In April 2010, along with actors Brian Cox and Eleanor Bron, McKellen appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK, the charity recently formed from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged. All three actors gave their time free of charge. A cricket fan since childhood, McKellen umpired in March 2011 for a charity cricket match in New Zealand to support earthquake victims of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. McKellen is an honorary board member for the New York- and Washington, D.C.-based organization Only Make Believe. Only Make Believe creates and performs interactive plays in children's hospitals and care facilities.
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Ian McKellen | Charity work
Appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK and umpired in March 2011 for a charity cricket match. He is an honorary board member for the organization Only Make Believe. Further he umpired a cricket match in New Zealand to support earthquake victims of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. He has appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK. He appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK and umpired in March 2011 for a charity cricket match in New Zealand to support earthquake victims of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
what is the regina monologues?
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Fourth episode of "The Simpsons"' fifteenth season.
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when was it released?
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November 23, 2003
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who directed it?
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Mark Kirkland
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who are the characters in that?
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Mr. Burns, Bart, Milhouse, Marge, Homer, Abraham Simpson, etc.
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what is that episode's story all about, in short?
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Simpson family travel to the United Kingdom for vacation and there, they meet several celebrities. Later, Homer is arrested and locked for accidentally crashing into the Queen's carriage, meanwhile, Abraham Simpson journeys to find Edwina.
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what celebrities do they meet in that episode?
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Tony Blair, Evan Marriott, Ian McKellen and J. K. Rowling
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did all the above people lend their voices for this show speaking in terms of reality?
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Yes
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who is that second celebrity mentioned?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who is that third celebrity mentioned?
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An English actor.
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can you name some of his tv shows/films he has appeared in?
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Richard III, Gods and Monsters, X-Men films, and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
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name some of his charitable works.
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He was honoured by the organisation in 2012 and hosted their annual Make Believe on Broadway Gala in November 2013. He garnered publicity for the organisation by stripping down to his Lord of the Rings underwear on stage.
Ian McKellen | Charity work
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received nominations for two Academy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and four BAFTAs. He achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in "Richard III" (1995), James Whale in "Gods and Monsters" (1998), Magneto in the "X-Men" films, and Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies.
Ian McKellen | Introduction
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU is a one-man stage performance by British stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. The performance sees McKellen reprising roles over his career in the theatre (such as the works of William Shakespeare), on film (such as Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" film series) while discussing anecdotes throughout his life and career. All profits for ticket sales were donated to each venue and organisation for specific causes or an arts-related charity.
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | Introduction
In April 2010, along with actors Brian Cox and Eleanor Bron, McKellen appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK, the charity recently formed from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged. All three actors gave their time free of charge. A cricket fan since childhood, McKellen umpired in March 2011 for a charity cricket match in New Zealand to support earthquake victims of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. McKellen is an honorary board member for the New York- and Washington, D.C.-based organization Only Make Believe. Only Make Believe creates and performs interactive plays in children's hospitals and care facilities.
Ian McKellen | Charity work
Ian McKellen is an English stage and screen actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies, Magneto in the "X-Men" films, Sir Leigh Teabing in "The Da Vinci Code" (2006), Sherlock Holmes in "Mr. Holmes" (2015) and Cogsworth in the live-action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" (2017).
Ian McKellen, roles and awards | Introduction
The pair entered into a business partnership with Evgeny Lebedev, purchasing the lease of The Grapes public house in Narrow Street. McKellen is an atheist. In the late 1980s, McKellen lost his appetite for every kind of meat but fish, and has since followed a mainly pescetarian diet. In 2001, Ian McKellen received the Artist Citizen of the World Award (France). He has a tattoo of the Elvish number nine, written using J. R. R. Tolkien's constructed script of Tengwar, on his shoulder in reference to his involvement in the "Lord of the Rings" and the fact that his character was one of the original nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Ian McKellen | Personal life
He was re-elected in January 2013. He holds an honorary doctorate from Napier University in Edinburgh, awarded in July 2008. In April 2010, Cox, along with Ian McKellen and Eleanor Bron, appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK, the charity formed from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged. All three actors gave their time free of charge.
Brian Cox (actor) | Charity work
A friend of Ian Charleson and an admirer of his work, McKellen contributed an entire chapter to "For Ian Charleson: A Tribute". A recording of McKellen's voice is heard before performances at the Royal Festival Hall, reminding patrons to ensure their mobile phones and watch alarms are switched off and to keep coughing to a minimum. He also took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony in London as Prospero from Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
Ian McKellen | Other work
McKellen first presented the show as Ian McKellen with Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You at the Park Theatre, London from 3 to 9 July 2017, directed by Jez Bond.
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | Park Theatre, London (2017)
In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. McKellen was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts, and made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality in the 2008 New Year Honours. He has been openly gay since 1988, and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded Freedom of the City of London in October 2014.
Ian McKellen | Introduction
McKellen has continued to be very active in LGBT rights efforts. In a statement on his website regarding his activism, the actor commented that: McKellen is a co-founder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. McKellen is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GAY-GLOS, LGBT Foundation, and FFLAG where he appears in their video "Parents Talking".
