1966
Portrait
1966
Portrait
1966 DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)
David Copperfield
1966 DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)
Episode 5, Leaving Canterbury. Ian McKellen, Hannah Gordon, Noel Johnson
1966 DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)
Go on, hit me! David Copperfield (Ian McKellen) and Uriah Heep (Colin Jeavons)
1966 DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)
Episode 7, Why doesnt he go away?: Traddles, Dora (Tina Packer) with Gyp and David (Ian McKellen)
1966 DAVID COPPERFIELD (BBC-TV, 1966)
Episode 12, The Unmasking of Heep: Mr Dill (George Benson), Twaddles, Betsey Trotwood (Flora Robinson), Agnes, David (Ian McKellen)
1966 THE MAN OF DESTINY / O'FLAHERTY VC
Sian Phillips as the Strange Lady and Ian McKellen as General Bonaparte in The Man of Destiny
1966 THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING
L to R: Ian McKellen, Burris de Benning, David Baxter
The glamorous Burris de Benning was from the States. I was closer to my countryman David Baxter, who was having a mournful summer. At birth he was a blue baby and before multiple blood transfusions, had been given only 20 or so years to live. Then in his 20’s, he often mused on life’s vagaries. He and I shared our free time up and down the slopes of Gstaad and were equally relieved when the unit photographer gave us the news that the film was to be cancelled.
Photo by Al Parker
1966 THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING
Gregory Peck with his young team of aircraftsmen planning to carry Allied aeroplane parts through occupied territory where they would be reassembled in order to bomb enemy targets.
Peck kept himself privately in his caravan between shots, where he read and answered his mail. He told me about his early days in theatre, where he had been happy just to sweep the stage. He was now a huge movie star. In our film he was not well-cast as an English army Colonel — he repeatedly addressed me as Loo-tenant: and when I repeatedly corrected his pronunciation (in UK we say Left-tenant), the director David Miller told me to shut up. Never forget Ian, Great Britain is only 5% of the world market.
1966 THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING
This reproduction bi-plane couldn’t fly. As it taxied, with the aid of hidden ropes, across the alp, I was Colonel Peck’s assistant onboard.
1967 THE PROMISE (1967)
Meeting of the blondes! Dora Bryan celebrating her first year in Hello Dolly at Drury Lane Theatre, whose stage door was opposite ours at the Fortune. One Saturday, in full make-up, she nipped between her shows to see ours from a private box.
Clockwise: Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins, Frank Hauser
Photo by Bert Andrews
Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Eileen Atkins at the stage-door of Henry Millers Theatre NYC
Photo by Duane Michals
1968 THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY
Dorothy Reynolds as Sophie and Ian McKellen as Tom in The White Liars
1968 THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY
James Bolam as Brindsley Miller, Liz Fraser as Clea and Ian McKellen as Harold Gorringe, in BLACK COMEDY
1968 HAY FEVER
L-r: Charles Gray (Richard Greatham), Celia Johnson (Judith Bliss), Lynn Redgrave (Jackie), Ian McKellen (Simon Bliss), Lucy Fleming (Sorel Bliss)
1968 ALFRED THE GREAT
With Henry Woolf, David Hemmings, Michael Billington and Andrew Bradford before Ottas altar.
1968 ALFRED THE GREAT
Vivien Merchant, Ian McKellen, Henry Woolf — bandits fighting for Alfred the Great
1968 ALFRED THE GREAT
Roger the Bandit killing
Above his out-stretched arm is Colin Blakeley, my favourite stage-actor of the period whom I had known in Olivier’s National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre.
1968 A TOUCH OF LOVE/THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH
George (Ian McKellen) lunching in the BBC canteen where he first meets Rosamund
1969
Portrait
Photo by Hordyk
1969
Portrait for Guardian article
Photo by Eric Wadsworth
1969
1969 RICHARD II
How some have been deposed, some slain in war (3.2.157)
Richard 2 with his faithful supporters Bishop of Carlisle & Earl of Salisbury.
1969 RICHARD II
Therefore we banish you our territories. (I.3.139)
Paul Hardwick (Gaunt), Ian McKellen (Richard 2), Andrew Crawford (Bishop), Stephen Greif (Mowbray), Robert Eddison (York)
Photo by John Gilbert
1969 RICHARD II
For Gods sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings (III.2.155)
Richard 2, returning from the Irish rebellion, is in his fighting armour.
1969 RICHARD II
— for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a King Keeps Death his court (III.2.160)
Andrew Crawford (Bishop), Ian McKellen (Richard 2), Richard Morant (Salisbury)
1969 RICHARD II
Swellst thou, proud heart? Ill give thee scope to beat. (III.3.139) Richard 2 (Ian McKellen), Aumerle (Terence Wilton)
1969 EDWARD II
Edward II (Ian McKellen), Gaveston (James Laurenson), and Queen Isabella (Diane Fletcher)
1969 EDWARD II
Thus after many years of wrathful war Triumpheth Englands Edward with his friends. (Richard Morant, Colin Fisher, Luke Hardy, Ian McKellen, David Calder, Andrew Crawford)
1969 EDWARD II
Squire (David Caldor) and Baldock (David Strong) with Edward II (Ian McKellen) in Heath Abbey
