Ian McKellen Photo Galleries

Fotos: 1990-1993

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Jenny Littlefield, cousins David & Joanne Reiss, March on Washington


Snowdon

With Michael Cashman (right, in black) and John Miskelly (left, in Keith Haring Tee) — London Gay Pride 1993

Malibu, David Hockneys bedroom

With Senator Ted Kennedy

Portrait
Nigel Parry

Portrait
Greg Gorman

Malilbu, California Xmas 93

H.R.H. Prince Edward [Patron], Simon Dutton [ex-member], Ian McKellen [Vice Chairman] at fundraiser for National Youth Theatre of Great Britain

With Pet Shop Boys, as Dracula in the video for Heart

For Vanity Fair Magazine
Annie Liebowitz

Sunning in Cape Town

Out magazine, September 1993

At the March on Washington with Marguerite Cammermeyer (US military officer discharged for being a lesbian)

With AIDS Quilt; March on Washington

With Armistead Maupin

David Hockney, Greg Gorman, Rupert Everett, Ian McKellen at Greg Gormans home

With former American soldiers Clifford Krapf and Perry Watkins, London Gay Pride 1993

La Croisette, at the Cannes Festival, trying to raise funding for the film RICHARD III

With Jack Lemmon

Bea Arthur, Ian McKellen, Cooks Tour A Gala Charity Concert celebrating Ray Cook, the Australian pianist, arranger and conductor. Shaftesbury Theatre, 18 March 1990 in support of various Aids-related charities. Produced by West End Cares

With US Congressman Barney Frank at HRCF fundraiser

Portrait
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August 1993:
With Project Director Robert Richardson outside the church destined to become St. Pauls Art Centre (SPACE)

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Portrait for the Daily Telegraph
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Portrait for Telegraph Magazine
E J Camp

Actor and Activist: Sir Ian McKellen leaving 10 Downing Street after a meeting with Prime Minister John Major, 24 September 1991
Brian Harris

In Washington, DC
E J Camp

With Jane Lapotaire, London 1990
DAVID COPPERFIELD (1962)

With Michael Cashman
BENT (1989)

At the Evening Standard Awards with fellow-honoree Felicity Kendal
OTHELLO

In rehearsal
BENT (1990)
Simon Annand

With Michael Cashman (actor & gay activist, Member European Parliament).
BENT (1990)


BENT (1990)

Martin Sherman (Playwright), Paul Rhys (Rudy), Sean Mathias (Director), Ian McKellen (Max), Michael Cashman (Horst)
BENT (1990)

Thelma Holt, Ian McKellen, and Michael Cashman, post-performance, raising money to fight AIDS
BENT (1990)

With Michael Cashman
BENT (1990)

Max
BENT (1990)


RICHARD III
John Haynes


RICHARD III


RICHARD III


RICHARD III


RICHARD III


RICHARD III

Richard
RICHARD III


RICHARD III


RICHARD III

Richard III
RICHARD III
John Haynes

Richard III
RICHARD III


RICHARD III


RICHARD III
John Haynes

Mark Strong (First Murderer - Lord Lovel - Duke of Norfolk) and Ian McKellen in rehearsal
RICHARD III
John Haynes

As Richard III
RICHARD III
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In dressing room
RICHARD III

King Richard
RICHARD III

King Richard
RICHARD III

Ian McKellen and Brian Cox at the National Theatre, London
RICHARD III

With Clair Higgins
RICHARD III
Douglas Jeffery

King Lear (Brian Cox), Kent (Ian McKellen)
KING LEAR (1990)


KING LEAR (1990)

Lear (Brian Cox) and Kent (Ian McKellen)
KING LEAR (1990)

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The Cast and Crew of KING LEAR and RICHARD III: Back Row: Richard Simpson, Sam Beazley, Jane Suffling, Nicholas Blane, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Finoa Bardsley, Ian McKellen, John Caulfield
Third Row: David Collings, Bruce Purchase, Peter Sulligan, Susan Engel, Peter Jeffrey, Deborah Warner, David Bradley, Mark Strong, Richard Bremmer, David Milling
Second Row: Richard OCallaghan, Phil McKee, Joyce Redman, Clare Higgins, Brian Cox, Richard Eyre, Eve Matheson, Hildegard Bechtler
Front Row: Colin Hurley, Helen Kvale, Derek Cunningham, Cordelia Monsey, Stephen Marchant, Bob Crowley, Wendy Fitt
KING LEAR (1990)

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NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

McKellen, Pemberton, Strong, Burfield, McKee
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

Matthews, Clarke, McKee, Strong, Jeffrey, Hutch, Perrin, McKellen, Higg
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

As Gennaro
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

As Gennaro
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

As Gennaro
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
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As Gennaro
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
John Haynes

With Antony Sher
UNCLE VANYA
Mark Douet


UNCLE VANYA

Richard III relaxing between performances in No. 1 dressing room in St. Paul
RICHARD III (US Tour)

Northwest Airlines Ad
RICHARD III (US Tour)

Washington, DC with John Handy and Stage Manager
RICHARD III (US Tour)

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Ian McKellen as Death (Polaroid makeup-test shot)
LAST ACTION HERO

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Death — in dressing room.
LAST ACTION HERO

Death strikes
LAST ACTION HERO

Death-defying joviality in a bald cap
LAST ACTION HERO

Death
LAST ACTION HERO

With Cathy Haase, Red Lodge, Montana
THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO


THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO

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Bill Kraus - lesbian/gay liaison officer to the congressman from San Francisco.

Roger Spotiswoode (a fellow Brit) told me he could not find an appropriate American actor willing to play the openly gay character at the heart of the story. Newly out as a gay man, I was more than happy to be cast as Bill Kraus. I was however nervous as I was the wrong nationality, looked nothing like the curly-headed Kraus and was 15 years older than he was when he succumbed to AIDS in his 30s
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
Janet Van Ham/HBO

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Matthew Modine and Lily Tomlin bedside me in the working hospital where we filmed, with a number of actual AIDS patients in adjacent beds
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

Bill Kraus
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

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B.D.Wong and Ian McKellen night-filming on the backlot at Universal Studios

After principal photography I was called back for an extra scene to be shot on location in San Francisco where Kraus and his lover lived. I enter the apartment after a three week visit to Washington DC, briefly kiss my lover and exit with him presumably to bed. A young executive from the producers observed shooting on a remote-control video screen away from the set, whence he sent a message that the scene was getting too steamy. I remonstrated and was warned that any such intimacy would alienate viewers, even in a film about AIDS. As the film opened with scenes of the epidemic raging in Africa with diseased and bloodied corpses being burnt (and all this before the opening credits) I felt that any audience who had survived that shock, could take a peck on the lips between two men without too much angst. Nevertheless, the new scene was not broadcast.
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

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Bill Kraus
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

Bernard Shaw
MISTER SHAW'S MISSING MILLIONS

As Bernard Shaw
MISTER SHAW'S MISSING MILLIONS

Passing the bucket for donations in Glasgow
A Show for Glasgay!

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