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Ian McKellen is IM throughout.
- Abraham, F. Murray
- Acting Shakespeare (one-man-show)
- Actors’ Company
- AIDS/HIV
- Aladdin (pantomime)
- The Alchemist (play)
- Alfred the Great (film)
- Alfreds, Mike
- Ali, Muhammad
- All Is True (film)
- Amadeus (play)
- Amateur Dramatic Club (ADC), Cambridge
- Ambassadors Theatre, London
- An Unexpected Journey (Hobbit film)
- Anderson, Terry
- Anderton, James
- Annan, Noel
- Annis, Francesca
- Ansorge, Peter
- Appleyard, Bryan
- Apt Pupil (film)
- Arden, John
- Arlidge, Antony
- Armstrong’s Last Goodnight (play)
- Arts Society, London
- Arts Theatre, Cambridge
- Arts Theatre, London
- Ashcroft, Peggy
- Atkins, Eileen
- Auden, W. H.
- Avenue theatre company
- Bacon, Francis
- Bakshi, Ralph
- The Ballad of Little Jo (film)
- Banks, Geoffrey
- Banks, Liz
- Baptists
- Barber, Frances
- Barnes, Clive
- Barratt, Mark
- Barton, Anne
- Barton, John
- at Cambridge
- and IM
- Playing Shakespeare
- at RSC,
- The Battle of the Five Armies (Hobbit film)
- Beale, Simon Russell
- Bean, Sean
- Beckett, Samuel
- Endgame
- Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
- Bell, Colin
- Bell, Tom
- Benigni, Roberto
- Bening, Annette
- Bennett, Jill
- Bent (play)
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Berkoff, Steven
- Berry, Cecily
- Billen, Andrew
- Billie (Sean Mathias’ mother)
- Billington, Michael
- on King Lear
- on Macbeth
- on Othello
- on Richard II
- on The Three Arrows
- on ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
- Bird, John
- Black Comedy (play)
- Blair, Tony
- Blakiston, Caroline
- Blanchett, Cate
- Bodleian Library, Oxford
- Bogarde, Dirk
- Bolton Grand Theatre
- Bolton Little Theatre
- Bolton School
- The Boltonian (school magazine)
- Bond, Gary
- Boulevard Theatre, London
- Bowie, David
- Boyens, Philippa
- Bragg, Melvyn
- Brahms, Caryl
- Branagh, Kenneth
- Brandreth, Gyles
- Brantley, Ben
- Bratman, David
- Brett, Jeremy
- British Empire
- Brook, Faith
- Brook, Peter
- Brook Theatre, Soham
- Burnley, Lancashire
- Burrell, Michael
- Bury, John
- Bush Theatre, London
- Caine, Michael
- Cairncross, James
- Callow, Simon
- activist
- Amadeus
- Being an Actor
- ‘coming out’ and IM
- on Richard III
- on Shakespeare
- Waiting for Godot
- Calvert, Phyllis
- ‘Cambridge mafia’
- Cambridge Mummers (acting society)
- Cambridge Theatre, London
- Cambridge University
- Cameron, David
- Carey, George
- Carpenter, Humphrey
- Cashman, Michael
- Cavendish, Dominic
- Chamberlain, Neville
- Charleson, Ian
- Château Castellaras, Provence
- Chekhov, Anton
- The Cherry Orchard (play)
- Chetwyn, Robert
- Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
- civil rights movement
- Clapp, Susannah
- Clark, Kenneth
- Clause
- Clifford, Richard
- Clunes, Alec
- Cochrane, Elspeth
- background
- and Guthrie
- and IM
- and Olivier
- retirement
- Codron, Michael
- Cold Comfort Farm (film)
- Collins, Michelle
- Congregationalists
- Connery, Sean
- conscientious objectors
- Cook, David
- Cook, Peter
- ‘Cool Britannia’
- Corbyn, Jeremy
- Coriolanus (play)
- Coronation Street (ITV)
- Cort Theatre, New York
- Cottesloe (Dorfman) Theatre
- Cottingham, Paul
- Cotton, Antony
- Cottrell, Richard
- and the Actors’ Company
- director
- on IM
- National Service
- on Richard II
- on Richard III
- translator
- Couëlle, Jacques
- Courtyard Theatre, Stratford
- Coveney, Michael
- Coward, Noël
- Cowardice (play)
- Cox, Brian
- on Bent
- on Hall
- on IM
- King Lear
- Richard III
- X-Men
- Craig, Daniel
