1952 TWELFTH NIGHT Extract (1952)
Maria (C D Scully Scullthorpe), Aguecheek (D H Happy Hargreaves), Malvolio (Ian Kellogs McKellen), Belch (K Gassy Gaskell), Fabian (W V Willy Duncalf)
Hopefield is jealously guarded by Mrs Collins (alias the old hag.) The photo was taken just outside the building. -- scrapbook entry
1952 SPRING 1600
Jeremy (Ian McKellen), Kynaston (Michael Sefton), Ann (Jean Ashworth), Mistresss Byrd (Ada Anderton), Robert (Duncan Sculthorpe)
1953 FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)
Edward (Brian Oatley), Margaret (Ian McKellen), Bacon (Geoffrey Tetlow)
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1953 FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)
At Fressingfield: Edward (B Oatley), Bungay (H Gibson), Lacy (M H Shipley), Margaret (Ian McKellen), Bacon (G F Tetlow)
1953 FRIAR BACON & FRIAR BUNGAY (1953)
B Oatley, N E F Lever, G W Ainsworth, G F Tetlow, J B Loukes, Ian McKellen, F R Greenlees, M H Shipley, A G Clough, R C Willis
1954 THE STARS BOW DOWN
The market at Avaris: Do you see that woman? -- Potiphar (D Thomasson). Ian McKellen far left
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1954 THE STARS BOW DOWN
At court: Catch it, Highness, catch it! -- Asnath (Ian McKellen in front of left pillar).
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1954 THE STARS BOW DOWN
The principals: Ishamel (H E McGlashan), Thyi (C D Sculthorpe), Geoffrey Barry, Yusef (B Oatley), Athribis (D A Pass), Asnath (Ian McKellen), Potiphar (G F Tetlow)
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1954 THE STARS BOW DOWN
In Yusefs palace: But Highness, it is my Lord Potiphar -- Abdi; (Ian McKellen, seated left).
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1955 OTHELLO (1955)
Act II Scene 3: The fighting scene. Only once did the fencing go wrong! (Ian McKellen front left of stage, prone)
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1955 OTHELLO (1955)
Act V Scene 5: I bleed, sir, but not killed. (Ian McKellen under arch right)
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Act IV Scene 3:God put it in my mind to take it hence.
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1957 HENRY V (1957)
Posing outside the Great Hall. Out of shot, some seniors from the Girls’ Division giggled at me but I felt confident in the hired chainmail and the papier-mache helmet, stuffed with the Bolton Evening News to keep it secure. — Ian McKellen, December 2006
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1957 HENRY V (1957)
The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressd and killd
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1957 HENRY V (1957)
Erpingham (T I Hardy), Westmoreland (K A Bateson), York (Harold Kroto), Gower (E A Sharples), Warwick (R R May), King Henry (Ian McKellen), Burgundy (J R Munks), Constable (F D G Norburn), Dauphin (G A Farnworth)
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As Alfonso Fernandez in the annual Bolton School play in the Great Hall
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Trial scene: Father. Provincial? (Ian McKellen 4th from right)
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The only law that commands obedience here, is that of God. (Ian McKellen, center)
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Why do you kneel to me? I am not a King or Governor -- but a priest of God. (Ian McKellen, left)
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We have achieved our aim: The Kingdom of God has gone to the Devil. (Ian McKellen, prone)
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Deathbed scene. In this scene the precept Low on his funeral couch he lies had presumably been borne in mind by the producer: the couch was in fact so low as not to be visible beyond the first few rows of the audience, with the result that the Father Provincials opening line of the scene brought with it a touch of the supernatural. -- The Boltonian, July 1958