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
Later in 1993, McKellen appeared in the television film "And the Band Played On" about the discovery of the AIDS virus for which McKellen won a CableACE Award for Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries and was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. In 1995, he played the title role in "Richard III", which transported the setting into an alternative 1930s in which England is ruled by fascists. The film was a critical success. McKellen co-produced and co-wrote the film, adapting the play for the screen based on a stage production of Shakespeare's play directed by Richard Eyre for the Royal National Theatre in which McKellen had appeared.
Ian McKellen | Popular success
The other actors of "The Fellowship" (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan and Viggo Mortensen) have the same tattoo. John Rhys-Davies, whose character was also one of the original nine companions, arranged for his stunt double to get the tattoo instead.
Ian McKellen | Personal life
In the 1970s and 1980s McKellen became a well-known figure in British theatre, performing frequently at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, where he played several leading Shakespearean roles, including the title role in "Macbeth" (which he had first played for Trevor Nunn in a "gripping...out of the ordinary" production, with Judi Dench, at Stratford in 1976), and Iago in "Othello", in award-winning productions directed by Nunn. Both of these productions were adapted into television films, also directed by Nunn.
Ian McKellen | Theatre
To celebrate his 80th birthday, McKellen toured the show across the UK and Ireland from January to September 2019, directed by Sean Mathias and produced by the Ambassador Theatre Group. The tour dates were as follows;
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | UK and Ireland tour (2019)
Ross O'Hennessy is an active supporter of the arts and took part in a charity campaign to save his local theatre where he first started acting at the age of 15. Ross hosted a 'Game of Thrones' event where he came to auction Game of Thrones memorabilia and photos. He hosted a charity signing plus a question and answer session. The theatre was successful in its campaign and the Blackwood Little theatre was saved.
Ross O'Hennessy | Charity Work
Following the success of the UK and Ireland tour, it was announced that McKellen would perform the show at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End for a limited run from 20 September 2019 to 5 January 2020.
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | Harold Pinter Theatre, London (2019-2020)
Lowes was an activist and campaigner in the ultimately successful campaign for a Saturday half-holiday in Manchester, the forerunner to the modern five-day work week, thus making Lowes a "grandfather of the modern weekend". McKellen attended Bolton School (Boys' Division), of which he is still a supporter, attending regularly to talk to pupils. McKellen's acting career started at Bolton Little Theatre, of which he is now the patron. An early fascination with the theatre was encouraged by his parents, who took him on a family outing to "Peter Pan" at the Opera House in Manchester when he was three. When he was nine, his main Christmas present was a fold-away wood and bakelite Victorian theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres, with cardboard scenery and wires to push on the cut-outs of Cinderella and of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet.
Ian McKellen | Early life
Following up with what was described as "a palpable hit," Bond directed Ian McKellen's one-man show, "Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You", a fundraiser for the theatre that ran for eleven performances in July 2017.
Jez Bond | Park Theatre
He is Honorary President of NICVA (the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action). He received an honorary Doctorate in Literature from Queen's University of Belfast in 1990. He is also a patron for the charity Over The Wall. Branagh was the youngest actor to receive the Golden Quill (also known as the Gielgud Award) in 2000. In 2001, he was appointed an honorary Doctor of Literature at the Shakespeare Institute of The University of Birmingham; the Shakespeare Institute Library keeps the archive of his Renaissance Theatre Company and Renaissance Films.
Kenneth Branagh | Honours
For one night only on the 5 November 2019, McKellen will perform the show at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway as part of the Only Make Believe charity.
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | Hudson Theatre, Broadway (One Make Believe) (2019)
The BBC states that his "performances have guaranteed him a place in the canon of English stage and film actors". A recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK, McKellen is regarded as a British cultural icon. He started his professional career in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of their highly regarded repertory company. In 1965, McKellen made his first West End appearance. In 1969, he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare's "Richard II" and Marlowe's "Edward II", and he firmly established himself as one of the country's foremost classical actors.
Ian McKellen | Introduction
We're inspired by his courage, his talent, and his fabulous joie de vivre -- whether he's leading a band of Hobbits across Middle Earth, or Sir Patrick Stewart across the Brooklyn Bridge. By tragedy or trial we grow stronger, but our community must never neglect to celebrate our success stories. Sir Ian McKellen is the happy hero we need."
Geeks OUT | Events
A Christmas break and Millennium celebrations followed, and filming resumed on 17 January. Ian McKellen, fresh from filming "X-Men", arrived to film scenes in Hobbiton and the Grey Havens. McKellen did not become that close to the lead Hobbit actors, as he generally worked with their scale doubles, but when Christopher Lee arrived in February, they became very friendly. Shooting the fight sequence in the Orthanc interiors, without air conditioning (for atmosphere) but with heavy wigs and robes, was described by the actors as "murder". The Grey Havens sequence, which takes place at the end of "The Return of the King", was shot three times due to Sean Astin forgetting his vest after lunch and, then, an out-of-focus camera.
