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:
- 106
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Schadenfreude
- Latest Project:
- Movie Hamlet Revenant 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2025 | |
| Movie | Schadenfreude | Continuity Announcer | 2025 |
| 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 | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay | 2019-11-08 |
| Movie | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat | 2019-12-19 |
| Movie | All Is True | Earl of Southampton | 2018-12-21 |
| Movie | McKellen: Playing the Part | Himself | 2018-05-25 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth | 2017-03-16 |
| Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017-03-11 |
| Movie | The Paul O'Grady Story | Himself | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | Play the Devil: Making Richard III | 2016-05-31 | |
| 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 | Shakespeare on Film | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf the Grey | 2014-12-10 |
| Movie | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue | 2014-04-15 |
| 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) | 2013-07-21 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Himself | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf the Grey | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | The Betty Driver Story | Himself (as Sir Ian McKellan) | 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) | 2007-08-09 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema | Himself | 2006-02-12 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) | 2005-01-01 |
| Movie | Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self | 2005-01-21 |
| 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 | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Self | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? | 2004-03-27 | |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf the White | 2003-12-01 |
| Movie | Émile | Emile | 2003-01-01 |
| 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 the White | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Self | 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' | Self | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf the Grey | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto' | 2000-07-02 |
| Movie | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | X-Men | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Movie | Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | 1998-01-21 |
| Movie | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | 1998-01-23 |
| Movie | Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander | 1998-10-23 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Movie | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II | 1996-03-23 |
| Movie | An Evening with Lily Savage | Self | 1996-11-11 |
| Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine | 1994-02-04 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| 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 |