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Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

Total Box Office:
 $2350.7M
Highest Rated:
100% And the Band Played On (1993)
Lowest Rated:
8% Doogal (2004)
Birthday:
May 25
Birthplace:
Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Bio:
Widely considered one of the leading British actors of his generation, Ian McKellen has had a rich and varied career encompassing the stage, screen, and television. A renowned stage actor in his native Britain for decades, McKellen was not familiar to most American audiences until the '90s, when he…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
  • Gandalf
-- 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Erik Lensherr/Magneto
-- 2014
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
  • Gandalf
-- 2013
65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Gandalf
$303.0M 2012
Acting Shakespeare
  • Actor
-- 2010
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
  • Actor
-- 2010
Prisoner
  • Two
-- 2009
Country Matters
  • Actor
-- 2008
King Lear
  • Actor
-- 2008
42% The Golden Compass
  • Iorek Byrnison
$70.1M 2007
76% Stardust
  • Narrator
$38.2M 2007
84% Saint of 9/11
  • Narrator
-- 2006
Eighteen
  • Actor
-- 2006
Displaced
  • Actor
-- 2006
25% The Da Vinci Code
  • Sir Leigh Teabing
$217.5M 2006
57% X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto
$234.2M 2006
The Secret Policeman's Ball
  • Actor
-- 2006
Displaced
  • Voice Artist
-- 2006
72% Flushed Away
  • The Toad
$64.5M 2006
Luciano Pavarotti: The Last Tenor
  • Narrator
-- 2005
Asylum
  • Dr. Peter Cleave
-- 2005
Ringers - Lord of the Fans
  • Actor
-- 2005
60% The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)
  • Actor
-- 2005
14% Neverwas
  • Gabriel
-- 2005
36% Asylum
  • Actor
$0.3M 2005
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
  • Actor
-- 2004
The Hobart Shakespeareans
  • Actor
-- 2004
8% Doogal
  • Zebedee (UK)
$7.3M 2004
Eighteen
  • Actor
-- 2004
94% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Gandalf
$377.0M 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended)
  • Actor
-- 2003
57% Emile
  • Emile
-- 2003
87% X2: X-Men United
  • Magneto
$214.8M 2003
Special Extended Edition The Lord Of The Rings: The Trilogy
  • Actor
-- 2003
Charles Dickens
  • Actor
-- 2003
Special Extended Edition The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  • Actor
-- 2003
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings & Two Towers (Double Bill)
  • Actor
-- 2003
96% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Gandalf
$340.5M 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended)
  • Actor
-- 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended)
  • Actor
-- 2001
92% The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Gandalf
$313.8M 2001
82% X-Men
  • Magneto
$156.2M 2000
David Copperfield
  • Mr. Creakle
-- 2000
45% Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
  • Narrator
$13.4M 2000
53% Apt Pupil
  • Kurt Dussander
-- 1998
96% Gods and Monsters
  • James Whale
-- 1998
28% Swept From The Sea
  • Dr. James Kennedy
-- 1998
67% Bent
  • Uncle Freddie
-- 1997
69% Restoration
  • Will Gates
-- 1996
Rasputin
  • Nicholas II
-- 1996
84% Cold Comfort Farm
  • Amos Starkadder
-- 1996
75% Jack and Sarah
  • William The Tramp
-- 1995
95% Richard III
  • Richard III
  • Screenwriter
-- 1995
61% I'll Do Anything
  • John Earl McAlpine
-- 1994
36% The Shadow
  • Dr. Reinhardt Lane
-- 1994
Thin Ice
  • Himself
-- 1994
Stonewall 25 - Global Voices of Pride & Protest
  • Actor
-- 1994
100% And the Band Played On
  • Bill Kraus
-- 1993
86% The Ballad of Little Jo
  • Percy Corcoran
-- 1993
88% Six Degrees of Separation
  • Geoffrey
-- 1993
39% Last Action Hero
  • Death
-- 1993
Countdown to War
  • Adolf Hitler
-- 1989
91% Scandal
  • John Profumo
-- 1989
Windmills of the Gods
  • Chairman
-- 1988
Suleyman the Magnificent
  • Narrator
-- 1987
Loving Walter
  • Walter
-- 1986
Saturday Night Live - The Best of Jon Lovitz
  • Actor
-- 1985
71% Plenty
  • Sir Andrew Charleson
-- 1985
33% The Keep
  • Dr. Cuza
-- 1983
Loving Walter
  • Walter
-- 1982
The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Chauvelin
-- 1982
Priest Of Love
  • D.H. Lawrence
-- 1981
A Performance of Macbeth
  • Macbeth
-- 1978
Country Matters
  • Actor
-- 1972
Edward II
  • Actor
-- 1970
Alfred the Great
  • Roger
-- 1969
A Touch of Love (Thank You All Very Much)
  • George
-- 1969

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
18% The Prisoner
  • Two
2009-2009

Ian McKellen Trivia

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Ian McKellen wore a prosthetic nose for all scenes he filmed as "Gandalf" in the Lord of the Rings movies.
- submitted by Andy H (3 years ago)

Quotes from Ian McKellen's Characters

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    1. Erik Lensherr/Magneto: It's going to take the two of us.
    2. Logan/Wolverine: And where do I find you?
    3. Erik Lensherr/Magneto: On a different path, a darker path.
    From X-Men: Days of Future Past. Submitted by Nathan M (45 days ago)

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Ian McKellen News

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Ian McKellen IS Sherlock Holmes Opens in new window
September 5

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart Returning for X-Men: Days of Future Past Opens in new window
November 28, 2012

Ian McKellen and Judi Dench Fall Under The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet Opens in new window
May 19, 2011

Ian McKellen Joins The Hobbit Opens in new window
January 11, 2011

Tom Tykwer Wants an All-Star Cloud Atlas Opens in new window
June 17, 2010

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