Production of The Lord of the Rings film series | 2000
Near the end of his life he befriended Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. His illness also helped to inspire Fran Walsh to write the lyrics for the Oscar-winning song, "Into the West" for the film "". After his death, his work as well as an explanatory documentary was put onto the Extended Edition DVD set for "The Return of the King". On the set of "", he received blessings from Viggo Mortensen and Sir Ian McKellen as well as a signed photo from John Rhys-Davies. He was going to make a cameo in the film, but as his health deteriorated, it became impossible for him to do so.
Cameron Duncan | Relationship with "Lord of the Rings"
McKellen had taken film roles throughout his career—beginning in 1969 with his role of George Matthews in "A Touch of Love", and his first leading role was in 1980 as D. H. Lawrence in "Priest of Love", but it was not until the 1990s that he became more widely recognised in this medium after several roles in blockbuster Hollywood films. In 1993, he had a supporting role as a South African tycoon in the critically acclaimed "Six Degrees of Separation", in which he starred with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith. In the same year, he appeared in minor roles in the television miniseries "Tales of the City", based on the novel by his friend Armistead Maupin, and the film "Last Action Hero", in which he briefly played Death opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charles Dance.
Ian McKellen | Popular success
Ian McElhinney (born 19 August 1948) is an actor and director from Northern Ireland. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than thirty years; notable appearances include "Taggart", "Hornblower", "Cold Feet", and "The Tudors". In recent times his best known roles are as Barristan Selmy in "Game of Thrones", Morgan Monroe in "The Fall", and Granda Joe in "Derry Girls".
Ian McElhinney | Introduction
It ended up fetching €1,602 for the charity.
Shane MacGowan | Other work
McKellen portrayed a fugitive Nazi officer living under a false name in the US who is befriended by a curious teenager (Brad Renfro) who threatens to expose him unless he tells his story in detail. He was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1998 film "Gods and Monsters", wherein he played James Whale, the director of "Show Boat" (1936) and "Frankenstein". In 1999 McKellen was cast, again under the direction of Bryan Singer, to play the comic book supervillain Magneto in the 2000 film "X-Men" and its sequels "X2: X-Men United" (2003) and "" (2006).
Ian McKellen | Popular success
Ian McKellen also appears in the Christmas special, providing the original voice of the Great Intelligence. Grant later returned in the mid-series premiere and the series finale, portraying the Great Intelligence.
Doctor Who (series 7) | Casting
Billington said that Ian McKellen in a 2004 "Aladdin" "lets down his hair and lifts up his skirt to reveal a nifty pair of legs and an appetite for "double entendre": when told by decorators that 'your front porch could do with a good lick', McKellen adopts a suitable look of mock-outrage. ... At least we can tell our grandchildren that we saw McKellen's Twankey and it was huge."
Pantomime | Guest celebrities
Rittson-Thomas has supported The National Deaf Children's Society as Committee Chairman for a fundraiser, "David Beckham - Interpretations in Art & Other Matters", that celebrated the charity's Diamond Jubilee Year. The event raised £150,000 for the charity. Other charities supported include Nineteen Raptures and RAPt.
Hugo Rittson-Thomas | Charity work
McGann, having received no "Doctor Who" news from his agent, says he wants in on their plans – "work permitting, obviously." After the convention, McCoy returns to New Zealand to continue filming "The Hobbit", but decides to return to England after director Peter Jackson leaves him sitting around doing nothing. Davison's scheme is revealed to involve the three of them (McGann has work commitments) protesting with picket signs outside the BBC Television Centre in London. Meanwhile, back in New Zealand, McCoy's disappearance has ruined a scene with Ian McKellen, though McKellen himself says to Jackson that the scene might be "a slight improvement" without McCoy.
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Plot
Also notable are the 1995 film version starring Ian McKellen, set in a fictional 1930s fascist England, and "Looking for Richard", a 1996 documentary film directed by Al Pacino, who plays the title character as well as himself. The play has been adapted for television on several occasions.
Richard III of England | In culture
Ian McKellen was originally envisioned as Halliwell. McKellen explained: "I needed a holiday – I'd been working so hard – so I just kept saying 'no, no, no', but when I saw the film I really regretted not having done it." Maggie Smith turned down the role of Ramsay, saying that she did not want to perturb her sons by starring in a film that featured homosexual promiscuity and murder. Keith Allen was in talks to play Orton before Oldman was cast.
Prick Up Your Ears | Casting
Ian McKellen portrayed Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" film series (2001–2003), directed by Peter Jackson, after Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart both turned down the role. According to Jackson, McKellen based his performance as Gandalf on Tolkien himself:
Gandalf | Adaptations
He refused all public honours, and declined an entry in "Who's Who".
Simon Sainsbury | Charitable works
He has also appeared on ITV show This Morning throughout the year, in aid of the cancer charity.
