 Ian Charleson was the first British show business celebrity whose death from AIDS was reported in the media, despite him being a closeted gay man who never acknowledged his first screen role as the gay Angel, complete with frontal nudity, in Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978). He gained international stardom as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire (d. Hugh Hudson, 1981), followed by Gandhi (UK/India, d. Richard Attenborough, 1982), but is also remembered for his theatre work (London debut 1972), including at the National Theatre, Guys and Dolls (1982), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1988) and Hamlet (1989), only weeks before his death. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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