Description: This is a contemporary casting direct from an original life mask of Alfred Molina made as a display piece. The lifecast was originally made for make-up effects, and mask creation for his feature film and television work. **Please note that Free Shipping is NOT included with Best Offers.** Select Thumbnails Below To View Larger Images This 1:1 life-size casting is professionally crafted using a professional grade plaster and has a sturdy metal loop in the back for displaying on a wall. This casting can also be produced from a lightweight urethane plastic for an additional 75 dollars upon request. William Forsche has been creating and collecting lifecasts for most of his adult life. One of Forsche's career highlights was creating a lifecast of Vincent Price in 1988. "I have personally been collecting and creating life masks in Hollywood for over 30 years." "This is a professionally made modern casting made of the highest grade materials available." - William Forsche William Forsche offers you this high quality life mask direct from his Hollywood collection. Castings from our "Premium" Life Mask collection are made for the discriminating collector. These castings have been professionally remastered from the best source materials available, and should not be confused with lower quality life masks readily available elsewhere. A signed C.O.A. and a signature on every cast is provided by William Forsche to ensure its authenticity and high quality. Our castings have been used in numerous film productions and are also in the personal collections of high profile collectors and artists such as: Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Liza Minnelli, Hugh Heffner, Kirk Douglas, and the late Tony Curtis and Gregory Peck. Testimonials from Hollywood professionals about the quality of Forsche Design Life Masks. Andy Schoneberg is a two time Emmy award winning makeup artist for "The Walking Dead." Below is the Humphrey Bogart display he created using one of Forsche's Life Masks. "I met William 28 years ago(!) on Dead Heat. He was a master life caster then, doing excellent work. He's a fantastic artist and technician. William's life cast collection is without equal. If William is offering a life cast of a particular person, you can bet he's done the legwork to make sure that it's the best, most accurate cast available. Period." -Andy Schoneberg Dan Platt's work includes "Terminator 2", Tupac Shakur's hologram for "Coachella" and he was also the Facial Model Lead responsible for youthenizing Jeff Bridges as Clu for "Tron: Legacy." "Bill, I've been collecting life casts from you for 20 years and without fail, your castings are undisputedly the sharpest, distortion free and most accurate castings in the industry. How do I know? Every morning Ebay sends out a fresh listing of available life casts and I am appalled on what is being offered by your competitors. When I had the privilege to work with you at Greg Cannom's in the early 90's, your life cast work was without flaw and that same attention to detail and craftsmanship is evident in every cast that you sell. I could not and most importantly, WILL NOT buy any life cast from anyone other than you. The success of my career depends heavily on the solid understanding of facial anatomy, form and structure. For the last two decades, your life casts gave me that invaluable understanding. And without that knowledge, I would never have been able to correctly interpret poorly lit or artistically shot photographs when I recreated Tupac for Coachella." -Dan Platt Tom Spina: Sculptor, Movie Prop Conservation Artist and Collector works on an original "Mrs. Doubtfire" appliance displayed on a custom Robin Williams life mask display bust provided by William Forsche of Forsche Design. "To any and all collectors of lifecasts, You will simply never find another source like William Forsche. His decades of film FX experience and encyclopedic knowledge are a benefit not found in any other lifecast seller, but the real value is in the exquisite quality of the castings themselves. Each is a work of art in its own right, always with highest level of detail of any available, and the closest generation to the original actor's face. I am never disappointed when I open a package from Forsche! I've counted on Bill for reference busts when recreating famous faces and also for things like copies of Robin Williams' head, to which we applied two sets of original Mrs. Doubtfire appliances for display. In order to achieve that, we needed castings that were properly sized and without warp. Bill delivered, as he always does! I can highly recommend his work to anyone interested and look forward to my next purchase!" Sincerely, -Tom Spina Why purchase our life masks when there are cheaper plastic castings and other sources available? "The