Duncan Pow | Charity work and support
In 2012 he worked with Kate Moss on a photo project for "V" magazone titled 'Kate & The Gypsies'.
Iain McKell | Career
His medals were sold at auction in 2007 for £247,000 to Lord Ashcroft. The actor Ian McDiarmid, best known for his recurring role as Emperor Palpatine in the "Star Wars" series of films, is a native of Carnoustie, where he lived as a child before moving to Dundee to attend Harris Academy. Alan Cumming, who has played starring roles in major films such as "GoldenEye" and "X2: X-Men United", lived on Panmure Estate, to the north of Carnoustie, and attended Carnoustie High School.
Carnoustie | Notable people
He bequeathed his personal library of 8,000 books to be divided between the Cambridge University Library and the King's College Library. In the 2014 film "The Monuments Men", he is loosely represented by fictional British officer "Donald Jeffries", played by Hugh Bonneville.
Ronald Edmond Balfour | Legacy
He begged me to put up with the script. I did. Looking back, I marvel that I was allowed to work, for I did not belong to British Equity, nor to any union." He died in Kensington in 1980.
Kenneth Carten | Appearances
McKell started his working life as a musician. He was the singer/songwriter for the band The Park, penning hits for Toyah, Dollar and Julien Clerc. His solo career after deals with Phonogram, WEA and EMI was cut short by a near fatal car crash in August 1991. McKell returned to the stage in "Macbeth" at The Lyric Hammersmith in the late 1990s. He has appeared in West End musicals, including "Blood Brothers" Rod Stewart musical "Tonight's the Night", written and directed by Ben Elton. Elton later went on to write the character Ronnie for McKell in his BBC comedy "Blessed".
Michael McKell | Music
McCoy began filming for "The Hobbit", A three-part adaptation of the book, in 2011. He portrays the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow "King Lear" actor Sir Ian McKellen who reprises his role as Gandalf. Although the character of Radagast is only alluded to in "The Hobbit", and only a minor character in "The Lord of the Rings", the part was expanded for the films.
Sylvester McCoy | "The Hobbit" trilogy
Dursley James McLinden (29 May 1965 – 7 August 1995) was a Manx actor whose career was mostly focused on the London stage in musicals such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "Gigi" (Lyric Theatre, 1985) and "Follies". He appeared in the title role in the 1988 film "Just Ask for Diamond". His television roles included a 1988 appearance in "Doctor Who" as Sgt. Mike Smith in the story "Remembrance of the Daleks". McLinden continued working up until a few weeks before his death at the age of 30. His death was attributed to AIDS.
Dursley McLinden | Introduction
McKellen made his first professional appearance in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre, as Roper in "A Man for All Seasons", although an audio recording of the Marlowe Society's "Cymbeline" had gone on commercial sale as part of the Argo Shakespeare series. After four years in regional repertory theatres he made his first West End appearance, in "A Scent of Flowers", regarded as a "notable success". In 1965 he was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company at the Old Vic, which led to roles at the Chichester Festival. With the Prospect Theatre Company, McKellen made his breakthrough performances of Richard II (directed by Richard Cottrell) and Marlowe's Edward II (directed by Toby Robertson) at the Edinburgh festival in 1969, the latter causing a storm of protest over the enactment of the homosexual Edward's lurid death.
Ian McKellen | Theatre
Other charities of which he is a patron or supporter include Brainwave, the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, Macmillan Cancer Care, the NSPCC and Clic Seargent Cancer Care for Children.
Andrew Castle | Personal life
McKellen and his first partner, Brian Taylor, a history teacher from Bolton, began their relationship in 1964. Their relationship lasted for eight years, ending in 1972. They lived in London, where McKellen continued to pursue his career as an actor. For over a decade, he has lived in a five-storey Victorian conversion in Narrow Street, Limehouse. In 1978 he met his second partner, Sean Mathias, at the Edinburgh Festival. This relationship lasted until 1988, and according to Mathias, was tempestuous, with conflicts over McKellen's success in acting versus Mathias's somewhat less-successful career. The two remained friends, with Mathias later directing McKellen in "Waiting for Godot" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.
Ian McKellen | Personal life
Rowling also demanded that Coca-Cola, the winner in the race to tie in their products to the film series, donate US$18 million to the American charity Reading Is Fundamental, as well as several community charity programs. Steve Kloves wrote the screenplays for all but the fifth film; Rowling assisted him in the writing process, ensuring that his scripts did not contradict future books in the series. She told Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) certain secrets about their characters before they were revealed in the books. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) asked her if Harry died at any point in the series; Rowling answered him by saying, "You have a death scene", thereby not explicitly answering the question.
J. K. Rowling | "Harry Potter" films
As President of Charity Tax Group (formerly Charity Tax Relief Group), he lobbied for VAT exemption for UK based charities. He has also served as a Royal Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, alongside those such as Sir James Dyson and President Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Ian Macgregor | Introduction
Slynn was Patron of the UK wing of the Child in Need Institute (CINI) (CINI UK), founded by his wife Odile Slynn to help poor mothers and children in India. He was a Trustee of The Loomba Trust, which cares for widows around the world, and Patron of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute for Indian art and culture. Slynn led a campaign to remove People's Mujahedin of Iran from the British and EU's blacklists.
Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley | Charitable work
He has campaigned for the retention and return to working life of many historic theatres.
Iain Mackintosh | Biography
Section 28 was, however, enacted and remained on the statute books until 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales. Section 28 never applied in Northern Ireland. In 2003, during an appearance on "Have I Got News For You", McKellen claimed when he visited Michael Howard, then Environment Secretary (responsible for local government), in 1988 to lobby against Section 28, Howard refused to change his position but did ask him to leave an autograph for his children. McKellen agreed, but wrote, "Fuck off, I'm gay." McKellen described Howard's junior ministers, Conservatives David Wilshire and Dame Jill Knight, who were the architects of Section 28, as the 'ugly sisters' of a political pantomime.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
Ian McKellen was offered the role, but he turned it down, having played the similar character Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, as well as feeling it would have been inappropriate to take Harris' role, as Harris had called McKellen a "dreadful" actor. Harris' family had expressed an interest in seeing Peter O'Toole being chosen as his replacement. Michael Gambon was cast as Harris' replacement four months after Harris' death. Gambon was not concerned about bettering Harris, and he portrayed the character in his own way, putting on a slight Irish accent for the role, as well as completing his scenes in three weeks.
Albus Dumbledore | Portrayals within films
He is the Chair of the Education Committee at the London Academy of Excellence Stratford, an Ofsted outstanding Free School.
Ian Archer | Philanthropy
In 1985, he was knighted for his services to the charity Netherhall Educational Association which aims to provide all-round information for people of all ages, especially the young, to help them develop their talents to the full and use them in the service of society. It was in the early 1960s that a deeply felt concern for London students, British and overseas – about which many have seen him speak in the film, Netherhall House a Home from Home – brought him to active support of the hall of residence. Former chairman, Audley along with Lady Audley have been supporters the charity ever since.
Bernard Audley | Charity
The original set was not built to last, the hobbit hole facades having been constructed from untreated timber, ply and polystyrene and partially torn down after filming. In 2010, the set was rebuilt in a more permanent fashion for "", filming for which began in 2011. Ian McKellen reprised his role as Gandalf the Grey and was joined on the Hobbiton location by Martin Freeman, who remarked that the site "just looked like a place where people lived and where people worked".
Hobbiton Movie Set | "The Hobbit"
The hall and charity have had a number of notable supporters. Lord Attenborough, whose widow Sheila, Lady Attenborough, resided at Denville Hall, was president. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, performers including Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield and Elizabeth Taylor (for her television debut) donated their fees to rebuilding the house. In 1999 the original set from "The Mousetrap", after 47 years' continuous use, was auctioned to raise money for Denville Hall. Restaurateur Elena Salvoni donated a portion of the profits of her 2007 autobiography, "Eating Famously", to the hall. Terence Rattigan left his estate to charity, with all royalties from his plays being donated to Denville Hall and the King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses.
Denville Hall | Supporters
Prior to joining Holby City Hospital, John reversed motor neurone disease in a patient in Portugal through his research into stem cell treatment. His research earned him a positive global reputation for being "a surgical god". McGann explained that the act provided John with "a certain level of fame". He told Allison Jones of "Inside Soap" that John arrives with a state of respect and allure. He explained that John is conscious of his fame and the effect it has on him. John's fame excites the hospital's staff as they realise that he has specifically chose to implement his ideas at their hospital.
John Gaskell | Research project
Dame Helen Mirren dedicated her 2006 Best Actress BAFTA award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the film "The Queen" to Richardson. In her acceptance speech she said that without his support early in her career, she might not have been so successful, before breaking down and leaving the stage. Other tributes and reminiscences by Richardson's colleagues are offered in a memoir by Sharon Mail, "We Could Possibly Comment: Ian Richardson Remembered" (2009).
Ian Richardson | Tributes
Long standing Patrons of the organisation are Baron Cashman of Limehouse, Angela Mason CBE, Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE, Baroness Massey of Darwen, Professor Ian Rivers, Deidre Sanders and Peter Tatchell.
Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays | Patrons
The two brand logos from the merged charities gradually disappeared after the new Age UK brand was launched (on 19 April 2010) and new brand-awareness developed during 2010. Hollywood stars Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox and Ian McKellen appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support the new charity. All three actors gave their time free of charge.
Age UK | Branding
Various other characters in the series were designed to resemble famous actors, politicians, and other personalities and comic in-jokes, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Professor X (with a bit of Chris Claremont thrown in), Canadian Member of Parliament Sheila Copps, director Woody Allen, Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Rodney Dangerfield, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Chico Marx.
