.71)RICHARD II "Swellst thou, proud heart? Ill give thee scope to beat. (III.3.139) Richard 2 (Ian McKellen), Aumerle (Terence Wilton)RICHARD II " "Was this the face that faced so many, and was at last outfaced by Bolingbroke?RICHARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" Richard II (Ian McKellen) and his Queen, Isabel (Lucy Fleming)RICHARD II Costume parade at Donmar Studio (now Donmar Theatre)RICHARD II Ian McKellen (Pentheus) surrounded by his soldiers and the followers of BacchusTHE BACCHAE Desmond Gill as Dionysus and Ian McKellen as PentheusTHE BACCHAE Roger the Bandit (Ian McKellen) paddling his kayak in an Irish backwater.ALFRED THE GREAT With Vivien MerchantALFRED THE GREAT Off-set with Vivien MerchantALFRED THE GREAT Roger the Bandit killing Above his out-stretched arm is Colin Blakeley, my favourite stage-actor of the period whom I had known in Olivier’s National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre.ALFRED THE GREAT Vivien Merchant, Ian McKellen, Henry Woolf — bandits fighting for Alfred the GreatALFRED THE GREAT With Henry Woolf, David Hemmings, Michael Billington and Andrew Bradford before Ottas altar.ALFRED THE GREAT Roger the Bandit in battleALFRED THE GREAT George (Ian McKellen) lunching in the BBC canteen where he first meets RosamundA TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH Production still.A TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH GeorgeA TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH "Ian McKellen (centre) as Marlowes Edward IIEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Ian McKellen and James Laurenson rehearse their kissEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" King Edward, Queen Isabella, and the mutinous BaronsEDWARD IIJohn Gilbert "Thus after many years of wrathful war Triumpheth Englands Edward with his friends. (Richard Morant, Colin Fisher, Luke Hardy, Ian McKellen, David Calder, Andrew Crawford)EDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" Gaveston (James Laurenson) and Edward (Ian McKellen)EDWARD IIJohn Gilbert "King EdwardEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Edward II (Ian McKellen), Gaveston (James Laurenson), and Queen Isabella (Diane Fletcher)EDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward (Ian McKellen)EDWARD IIJohn Gilbert "Squire (David Caldor) and Baldock (David Strong) with Edward II (Ian McKellen) in Heath AbbeyEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Edward IIEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward II (Ian McKellen)EDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" "Edward IIEDWARD II© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee" As Edward IIEDWARD II- King EdwardEDWARD II King EdwardEDWARD II Gaveston (James Laurenson) and Edward (Ian McKellen)EDWARD II Continuity shot (Polaroid)THE PROMISE The grown-up Leonidik in false beard and moustacheTHE PROMISE L to R: Susan MacReady, Ian McKellen, John CastleTHE PROMISERuan O'Lochlainn