Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born May 25, 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:
- 186
- First Appeared:
- In the series Billy And Dom Eat The World
- Latest Project:
- Movie A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Richard II | Richard II | 2025 |
| Movie | Marley | Scrooge (rumored) | 2025 |
| Series | Billy And Dom Eat The World | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Hamlet Revenant | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | Schadenfreude | Continuity Announcer | 2025 |
| Series | Amol Rajan Interviews | Self - Interviewed Guest | 2025 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2024-02-27 |
| Series | ted | Narrator (voice) | 2024-01-11 |
| Movie | The Life and Death of Lily Savage | Self | 2024-03-29 |
| Movie | The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved | Unknown | 2024-06-09 |
| Movie | Dragfox | Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) | 2024-08-29 |
| Movie | The Critic | Jimmy Erskine | 2024-09-13 |
| Movie | The One Note Man | Narrator (voice) | 2023-08-08 |
| Movie | Amol Rajan Interviews Ian McKellen | Self | 2022-03-03 |
| Movie | Hamlet Within | Unknown | 2022-05-21 |
| Movie | Quintessentially British | Self | 2022-10-27 |
| Movie | Infinitum: Subject Unknown | Dr. Charles Marland-White | 2021-03-03 |
| Series | Great British Theatre | Unknown | 2021-06-12 |
| Movie | Hating Peter Tatchell | Self | 2021-11-01 |
| Movie | Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet | Unknown | 2020-04-05 |
| Series | Reunited Apart | Self | 2020-04-27 |
| Movie | Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | Unknown | 2020-06-11 |
| 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 | McKellen: Playing the Part | Himself | 2018-05-25 |
| 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 | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-01 |
| 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 | How a Kite Flies | Mr. Kite (voice) | 2017-04-28 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film | Prospero's Speech Reader (voice) | 2016-04-24 |
| Movie | Shakespeare on Film | Unknown | 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 Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen | Unknown | 2016-05-31 |
| Movie | Play the Devil: Making Richard III | Unknown | 2016-05-31 |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
| 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 | Nelson Mandela Redrawn | Self | 2014-07-18 |
| Series | Trailblazer Honors | Self - Speaker | 2014-06-27 |
| Movie | The Egg Trick | Magician | 2013-06-21 |
| 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 Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony | Self | 2012-08-29 |
| 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 | Looking for Lowry | Himself | 2011-04-24 |
| Series | Perspectives | Unknown | 2011-04-24 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) | 2010-07-22 |
| Movie | A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation | Narrator (voice) | 2010-06-25 |
| Movie | Lady Grey London | Unknown | 2010-12-08 |
| Movie | Theatreland | Himself | 2009-01-01 |
| Series | The Prisoner | 2 / Curtis | 2009-11-15 |
| Series | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | 2009-07-16 |
| Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 2008-08-06 |
| Movie | For the Love of God | The Jackdaw | 2007-02-28 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | The Art of Breaking Character | Self | 2007-03-26 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Stardust | Narrator (voice) | 2007-08-09 |
| Movie | Saint of 9/11 | Narrator | 2006-04-27 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) | 2005-02-02 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Voice of the Snowman | 2005-03-26 |
| 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 |
| Series | Extras | Ian McKellen | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | The Hobart Shakespeareans | Himself | 2005-09-06 |
| Movie | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Self | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? | 2004-03-27 | |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2004-10-12 |
| Series | The Paul O'Grady Show | Unknown | 2004-10-11 |
| Movie | Evolution X - The Making of X-Men | Unknown | 2003-02-11 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories | Self | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X-Men: Premieres Around the World | Self | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | Émile | Emile | 2003-01-01 |
| Series | Churchill | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-08 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision | Self | 2003-12-26 |
| Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003-02-21 |
| Movie | Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King | Self | 2003-12-12 |
| Movie | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | 2003-11-25 | |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self | 2002-06-08 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | Narrator (voice) | 2001-09-13 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Self | 2001-11-29 |
| 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 | A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' | Self | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | X-Men | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto' | 2000-07-02 |
| Movie | Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Series | Family Guy | Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice) | 1999-01-31 |
| 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 | 1998-09-12 |
| Movie | A Bit Of Scarlet | Narrator | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Movie | Surviving Friendly Fire | Unknown | 1997-06-21 |
| Series | The View | Self - Guest | 1997-08-11 |
| 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 | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| 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 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | Unknown | 1994-09-23 |
| Movie | The Shadow | Dr. Reinhardt Lane | 1994-07-01 |
| Movie | To Die For | Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice) | 1994-12-02 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | Last Action Hero | Death | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up | Narration (voice) | 1993-06-23 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran | 1993-08-20 |
| Movie | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey | 1993-12-08 |
| Movie | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus | 1993-09-11 |
| Series | Tales of the City | Archibald Anson Gidde | 1993-09-28 |
| Movie | Gladio | Aldo Moro (voice) | 1992-07-10 |
| Movie | Othello | Iago | 1990-06-23 |
| Movie | Scandal | John Profumo | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler | 1989-04-07 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Ian McKellen (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Windmills of the Gods | Chairman | 1988-02-07 |
| 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 | Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare | Unknown | 1982-04-25 |
| Movie | Walter | Walter | 1982-11-02 |
| Movie | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | 1982-11-09 |
| Series | Pillar of Fire | Narrator | 1981-11-10 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Alexander Ivanov | 1979-11-14 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 1979-02-02 |
| Series | An Audience with... | Self | 1978-01-08 |
| Movie | The Vanishing Army | Unknown | 1978-11-29 |
| Series | Armchair Thriller | Anthony Skipling | 1978-02-21 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | Playhouse | Unknown | 1974-03-13 |
| Series | Country Matters | David Masterman | 1972-08-20 |
| 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 | Hamlet | Hamlet | 1970-11-07 |
| Movie | The Promise | Unknown | 1969-12-01 |
| Movie | A Touch of Love | George | 1969-09-01 |
| Movie | Alfred the Great | Roger | 1969-10-08 |
| Series | Sesame Street | Himself | 1969-11-10 |
| Series | David Copperfield | David Copperfield | 1966-01-16 |
| Series | BBC Play of the Month | Captain Plume | 1965-10-19 |
| Movie | The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne | Wolf | 1965-11-10 |
| Series | Coronation Street | Mel Hutchwright | 1960-12-09 |
| Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |