Long before he commanded the Enterprise or led the X-Men, Sir Patrick Stewart was a fixture of the stage in London and Stratford throughout the sixties, sharing the boards with the likes of Sir Ben Kingsley and Ian Richardson. Television came calling with I, Claudius, and film soon followed, including David Lynch’s Dune, where he played Gurney Halleck, mentor to Paul Atreides. Then came the roles that made him a household name around the world: Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men.…
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