In June the British actor was starring as John Falstaff in "Player Kings," an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Henry IV, ...

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Sir Ian McKellen, the legendary British actor, discusses his fall from the stage during a performance of 'Henry IV' and his aspirations to reprise the role of John Falstaff to complete his unfinished ...

Shakespeare immortalised him as the cowardly, dissolute and clowning Falstaff, but this bears little resemblance to his true character. The lodge had been on Historic England's at risk register ...

Sir Ian McKellen will play Shakespeare’s Falstaff for the first time after rejecting the role previously because he “didn’t understand him”. The veteran stage actor, 84, has announced he ...

The Player Kings star, 85 — who plays the character of Sir John Falstaff — told Saga Magazine that he’s now afraid to leave the house after his June 17 accident, but admitted his injuries ...

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“I was wearing a fat suit for Falstaff,” McKellen said in an interview published Tuesday in Saga magazine, [and that] saved my ribs and other joints, so I consider myself lucky.” McKellen ...

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And it could have happened to anybody,” he says. The actor, 85, says it could have been a “great deal worse” if he hadn’t ...