Sir Patrick Stewart (1940—2026): Goodbye Professor X, we shall always remain your X-Men

For older sci-fi fans, Sir Patrick Stewart was synonymous with Star Trek’s Captain Picard – whom The New Yorker dubbed the “model of enlightened masculinity” – but people of my generation will

For older sci-fi fans, Sir Patrick Stewart was synonymous with Star Trek’s Captain Picard – whom The New Yorker dubbed the “model of enlightened masculinity” – but people of my generation will remember him as Charles Xavier, the follicularly challenged and telepathically overqualified leader of the X-Men. The first scene in which he appears in the franchise, which he shares with his BFF – in reel and real life – Ian McKellen, playing Erik Lehnsherr AKA Magneto, epitomises not just his thespian t