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
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 death AMADEUS
Mozart (Tim Curry) wittily transforms a pedestrian piece by Salieri (Ian McKellen) into his own music AMADEUS
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 1980 AMADEUS
Salieri (Ian McKellen) and Mozart (Tim Curry) AMADEUS
Ian McKellen and Jane Seymour backstage AMADEUS Marilynn K Yee
Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, US President Jimmy Carter, The National Theater, Washington, DC, November 1980 AMADEUS
Salieri (Ian McKellen) and Mozart (Tim Curry) AMADEUS
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 WALTER R. A. Pembrooke
Ian McKellen at a book-signing for Walter with its author David Cook. LOVING WALTER Jerry 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 hospital LOVING WALTER
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
His body restored to middle-age, Cuza (Ian McKellen) explores the Keep THE 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
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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
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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 turn THE KEEP (1983) Graham Attwood
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