- Crawford, Michael
- Cresson, Edith
- Crick, Francis
- Criterion Theatre, London
- The Critic (play)
- Crook, Arnold
- Crowley, Bob
- Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
- Cumberbatch, Benedict
- Cumming, Alan
- Curry, Julian
- Cusack, Sinéad
- The Cut (play)
- Cuthell, Nick
- Da Vinci Code (film)
- Dalai Lama
- Daltry, Jill
- Dance of Death (play)
- Day-Lewis, Daniel
- Day, Richard Digby
- de Jongh, Nicholas
- de la Tour, Frances
- de Lange, Paul
- de Vito, Danny
- del Toro, Guillermo
- Dench, Judi
- and IM
- Lady MacBeth
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Nightingale on
- praise for
- The Promise
- Romeo and Juliet
- Waiting for Godot
- The Desolation of Smaug (Hobbit film)
- Dexter, John
- Diamond, Marian
- Diana, Princess
- Dickens, Charles
- Dirty Duck (pub), Stratford
- Doble, Lawrence
- Doctor Faustus (play)
- Dolan, Monica
- Donmar Theatre, London
- Donovan, Jason
- Doran, Greg
- Downey Jr, Robert
- Dowson, Ann
- Drabble, Margaret
- Drummond, John
- du Maurier, Gerald
- The Duchess of Malfi (play)
- Duke of York’s Theatre, London
- Dunlop, Frank
- Dyer, George
- Eccleston, Christopher
- Eddison, Robert
- Edward II (play)
- Eliot, T. S.
- Elizabeth II, Queen
- Ellis, Robin
- Elsworth, Michael
- Evans, Frank
- Evans, Luke
- Evans, Tennial
- Everett, Rupert
- Ewing, Maria
- Extras (BBC)
- Eyre, Richard
- at Cambridge
- Charleson’s funeral
- director
- on IM
- National Theatre
- Richard III
- Eyre, Ronald
- Fairbairn, Sir Nicholas
- Fanfan la Tulipe (film)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (film)
- Ferguson, Euan
- Finney, Albert
- Fleetwood, Susan
- Fletcher, Jacqueline
- Footlights, Cambridge
- Forbes, Bryan
- Ford, John
- Forster, E. M.
- Forster, Margaret
- Fortune, John
- Fortune Theatre
- Fox, Angela
- Foxxe, David
- Frank, David
- Frears, Stephen
- Freud, Sigmund
- Frost, David
- Fry, Stephen
- Gale, George
- Gambon, Michael
- Garai, Romola
- Gardner, Ava
- Garrick Theatre, London
- Gay and Lesbian Pride March
- gay rights cause
- Gervais, Ricky
- Gibson, Joy Leslie
- Gielgud, John
- and IM
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- memory problems
- No Man’s Land
- Richard III
- smoker
- theatre roles
- What the Butler Saw
- and writers
- Giles, David
- Gill, Peter
- Gilpin, Jean
- Gods and Monsters (film)
- The Good Liar (film)
- Gormley, Antony
- Grace, Nickolas
- Grandage, Michael
- The Grapes (pub)
- Greer, Germaine
- Guinness, Alec
- film roles
- Hamlet
- and Housman
- and IM
- religious beliefs
- Richard II
- Guthrie, Tyrone (Tony)
- Hall, Peter
- and Amadeus
- background
- death
- diaries
- on directing
- Hamlet
- on IM
- IM on
- on King Lear
- National Theatre
- Waiting for Godot
- Wars of the Roses
- Hamlet (play)
- Hammond, Roger
- Hancock, Sheila
- Hands, Terry
- Hank Cinq (musical)
- Hardiman, Terence (Terry)
- Harding, Louise
- Hardman, Paul
- Hardwick, Edward
- Harris, Richard
- Harry, Prince
- Hart, Christopher
- Hawthorne, Nigel
- Hazlitt, William
- Hemmings, David
- Henn, Tom
- Henry Miller’s Theatre, New York
- Hewison, Robert
- Hicks, Greg
- Hilary, Jennifer
- Hill, Susan, People
- Hitchings, Henry
- HIV/AIDS
- The Hobbit films
- Hobson, Harold
- on Edward II
- on Hamlet
- on IM
- IM on
- influence
- on Love’s Labours (musical)
- on Much Ado About Nothing
- religious beliefs
- on A Scent of Flowers
- Hoffman, Dustin
- Hogg, Ian
- Hoggart, Richard, The Uses of Literacy
- Holden, Anthony
- Holm, Ian
- homosexuality
- illegality of
- Orton and
- in plays
- in society
- Hopkins, Anthony
- Housman, A. E.
