Sir Ian McKellen is to become iconic artist L.S. Lowry in an extraordinary new documentary film - lip-syncing to Lowry's own voice. BBC Arts has today (January 15) announced the casting, for the ...

Sir Ian McKellen will play L.S. Lowry in a new BBC Arts documentary. The 86-year-old actor is set to take on the "unique privilege" of portraying the iconic English artist in Arena documentary L.S.

Ian McKellen is on board to portray English artist L.S. Lowry in the BBC Arts Arena documentary L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes. Marking 50 years since Lowry’s death, the film will portray the exchange ...

Marking 50 years since Lowry’s death, this immersive film will foreground the touching and often surprising exchange between the enigmatic artist and Angela Barratt, a young fan whose interviews ...

There is no shortage of 20th-century British artists who have made their name for pioneering a thoroughly modern approach to figurative painting at a time when abstraction was all the rage. Yet, while ...

L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes sees the esteemed actor lip-sync newly discovered, previously unheard audio recordings, giving audiences unprecedented access to Lowry’s thoughts during the final four ...

BBC Arts has announced that Ian McKellen will portray English artist L.S. Lowry in the forthcoming Arena documentary, L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes, produced by award-winning Wall to Wall Media (AIDS: ...