Ian McKellen

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK, 1939-05-25

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne	Wolf	0
2	1969	A Touch of Love	George	64
3	1969	Alfred the Great	Roger	43
4	1979	Macbeth	Macbeth	73
5	1979	Every Good Boy Deserves Favour	Alexander Ivanov	0
6	1981	Priest of Love	D.H. Lawrence	50
7	1982	Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare		0
8	1982	Walter	Walter	53
9	1982	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Chauvelin	67
10	1983	Walter and June	Walter	70
11	1983	The Keep	Dr. Theodore Cuza	56
12	1985	Plenty	Sir Andrew Charleson	57
13	1985	Zina	Kronfeld	54
14	1989	Scandal	John Profumo	59
15	1990	Othello	Iago	70
16	1992	Gladio	Aldo Moro (voice)	70
17	1993	Last Action Hero	Death	65
18	1993	Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up	Narration (voice)	0
19	1993	The Ballad of Little Jo	Percy Corcoran	59
20	1993	And the Band Played On	Bill Kraus	65
21	1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Geoffrey	64
22	1994	I'll Do Anything	John Earl McAlpine	55
23	1994	The Shadow	Dr. Reinhardt Lane	61
24	1994	Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest		0
25	1994	To Die For	Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)	22
26	1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Amos Starkadder	68
27	1995	Jack & Sarah	William	67
28	1995	Richard III	Richard III	67
29	1996	Rasputin	Tsar Nicholas II	65
30	1996	An Evening with Lily Savage	Self	0
31	1997	A Bit Of Scarlet	Narrator	46
32	1997	Surviving Friendly Fire		10
33	1997	Bent	Uncle Freddie	68
34	1998	Swept from the Sea	Dr. James Kennedy	64
35	1998	Gods and Monsters	James Whale	70
36	1998	Apt Pupil	Kurt Dussander	65
37	2000	Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man	Narrator (voice)	71
38	2000	X-Men	Magneto	70
39	2000	Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!	Self	62
40	2004	Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?		0
41	2006	Saint of 9/11	Narrator	57
42	2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Gandalf the Grey	76
43		Richard II	Richard II	0
44	2001	Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love	Narrator (voice)	0
45	2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf	84
46	2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Gandalf	84
47	2003	Émile	Emile	58
48	2003	Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories	Self	85
49	2003	X2	Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto	70
50	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gandalf	85
51	2004	The Magic Roundabout	Zebedee (voice)	54
52	2005	Neverwas	Gabriel Finch	64
53	2005	Asylum	Dr. Peter Cleave	59
54	2006	Doogal	Zebedee (voice)	49
55	2006	The Da Vinci Code	Sir Leigh Teabing	67
56	2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto	64
57	2006	Flushed Away	The Toad (voice)	63
58	2007	For the Love of God	The Jackdaw	40
59	2007	Stardust	Narrator (voice)	73
60	2007	The Golden Compass	Iorek Byrnison (voice)	61
61	2008	King Lear	King Lear	67
62	2009	Theatreland	Himself	0
63	2012	London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony	Self	75
64	2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Gandalf the Grey	74
65	2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Gandalf the Grey	73
66		Schadenfreude	Continuity Announcer	0
67	1969	The Promise		0
68	1970	Edward II	King Edward	48
69	1970	Hamlet	Hamlet	0
70	1972	Hedda Gabler	George Tesman	0
71	1995	Restoration	Will Gates	60
72	2001	Quest for the Ring	Self	56
73	2001	A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'	Self	78
74	2003	Evolution X - The Making of X-Men		45
75	2003	X-Men: Premieres Around the World	Self	59
76	2003	The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2		80
77	2003	Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King	Self	81
78	2004	A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'	Self	60
79	2005	The Hobart Shakespeareans	Himself	40
80	2007	The Art of Breaking Character	Self	0
81	2010	A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation	Narrator (voice)	70
82	2010	Lady Grey London		70
83	2011	The Betty Driver Story	Self	100
84	2011	Looking for Lowry	Himself	0
85	2012	Doctor Who: The Snowmen	The Great Intelligence (voice)	77
86	2014	Nelson Mandela Redrawn	Self	0
87	2015	The Dresser	Norman	62
88	2017	Animal Crackers	Horatio P. Huntington (voice)	62
89		Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary	Self	0
90	1970	The Tragedy of King Richard II	King Richard II	0
91	1974	Graceless Go I	Tony	0
92	1980	Dying Day	Antony Skipling	0
93	1987	Süleyman the Magnificent	Narrator	0
94	1988	Scarfe's Follies		0
95	1989	Countdown to War	Adolf Hitler	50
96	1993	Camp Christmas		35
97	1994	David Macaulay: Roman City	Augustus Caesar (voice)	90
98	1999	After Stonewall	Self	55
99	1999	The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale	Self	60
100	2000	X-Men: The Mutant Watch	Self - 'Magneto'	70
101	2001	Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring	Self	65
102	2003	The Making of The Two Towers		88
103	2003	The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision	Self	62
104	2004	The Making of the Return of the King	Self	88
