Ian McKellen as "George" in A Touch of Love

"A modish '60s tale of a student who decides to bring up her daughter single-handedly. I was the one-night-stand father, a gay television presenter. Margaret Drabble based her screenplay on her novel 'The Millstone.' Waris Hussein, the director, had started at Cambridge, where he directed Maggie and me as Viola and Sir Toby Belch in an undergraduate 'TWELFTH NIGHT.' " — Ian McKellen, August 1999

George (Ian McKellen) lunching in the BBC canteen where he first meets Rosamund