Actor
Ian McKellen
Biography

Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Aca ...

Known For
Poster Path

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Movie

The Critic

Movie

Dragfox

Movie

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Movie

The Life and Death of Lily Savage

Acting
2025 -- The Hobbit: There and Back Again | Gandalf the Grey
2024 -- The Critic | Jimmy Erskine
2024 -- Dragfox | Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking)
2024 -- The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved |
2024 -- The Life and Death of Lily Savage | Self
2024 -- Hamlet | Hamlet
2023 -- The One Note Man | Narrator (voice)
2022 -- Quintessentially British | Self
2022 -- Hamlet Within |
2021 -- Hating Peter Tatchell | Self
2021 -- Infinitum: Subject Unknown | Dr. Charles Marland-White
2020 -- Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU |
2020 -- Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet |
2019 -- Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat
2019 -- The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay
2019 -- On Broadway | Self
2018 -- All Is True | Earl of Southampton
2018 -- National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear
2018 -- McKellen: Playing the Part | Himself
2017 -- The Paul O'Grady Story | Self
2017 -- Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
2017 -- How a Kite Flies | Mr. Kite (voice)
2017 -- Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth
2017 -- The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self
2017 -- Edmund the Magnificent | Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 -- Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self
2016 -- National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner
2016 -- Shakespeare on Film |
2016 -- Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen |
2016 -- Play the Devil: Making Richard III |
2016 -- All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film | Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
2016 -- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer
2016 -- The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan
2015 -- Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage)
2015 -- The Dresser | Norman
2015 -- Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes
2014 -- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf the Grey
2014 -- Nelson Mandela Redrawn | Self
2014 -- X-Men: Days of Future Past | Magneto
2014 -- Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue
2013 -- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey
2013 -- The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self
2013 -- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self
2013 -- Muse of Fire | Self
2013 -- The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
2013 -- The Egg Trick | Magician
2012 -- Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice)
2012 -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf the Grey
2012 -- London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony | Self
2011 -- Looking for Lowry | Himself
2011 -- The Betty Driver Story | Self
2010 -- Lady Grey London |
2010 -- Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice)
2010 -- A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation | Narrator (voice)
2010 -- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- Theatreland | Himself
2008 -- King Lear | King Lear
2007 -- The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice)
2007 -- Stardust | Narrator (voice)
2007 -- The Art of Breaking Character | Self
2007 -- For the Love of God | The Jackdaw
2006 -- Flushed Away | The Toad (voice)
2006 -- X-Men: The Last Stand | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
2006 -- The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing
2006 -- Saint of 9/11 | Narrator
2006 -- Doogal | Zebedee (voice)
2005 -- Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave
2005 -- Neverwas | Gabriel Finch
2005 -- The Hobart Shakespeareans | Himself
2005 -- The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice)
2005 -- Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self
2005 -- Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice)
2004 -- A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self
2004 -- Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Self
2004 -- Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? |
2003 -- The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision | Self
2003 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf
2003 -- Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King | Self
2003 -- The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 |
2003 -- X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
2003 -- X-Men: Premieres Around the World | Self
2003 -- Evolution X - The Making of X-Men |
2003 -- Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories | Self
2003 -- Émile | Emile
2002 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf
2002 -- Lord of the Piercing | Gandalf the Grey (archive footage)
2001 -- Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring | Self
2001 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf
2001 -- A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' | Self
2001 -- Quest for the Ring | Self
2001 -- Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | Narrator (voice)
2000 -- Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self
2000 -- X-Men | Magneto
2000 -- X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto'
2000 -- Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice)
1999 -- The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale | Self
1998 -- Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander
1998 -- Gods and Monsters | James Whale
1998 -- Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy
1997 -- Bent | Uncle Freddie
1997 -- Surviving Friendly Fire |
1997 -- A Bit Of Scarlet | Narrator
1996 -- An Evening with Lily Savage | Self
1996 -- Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II
1995 -- Restoration | Will Gates
1995 -- Richard III | Richard III
1995 -- Jack & Sarah | William
1995 -- Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder
1994 -- To Die For | Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
1994 -- Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest |
1994 -- The Shadow | Dr. Reinhardt Lane
1994 -- David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice)
1994 -- I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine
1993 -- Camp Christmas |
1993 -- Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey
1993 -- And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus
1993 -- The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran
1993 -- Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up | Narration (voice)
1993 -- Last Action Hero | Death
1992 -- Gladio | Aldo Moro (voice)
1990 -- Othello | Iago
1989 -- Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler
1989 -- Scandal | John Profumo
1988 -- Scarfe's Follies |
1985 -- Zina | Kronfeld
1985 -- Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson
1983 -- The Keep | Dr. Theodore Cuza
1983 -- Walter and June | Walter
1982 -- The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin
1982 -- Walter | Walter
1982 -- Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare |
1981 -- Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence
1979 -- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Alexander Ivanov
1979 -- Macbeth | Macbeth
1972 -- Hedda Gabler | George Tesman
1970 -- Hamlet | Hamlet
1970 -- Edward II | King Edward
1970 -- The Tragedy of King Richard II | King Richard II
1969 -- The Promise |
1969 -- Alfred the Great | Roger
1969 -- A Touch of Love | George
1965 -- The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne | Wolf
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