advent of the internet has put collecting life masks into the hands of many people outside the film industry; I have personally acquired some of these life masks from various internet sources and have been extremely disappointed with the quality and the distortion (shrinkage etc.) of these castings. The average person outside the film industry doesn't have studio grade life masks to compare their castings with. With over 30 years of selectively collecting life masks it has always been my goal to obtain the highest quality masks available. Not only have I been a collector I am also a Hollywood life mask artist who has created some of the castings that exist in private collections, museums and have been used in the production of many of the major Hollywood films which I have worked on. My professional experience gives me the insight and the ability to compare similar castings and grade them on their detail, shrinkage and distortion. It is my goal and my passion to always make the highest quality life masks possible and it is my pleasure to share these casts with the discriminating life mask collector." -William Forsche Select Thumbnails Below To View Larger Images Forsche Design's white plaster lifecast of Grace Kelley on the left compared to theirs which is on the right. Our more complete and detailed Grace Kelley cast does not exhibit the shrinkage or distortion of their casting which has less detail. Their once white plastic cast has yellowed considerably with age and has only a single wire as a do it yourself type of hanger. Lifecast artist Willa Shalit invited William Forsche to New York City in 1986 to teach her his lifecasting techniques, after seeing the torso and face casting of Hugh Heffner's girlfriend that he created for the Playboy Mansion. Forsche was later asked to assist Willa Shalit with the smiling lifecast of Stevie Wonder created for his Album cover "Characters." Many of Forsche's lifecasting techniques were also utilized for some of Shalit's more refined lifecasts in her book "Life Cast: Behind the Mask." Forsche works on a life mask of Brooke Shields in Shalit's lifecast studio, New York City circa 1986. Modern day photo of William Forsche recreating the "Aladdin Sane" life masks that he originally made for David Bowie's personal collection. David Bowie and William Forsche at "Top of the Pops" circa 1987. William Forsche with Hollywood Acting Legends: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Gregory Peck. Select image below to read an article about the lifecast artist William Forsche. William Forsche was asked to join several other top Hollywood make-up effects artists recently to teach his lifecasting techniques in the "Ultimate Creature Creator Class." Performer's Film Television & Media Appearances Biography for Alfred Molina Date of Birth 24 May 1953, London, England, UK Nickname Fred Height 6' 2½" (1.89 m) Mini Biography Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England, of a Spanish father and an Italian mother. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" (as Shannon) and David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" (as Fox), plus a splendid performance in Yasmina Reza's "Art" (his Broadway debut), for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1998. He made his film debut in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and got a good part in Letter to Brezhnev (1985) (as a Soviet sailor who spends a night in Liverpool), but his movie breakthrough came two years later when he played--superbly--Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of playwright Joe Orton, in Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987). He was also outstanding in Enchanted April (1992), The Perez Family (1995) (as a Cuban immigrant), Anna Karenina (1997) (as Levin) and Chocolat (2000) (as the narrow-minded mayor of a small French town circa 1950s, who tries to shut down a chocolate shop). IMDb Mini Biography By: Thanassis Agathos Spouse Jill Gascoine (1985 - present) Trivia Although he himself is fully an Englishman, Alfred's father was a Spanish waiter and his mother was an Italian housekeeper. His mixed background has allowed him to play characters of almost any heritage. He gained a good amount of weight to play the huge Diego Rivera in Frida (2002) and then slimmed down to play Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004). Alfred regretted that due to his part as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", he again was forced to regain his bulk. Was chosen to play Doc Ock after Spider-Man 2 (2004) director Sam Raimi and his wife watched Frida (2002). Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1998 as Best Actor (Play) for "Art," and in 2004 as Best Actor (Musical) for portraying Tevye in a revival of "Fiddler on the Roof." Auditioned for the part of Rimmer in "Red Dwarf" (1988). Educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he started out as a busker specializing in stand-up comedy and doing odd jobs to supplement his welfare cheque, before being accepted by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977. Was nearly cast as Al Capone in Road to Perdition (2002). He has one daughter, Rachel (b. 1980) from a previous relationship. He also has 2 stepsons, from his wife Jill's first marriage. Considers Not Without My Daughter (1991) and Enchanted April (1992) his favorite roles. Is a huge fan of jazz. Speaks Spanish and Italian fluently. Has been turned into a Lego mini-figure twice: first for his role as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004), and again for his role as Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. Personal Quotes When you're kind of my size and look the way I do, leading man romantic leads aren't going to come your way. The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it. Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket! I love world music, and am always on the lookout for new sounds from Africa - The Best of Ethiopiques is one of my current favorites. Then there's Brazil, Cuba, the East. I should also admit that my Italian roots come out in my love for melodic music. My mother made me listen to a lot of the pop stars from the 1950s and '60s, like Rita Pavone, Claudio Villa, Gino Paoli and I love Luigi Tenco. I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting. That's obviously impossible when you watch your movie on the screen - at that point it's all over, too late. There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance, and of course, Cary Grant. But there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi I think it's just with anyone, with any character, you have to believe in what you're saying in the same way that he does. I always use the example that the actor playing Sister Mary Teresa has exactly the same responsibility as the actor playing Adolf Hitler. The responsibility is to represent those people as accurately as you can, regardless of whether they're good or bad, evil or saintly. Regardless of what they're like, you have to represent them. You can't misrepresent them. You can't suddenly decide, 'You know what? I'm playing Mussolini but I'm going to give him an Irish accent because I think that works better for some of the dialogue.' You can't do that kind of thing. But when you're playing a character that's fictitious, really what they're paying you for is to be as imaginative as you can. (On frequently playing foreigners) I'm very proud of the fact that I can play all these different nationalities. I've done it with varying degrees of success, but at least with the best of intentions. I think at some point you run the danger of becoming everyone's favorite foreigner. The way I was raised was very interesting and diverse. Both my parents tried very hard to keep the old ways alive. My parents taught me how to speak Spanish and Italian. My grip on the languages is somewhat less than perfect, but my Spanish is pretty good because I use it every day, especially when I'm back home in Los Angeles. I have a great love for the culture in terms of the history, the music, the food, the art, and the great social, scientific, and cultural advances that have emanated from both those countries. I am very aware of the contributions we have all made to the general well being of the world. I'm really proud of it because my parents - although they were very happy to be living in England [because] it gave them a means to survive and work and have a pretty decent life - didn't bury themselves. They celebrated where they came from and what it gave them. (2004 - On his favorite roles to date) There are a few that I've always been particularly proud of - Not Without My Daughter and Enchanted April. At the time they were parts that were so far away from me, from what I was, from what I am. I saw them as a challenge. In Not Without My Daughter, I played an Iranian doctor who takes his family back to Iran and converts to a much more fundamental form of Islam. He basically kidnaps his family. That's pretty far away from what I am. So you kind of try to do things that challenge you. I always look for something that is as different and as diametrically opposed to what I did last time. I try to make each job as different as I can from the last job. And that's really my only criteria. I don't have a particular game plan. You pay a price for that in certain ways. That level of variety tends to mean that you'll always be second or third lead. That's fine because it means that you've got a much wider range of parts available. I've always prided myself in being able to sniff out a really bad script. But I haven't always