Bent

…stagings of such plays as Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1991). In 1981 McKellen won a Tony Award for his performance as Antonio Salieri in a Broadway production of Amadeus. He also directed several plays and wrote and performed a one-man show called Acting Shakespeare.

…a Los Angeles production of Bent (1987). He was cast in a number of minor movies, including Prison (1987) and Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), before costarring as the bad brother in Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner (1991). In 1993 he portrayed a gangster in Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s…