Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

acting May 25, 1939 86 years Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

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2 nominations

162 of 162 films rated

IMDb avg 7.0
IMDb median 7.0
RT avg 69%
RT median 73%

highest rated

acting

  1. Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary → Self
  2. Frank and Percy → Percy
  3. No Man's Land → Spooner
  4. Richard II → Richard II
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum → Gandalf
  6. Avengers: Doomsday → Magneto
  7. The Christophers → Julian Sklar
  8. Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol → Jacob Marley
  9. LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes → L S Lowry
  10. Billy & Dom Eat the World (TV) → Self
  11. Schadenfreude → Continuity Announcer
  12. A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' → Self (archive footage)
  13. Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
  14. Dragged Through Time
  15. ted (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  16. The Critic → Jimmy Erskine
  17. Hamlet → Hamlet
  18. The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
  19. The Life and Death of Lily Savage → Self
  20. Dragfox → Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
  21. The One Note Man → Narrator (voice)
  22. Quintessentially British → Self
  23. Hamlet Within
  24. Freedom: 50 Years of Pride → Self
  25. Amol Rajan Interviews (TV) → Self - Interviewed Guest
  26. Infinitum: Subject Unknown → Dr. Charles Marland-White
  27. Hating Peter Tatchell → Self
  28. Great British Theatre (TV)
  29. Reunited Apart (TV) → Self
  30. Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
  31. Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
  32. Cats → Gus, the Theatre Cat
  33. The Good Liar → Roy Courtnay
  34. On Broadway → Self
  35. Animal Crackers → Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
  36. All Is True → Earl of Southampton
  37. National Theatre Live: King Lear → King Lear
  38. McKellen: Playing the Part → Self
  39. Beauty and the Beast → Cogsworth
  40. The Paul O'Grady Story → Self
  41. The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin → Self
  42. Edmund the Magnificent → Self - Narrator (voice)
  43. How a Kite Flies → Mr. Kite (voice)
  44. Shakespeare Live! From the RSC → Self - Performer
  45. The Roof → And Even Yet Another Fan
  46. Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage → Self
  47. National Theatre Live: No Man's Land → Spooner
  48. Play the Devil: Making Richard III
  49. All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film → Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
  50. Shakespeare on Film
  51. Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
  52. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self - Guest
  53. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self
  54. Mr. Holmes → Sherlock Holmes
  55. The Dresser → Norman
  56. Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC → Self (archive footage)
  57. Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV) → Self - Guest
  58. Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (TV) → Self
  59. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies → Gandalf the Grey
  60. X-Men: Days of Future Past → Magneto
  61. Trailblazer Honors (TV) → Self - Speaker
  62. Miss in Her Teens → The Prologue
  63. Nelson Mandela Redrawn → Self
  64. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug → Gandalf the Grey
  65. Vicious (TV) → Freddie Thornhill
  66. The Wolverine → Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
  67. The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin → Self
  68. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot → Self
  69. Muse of Fire → Self
  70. The Egg Trick → Magician
  71. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey → Gandalf the Grey
  72. Doctor Who: The Snowmen → The Great Intelligence (voice)
  73. London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony → Self
  74. Perspectives (TV)
  75. The Betty Driver Story → Self
  76. Looking for Lowry → Self
  77. A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation → Narrator (voice)
  78. Small-Time Revolutionary → Hamish Miller (voice)
  79. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV) → Self - Guest
  80. The Prisoner (TV) → 2 / Curtis
  81. Theatreland → Self
  82. King Lear → King Lear
  83. The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self - Guest
  84. The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
  85. Stardust → Narrator (voice)
  86. The Golden Compass → Iorek Byrnison (voice)
  87. For the Love of God → The Jackdaw
  88. The Art of Breaking Character → Self
  89. Guerrilla Distribution → Self
  90. The One Show (TV) → Self - Guest
  91. The Da Vinci Code → Sir Leigh Teabing
  92. Flushed Away → The Toad (voice)
  93. Doogal → Zebedee (voice)
  94. X-Men: The Last Stand → Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
  95. Saint of 9/11 → Narrator
  96. Extras (TV) → Ian McKellen
  97. Neverwas → Gabriel Finch
  98. The Magic Roundabout → Zebedee (voice)
  99. Asylum → Dr. Peter Cleave
  100. Ringers: Lord of the Fans → Self
  101. Eighteen → Jason Anders (voice)
  102. The Hobart Shakespeareans → Self
  103. Who Do You Think You Are? (TV) → Self
  104. The Paul O'Grady Show (TV)
  105. The Making of 'The Return of the King' → Self
