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British musical theatre actors
Ian Charleson, Lee Mead, Webster Booth, Patricia Kirkwood, Katrina Leskanich, Steven Mackintosh, Michael French, Joan Turner, Stephen Mulhern, Caroline Sheen, Louise Dearman, Georgia Brown, Adam Searles, Brad Kavanagh, Desmond Barrit
ISBN/EAN: 9781157717539
Umbreit-Nr.: 3844961
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 30 S.
Format in cm: 0.2 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 18.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Ian Charleson, Lee Mead, Webster Booth, Patricia Kirkwood, Katrina Leskanich, Steven Mackintosh, Michael French, Joan Turner, Stephen Mulhern, Caroline Sheen, Louise Dearman, Georgia Brown, Adam Searles, Brad Kavanagh, Desmond Barrit, Lewis Bradley, Rebecca Storm, Julie Atherton, David Thaxton, Hannah Waddingham, Ashleigh Gray, Caroline Keiff, Francesca Jackson, Oliver Thornton, Henry Goodman, Jenny Galloway, Rosemary Ashe, Elizabeth Seal, Clive Carter, Katie Rowley Jones, Michele Breeze, Dilys Watling, Hadley Fraser, Sarah Payne, Martin Savage, Fiona Hendley, Maria Bland. Excerpt: Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 - 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi. Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in Guys and Dolls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fool for Love, and Hamlet, among many others. Over the course of his life Charleson performed numerous major Shakespearean roles, and the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established in his honour in 1991, to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography describes Charleson as "a leading player of charm and power" and "one of the finest British actors of his generation." Alan Bates wrote that Charleson was "definitely among the top ten actors of his age group." Ian McKellen said Charleson was "the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest." Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, and died in 1990 at the age of 40. He requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, in order to publicize the condition. This was the first show-business death in the United Kingdom openly attributed to AIDS, and the announcement helped to promote awareness of the disease. Charleson performed often at the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe from 1967 through 1973.Born in Edinburgh, Charleson was the son of a printer, and grew up in a working-class area of the city. A bright, musical, artistic child, as a boy he performed in several local theatre productions. He won a scholarship to and attended the Royal High School. In his teens, Charleson joined and performed with The Jasons, an Edinburgh amateur theatrical group. He also sang solo as a boy soprano in his high school choir, which performed on t