Ian McKellen
Acting
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has played 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 Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen made his stage debut in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of its repertory company, and in 1965 made his first West End appearance. In 1969, he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II. In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He has earned five Olivier Awards for his roles in Pillars of the Community (1977), The Alchemist (1978), Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1995). McKellen made his Broadway debut in The Promise (1965). He received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1980). He was further nominated for Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1984). He returned to Broadway in Wild Honey(1986), Dance of Death (1990), No Man's Land (2013), and Waiting for Godot (2013), the latter two being a joint production with Patrick Stewart. McKellen achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III(1995), James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), Magneto in the X-Men films, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies. Other notable film roles include A Touch of Love (1969), Plenty (1985), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Restoration (1995), Flushed Away (2006), Mr. Holmes (2015), and The Good Liar (2019). McKellen came out as gay in 1988, and has since championed LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in October 2014. McKellen is a cofounder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. He is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GayGlos, LGBT Foundation and FFLAG. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McKellen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Avengers: Doomsday
2026
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
Beauty and the Beast
2017
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Gandalf
Avengers: Doomsday
Magneto
Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley
The Christophers
Julian Sklar
LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes
L S Lowry
Schadenfreude
Continuity Announcer
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Self (archive footage)
Dragged Through Time
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
The Critic
Jimmy Erskine
Dragfox
Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
The Life and Death of Lily Savage
Self
Hamlet
Hamlet
The One Note Man
Narrator (voice)
Quintessentially British
Self
Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
Self
Hamlet Within
Hating Peter Tatchell
Self
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
Dr. Charles Marland-White
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
Cats
Gus, the Theatre Cat
The Good Liar
Roy Courtnay
On Broadway
Self
All Is True
Earl of Southampton
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Animal Crackers
Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
McKellen: Playing the Part
Self
The Paul O'Grady Story
Self
How a Kite Flies
Mr. Kite (voice)
Beauty and the Beast
Cogsworth
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
Edmund the Magnificent
Self - Narrator (voice)
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Spooner
Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
Shakespeare on Film
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
The Roof
And Even Yet Another Fan
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
The Dresser
Norman
Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Self
Mr. Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Gandalf the Grey
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Self
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Magneto
Miss in Her Teens
The Prologue
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gandalf the Grey
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
Self
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Muse of Fire
Self
The Wolverine
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
The Egg Trick
Magician
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
The Great Intelligence (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Gandalf the Grey
London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony
Self
Looking for Lowry
Self
The Betty Driver Story
Self
Small-Time Revolutionary
Hamish Miller (voice)
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Narrator (voice)
Theatreland
Self
King Lear
King Lear
The Golden Compass
Iorek Byrnison (voice)
Stardust
Narrator (voice)
The Art of Breaking Character
Self
For the Love of God
The Jackdaw
Guerrilla Distribution
Self
Flushed Away
The Toad (voice)
X-Men: The Last Stand
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
The Da Vinci Code
Sir Leigh Teabing
Saint of 9/11
Narrator
Doogal
Zebedee (voice)
Asylum
Dr. Peter Cleave
Neverwas
Gabriel Finch
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Self
The Magic Roundabout
Zebedee (voice)
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Self
Eighteen
Jason Anders (voice)
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
My First Time
Narrator
Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!
Self
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gandalf
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Self
X2
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Self
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Emile
Emile
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gandalf
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Gandalf
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Self
Quest for the Ring
Self
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
Narrator (voice)
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
Self
X-Men
Magneto
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Self - 'Magneto'
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
Narrator (voice)
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Self
After Stonewall
Self
Apt Pupil
Kurt Dussander
Gods and Monsters
James Whale
Swept from the Sea
Dr. James Kennedy
Bent
Uncle Freddie
Surviving Friendly Fire
A Bit Of Scarlet
Narrator
An Evening with Lily Savage
Self
Rasputin
Tsar Nicholas II
Restoration
Will Gates
Richard III
Richard III
Jack & Sarah
William
Cold Comfort Farm
Amos Starkadder
To Die For
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
Age of Dissent
Self
The Shadow
Dr. Reinhardt Lane
David Macaulay: Roman City
Augustus Caesar (voice)
I'll Do Anything
John Earl McAlpine
Camp Christmas
Six Degrees of Separation
Geoffrey
And the Band Played On
Bill Kraus
The Ballad of Little Jo
Percy Corcoran
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Narration (voice)
Last Action Hero
Death
Gladio
Aldo Moro (voice)
Othello
Iago
Countdown to War
Adolf Hitler
Scandal
John Profumo
Scarfe's Follies
Süleyman the Magnificent
Narrator
Zina
Kronfeld
Plenty
Sir Andrew Charleson
The Keep
Dr. Theodore Cuza
Walter and June
Walter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
Walter
Walter
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Priest of Love
D.H. Lawrence
Dying Day
Antony Skipling
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Alexander Ivanov
Macbeth
Macbeth
Graceless Go I
Tony
Hedda Gabler
George Tesman
Craven Arms
David Masterman
Hamlet
Hamlet
Edward II
King Edward
The Tragedy of King Richard II
King Richard II
The Promise
Alfred the Great
Roger
A Touch of Love
George
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Wolf