Ian McKellen Photo Galleries

Fotos: 1966-1969

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Portrait for Guardian article
Eric Wadsworth

Portrait

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Hordyk

David Copperfield
DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)

Episode 5, Leaving Canterbury. Ian McKellen, Hannah Gordon, Noel Johnson
DAVID 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 Firbank
THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY

With Gillian Martell
THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY
Topham 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, London
THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY
Topham Picturepoint/PA

Ian McKellen (OFlaherty VC) and Shivaun OCasey (Teresa)
THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC

OFlaherty VC
THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC

General Bonaparte in MAN OF DESTINY
THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC

Sian Phillips as the Strange Lady and Ian McKellen as General Bonaparte in The Man of Destiny
THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC

Private OFlaherty in OFLAHERTY VC
THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC

With Judi Dench
THE PROMISE (My Poor Marat)

Act III Scene 4: Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Judi Dench
THE PROMISE (My Poor Marat)

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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

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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-LING
Al Parker

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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 completed
THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING
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Act I: Judi Dench, Ian McShane, Ian McKellen
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act II: Judi Dench and Ian McKellen
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act I: Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act II
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act III: Ian McShane, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act III: Judi Dench, Ian McShane, Ian McKellen
THE PROMISE (1967)
Houston Rogers

Act I: Judi Dench and Ian McKellen
THE 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 Dench
THE PROMISE (1967)

Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins at the stage-door of Henry Millers Theatre NYC
THE PROMISE (Broadway)
Duane Michals

With Robert Shaw in New York
THE PROMISE (Broadway)
Arnold Weissberger

Clockwise: Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins, Frank Hauser
THE PROMISE (Broadway)
Bert Andrews

James Bolam as Brindsley Miller, Liz Fraser as Clea and Ian McKellen as Harold Gorringe, in BLACK COMEDY
THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY

Dorothy Reynolds as Sophie and Ian McKellen as Tom in The White Liars
THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY

Dorothy Reynolds and Ian McKellen in The White Liars
THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY

With Liz Fraser and Angela Scoular
THE 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

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We were not born to sue, but to command (I.2.196)
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Richard 2
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Richard 2 (III.2)
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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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 II
John Gilbert

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King Richard II at the Edinburgh Festival.
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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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

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King Richard
RICHARD II

Richard II (Ian McKellen) and Queen Isabel (Lucy Fleming)
RICHARD II

I.3.54
RICHARD II

Outside the Piccadilly Theatre
RICHARD II
Hilaria McCarthy

King Richard
RICHARD II

King Richard
RICHARD II
The Times

With Lucy Fleming as queen, in Richard II at the Edinburgh international festival
RICHARD II
Edinburgh International Festival/PA

We will descend and fold him in our arms (I.3.54)
RICHARD II
John Gilbert

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The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he (II.1.153)
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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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

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— 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

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How can you say to me I am King? (III.2.177)
RICHARD II

Act III Sc 2
RICHARD II

We are amazed (III.3.71)
RICHARD II

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Swellst thou, proud heart? Ill give thee scope to beat. (III.3.139) Richard 2 (Ian McKellen), Aumerle (Terence Wilton)
RICHARD II

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Was this the face that faced so many, and was at last outfaced by Bolingbroke?
RICHARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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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 Bacchus
THE BACCHAE

Desmond Gill as Dionysus and Ian McKellen as Pentheus
THE BACCHAE

Roger the Bandit (Ian McKellen) paddling his kayak in an Irish backwater.
ALFRED THE GREAT

With Vivien Merchant
ALFRED THE GREAT

Off-set with Vivien Merchant
ALFRED 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 Great
ALFRED THE GREAT

With Henry Woolf, David Hemmings, Michael Billington and Andrew Bradford before Ottas altar.
ALFRED THE GREAT

Roger the Bandit in battle
ALFRED THE GREAT

George (Ian McKellen) lunching in the BBC canteen where he first meets Rosamund
A TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH

Production still.
A TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH

George
A TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH

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Ian McKellen (centre) as Marlowes Edward II
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Ian McKellen and James Laurenson rehearse their kiss
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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King Edward, Queen Isabella, and the mutinous Barons
EDWARD II
John Gilbert

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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

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Gaveston (James Laurenson) and Edward (Ian McKellen)
EDWARD II
John Gilbert

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King Edward
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Edward II (Ian McKellen), Gaveston (James Laurenson), and Queen Isabella (Diane Fletcher)
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward (Ian McKellen)
EDWARD II
John Gilbert

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Squire (David Caldor) and Baldock (David Strong) with Edward II (Ian McKellen) in Heath Abbey
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Edward II
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward II (Ian McKellen)
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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Edward II
EDWARD II
© Michael Peto Collection, University of Dundee

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As Edward II
EDWARD II
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King Edward
EDWARD II

King Edward
EDWARD II

Gaveston (James Laurenson) and Edward (Ian McKellen)
EDWARD II

Continuity shot (Polaroid)
THE PROMISE

The grown-up Leonidik in false beard and moustache
THE PROMISE

L to R: Susan MacReady, Ian McKellen, John Castle
THE PROMISE
Ruan O'Lochlainn

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