Ian McKellen Photo Galleries

School Plays: 1950-58

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Programme
CHILDREN'S DAY

Cast list
CHILDREN'S DAY

Ian McKellen (age 12) as Malvolio
TWELFTH NIGHT Extract (1952)

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Maria (C D Scully Scullthorpe), Aguecheek (D H Happy Hargreaves), Malvolio (Ian Kellogs McKellen), Belch (K Gassy Gaskell), Fabian (W V Willy Duncalf)

Hopefield is jealously guarded by Mrs Collins (alias the old hag.) The photo was taken just outside the building. -- scrapbook entry
TWELFTH NIGHT Extract (1952)

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Programme
SPRING 1600

Jeremy (Ian McKellen), Kynaston (Michael Sefton), Ann (Jean Ashworth), Mistresss Byrd (Ada Anderton), Robert (Duncan Sculthorpe)
SPRING 1600

Edward (Brian Oatley), Margaret (Ian McKellen), Bacon (Geoffrey Tetlow)
FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)
Percy C Rising

B Oatley, N E F Lever, G W Ainsworth, G F Tetlow, J B Loukes, Ian McKellen, F R Greenlees, M H Shipley, A G Clough, R C Willis
FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)

At Court . . . The final scene
FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)

At Fressingfield: Edward (B Oatley), Bungay (H Gibson), Lacy (M H Shipley), Margaret (Ian McKellen), Bacon (G F Tetlow)
FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)

At court: Catch it, Highness, catch it! -- Asnath (Ian McKellen in front of left pillar).
THE STARS BOW DOWN
Percy C Rising

The principals: Ishamel (H E McGlashan), Thyi (C D Sculthorpe), Geoffrey Barry, Yusef (B Oatley), Athribis (D A Pass), Asnath (Ian McKellen), Potiphar (G F Tetlow)
THE STARS BOW DOWN
Percy C Rising

The market at Avaris: Do you see that woman? -- Potiphar (D Thomasson). Ian McKellen far left
THE STARS BOW DOWN
Percy C Rising

In Yusefs palace: But Highness, it is my Lord Potiphar -- Abdi; (Ian McKellen, seated left).
THE STARS BOW DOWN
Percy C Rising

Act II Scene 1: (Ian McKellen, center as Montano)
OTHELLO (1955)
Percy C Rising

Act V Scene 5: I bleed, sir, but not killed. (Ian McKellen under arch right)
OTHELLO (1955)
Percy C Rising

Act II Scene 3: The fighting scene. Only once did the fencing go wrong! (Ian McKellen front left of stage, prone)
OTHELLO (1955)
Percy C Rising

Prince Hal
HENRY IV PART 2 (1956)
Percy C Rising

Cast (Ian McKellen upper left)
HENRY IV PART 2 (1956)
Percy C Rising

Act II, Scene 4 (Ian McKellen on steps right)
HENRY IV PART 2 (1956)
Percy C Rising

Act IV Scene 3:God put it in my mind to take it hence.
HENRY IV PART 2 (1956)
Percy C Rising

Posing outside the Great Hall. Out of shot, some seniors from the Girls’ Division giggled at me but I felt confident in the hired chainmail and the papier-mache helmet, stuffed with the Bolton Evening News to keep it secure. — Ian McKellen, December 2006
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

For we no longer are defensible
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

Wilt thou have me?
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

King Henry V
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressd and killd
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

Principal Cast
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

Erpingham (T I Hardy), Westmoreland (K A Bateson), York (Harold Kroto), Gower (E A Sharples), Warwick (R R May), King Henry (Ian McKellen), Burgundy (J R Munks), Constable (F D G Norburn), Dauphin (G A Farnworth)
HENRY V (1957)
Percy C Rising

Deathbed scene. In this scene the precept Low on his funeral couch he lies had presumably been borne in mind by the producer: the couch was in fact so low as not to be visible beyond the first few rows of the audience, with the result that the Father Provincials opening line of the scene brought with it a touch of the supernatural. -- The Boltonian, July 1958
THE STRONG ARE LONELY

We have achieved our aim: The Kingdom of God has gone to the Devil. (Ian McKellen, prone)
THE STRONG ARE LONELY
Percy C Rising

Why do you kneel to me? I am not a King or Governor -- but a priest of God. (Ian McKellen, left)
THE STRONG ARE LONELY
Percy C Rising

Trial scene: Father. Provincial? (Ian McKellen 4th from right)
THE STRONG ARE LONELY
Percy C Rising

The only law that commands obedience here, is that of God. (Ian McKellen, center)
THE STRONG ARE LONELY
Percy C Rising

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