105	2004	Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!	Self	67
106	2005	Eighteen	Jason Anders (voice)	45
107	2005	Ringers: Lord of the Fans	Self	63
108	2010	Small-Time Revolutionary	Hamish Miller (voice)	40
109	2013	The Egg Trick	Magician	60
110	2013	The Wolverine	Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)	64
111	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
112	2013	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	Self	79
113	2013	The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin	Self	68
114	2014	Miss in Her Teens	The Prologue	30
115	2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Magneto	75
116	2015	Mr. Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	65
117	2015	Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
118	2016	The Roof	And Even Yet Another Fan	63
119	2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Self - Performer	75
120	2016	All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film	Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)	0
121	2016	Play the Devil: Making Richard III		0
122	2016	Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen		60
123	2016	Shakespeare on Film		60
124	2016	National Theatre Live: No Man's Land	Spooner	75
125	2016	Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage	Self	78
126	2017	Edmund the Magnificent	Self - Narrator (voice)	73
127	2017	The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin	Self	66
128	2017	Beauty and the Beast	Cogsworth	70
129	2017	How a Kite Flies	Mr. Kite (voice)	0
130	2017	The Paul O'Grady Story	Self	83
131	2018	McKellen: Playing the Part	Himself	72
132	2018	National Theatre Live: King Lear	King Lear	82
133	2018	All Is True	Earl of Southampton	60
134	2019	On Broadway	Self	87
135	2019	The Good Liar	Roy Courtnay	67
136	2019	Cats	Gus, the Theatre Cat	41
137	2020	Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet		100
138	2020	Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU		60
139	2021	Infinitum: Subject Unknown	Dr. Charles Marland-White	54
140	2021	Hating Peter Tatchell	Self	42
141	2022	Hamlet Within		0
142		The Christophers		0
143	2022	Freedom: 50 Years of Pride	Self	80
144	2022	Quintessentially British	Self	38
145	2023	The One Note Man	Narrator (voice)	70
146	2024	Hamlet	Hamlet	76
147	2024	The Life and Death of Lily Savage	Self	70
148	2024	The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved		0
149	2024	Dragfox	Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)	0
150	2024	The Critic	Jimmy Erskine	58
151	2025	Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness		0
152	2025	Dragged Through Time		0
153	2025	A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'	Self (archive footage)	0
154	2026	Avengers: Doomsday	Magneto	0
155		No Man's Land	Spooner	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
4	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
5	1960	Coronation Street	Mel Hutchwright	54
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Captain Plume	50
7	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Simon Bliss	50
8	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Ross / T.E. Lawrence	50
9	1965	BBC Play of the Month	George Tesman	50
10	1966	David Copperfield	David Copperfield	50
11	1967	Omnibus	Self - Reading Poetry	72
12	1969	Sesame Street	Himself	71
13	1972	Country Matters	David Masterman	40
14	1974	Playhouse	Alexander	70
15	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
16	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
17	1978	Armchair Thriller	Anthony Skipling	42
18	1981	Pillar of Fire	Narrator	95
19	1984	Playing Shakespeare		100
20	1988	Windmills of the Gods	Chairman	58
21	1989	The Simpsons	Ian McKellen (voice)	80
22	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71
23	1993	Tales of the City	Archibald Anson Gidde	80
24	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
25	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
26	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
27	1999	Family Guy	Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)	74
28	1999	David Copperfield	Creakle	71
29	2002	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway	Self	60
30	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!		55
31	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
32	2003	Churchill	Himself - Narrator (voice)	70
33	2004	The Paul O'Grady Show		46
34	2004	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	67
35	2005	Extras	Ian McKellen	78
36	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
37	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest	72
38	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
39	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
40	2009	The Prisoner	2 / Curtis	57
41	2011	Perspectives		0
42	2013	Vicious	Freddie Thornhill	75
43	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
44	2014	Trailblazer Honors	Self - Speaker	75
45	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
46	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
47	2021	Great British Theatre		0
48	2024	ted	Narrator (voice)	79
49	2025	Billy & Dom Eat the World	Himself	80

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