1990
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
1990 BENT (1990)
1990 BENT (1990)
Martin Sherman (Playwright), Paul Rhys (Rudy), Sean Mathias (Director), Ian McKellen (Max), Michael Cashman (Horst)
1990 BENT (1990)
Thelma Holt, Ian McKellen, and Michael Cashman, post-performance, raising money to fight AIDS
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 RICHARD III
1990 KING LEAR (1990)
1990 KING LEAR (1990)
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
1990s
H.R.H. Prince Edward [Patron], Simon Dutton [ex-member], Ian McKellen [Vice Chairman] at fundraiser for National Youth Theatre of Great Britain
1991
Actor and Activist: Sir Ian McKellen leaving 10 Downing Street after a meeting with Prime Minister John Major, 24 September 1991
Photo by Brian Harris
1991 RICHARD III
Mark Strong (First Murderer - Lord Lovel - Duke of Norfolk) and Ian McKellen in rehearsal
Photo by John Haynes
1991 NAPOLI MILIONARIA
Matthews, Clarke, McKee, Strong, Jeffrey, Hutch, Perrin, McKellen, Higg
Photo by John Haynes
1992 UNCLE VANYA
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.
Matthew Modine and Lily Tomlin bedside me in the working hospital where we filmed, with a number of actual AIDS patients in adjacent beds
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
Photo by Janet Van Ham/HBO
1993
At the March on Washington with Marguerite Cammermeyer (US military officer discharged for being a lesbian)
1993
With Michael Cashman (right, in black) and John Miskelly (left, in Keith Haring Tee) — London Gay Pride 1993