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Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born at 20.30 Greenwich Mean Time, on 25 May 1939, in the general hospital of Burnley, the northern English milltown where his father Denis Murray was a civil engineer. In his earliest years, Ian slept under the iron bomb-proof table in the dining-room. |
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An early fascination with theatre was encouraged by his parents, who took him on a family outing to "Peter Pan" at Manchester Opera House when he was 3. When he was 7, his main Christmas present was a wood and bakelite, fold-away Victorian Theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres, with cardboard scenery and wires to push on the cut-outs of Cinderella and of Olivier's Hamlet. His sister took him to his first Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", and that is where it all started ... |
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Ian McKellan Film: "Lord of the Rings" A marvellously sympathetic yet spectacularly cinematic treatment of the first
part of Tolkien’s trilogy, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring is the film that finally showed how extraordinary
digital effects could be used to support story and characters, not simply
overwhelm them. Both long-time fantasy fans and newcomers alike were simultaneously
amazed, astonished and left agog for parts two and three. |
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