Ian McKellen Photo Galleries School Plays: 1950-58 Tap photo to enlarge, then you can enter gallery mode with button at top left. ProgrammeCHILDREN'S DAY Cast listCHILDREN'S DAY Ian McKellen (age 12) as MalvolioTWELFTH NIGHT Extract (1952) "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 entryTWELFTH NIGHT Extract (1952) " ProgrammeSPRING 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 WillisFRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953) At Court . . . The final sceneFRIAR 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 DOWNPercy 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 DOWNPercy C Rising The market at Avaris: Do you see that woman? -- Potiphar (D Thomasson). Ian McKellen far leftTHE STARS BOW DOWNPercy C Rising In Yusefs palace: But Highness, it is my Lord Potiphar -- Abdi; (Ian McKellen, seated left).THE STARS BOW DOWNPercy 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 HalHENRY 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 2006HENRY V (1957)Percy C Rising For we no longer are defensibleHENRY V (1957)Percy C Rising Wilt thou have me?HENRY V (1957)Percy C Rising King Henry VHENRY 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 killdHENRY V (1957)Percy C Rising Principal CastHENRY 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 1958THE STRONG ARE LONELY We have achieved our aim: The Kingdom of God has gone to the Devil. (Ian McKellen, prone)THE STRONG ARE LONELYPercy 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 LONELYPercy C Rising Trial scene: Father. Provincial? (Ian McKellen 4th from right)THE STRONG ARE LONELYPercy C Rising The only law that commands obedience here, is that of God. (Ian McKellen, center)THE STRONG ARE LONELYPercy C Rising