Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson ( born August 11, 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † January 6, 1990 in London, England) was a Scottish film and stage actor.
Biography
Ian Charleson was the second of three children of a book printer; he had an older brother by three years, Kenneth, and an eleven- years younger sister, Elizabeth.
Even as a child showed Charlesons talent when he joined as a soprano voice in appearance in the children's choir. Later, in 1982, published the Royal Shakespeare Company, whose member Charleson was a record with the rare tape recordings from this period. After attending the Royal High School and Edinburgh University Charleson began to study architecture, but this broke after a few semesters to study acting. Later, he said, the only thing he had designed at that time on the drawing board, would have been a bridge without foundations.
Charleson then visited the famous London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Early on he went off of this, and was a member of Frank Dunlop 's Young Vic Company in London.
In 1977 he made his film debut; only 20 more feature films to follow. He is best known, however, until 1981 due to its representation of the Olympic champion Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire and 1982 by the role of the priest Charlie Andrews in Gandhi.
Only after his death was announced publicly that Ian Charleson was gay, and he became infected with HIV in the 1980s. He died at the young age of 40 from AIDS.
In 1991 he was called to honor the Ian Charleson Awards to life. They honor since young stage actor, most of which are still under 30 years old.