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Sheffield Theatre

Meet a young Ian McKellen, treading the boards of the legendary Crucible Theatre.

1972 5 mins Silent

Overview

Meet a young Ian McKellen, treading the boards of the legendary Crucible Theatre. This film was made as part of This Week In Britain, a long-running series of magazine films commissioned by the government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, through the Central Office of Information, for television distribution abroad.

This government film is a public record, preserved and presented by the BFI National Archive on behalf of The National Archives, home to more than 1,000 years of British history.