been 'on the know' when it comes to choosing a really, really good script. We all make mistakes, but you develop an eye for certain things. As you get older and more experienced - and I've been acting now for over 30 years - it doesn't always help you to become more discerning about what's a good or a bad script. But certainly you get a better idea of what suits you or what you think is within your capabilities. I mean, if someone sent me the part of a 30-year-old romantic lead I'd have to say, 'I'm sorry, and that's very sweet of you, but let me play his dad.' (On his ability to play characters with different accents) I have always enjoyed working with different accents. It's become sort of a trademark of mine. It's not because of any special skills; it's a happy accident of nature and nurture that I am able to do it. My parents were immigrants to England, and I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in London that was full of other immigrant families from all over Europe, the West Indies, Africa. When I went to school, all the kids were first-generation born in England. So all the parents spoke English with very heavy accents, if they spoke English at all. So I kind of grew up in this whole environment where I heard all these different rhythms and accents. I think I just soaked it up unconsciously, and when I became an actor I had it all there stowed away. I love being added to that list of English actors playing villains. I guess somewhere in the history of American film and television someone decided that the English accent sounded somehow villainous. Salary Spider-Man 2 (2004) $3,000,000 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) $2,500/week Where Are They Now (March 2003) Teaching Shakespeare at Circus Theatricals in Los Angeles (December 2003) Currently in rehearsals for the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," in which he will portray the lead character, Tevye. (December 2003) Filming Spider-Man 2 (2004). (February 2006) Currently starring alongside Annette Bening in "The Cherry Orchard" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Actor (118 titles) 2011 Poe (in production) Husband ("The Black Cat") 2011 Vivaldi (pre-production) Tartini 2011 Abduction (post-production) Frank Burton 2011 Carmel (post-production) Everly 2010-2011 Law & Order: Los Angeles (TV series) Ricardo Morales – Westwood (2011) … Ricardo Morales – Pasadena (2010) … Ricardo Morales – Harbor City (2010) … Ricardo Morales – Hollywood (2010) … Ricardo Morales 2011 Rango Roadkill (voice) 2010/II The Tempest Stephano 2010 Roger & Val Have Just Got In (TV series) Roger Stephenson – The Valerie Step (2010) … Roger Stephenson – Reply All (2010) … Roger Stephenson – Be Our Guest (2010) … Roger Stephenson – The Dining Room Curtains (2010) … Roger Stephenson – The Unglamorous Row (2010) … Roger Stephenson See all 6 episodes » 2010 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series) Sherlock Holmes – Episode #6.211 (2010) … Sherlock Holmes 2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Horvath 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Sheik Amar 2010 The Life & Times of Tim (TV series) Chairman – London Calling/Novelist (2010) … Chairman (voice) 2009 Yes, Virginia (TV movie) Francis Church 2009 Lessons in Self-Defense (short) Ben 2009 Wonder Woman (video) Ares (voice) 2009 The Pink Panther 2 Pepperidge 2009 An Education Jack 2009 The Lodger Chandler Manning 2009 Big Guy (short) Kent 2008 Nothing Like the Holidays Edy Rodriguez 2008 Courtroom K (TV movie) Judge Robars 2007 The Ten Commandments Ramses (voice) 2007 The Little Traitor Dunlop 2007/I Silk Baldabiou 2007 Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (video) Professor Jeffries (voice) 2007 The Company (TV mini-series) Harvey Torriti / The Sorcerer – Episode #1.3 (2007) … Harvey Torriti – Episode #1.2 (2007) … Harvey Torriti – Episode #1.1 (2007) … Harvey Torriti / The Sorcerer – Episode #1.4 (2007) … Harvey Torriti – Episode #1.5 (2007) … Harvey Torriti See all 6 episodes » 2007 Monk (TV series) Peter Magneri – Mr. Monk and the Naked Man (2007) … Peter Magneri 2007 The Moon and the Stars Davide Rieti 2006 Orchids (short) Cliff 2006 The Hoax Dick Suskind 2006 As You Like It Touchstone 2006 The Da Vinci Code Bishop Manuel Aringarosa 2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury (TV series) Gabriel Duvall – Day (2005) … Gabriel Duvall 2005 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series) Gabriel Duvall – Night (2005) … Gabriel Duvall 2005 Joan of Arc (TV movie) Narrator (voice) 2004 Steamboy Dr. Eddie Steam (voice: English version) 2004 Spider-Man 2 Doc Ock / Dr. Otto Octavius 2004 Spider-Man 2 (Video Game) Dr. Otto Octavius (voice) / Doc Ock (voice) 2004 Chronicles Victor Hugo Puente 2003 Justice League (TV series) King Gustav – Maid of Honor: Part 1 (2003) … King Gustav (voice) 2003 Coffee and Cigarettes Alfred (segment "Cousins?") 