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Ian Charleson

Highest Rated: 100% Jubilee (1978)

Lowest Rated: 79% Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Birthday: Aug 11, 1949

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

This tall, lithe Scottish actor won international recognition as Olympic hopeful Eric Lidell, the Presbyterian missionary who refused to compete on the Sabbath, in Hugh Hudson's Oscar-winning "Chariots of Fire" (1981). Although he only appeared in a handful of films, Ian Charleson had a distinguished stage career for close to two decades before his untimely death from AIDS complications in 1990.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 58% Jubilee
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90% 79% Opera Watchlist 89% 92% Gandhi Watchlist
84% 80% Chariots of Fire
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79% 60% Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
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Ascendancy
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Codename: Kyril
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Troubles
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50% Car Trouble
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Filmography

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Troubles 1989 Maj. Brendan Archer Actor Codename: Kyril 1988 Kyril Actor Opera 90% 79% 1987 Marco Actor Car Trouble 50% 1985 Gerald Actor Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 79% 60% 1984 Jeffson Brown Actor Ascendancy 1983 Lt. Ryder Actor Gandhi 89% 92% 1982 Rev. Charlie Andrews Actor Chariots of Fire 84% 80% 1981 Eric Liddell Actor Jubilee 100% 58% 1978 Angel Actor
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