Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, eight BAFTA film and TV nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films.
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- Born:
- May 25, 1939 In Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 131
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Hamlet Revenant
- Latest Project:
- Movie On Broadway 2021-08-20
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2023 | |
| Movie | Marley | Scrooge (rumored) | 2023 |
| Movie | Infinitum: Subject Unknown | Dr. Charles Marland-White | 2021-08-06 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | Hating Peter Tatchell | Self | 2020-08-06 |
| Movie | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat | 2019-12-19 |
| Movie | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay | 2019-11-08 |
| Movie | All Is True | Earl of Southampton | 2018-12-21 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Edmund the Magnificent | Narrator | 2017-01-01 |
| Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Himself | 2017-03-11 |
| Movie | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | The Paul O'Grady Story | Himself | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | How a Kite Flies | Mr. Kite (voice) | 2017-04-28 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth | 2017-03-16 |
| Movie | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self | 2016-12-30 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | 2016-04-23 | |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner | 2016-12-15 |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | X-Men: Unguarded | Self | 2015-07-14 |
| Movie | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue | 2014-04-15 |
| Movie | X-Men: Reunited | Himself | 2014-11-14 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf | 2014-12-10 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Vicious | Freddie Thornhill | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited) | 2013-07-23 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Himself | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf | 2012-11-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
| Movie | The Betty Driver Story | Himself (as Sir Ian McKellan) | 2011-02-01 |
| Movie | Looking for Lowry | Himself | 2011-04-24 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | (archival footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) | 2010-07-22 |
| Series | The Prisoner | 2 / Curtis | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 2008-08-06 |
| Movie | Stardust | Narrator (voice) | 2007-08-09 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | For the Love of God | The Jackdaw | 2007-02-28 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | Saint of 9/11 | Narrator | 2006-04-27 |
| Movie | X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy | Self | 2006-10-02 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Excitement Continues | Himself | 2006-10-02 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) | 2005-01-01 |
| Movie | Ringers: Lord of the Fans | 2005-01-21 | |
| Movie | The Hobart Shakespeareans | Himself | 2005-09-06 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) | 2005-02-02 |
| Movie | Neverwas | Gabriel Finch | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Himself | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Costume Design | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | Home of the Horse Lords | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | Designing Middle-Earth | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | Cameras in Middle-Earth | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | The Passing of an Age | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | X-Factor: The Look of X-Men | Himself | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | X-Men: Premieres Around the World | Himself | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | Émile | Emile | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Uncanny Suspects | Himself | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | X-Men: Production Scrapbook | Himself | 2003-11-02 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf | 2003-12-01 |
| Movie | The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision | Himself | 2003-12-26 |
| Movie | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2 | Himself | 2003-11-25 |
| Movie | Designing Middle-Earth | Self | 2003-11-18 |
| Movie | From Book to Script | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | J.R.R. Tolkien: Creator of Middle-Earth | Gandalf (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | Scale | Self | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | Cameras in Middle-Earth | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | The Road Goes Ever On... | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | A Day in the Life of a Hobbit | Himself | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Weta Workshop | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | Costume Design | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | The Fellowship of the Cast | Self - Gandalf | 2002-11-12 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Himself | 2001-08-11 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Himself | 2001-11-29 |
| Movie | Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring | Self | 2001-12-23 |
| Movie | A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' | Himself | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | X-Men | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Series | David Copperfield | Creakle | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale | Self | 1999-06-08 |
| Movie | Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander | 1998-10-23 |
| Movie | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | 1998-01-23 |
| Movie | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | 1998-01-21 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Movie | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II | 1996-03-23 |
| Movie | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine | 1994-02-04 |
| Movie | The Shadow | Dr. Reinhardt Lane | 1994-07-01 |
| Movie | To Die For | Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice) | 1994-12-02 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Movie | Last Action Hero | Death | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey Miller | 1993-12-08 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran | 1993-08-20 |
| Series | Tales of the City | Archibald Anson Gidde | 1993-09-28 |
| Movie | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus | 1993-09-11 |
| Movie | Othello | Iago | 1990-06-23 |
| Movie | Scandal | John Profumo | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler | 1989-04-07 |
| Series | Windmills of the Gods | Chairman | 1988-02-07 |
| Movie | Walter | Walter | 1986-07-01 |
| Movie | Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Zina | Kronfeld | 1985-11-01 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | Walter and June | Walter | 1983-04-30 |
| Movie | The Keep | Dr. Theodore Cuza | 1983-12-16 |
| Movie | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | 1982-11-09 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 1979-02-02 |
| Series | Armchair Thriller | Anthony Skipling | 1978-02-21 |
| Movie | The Vanishing Army | 1978-11-29 | |
| Movie | Hedda Gabler | George Tesman | 1972-10-20 |
| Movie | The Tragedy of King Richard II | King Richard II | 1970-07-30 |
| Movie | Edward II | King Edward | 1970-08-06 |
| Movie | The Promise | 1969-12-01 | |
| Movie | A Touch of Love | George Matthews | 1969-08-19 |
| Movie | Alfred the Great | Roger | 1969-10-08 |
| Series | David Copperfield | David Copperfield | 1966-01-16 |
