Ian Charleson

Acting

Ian Charleson

Born 1949-08-11 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 15 films

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi. Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically accla…

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Filmography

15 films
Opera poster

A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to…

Opera

★ 6.7 1987

Car Trouble poster

In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love…

Car Trouble

★ 6.3 1986

Louisiana poster

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover…

Louisiana

★ 4.7 1984

Ascendancy poster

Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British lan…

Ascendancy

★ 4.6 1983

Gandhi poster

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all…

Gandhi

★ 7.6 1982

Hamlet poster

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost h…

Hamlet

★ 6.2 1980