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Ian Charleson
Highest Rated: 100% Jubilee (1978)
Lowest Rated: 73% 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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Troubles | Maj. Brendan Archer (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Codename: Kyril | Kyril (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 90% | 79% | Opera | Marco (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Car Trouble | Gerald (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 73% | 60% | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Jeffson Brown (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ascendancy | Lt. Ryder (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 89% | 92% | Gandhi | Rev. Charlie Andrews (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 83% | 80% | Chariots of Fire | Eric Liddell (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 100% | 58% | Jubilee | Angel (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | BBC Television Shakespeare | Octavius Caesar (Character) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Master of the Game | Jamie McGregor (Character) |