It was not the first time that Ian Charleson took … Fellow actor and friend Sir Ian McKellen said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life.Charleson requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, to publicize the condition. Ian Charleson. London: Constable and Company, 1990. pp. Charleson starred in David Puttnam's 1981 movie 'Chariots of Fire' as the deeply religious son of a Scottish pastor.
LONDON -- Ian Charleson, who played a devout Scottish runner in the Academy Award-winning film 'Chariots of Fire' in 1981, died of complications from AIDS at age 40, his agent said.
″He was the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest,″ fellow actor Ian McKellen said Sunday night. Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor.
Sir Ian McKellen said that Charleson played "Hamlet" so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life. He was the son of a printer and sang soprano as a boy. I met him once over Sally Lunn's buns in Bath. His Hamlet is virile and forceful. He was a glowingly reviewed Sky Masterson in Shortly before his death, while seriously ill from AIDS, from 9 October to 13 November 1989 Charleson performed his second run of In a lengthy review praising Charleson's performance, [T]he masterful new Hamlet: Ian Charleson. Good feature Hollywood scripts did not pour in after Charleson's other feature film roles are: punk-era Angel in his film debut Charleson's notable starring television roles in the 1970s include: Anthony in In the 1980s his notable starring TV roles included: Charleson used his tenor singing voice in musicals and other performances. He requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, in order to publicise the condition.From 1967 through 1973, Charleson also performed often at the After graduating in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh – where he played leads in dozens of productions, including numerous Shakespeare playsCharleson then spent a year in Stratford-upon-Avon with the In the 1980s, Charleson won particular critical and popular acclaim for his starring roles at the National Theatre. Most recently Charleson starred in 'Hamlet' at London's National Theater, after the show's original Hamlet, Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out with exhaustion. His first film role came in 1977 in Derek Jarman's 'Jubilee.' 'It is rare for anyone in the public eye to say that they are HIV positive, let alone that they have AIDS,' fellow British actor Ian McKellen told the London Daily Mail. Red onions from California linked to nearly 400 salmonella cases Charleson, who received critical praise for a series of stage roles, achieved international fame in the 1981 film ″Chariots of Fire″ in which he played Eric Liddell, a Scottish missionary and runner who refused to compete on a Sunday. Fellow actor and friend Sir Ian McKellen said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life. He was also a singer, and in 1982, the Royal Shakespeare Company released an album that featured his recordings.He was the son of a printer and came out as a homosexual in his early adult years.Charleson, who was gay, was diagnosed with HIV in 1986 and died of AIDS-related causes in January 1990 at the age of 40.He died eight weeks after performing the title role in a run of Hamlet, in Richard Eyre’s production at the Olivier Theatre. Ian Charleson (1949–1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor, best known for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire.. Liddell, who like Charleson was from Edinburgh, made headlines in 1924 when he refused to run in the Paris Olympics on a Sunday. He said the cause of death was septicemia, a disease caused by microorganisms in the blood.