Cerebus the Aardvark | Supporting characters
In 2007, Henning Mankell donated 15 million Swedish crowns (about 1.5 million euros) to SOS Children's Villages for a children's village in Chimoio in western Mozambique. Mankell donated vast amounts of money to charitable organizations such as SOS Children's Villages and Hand in Hand, a collection of independent organizations. In the 1980s, Mankell visited United Nations refugee camps in Mozambique and later accompanied UN High Commissioner Sadako Ogata to refugee camps in South Africa. In 2013, he visited Congolese refugees in Uganda. He wrote on the plight of refugees and after his death his website asked for donations in his name to the UN Commission on Refugees.
Henning Mankell | Charity and legacy
While McKellen had made his sexual orientation known to fellow actors early on in his stage career, it was not until 1988 that he came out to the general public, in a programme on BBC Radio. The context that prompted McKellen's decision—overriding any concerns about a possible negative effect on his career—was that the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Bill, known simply as Section 28, was then under consideration in the British Parliament. Section 28 proposed prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality "... as a kind of pretended family relationship". McKellen became active in fighting the proposed law, and, during a BBC Radio 3 programme where he debated Section 28 with the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne, declared himself as a gay.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
He was a supporter of the Rambert Dance Company, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Academy and the Vitruvian Group, of which he was a founder member. A long-term supporter of the Conservative Party, Taylor made donations to the Better Together campaign (for the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence) and to the Remain campaign (for the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU). In 2016 he was reported to have asked for his name to be withdrawn from consideration for a potential knighthood in David Cameron's resignation honours list; this was apparently in response to hostile media coverage.
Ian Taylor (British businessman) | Introduction
Nominations and awards for films and TV roles are listed in filmography.
Ian Holm | Honours and awards
Activist Peter Tatchell started the Foundation as a company in 2011, which gained charitable status in 2018. The charity's celebrity patrons include Sir Ian McKellen and Paul O'Grady.
Peter Tatchell Foundation | People
Ian Maclaren (1 May 1875 – 10 April 1952) was an English stage and film actor. He acted in more than thirty films in Hollywood including the 1930 war film "Journey's End". Towards the end of his film career he was generally cast in small, uncredited parts.
Ian Maclaren (actor) | Introduction
and Mrs. A.B. Tapping, Norman V. Norman, Madge McIntosh and the Shakespearean actor Ian Maclarean. During that period, he married the actress Mona Limerick; they had three children.
Ben Iden Payne | First professional work
McKellen reprised the role in BBC Radio 4's "Saturday Play" "Walter Now", broadcast on 12 January 2009, in which his character is revisited 26 years later as an old man, when the institution in which he used to live is closed and he is moved into a smaller, group home. Among the issues explored are the subjects of reproductive rights for people who have learning disabilities, and the right to self-determination in areas such as choosing one's own home and housemates.
Walter (1982 film) | Sequels
Many UK actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Christian Bale, Richard Burton, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald Colman, Sean Connery, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Colin Firth, Joan Fontaine, Roger Moore, Cary Grant, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, John Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Angela Lansbury, Stan Laurel, Vivien Leigh, James Mason, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, Sam Neill, David Niven, Peter O'Toole, Gary Oldman, Laurence Olivier, Guy Pearce, Pete Postlethwaite, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Tilda Swinton, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Thompson, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet.
Hollywood and the United Kingdom | Exchange of talent
During his royal marriage, he was patron of the National Youth Theatre, the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, the Welsh Theatre Company, and the Civic Trust for Wales. He was also President of the British Theatre Museum. In June 1980 Lord Snowdon started an award scheme for disabled students. This scheme, administered by the Snowdon Trust, provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. In the 1960s, he served in the capacity of a council member of the Polio Research Fund, as it was known before it was renamed the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases. He served as a trustee of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases (since renamed Action Medical Research).
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon | Philanthropy and charity
Mankell shared his time between Sweden and countries in Africa, mostly Mozambique where he started a theatre. He made considerable donations to charity organizations, mostly connected to Africa.
Henning Mankell | Introduction
I had a Welsh temperament and didn’t have that 'fitting in' mechanism. I would fight, I would rebel. I thought, 'Well, I don’t belong here.' And for almost 50 years afterwards, I felt that edge of, 'I don’t belong anywhere, I’m a loner.' But in "The Dresser", when Ian [McKellen] responded, it was wonderful. We got on so well and I suddenly felt at home, as though that lack of belonging was all in my imagination, all in my vanity".
Anthony Hopkins | 2010s: Resurgence and "The Two Popes"
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 193119 June 2020), known as Ian Holm, was an English actor. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in "The Homecoming" and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of "King Lear". He won the 1981 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in "Chariots of Fire", for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. His other well-known film roles include Ash in "Alien", Father Vito Cornelius in "The Fifth Element", Chef Skinner in "Ratatouille", and Bilbo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" film series.
Ian Holm | Introduction
He was a member of Irish groups such as the Iveagh Trust, the CKAS, the RIAC and the Kildare Street & University Club.
Desmond Guinness | Other philanthropic and social activities
As an actor his TV work includes Dennis Potter's "Cold Lazarus" "Drop the Dead Donkey", "Silent Witness", "Just William", Catherine Cookson's "The Moth", "Sensitive Skin", and "Time Trumpet".