- Howe, John
- Hurt, John
- Hussein, Waris
- Hyde, Jonathan
- Ian McKellen on Stage – With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and You (one-man-show)
- Infidelities (play)
- International Federation of Actors
- Jackman, Hugh
- Jackson, Fran
- Jackson, Glenda
- Jackson, Peter
- Jacobi, Derek
- at Cambridge
- and Coward
- and Dexter
- Harris on
- I, Claudius
- and IM
- IM on
- King Lear
- Love is the Devil
- As Luck Would Have It
- and Olivier
- and parents
- and playwrights
- in rep
- sexuality
- and stalker
- theatre roles
- Vicious
- James, Emrys
- Janetti, Gary
- Jarman, Derek
- Jenkins, Roy
- John, Elton
- Johnson, Dr Samuel
- Jonson, Ben
- Kay, Richard
- Kendal, Felicity
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kerr, Walter
- Key, John
- Kidd, John
- King Lear (play)
- King’s Rhapsody
- Kingsley, Ben
- Kinnear, Roy
- A Knight Out in Los Angeles (one-man-show)
- Kott, Jan
- Krishnamurti
- Kulukundis, Eddie
- Kundera, Milan
- Kushner, Tony
- Kyle, Barry
- Lahr, John
- Lamb, Charles
- Lambert, J. W.
- Lancashire
- Last Tango in Halifax (BBC)
- Laughton, Charles
- Laurenson, James
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Leavis, F. R.
- Lebedev, Evgeny
- Lee, Christopher
- Lee-Potter, Lynda
- Leigh, Vivien
- Leighton, Margaret
- Letts, Quentin
- Levin, Bernard
- Lewenstein, Oscar
- Lewis, Damian
- Lewis, Peter
- Lewis, Roger
- Lewis, Stephen Brimson
- Lighthouse (charity)
- A Lily in Little India (play)
- Loach, Ken
- Locke, Joseph
- Loncraine, Richard
- London Lighthouse
- Long, Matthew
- The Lord of the Rings films
- Love is the Devil (film)
- Love’s Labours (musical)
- Lowe, Frank (Victorian uncle)
- lunacy
- Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- Lyric, Hammersmith
- Lyttelton Theatre, London
- Macbeth (play)
- Macdonald, Marianne
- MacDonald, William
- McEnroe, John
- ‘McKellen 18’
- McKellen, Alice, ‘Mother Mac’ (née Murray) (grandmother)
- McKellen, Denis Murray (father)
- career
- character
- death and funeral
- and IM
- and Mesnes Park
- photos of
- theatre trips
- McKellen family
- McKellen, Gladys (stepmother)
- McKellen, Ian Murray
- acting at Cambridge
- ‘acting badly’
- activist
- behaviour of fans
- birth
- blue plaques
- book deal
- at Cambridge
- character
- childhood
- childhood theatre visits
- on children
- ‘coming out’
- on ‘community’
- ‘a day in the life of ‘ (Doble)
- debating societies
- documentaries on
- early films
- education
- and father
- on Hamlet
- head boy
- on heterosexual marriage
- homes
- honours
- illnesses
- and journalists
- legacy
- marriage officiant
- mother’s death
- ‘Northernness’ trait
- nude appearances
- Oscar campaigns
- ‘paradox’
- pets
- relationships
- and religion
- in rep
- school plays
- screen tests
- sexual drive
- sexuality
- Shakespeare passion
- theatre awards
- vegetarian
- Visiting Professor (Oxford)
- wanting to be ‘an actor’
- website
- and worthy causes
- McKellen, Jean (sister)
- amateur actress
- childhood
- death
- and IM’s sexuality
- McKellen, Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe) (mother)
- ‘ghost of ‘
- illness and death
- photos of
- McKellen, William Henry (grandfather)
- Mackintosh, Ian
- McShane, Ian
- McTeer, Janet
- Major, John
- Manchester
- Manchester Free Trade Hall
- Manchester Opera House
- Mannion, Anne
- Marathon Man (film)
- Margaret (cousin)
- Margaret, Princess
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marlowe Society, Cambridge
- Marmion, Patrick
- Marquand, Richard
- Mason, James
- Mason, Margery
- Masters, Anthony
- Mathias, Sean
- awards
- director
- The Grapes (pub)
- and IM
- influence on IM
- and Lebedev
- No Man’s Land
- Waiting for Godot
- Maupin, Armistead
- Mellor, Kenneth
- Melly, George
- Mendes, Sam
- Mesnes Park, Wigan
- Middlemass, Frank
- Miles, Christopher
- Miles, Sarah
- Miller, Jonathan
- Milton, John
- Minerva Theatre, Chichester
- Mirren, Helen
- Mission: Impossible 2 (film)
- Mitchison, Amanda
- Molony, Damien
- Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward, Lord
- Moody, Bill
- Moore, Harry T.
