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Ian McKellen

Highest Rated:: 100% And the Band Played On (1993)
Lowest Rated:: 8% Doogal (2004)

Birthday:: May 25, 1939
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

And the Band Played On
100%
Gods and Monsters
96%
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
96%
Richard III
95%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 8% - 100%

Number of Movies: 71

Box Office Since 2001: $2047.7M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013		The Hobbit: There and Back Again	Gandalf	--
2012		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Gandalf	--
2010		Acting Shakespeare	Actor	--
2010		A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation	Actor	--
2009		Prisoner	Two	--
2008		King Lear	Actor	--
2008		Country Matters	Actor	--
2007	42%	The Golden Compass	Iorek Byrnison	$70.1M
2007	76%	Stardust	Narrator	$38.2M
2006	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
2005		Luciano Pavarotti: The Last Tenor	Narrator	--
2005		Asylum	Dr. Peter Cleave	--
2005	60%	The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)	Actor	--
2005	17%	Neverwas	Gabriel	--
2005	36%	Asylum	Actor	$0.3M
2004		The Hobart Shakespeareans	Actor	--
2004		Ringers: Lord of the Fans	Actor	--
2004	8%	Doogal	Zebedee (UK)	$7.3M
2004		Eighteen	Actor	--
2004		Macbeth	Actor	--
2003	94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gandalf	$377.0M
2003	57%	Emile	Emile	--
2003		Special Extended Edition The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King	Actor	--
2003	88%	X2: X-Men United	Magneto	$214.8M
2003		Charles Dickens	Actor	--
2003		Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship & Towers Special Extended Edition	Actor	--
2002	96%	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Gandalf	$340.5M
2001	92%	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf	$313.8M
2000	82%	X-Men	Magneto	$156.2M
2000		David Copperfield	Mr. Creakle	--
2000	45%	Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man	Narrator	$13.4M
1998	96%	Gods and Monsters	James Whale	--
1998	28%	Swept From The Sea	Dr. James Kennedy	--
1998	53%	Apt Pupil	Kurt Dussander	--
1997	67%	Bent	Uncle Freddie	--
1996	69%	Restoration	Will Gates	--
1996		Rasputin	Nicholas II	--
1996	84%	Cold Comfort Farm	Amos Starkadder	--
1995	75%	Jack and Sarah	William The Tramp	--
1995	95%	Richard III	Screenwriter Richard III	--
1994	61%	I'll Do Anything	John Earl McAlpine	--
1994	34%	The Shadow	Dr. Reinhardt Lane	--
1994		Thin Ice	Himself	--
1994		Stonewall 25 - Global Voices of Pride & Protest	Actor	--
1993	38%	Last Action Hero	Death	--
1993	100%	And the Band Played On	Bill Kraus	--
1993	86%	The Ballad of Little Jo	Percy Corcoran	--
1993	88%	Six Degrees of Separation	Geoffrey	--
1989		Countdown to War	Adolf Hitler	--
1989	92%	Scandal	John Profumo	--
1988		Windmills of the Gods	Chairman	--
1987		Suleyman the Magnificent	Narrator	--
1986		Loving Walter	Walter	--
1985	71%	Plenty	Sir Andrew Charleson	--
1985		Saturday Night Live - The Best of Jon Lovitz	Actor	--
1983	20%	The Keep	Dr. Cuza	--
1982		Loving Walter	Walter	--
1982		The Scarlet Pimpernel	Chauvelin	--
1981		Priest Of Love	D.H. Lawrence	--
1978		A Performance of Macbeth	Macbeth	--
1972		Country Matters	Actor	--
1970		Edward II	Actor	--
1969		Alfred the Great	Roger	--
1969		A Touch of Love (Thank You All Very Much)	George	--

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 (2 years ago)

Quotes from Ian McKellen's Characters

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1. Gandalf: May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
From The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Submitted by April M (4 days ago)

1. Frodo Baggins: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
2. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
From The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Submitted by Panos M (18 days ago)