Ian Kelly (actor) | Television
Mrs. Van Brugh is reading letters in Dr. Athelney's home, where she has been living ever since Smailey has made her penniless. After finally dropping the last letter – a request for her to sit to be photographed by "Scumley and Ripp" – in disgust, she gives vent to her frustration: Her name is now "a word of reproach in every household in the country," her "story a thing to be whispered and hinted at, but not to be openly discussed, for reason of its very shame." Her years of atonement are "held to be mere evidence of skilfully sustained hypocrisy." Even Ruth has left her.
Charity (play) | Act IV: Library at Dr. Athelney's
He also appears in the BBC Earth programme, "Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors". Serkis, together with fellow Lord of the Rings castmates Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban and Elijah Wood, plus writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson, on 1 May 2020 joined Josh Gad's YouTube series "Reunited Apart" which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing due to COVID-19, and promotes donations to non-profit charities.
Andy Serkis | Other work
K. Rowling, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, celebrated novelist Bill Bryson, former England soccer captain Gary Lineker, The Beatles' producer George Martin, Monty Python member Michael Palin actor Martin Freeman and writer Salman Rushdie. Since the foundation of the Irish state, every President and Taoiseach has addressed the Society.
Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin) | Guest speakers and L&H accolades
McElhinney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of a clergyman and teacher. He studied International affairs at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He worked as a teacher at Goole Grammar School, now known as Goole Academy in Yorkshire, England, for several years before becoming an actor. He is married to playwright/actress Marie Jones; the couple started their own company, Rathmore Productions Ltd. They live in Belfast and have three sons.
Ian McElhinney | Personal life
Mathias began his acting career by appearing on the television screen in a small role on an episode of the cult BBC TV series "Survivors", in 1977. Also in 1977, he played an Irish Guards lieutenant in the film "A Bridge Too Far". In 1978, Mathias appeared in a production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, during which time he met actor Ian McKellen who subsequently became his lover of about nine years. Mathias' acting career continued into the 1980s with minor appearances on TV and in films such as "Priest of Love" (1981), which starred McKellen as D. H. Lawrence, and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1982), starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and McKellen.
Sean Mathias | Actor
"Totals include 1 Charity Shield appearance in 1970–71."
Peter Houseman | Playing statistics
He remains a Trustee of the Charity.
David Campbell (Northern Ireland politician, born 1965) | Background
McKellen has stated that he was influenced in his decision by the advice and support of his friends, among them noted gay author Armistead Maupin. In a 1998 interview that discusses the 29th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, McKellen commented, I have many regrets about not having come out earlier, but one of them might be that I didn't engage myself in the politicking. He has said of this period: My own participating in that campaign was a focus for people [to] take comfort that if Ian McKellen was on board for this, perhaps it would be all right for other people to be as well, gay and straight.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
He was promoted through the ranks until spring 1982, during the Falklands War, when he came into prominence as the spokesman for the ministry. Speaking in a monotone voice that British viewers found authentic and reassuring, McDonald gave regular briefings on the events of the war using a teacher's pointer and maps of the islands. As the British forces recaptured the islands, "McDonald became renowned for his restrained, and at times emotionless, style of delivery." However, he frustrated reporters with his mysterious answers to questions, often quoting William Shakespeare in lieu of a response. In one instance he said "Hamlet, Act One, Scene Two, Line 215" which reads "But answer made it none".
Ian McDonald (civil servant) | Life and career
Ian Cairns (born 5 February 1963) is a Scottish actor currently based in London. He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. TV credits include "Bob Servant Independent" (with Brian Cox), "Hughie Green-Most Sincerely" (with Trevor Eve), "Jekyll" (with James Nesbitt), "Taggart" , "Vera" and "Law and Order: UK". Other credits include "Julius Caesar", "The Red Balloon" and "Diary of a Somebody".
Ian Cairns (actor) | Introduction
Despite his acting commitments, he continued to appear on BBC Radio and television as an announcer and as an impersonator. He has re-voiced video footage of "BBC Sports Personality of the Year" and "Match of the Day". In 2007 McGowan starred as Orin Scrivello (and other, smaller characters) in the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's revival of "Little Shop of Horrors", and filmed "My Life in Ruins", an American comedy film set in the ruins of ancient Greece. In 2008 he made his directing debut at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Noël Coward's classic comedy Semi-Monde.
Alistair McGowan | Return to acting and radio work (2005)
He took a close interest in it, and visited frequently. He was knighted in 2005.
Clive Bourne | Charitable work
Crowden had a long theatrical career, most notably at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre where he performed as The Player King in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", the play by Tom Stoppard. He occasionally played mad scientists in film, taking the role of Doctor Millar in the Mick Travis films of director Lindsay Anderson, "O Lucky Man!" (1973) and "Britannia Hospital" (1982) and also playing the sinister Doctor Smiles in the film of Michael Moorcock's first Jerry Cornelius novel, "The Final Programme" (1973). He also played the eccentric history master in Anderson's "if..." (1968). In 1970, he appeared in the popular Thames Television series "Callan" as The Groper, a de-registered doctor, who had been in Wormwood Scrubs called on by Callan, when unofficial medical assistance was required (e.g.
