Ian McKellen
Acting
🎂 1939-05-25
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.
Cast credits(204)
Ian McKellen (voice)
1989
Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)
1999
Self - Guest
2007
Self
2007
Self
2003
Himself
1969
Self
2014
Self - Host
1975
Gandalf
2001
Self - Guest
2006
Self - Guest
2009
Gandalf
2003
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Gandalf the Grey
2014
Mel Hutchwright
1960
Self
1990
Gandalf
2002
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Reading Poetry
1967
Self
2014
Gandalf the Grey
2012
Self - Guest
1997
Magneto
2014
Captain Plume
1965
Simon Bliss
1965
Ross / T.E. Lawrence
1965
George Tesman
1965
Gandalf the Grey
2013
Magneto
2026
Cogsworth
2017
Self
1978
Narrator (voice)
2024
Alexander
1974
Self
2003
Self
2004
Self
1998
Sir Leigh Teabing
2006
Self
1953
The Toad (voice)
2006
Ian McKellen
2005
Self
2002
Narrator (voice)
2007
Death
1993
Freddie Thornhill
2013
Iorek Byrnison (voice)
2007
Self
2020
2004
Gus, the Theatre Cat
2019
Sherlock Holmes
2015
Kurt Dussander
1998
Self (archive footage)
2025
Self
1999
Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
2017
Dr. Reinhardt Lane
1994
Self - 'Magneto'
2000
Self
2013
Roy Courtnay
2019
Zebedee (voice)
2004
Creakle
1999
Self - Speaker
2014
Archibald Anson Gidde
1993
John Profumo
1989
Will Gates
1995
Self
2003
Geoffrey
1993
Spooner
2016
The Great Intelligence (voice)
2012
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
2013
Bill Kraus
1993
Dr. Theodore Cuza
1983
1994
Adolf Hitler
1989
Self
2014
2011
Self
2003
Self
2017
Spooner
Jimmy Erskine
2024
Dr. Peter Cleave
2005
Uncle Freddie
1997
2025
1984
Tsar Nicholas II
1996
Hamlet
2024
Self
2001
Self
2024
1988
Self
2001
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Sir Andrew Charleson
1985
Norman
2015
Chauvelin
1982
2003
Earl of Southampton
2018
Self
2004
Self
2005
James Whale
1998
Self
2013
Dr. James Kennedy
1998
Roger
1969
Self
2019
Self
2001
Antony Skipling
1980
Himself
2018
John Earl McAlpine
1994
2 / Curtis
2009
Self
2004
Richard III
1995
2003
Percy Corcoran
1993
Hamlet
1970
Zebedee (voice)
2006
Self
2016
Self
2003
Himself
2009
Self
1996
Narrator (voice)
2000
Himself
2025
Self
2003
1993
Chairman
1988
Narrator
1981
2003
King Richard II
1970
Self
2004
Augustus Caesar (voice)
1994
Macbeth
1979
Self - Performer
2016
King Edward
1970
1969
Dr. Charles Marland-White
2021
Self
Wolf
1965
King Lear
2008
Narrator (voice)
2023
Anthony Skipling
1978
Continuity Announcer
2024
George Tesman
1972
D.H. Lawrence
1981
Self
2011
Self
2013
David Copperfield
1966
Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
2024
Jason Anders (voice)
2005
George
1969
2025
Mr. Kite (voice)
2017
Gabriel Finch
2005
Alexander Ivanov
1979
Self
2022
Self
2017
Emile
2003
King Lear
2018
William
1995
Self
1994
Narrator (voice)
2001
Self
2021
Iago
1990
David Masterman
1972
Magician
2013
The Prologue
2014
2022
Self (archive footage)
2015
Walter
1983
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
1994
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2003
Magneto
2000
Hamish Miller (voice)
2010
Self
2000
Kronfeld
1985
2021
2010
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
2003
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
2006
Amos Starkadder
1995
Self
2007
Narration (voice)
1993
Walter
1982
Self
2022
Narrator
2006
2020
Self
1999
And Even Yet Another Fan
2016
The Jackdaw
2007
Narrator
1997
Narrator (voice)
2010
Himself
2005
Aldo Moro (voice)
1992
Narrator
1987
2004
Self
2012
Himself
2007
2016
2025
Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
2016
Himself
2011
2016
Richard II
1982
2016
1997
2020
