Ian McKellen Photo Galleries Fotos: 1980-1983 Tap photo to enlarge, then you can enter gallery mode with button at top left.Portrait With Edward Petherbridge Laurence Burns For Telegraph Sunday Magazine Geg Germany With Sir Michael Redgrave With Susan Sarandon and Sean Mathias The South Bank Show interview, New York Portrait Nick Scott At home on the Thames Roderick Ebdon DYING DAY With Melvyn Bragg of The South Bank Show, during the run of AmadeusAMADEUS From the programmeAMADEUS SalieriAMADEUS Ian McKellen juggling the cakes and desserts which Salieri relishesAMADEUS PolaroidAMADEUSButch Amy Irving, Senator John Warner, Elizabeth Taylor (Mrs. Warner), Ian McKellen, and Peter Firth backstage. Photo from the Bolton Evening News 15 July 1981 (Ian McKellens hometown paper).AMADEUS Antonio SalieriAMADEUS Ian McKellen (Salieri) starts his seduction of Jane Seymour (Constanze)AMADEUS Tim Curry (right: Mozart) lectures Ian McKellen (Salieri) on composition.AMADEUS Nicholas Kepros (centre; Emperor Joseph II) welcomes Tim Curry (Mozart) to court. Ian McKellen (Salieri) applauds stage right.AMADEUS With Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of US, opening night at The National Theatre, Washington, 4 November 1980AMADEUS SalieriAMADEUS Salieri and his mistress accompany Mozart to the first performance of The Magic Flute. This scene was added by Peter Shaffer during the Washington (pre-Broadway) run.AMADEUS Without make-up, Ian McKellen as the old Salieri who narrates the story of Mozart’s deathAMADEUS Mozart (Tim Curry) wittily transforms a pedestrian piece by Salieri (Ian McKellen) into his own musicAMADEUS Ian McKellen (Salieri) enjoying a joke with Jane Seymour (Constanze) and her husband Tim Curry (Mozart)AMADEUS Ian McKellen, Jane Seymour, Tim Curry, First Lady Rosalind Carter, President Jimmy Carter; The National Theater, Washington, DC, November 1980AMADEUS Salieri (Ian McKellen) and Mozart (Tim Curry)AMADEUS Ian McKellen and Jane Seymour backstageAMADEUSMarilynn K Yee Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, US President Jimmy Carter, The National Theater, Washington, DC, November 1980AMADEUS Salieri (Ian McKellen) and Mozart (Tim Curry)AMADEUS With Lady Bird JohnsonAMADEUS- Snapshot outside theatreAMADEUS- Mozart (Tim Curry) and Salieri (Ian McKellen)AMADEUS Billboard outside theatreAMADEUS- ChauvelinTHE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Ian McKellen as Chauvelin; portrait of Jane Seymour as Marguerite behindTHE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Pierre Chauvelin (Ian McKellen) with his back to the wall at the story’s climaxTHE SCARLET PIMPERNEL The Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews) on his way to defeating Chauvelin (Ian McKellen) with foils (action director Peter Diamond.)THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Ian McKellen (Chauvelin) and Jane Seymour (Marguerite)THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Chauvelin vanquishedTHE SCARLET PIMPERNEL With Jane SeymourTHE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Walter and June (Ian McKellen and Sarah Miles) fall in love.LOVING WALTER Sarah Miles (June) and Ian McKellen (Walter)LOVING WALTER His adventures over, Walter (Ian McKellen) immortalises his name in the fresh concrete path round his hospital quarters.LOVING WALTER LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) with his father (Arthur Whybrow), waiting in the backyard for their tame pigeons to fly home.LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) cowers in fear of bullies in the factory elevator.LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) is trusted to lead his fellow-inmates round the grounds of the mental hospital.LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) tells his boss (David Ryall) that his father has gone to live with Jesus.LOVING WALTER The injured Walter (Ian McKellen) returns home to the comfort of his pigeon-loft.LOVING WALTER Jim Broadbent (white-coated nurse on the rear left) oversees Walter (Ian McKellen, front left seated) and his companion (in real life an injured ex-boxer) in the mental hospital during their Christmas party.LOVING WALTERR. A. Pembrooke Ian McKellen at a book-signing for Walter with its author David Cook.LOVING WALTERJerry Kean Walter (Ian McKellen) prays at the bedside of his dead mother (Barbara Jefford) for Jesus to return her to him.LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) confused on his first day of incarceration in the mental hospitalLOVING WALTER With Trevor Nunn and Judi DenchTo Cambridge With Love " Walter (Ian McKellen) with other inmates at the mental hospitalLOVING WALTER " LOVING WALTERNobby Clark Walters name scratched into wet cement (Polaroid)LOVING WALTER Walter (Ian McKellen) and Attendant (Jim Broadbent)LOVING WALTERNobby Clark In the wardLOVING WALTERNobby Clark In IsraelACTING SHAKESPEARE (British Council 1983 Tour) In IsraelACTING SHAKESPEARE (British Council 1983 Tour) In Israel with producer Shmuel TzemachACTING SHAKESPEARE (British Council 1983 Tour) SHORT LIST SHORT LIST Boy (with Coward)COWARDICEAlastair Muir Janet Suzman and Ian McKellen (Boy)COWARDICEZoe Dominic BoyCOWARDICE "Dr Theodore Cuza. 45 year old Cuza is suffering from a disease which has prematurely aged him physically. So each day’s filming began for me five hours before the rest of the cast while my latex make-up was applied and a wig placed over a bald cap hiding my own hair. On 12 occasions this was done and then I waited all day in vain to be filmed.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood" Cuza (Ian McKellen) and MolasarTHE KEEP (1983) His body restored to middle-age, Cuza (Ian McKellen) explores the KeepTHE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood Surrounded by its dead victims, the monster arm stretches out to greet Cuza (Ian McKellen)THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood Cuza (Ian McKellen) with his beloved daughter (Alberta Watson)THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood Medieval historian Ian McKellen (right) and his daughter Alberta Watson are dragged out of a detention camp by Nazi officer Gabriel Byrne in Paramount Pictures enchanting and horrifying fable, The Keep.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood "Gabriel Byrne (extreme left) guards Cuza and his daughter beneath the Keep We shot in the corridors of the abandoned slate quarries near Bettys-y-Coed. I wore gloves to avoid the extra make-up time that would have been needed to age my hands in keeping with my face.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood" The spectacular sets were built on the floor of a disused slate quarry near Bettys-y-Coed. It rained a great deal and shooting got behind hand. Feeling increasingly depressed by not shooting, the producer’s helicopter lifted me away to London one week-end to restore my spirits at home.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood Michael Mann (3rd from the left) considering altering his script once more.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood On the drawbridge to the Keep, director Michael Mann (L) gives last-minute instructions to Ian McKellen (centre), as the wind-machines blow and the camera is ready to turnTHE KEEP (1983)Graham Attwood Cuza (older)THE KEEP (1983)Graham Atwood Centre l to r: Dr Cuza (Ian McKellen), Eva (Alberta Watson), Josefa (Rosalie Crutchley) and her son (Philip Bloomfield) look up through the electrified fence to see two SS guards walk past.THE KEEP (1983)Graham Atwood Cuza (younger)THE KEEP (1983)Graham Atwood