- More Tales from the City (Maupin)
- Morgan, Father Francis
- Morgan, Wendy
- Morley, Sheridan
- Mortensen, Viggo
- Mr. Holmes (film)
- Much Ado About Nothing (play)
- Munby, Jonathan
- Murdoch, Iris
- music hall
- Nathan, Ian
- National Service
- National Theatre
- directors of
- and IM
- Napoli Milionaria
- National Youth Theatre
- Neville, John
- New Labour
- New Line Cinema
- New London Theatre
- Newman, Cathy
- Nightingale, Benedict
- on Acting Shakespeare
- on Coriolanus
- on IM
- on King Lear
- on Macbeth
- on Othello
- on Richard III
- on Uncle Vanya
- on Waiting for Godot
- No Man’s Land (play)
- Noble, Adrian
- Nolte, Nick
- Norton, Edward
- Norton, Graham
- Novello, Ivor
- Nunn, Jacob
- Nunn, Trevor
- Barber on
- at Cambridge
- Hamlet
- and IM
- King Lear
- marriages
- Othello
- at RSC
- Oasis
- O’Brien, Edna
- O’Connor, Garry
- actor
- book subjects
- director
- education
- on Hall
- and IM
- on IM
- on King Lear
- on Othello
- on ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (play)
- Old Vic, London
- Olivier, Laurence
- character
- film roles
- Hall on
- and IM
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- memorial and legacy
- as Othello
- and playwrights
- Richard III
- theatre roles
- Titus Andronicus
- weight-lifting
- Olivier, Richard
- Olivier, Tarquin
- Olivier Theatre, London
- Orton, Joe
- Orwell, George
- Othello (play)
- Other Place (theatre), Stratford
- O’Toole, Peter
- Otway, Thomas
- The Outsider (Wilson)
- Owen, David
- Owen, Deborah
- Owen, Michael
- pacifism
- Pacino, Al
- Page, Anthony
- Paisley, Ian
- Paquin, Anna
- Park Theatre, London
- Parker, Sean
- Parri, Stifyn
- Parris, Matthew
- Parry, Susan
- Pearson, Allison
- Peck, Bob
- Pennington, Michael
- People (Hill)
- Peter, John
- Petherbridge, Edward
- and IM
- on the part of Iago
- and Stride
- theatre roles
- ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
- Pettifer, Julian
- Picart, Caroline
- Pickup, Ronald
- Pinter, Harold
- Pirsig, Robert M., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Plater, Alan
- Playing the Part (documentary)
- Pleasance, Donald
- Plowright, Joan
- Plummer, Christopher
- Popov, Duško
- Porter, Eric
- Portillo, Michael
- Powell, Colin
- A Prayer for Wings (play)
- Priest of Love (film)
- The Promise (play)
- Prospect (touring company)
- Proud, Elizabeth
- Prowse, Philip
- ‘PS’ (unfinished Shaffer play)
- Pulleyne, Tim
- Purves, Libby
- Quayle, Anthony
- Queen’s Theatre, London
- Quilley, Denis
- Ramsay, Peggy
- Ravenhill, Mark
- Raymond, Paul
- Reagan, Ronald
- The Real Inspector Hound (play)
- Redgrave, Corin
- Redgrave, Michael
- Redmond, Moira
- Rees, Roger
- Reid, Anne
- Reid, Sheila
- Relph, Simon
- repertory, provincial
- The Return of the King (film)
- Rheon, Iwan
- Rhys-Davies, John
- Rich, Frank
- Richard II (play)
- Richard III (film)
- Richard III (play)
- Richardson, Ralph
- Hall on
- Macbeth
- No Man’s Land
- Othello
- quote from
- Richard II
- What the Butler Saw
- Rigg, Diana
- Roberts, Glenys
- Robertson, Toby
- artistic director
- Hamlet
- on IM
- and Jacobi
- Robeson, Paul
- Robinson, Tom
- Romeo and Juliet (play)
- Romijn, Rebecca
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play)
- Rowe-Beddoe, David
- Royal Court Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
- Ruling the Roost (play)
- Rushdie, Salman
- Ryall, David
- Rylance, Mark
- Rylands, George ‘Dadie’
- Sackur, Stephen
- Scandal (film)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV)
- A Scent of Flowers (play)
- Scofield, Paul
- IM on
- King Lear
- memorial service
- posture
- writers and
