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Ian Charleson (1949-1990) Ian Charleson. Being born and raised in Edinburgh, Charleson attended the Royal High School and then went on to attend Edinburgh University. He initially studied architecture but switched to an MA degree after cultivating an interest in acting. He won a place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after ...
Aug. 11, 1949, Edinburgh, Scot. Ian Charleson (born Aug. 11, 1949, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Jan. 6, 1990, London, Eng.) was a Scottish stage actor best known for his work in the film Chariots of Fire (1981), which won an Academy Award Oscar for best picture. Charleson received an M.A. in architecture from Edinburgh University (1970) before ...
Ian Charleson. Actor: Chariots of Fire. Being born and raised in Edinburgh, Charleson attended the Royal High School and then went on to attend Edinburgh University. He initially studied architecture but switched to an MA degree after cultivating an interest in acting. He won a place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after graduating from Edinburgh.
Jan 8, 1990 · Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who raced his way to stardom playing a runner in the Oscar-winning movie "Chariots of Fire," has died at age 40 of complications from AIDS. Charleson was suffering from septicemia, a blood disease, and died Saturday, said his agent, Michael Whitehall.English actor Ian McKellen said Charleson was "the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest."
Jan 8, 1990 · Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who starred in the film "Chariots of Fire" as an Olympic sprinter who refused to compete on a Sunday for religious reasons, has died of complications from AIDS, a ...
Ian Charleson was the first British show business celebrity whose death from AIDS was reported in the media, despite him being a closeted gay man who never acknowledged his first screen role as the gay Angel, complete with frontal nudity, in Derek Jarman 's Jubilee (1978). He gained international stardom as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire (d.
Ian Charleson. Highest Rated: 100% Jubilee (1978) Lowest Rated: 73% Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Birthday: Aug 11, 1949. Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. This tall ...