Graham Crowden | Acting career
For the majority of Hill's childhood and adolescence, he was treated by Great Ormond Street Hospital for toxoplasmosis. Of recent, Hill has since showed his gratitude to the hospital by donating the royalties from his song "Got No Fans" to them, among other charities. Hill apparently has already raised £10,000 for charity, including by charging fans £2 for a photo with him, and through the promotion of his charity single. Hill has an agent who takes bookings for him to appear at nightclubs and events.
The Wealdstone Raider | Charity work
He took part in the television production of John Mortimer's "A Voyage Round My Father" in "Plays of Today" in 1969 as well as appeared in the television adaptation of "The Canterbury Tales" (1969). He played one musical role on film, the Priest in "Man of La Mancha", the 1972 screen version of the Broadway musical. Also in 1972, he played Anthony Beavis in the television series "Eyeless in Gaza". In 1974, he played King Richard II/Bolingbroke in "Richard II", part of the "Camera Three" television series. In 1978, he played Robespierre in the BBC's "Play of the Month" production of "Danton's Death".
Ian Richardson | Early career
The L&H also regularly invites speakers outside of debates. These speakers have included actor Roger Moore, economist Paul Krugman, linguist Noam Chomsky, Irish politician John Hume, LGBTQ+ activist Rory O'Neil aka Panti Bliss, photographer and blogger Brandon Stanton of "Humans of New York", writer Bill Bryson, economist John Nash and British Writer Neil Gaiman . The Society awards Honorary Fellowships and James Joyce Awards to individuals who have "contributed significantly to a field of human endeavour". Recipients of either of the two awards include F. W. de Klerk, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Noam Chomsky and Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, actor Ralph Fiennes, actor Will Ferrell, Harry Potter author J.
Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin) | Guest speakers and L&H accolades
He played the title role of Aladdin at The Old Vic opposite Ian McKellen and played Dr Jack Marshland in the original series of the Emmy award-winning Cranford. After that he came to national attention playing PC Joe Mason in "Heartbeat" for two series. After that role ended in 2009, he mixed theatre doing National Theatre of Scotland with director John Tiffany and touring in the Alan Ayckbourn play "Haunting Julia and" the Harvey Fierstein play "Torch Song Trilogy" playing Ed. He has also starred in such films as "The Trouble with Men and Women", "Zig Zag Love", "Dad Savage" and "Small Faces".
Joe McFadden | Biography
not a genuine "Question Time"; that was a lynch mob". He suggested that he should appear again, but that "... [we] should do it properly, and talk about the issues of the day", and added: "That audience was taken from a city that is no longer British ... That was not my country any more. Why not come down and do it in Thurrock, do it in Stoke, do it in Burnley? Do it somewhere where there are still significant numbers of English and British people, and they haven't been ethnically cleansed from their own country."
Nick Griffin | 2009 appearance on "Question Time"
His collection of photographs, papers and letters were donated to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. He was a very close friend of over the years with many individuals he met in the course of his career. Danny Kaye who would come to London with Jerry Lewis and appear in special UNICEF performances. He carried on constant communications with friends and associates such as Gareth Evans, Paul Keating and Rupert Murdoch and much earlier his mentor James Joyce these documents all reside at the Bodleian Library.
George Ivan Smith | Later years
His sympathy with objects of charity assumed on all appropriate occasions a practical form, and in contributing financial aid he refused to be fettered by considerations of party or creed."
Ion Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick | Introduction
Both of McKellen's grandfathers were preachers, and his great-great-grandfather, James McKellen, was a "strict, evangelical Protestant minister" in Ballymena, County Antrim. His home environment was strongly Christian, but non-orthodox. "My upbringing was of low nonconformist Christians who felt that you led the Christian life in part by behaving in a Christian manner to everybody you met." When he was 12, his mother died of breast cancer; his father died when he was 24. After his coming out as gay to his stepmother, Gladys McKellen, who was a Quaker, he said, "Not only was she not fazed, but as a member of a society which declared its indifference to people's sexuality years back, I think she was just glad for my sake that I wasn't lying anymore." His great-great-grandfather Robert J.
Ian McKellen | Early life
€10,000 was raised for SVP from the auction of the infamous "Elf Christmas Jumper" after the 2012 edition of "The Late Late Toy Show". As well as his interest in the welfare of children, Tubridy has assisted in the promotion of other, more adult, initiatives, including the launch of a breast cancer initiative in May 2009. On 2 November 2011, he was MC and guest of honour for the launch of the Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund at the Irish Film Institute. The following month he helped switch on the Christmas lights on Grafton Street. In February 2015, he officially launched Galway's new Hand in Hand support centre which provides support and counselling services for parents of children with cancer.
Ryan Tubridy | List of interests