- Scott Thomas, Kristin
- Scruton, Roger
- The Seagull (play)
- Second World War
- Seldon, Anthony
- Sexual Offences (Amendment) Acts
- Seymour, Jane
- Shaffer, Peter
- Shah, Kiran
- Shakers (play)
- Shakespeare, William
- Sharkey, James
- Sharrock, Thea
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shed 21, Wellington
- Shepherd, Jack
- Sher, Antony
- Beside Myside
- ‘coming out’
- and Doran
- on IM
- on Macbeth
- Uncle Vanya
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Sherman, Martin
- Shulman, Milton
- Simmons, Jean
- Sinden, Donald
- Singer, Bryan
- Smith, Maggie
- Society of Friends of Richard III
- South Bank Show (ITV)
- Spacey, Kevin
- Spall, Timothy
- Speed, Doris
- Spence, Christopher
- Spencer, Charles
- Spiegel, Sam
- Stephens, Robert
- Stevens, Ronnie
- Stevenson, Juliet
- Stewart, Patrick
- marriages
- No Man’s Land
- Richard III
- Waiting for Godot
- X-Men
- Stonewall movement
- Stoppard, Tom
- Streep, Meryl
- Stride, John
- Stringer, Graham
- Stubbs, Imogen
- Suchet, David
- Sutcliffe, Dorothy (aunt)
- Sutcliffe, Grandpa
- Suzman, Janet
- Sweeting, Elizabeth
- Swift, Clive
- The Syndicate (play)
- Tatchell, Peter
- Taylor, Brian (Brodie)
- Taylor, Doris
- Taylor, Paul
- Teale, Owen
- Tennant, Anne
- Thatcher, Margaret
- The Tomb of his Ancestor (BBC series)
- theatre critics
- accolades
- American
- on Bent
- Critics’ Circle
- Daily Mirror
- on Hamlet
- Sunday Times
- The Times
- Théâtre de l’Odéon, Paris
- Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
- Third Ear (Radio 3)
- The Three Arrows (play)
- Three Point Six studios, New Zealand
- Tinker, Jack
- ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (play)
- Titus Andronicus
- Tolkien, Christopher
- Tolkien, Edith (née Bratt)
- Tolkien Estate
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolkien, Mabel
- Tolkien, Priscilla
- Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and You (one-man-show)
- Too True to be Good (play)
- Tordoff, John
- Townsend, Stuart
- Trewin, J. C.
- Trump, Donald
- Turner, Bridget
- Turner, Graham
- Tusa, John
- The Two Towers (film)
- Tydeman, John
- at Cambridge
- director
- on IM
- Tyler, Liv
- Tynan, Kenneth
- Uncle Vanya (play)
- The Uses of Literacy (Hoggart)
- Ustinov, Peter
- variety stage
- Varne, Rosemary
- Venice Preserv’d (play)
- A Very English Scandal (BBC/Amazon)
- Vicious (ITV)
- Waiting for Godot (play)
- Walsh, John
- Walter (TV film)
- Walter and June (TV film)
- Walters, Hugh
- Wardle, Irving
- Warner Bros
- Warner, David
- Warner, Deborah
- Watson, Jesse
- Watson, Sylvia
- The Way of the World (play)
- Webster, Paul
- Weinstein, Harvey
- Weldon, Duncan
- Wellington Knitting Club
- West, Timothy
- West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
- Weston, David
- Whale, James (director)
- Whalley, Joanne
- What the Butler Saw (play)
- White, Willard
- Whitelaw, William
- Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC)
- Wigan Grammar School
- Wigan, Lancashire
- Wigan Little Theatre
- Wigan Wesleyan school
- Wild Honey (play)
- Williams, Clifford
- Williamson, Audrey
- Willman, Noël
- Wilson, Angus
- Wilson, Colin, The Outsider
- Winchester, Philip
- Winner, Michael
- The Winter’s Tale (play)
- Wise, Louis
- Woddis, Carole
- Wogan, Terry
- Wolfit, Donald
- Woo, John
- The Wood Demon (play)
- Wood, Elijah
- Words, Words, Words (anthology)
- Worsthorne, Peregrine
- Worth, Irene
- Wrede, Casper
- Wymark, Patrick
- Wyndham’s Theatre, London
- Wyngarde, Peter
- York, Michael
- Young, B. A.
- Young, Lailan
- Young, Toby
- Zeffirelli, Franco
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)