2003 Luther John Tetzel 2003 Identity Dr. Malick 2003 My Life Without Me Ann's Father (uncredited) 2002 Bram and Alice (TV series) Bram – Goody Two Shoes (2002) … Bram – Paul-Pot (2002) … Bram – Cat Burglar (2002) … Bram – Pilot (2002) … Bram – Scribbling Rivalry (2002) … Bram See all 8 episodes » 2002 Ape (short) Mendez 2002 Undertaking Betty Boris Plots 2002 Frida Diego Rivera 1999-2001 Ladies Man (TV series) Jimmy Stiles – The Happy Wanderer (2001) … Jimmy Stiles – Family Dinner (2001) … Jimmy Stiles – The 31-Inch-High Club (2001) … Jimmy Stiles – A Quiet Evening at Home (2001) … Jimmy Stiles – Upright and Breathing (2001) … Jimmy Stiles See all 30 episodes » 2001 Texas Rangers John King Fisher 2001 Murder on the Orient Express (TV movie) Hercule Poirot 2000 Chocolat Comte de Reynaud 2000 The Miracle Maker Simon the Pharisee (voice) 1999 Magnolia Solomon Solomon 1999 Dudley Do-Right Snidely Whiplash 1998 Pete's Meteor Hugh 1998 The Wild Thornberrys (TV series) Elcio – Only Child (1998) … Elcio 1998 The Treat Colonel 1998 The Impostors Sir Jeremy Burtom 1998 Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples (TV movie) Emile Taquet (segment "Marie Taquet") 1997 The Man Who Knew Too Little Boris 'The Butcher' Blavasky 1997 Boogie Nights Rahad Jackson 1997 The Break Tulio 1997 Anna Karenina Levin 1997 The Place of Lions (TV movie) 1996 Scorpion Spring Denis Brabant 1996 Mojave Moon Sal 1996 Before and After Panos Demeris 1996 Tracey Takes On... (TV series) Mr. Dragotti – Royalty (1996) … Mr. Dragotti 1995 Nervous Energy Ira Moss 1995 Species Dr. Stephen Arden 1995 Dead Man Trading Post Missionary 1995 The Perez Family Juan Raul Perez 1995 The Steal Cliff 1995 Hideaway Jonas 1994 Requiem Apache (TV movie) Hanish 1994 Maverick Angel 1994 White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf Rev. Leland Drury 1994 Cabin Boy School Professor (uncredited) 1993 Crime Story (TV series) Ian Spiro – When the Lies Run Out: The Ian Spiro Story (1993) … Ian Spiro 1993 When Pigs Fly Marty 1993 The Trial Titorelli 1993 A Year in Provence (TV mini-series) Tony Havers – The Tony Awards (1993) … Tony Havers – Black Gold (1993) … Tony Havers 1993 Typhon's People (TV movie) Andreus 1993 The Marshal (TV movie) Marshal Guarnaccia 1989-1992 Screen One (TV series) Harry Greaves / Lionel Ellerman / Tony Hancock – Trust Me (1992) … Harry Greaves – A Very Polish Practice (1992) – Hancock (1991) … Tony Hancock – The Accountant (1989) … Lionel Ellerman 1992 Angels (TV movie) George 1992 Enchanted April Mellersh Wilkins 1991 Boon (TV series) Mike Hubble – The Night Before Christmas (1991) … Mike Hubble 1991 Ashenden (TV mini-series) Carmona 1991 The Trials of Oz (TV movie) George Melly 1991 American Friends Oliver Syme 1990-1991 El C.I.D. (TV series) Bernard Blake – Ticket to Ride (1991) … Bernard Blake – All Grown Up and Nowhere to Go (1991) … Bernard Blake – Thursday's Child (1991) … Bernard Blake – Paradise Mislaid (1991) … Bernard Blake – In the Rough (1991) … Bernard Blake See all 13 episodes » 1991 Not Without My Daughter Moody 1989-1990 Screen Two (TV series) John Ogdon / The Italian – Drowning in the Shallow End (1990) … The Italian – Virtuoso (1989) … John Ogdon 1989 Saracen (TV series) Jose Morazan – Proof of Death (1989) … Jose Morazan 1989 Revolutionary Witness (TV short) Robert Sauveur (segment "The Butcher") 1989 Nativity Blues (TV series) Hank 1988 Manifesto Avanti 1987 Miami Vice (TV series) Esther's Attorney – The Big Thaw (1987) … Esther's Attorney 1987 Sunday Premiere (TV series) – Blat (1987) 1987 Prick Up Your Ears Kenneth Halliwell 1986 Casualty (TV series) Harry Horner – Jump Start (1986) … Harry Horner 1985 Letter to Brezhnev Sergei 1985 Eleni Young Christos 1985 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV series) Det. Sgt. Cropper – Blue for Danger (1985) … Det. Sgt. Cropper 1985/I Water Pierre 1985 Number One (TV movie) D.C. Rogers 1985 Ladyhawke Cezar 1984 Meantime (TV movie) John 1983 Reilly: Ace of Spies (TV mini-series) Blumkin – Gambit (1983) … Blumkin 1982 Anyone for Denis? (TV movie) Eric 1982 Joni Jones (TV mini-series) Giovanni 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Satipo 1981 Bognor (TV series) Waiter – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) … Waiter – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) … Waiter 1979 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Port Official (uncredited) 1979 Song of the Shirt 1978 The Losers (TV series) Nigel Visit Our Other Auctions Please review our terms and conditions below thoroughly. If you are the high bidder please complete checkout through eBay by selecting the PAY NOW Button above. 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