  106. A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' → Self
  107. Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! → Self
  108. Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?
  109. My First Time → Narrator
  110. Real Time with Bill Maher (TV) → Self
  111. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self
  112. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King → Gandalf
  113. The Making of 'The Two Towers'
  114. Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
  115. Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King → Self
  116. X-Men: Premieres Around the World → Self
  117. The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 → Self
  118. The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision → Self
  119. Churchill (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
  120. Emile → Emile
  121. X2 → Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
  122. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers → Gandalf
  123. Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (TV) → Self
  124. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring → Gandalf
  125. Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' → Self
  126. Quest for the Ring → Self
  127. Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring → Self
  128. Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love → Narrator (voice)
  129. X-Men: The Mutant Watch → Self - 'Magneto'
  130. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man → Narrator (voice)
  131. X-Men → Magneto
  132. Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! → Self
  133. Family Guy (TV) → Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)
  134. David Copperfield (TV) → Creakle
  135. The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale → Self
  136. After Stonewall → Self
  137. Parkinson (TV) → Self
  138. Apt Pupil → Kurt Dussander
  139. Gods and Monsters → James Whale
  140. Swept from the Sea → Dr. James Kennedy
  141. The View (TV) → Self - Guest
  142. HARDtalk (TV)
  143. Bent → Uncle Freddie
  144. A Bit Of Scarlet → Narrator
  145. Surviving Friendly Fire
  146. Rasputin → Tsar Nicholas II
  147. An Evening with Lily Savage → Self
  148. Restoration → Will Gates
  149. Richard III → Richard III
  150. Jack & Sarah → William
  151. Cold Comfort Farm → Amos Starkadder
  152. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (TV) → Self
  153. The Shadow → Dr. Reinhardt Lane
  154. I'll Do Anything → John Earl McAlpine
  155. Inside the Actors Studio (TV) → Self
  156. David Macaulay: Roman City → Augustus Caesar (voice)
  157. To Die For → Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
  158. Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest → Self
  159. Age of Dissent → Self
  160. Late Show with David Letterman (TV) → Self - Guest
  161. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV) → Self - Guest
  162. Last Action Hero → Death
  163. Tales of the City (TV) → Archibald Anson Gidde
  164. Six Degrees of Separation → Geoffrey
  165. And the Band Played On → Bill Kraus
  166. The Ballad of Little Jo → Percy Corcoran
  167. Camp Christmas
  168. Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up → Narration (voice)
  169. Gladio → Aldo Moro (voice)
  170. Have I Got News for You (TV) → Self
  171. Othello → Iago
  172. The Simpsons (TV) → Ian McKellen (voice)
  173. Scandal → John Profumo
  174. Countdown to War → Adolf Hitler
  175. Windmills of the Gods (TV) → Chairman
  176. Scarfe's Follies
  177. Süleyman the Magnificent → Narrator
  178. Plenty → Sir Andrew Charleson
  179. Zina → Kronfeld
  180. Playing Shakespeare (TV)
  181. The Keep → Dr. Theodore Cuza
  182. Walter and June → Walter
  183. The Scarlet Pimpernel → Chauvelin
  184. Walter → Walter
  185. Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
  186. Pillar of Fire (TV) → Narrator
  187. Priest of Love → D.H. Lawrence
  188. Dying Day → Antony Skipling
  189. Macbeth → Macbeth
  190. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour → Alexander Ivanov
  191. An Audience with... (TV) → Self
  192. Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
  193. Playhouse (TV) → Alexander
  194. Graceless Go I → Tony
  195. Country Matters (TV) → David Masterman
  196. Hedda Gabler → George Tesman
  197. Craven Arms → David Masterman
  198. Edward II → King Edward
  199. The Tragedy of King Richard II → King Richard II
  200. Hamlet → Hamlet
  201. Sesame Street (TV) → Self
  202. A Touch of Love → George
  203. Alfred the Great → Roger
  204. The Promise
  205. ITV Playhouse (TV) → Tony
  206. Omnibus (TV) → Self - Reading Poetry
  207. David Copperfield (TV) → David Copperfield
  208. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Captain Plume
  209. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Simon Bliss
  210. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Ross / T.E. Lawrence
  211. BBC Play of the Month (TV) → George Tesman
  212. The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne → Wolf
  213. The Wednesday Play (TV) → Wolf
  214. Coronation Street (TV) → Mel Hutchwright
  215. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Winner
  216. The Oscars (TV) → Self
  217. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  218. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Winner

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