Ian McKellen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. McKellen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts, and was made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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- Born:
- May 25, 1939 In Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 108
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Schadenfreude
- Latest Project:
- Movie Hamlet 2024-02-27
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Schadenfreude | Continuity Announcer | 2026 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2024-02-27 |
| Movie | Quintessentially British | Self | 2022-10-27 |
| Movie | Hating Peter Tatchell | Self | 2021-11-01 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat | 2019-12-19 |
| Movie | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay | 2019-11-08 |
| Movie | McKellen: Playing the Part | Himself | 2018-05-25 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | All Is True | Earl of Southampton | 2018-12-21 |
| Movie | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017-03-11 |
| Movie | The Paul O'Grady Story | Self | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth | 2017-03-16 |
| Movie | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self | 2016-12-30 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner | 2016-12-15 |
| Movie | Play the Devil: Making Richard III | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | Shakespeare on Film | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue | 2014-04-15 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf the Grey | 2014-12-10 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Vicious | Freddie Thornhill | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited) | 2013-07-21 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf the Grey | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
| Movie | The Betty Driver Story | Self | 2011-02-01 |
| Movie | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) | 2010-07-22 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Series | The Prisoner | 2 / Curtis | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | Theatreland | Himself | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 2008-08-06 |
| Movie | For the Love of God | The Jackdaw | 2007-02-28 |
| Movie | Stardust | Narrator (voice) | 2007-08-10 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema | Himself | 2006-02-12 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self | 2005-01-21 |
| Movie | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) | 2005-01-01 |
| Movie | Neverwas | Gabriel Finch | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) | 2005-02-02 |
| Movie | Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? | 2004-03-27 | |
| Movie | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Self | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Émile | Emile | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Evolution X - The Making of X-Men | 2003-02-11 | |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | X-Men: Premieres Around the World | Self | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Self | 2001-11-29 |
| Movie | A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' | Self | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring | Self | 2001-12-23 |
| Movie | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | X-Men | Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Movie | Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto' | 2000-07-02 |
| Series | David Copperfield | Creakle | 1999-12-25 |
| 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 | 1998-09-12 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Movie | An Evening with Lily Savage | Self | 1996-11-11 |
| Movie | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II | 1996-03-23 |
| Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| 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 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran | 1993-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Action Hero | Death | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus | 1993-09-11 |
| Movie | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey | 1993-12-08 |
| Series | Tales of the City | Archibald Anson Gidde | 1993-09-28 |
| Movie | Othello | Iago | 1990-06-23 |
| Movie | Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler | 1989-04-07 |
| Movie | Scandal | John Profumo | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Zina | Kronfeld | 1985-11-01 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | The Keep | Dr. Theodore Cuza | 1983-12-16 |
| Movie | Walter and June | Walter | 1983-04-30 |
| Movie | Walter | Walter | 1982-11-02 |
| Movie | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | 1982-11-09 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 1979-02-02 |
| Movie | The Vanishing Army | 1978-11-29 | |
| Series | Playhouse | 1974-03-13 | |
| Movie | Edward II | King Edward | 1970-08-06 |
| Movie | The Promise | 1969-12-01 | |
| Movie | A Touch of Love | George | 1969-09-01 |
| Movie | Alfred the Great | Roger | 1969-10-08 |
| Series | David Copperfield | David Copperfield | 1966-01-16 |