* Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, starring Ian Charleson and Julie Walters, directed by Peter Gill ( 1984 )

He also appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar ( for which he received a Charleson Award nomination ).

In the summer of 1977, a National Theatre actor, Ian Charleson ( best known for his later role in Chariots of Fire ), thought that Willcox was someone that his friend, film director Derek Jarman, should meet and took her to tea on Tregunter Road in Fulham at Derek's flat.

His 1993 turn as Perdican in Alfred de Musset's Don ’ t Fool With Love at the Donmar Warehouse was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award and was described by The Independent as " quite thrilling ".

* Ian Charleson Award ( 1993 )-nominated for Don't Fool with Love at the Donmar Warehouse, London

* Ian Charleson Award ( 1997 )-nominated for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon

For this play, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer, and he received the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

In 1989, Sean Mathias directed a revival of the play, performed as a one-night benefit for Stonewall, featuring Ian McKellen, Richard E Grant, Ian Charleson, and Ralph Fiennes.

According to fellow GH actress Leslie Charleson, Lee was promised a job for life by former GH executive producer Wendy Riche ; when Riche left the show, the new management fired Lee.

According to fellow cast member Leslie Charleson, Lee had been promised the role for life by former executive producer Wendy Riche.

His performances as Torquato Tasso in the Edinburgh International Festival production of Torquato Tasso, and Creon in the Citizens ' Theatre production of Oedipus earned him a special commendation for the Ian Charleson Award 1995 for outstanding performance by a young actor in a classical theatre role.

A most memorable production of the 1970s was Peter Hall's staging for the Royal National Theatre in 1974, with Paul Scofield as Volpone, Ben Kingsley as Mosca, John Gielgud as Sir Politic, and Ian Charleson as Peregrine.

In a major landmark for colour-blind casting, Oyelowo was the first black actor to play an English king in a major production of Shakespeare, and although this casting choice was initially criticised by some in the media, Oyelowo's performance was critically acclaimed and later won the 2001 Ian Charleson Award for best performance by an actor under 30 in a classical play.

Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in Guys and Dolls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fool for Love, and Hamlet, among many others.

In addition to his acting roles at Edinburgh University, Charleson also directed many plays there, and he designed costumes for several as well.

After graduating from Edinburgh University — where he played leads in dozens of productions, including numerous Shakespeare plays — Charleson won a place in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ), where he studied for two years.

In the 1980s, Charleson won particular critical and popular acclaim for his starring roles at the National Theatre.

Charleson received an Olivier Award nomination for Actor of the Year in a New Play as Eddie in Sam Shepard's gritty and very physical two-person drama, Fool for Love ( 1984 – 85 ), opposite Julie Walters as his on-again off-again love object.

The day following Charleson's final Hamlet performance, when Ian McKellen was given the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for his Iago in Othello, McKellen offered thanks, but said having seen " the perfect Hamlet " at the National Theatre the previous night, he thought that not he but Ian Charleson was truly the Best Actor of 1989.

Fellow actor and friend, Sir Ian McKellen, said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life ; McKellen called it " the perfect Hamlet ".

Sheen's most significant appearance of 1997 was the title role in Henry V, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) at their Stratford-upon-Avon theatre, which earned him a second Ian Charleson Award nomination.

In 1975, Charleson played the title role in Hamlet in a Cambridge Theatre Company touring production.

The performance garnered good reviews ; nevertheless Charleson felt he had not done the notoriously difficult role complete justice.

They then saw Charleson performing the role of Pierre in Piaf, and knew immediately they had found their man.

Fellow actor and friend, Sir Ian McKellen, said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life.

Charleson was nominated for the Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play, for his starring role as Eddie in Fool for Love in 1984.

She went on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and received a special commendation for the Ian Charleson Award for her role as Katherine in Henry V in 2003 with the National Theatre.

The 1988 London National Theatre production, directed by Howard Davies, starred Ian Charleson, Lindsay Duncan, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, and Eric Porter.

* Guys and Dolls, the National's first musical, directed by Richard Eyre, starring Bob Hoskins, Julia McKenzie, Ian Charleson, and Julie Covington ( 1982 )

* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Howard Davies, starring Ian Charleson and Lindsay Duncan ( 1988 )

* Hamlet, starring Ian Charleson, directed by Richard Eyre ( 1989 )

He began sobbing uncontrollably and refused to go back on stage ; he was replaced by Ian Charleson before a then-unknown Jeremy Northam finished what little was left of the production's run.

In October 1982, Hoskins was replaced by Trevor Peacock, Charleson by Paul Jones, and Covington by Belinda Sinclair ; in the spring of 1983 McKenzie was replaced by Imelda Staunton and Fiona Hendley replaced Sinclair.

Over the course of his life Charleson performed numerous major Shakespearean roles, and the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established in his honour in 1991, to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30.

From LAMDA, Charleson was hired by Frank Dunlop's Young Vic Theatre Company.

* Charleson singing Ariel's Songs from The Tempest, issued by the Royal Shakespeare Company ; music by Guy Woolfenden

In Charleson's honour, the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established in 1991, to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30.

" Alan Bates wrote that Charleson was " definitely among the top ten actors of his age group.

Eric Liddell ( Ian Charleson ), born in China of Scottish missionary parents, is in Scotland.

Ian Charleson performed Hamlet from 9 October to 13 November 1989, in Richard Eyre's production at the Olivier Theatre, replacing Daniel Day-Lewis, who had abandoned the production.

Seriously ill from AIDS at the time, Charleson died eight weeks after his last performance.

The cast also included Ian Charleson as Octavius.

In 1985 she sang a duet with Ian Charleson of the Irving Berlin song " You're Just in Love " in A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars.

It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of punk rockers, including Adam Ant and Toyah.

The original cast featured Bob Hoskins as Nathan Detroit, Julia McKenzie as Adelaide, Ian Charleson as Sky and Julie Covington as Sarah.

Following Ian Charleson's untimely death from AIDS at the age of 40, in November 1990 two reunion performances of Guys and Dolls, with almost all of the original 1982 cast and musicians, were given at the National Theatre as a tribute to Charleson.

The proceeds from the performances were donated to the new Ian Charleson Day Centre HIV clinic at the Royal Free Hospital, and to scholarships in Charleson's name at LAMDA.

While at the RSC, Wax also met and befriended Ian Charleson, and later contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.

The play starred Richard Griffiths and Ian Charleson and included a rotating cast of 12 WNO singers.

Puttnam, who had produced Ian Charleson's star-making film Chariots of Fire, contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.

Charleson said in 2007, " The woman was in her 90s.

Charleson said in 2007, " The woman was in her 90s ... they fired her, and it broke her heart.