Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

Acting

Born May 25, 1939 · Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

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 scienc…

Known for

Sesame Street

Sesame Street

1969

Late Show with David Letterman

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Acting(225)

2027The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for GollumGandalf

2026Avengers: DoomsdayMagneto

2026Ebenezer: A Christmas CarolJacob Marley

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

2026LS Lowry: The Unheard TapesL S Lowry

2025SchadenfreudeContinuity Announcer

2025A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'Self (archive footage)

2025Dragged Through Time

2025The ChristophersJulian Sklar

2025Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

2025Billy & Dom Eat the WorldSelf

2024The CriticJimmy Erskine

2024DragfoxGinger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)

2024The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

2024The Life and Death of Lily SavageSelf

2024HamletHamlet

2024tedNarrator (voice)

2023The One Note ManNarrator (voice)

2022Quintessentially BritishSelf

2022Freedom: 50 Years of PrideSelf

2022Hamlet Within

2021Hating Peter TatchellSelf

2021Amol Rajan InterviewsSelf - Interviewed Guest

2021Great British Theatre

2021Infinitum: Subject UnknownDr. Charles Marland-White

2020Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU

2020Reunited ApartSelf

2020Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

2019CatsGus, the Theatre Cat

2019The Good LiarRoy Courtnay

2019On BroadwaySelf

2018All Is TrueEarl of Southampton

2018National Theatre Live: King LearKing Lear

2018Animal CrackersHoratio P. Huntington (voice)

2018McKellen: Playing the PartSelf

2017The Paul O'Grady StorySelf

2017How a Kite FliesMr. Kite (voice)

2017Beauty and the BeastCogsworth

2017The Untold Tales of Armistead MaupinSelf

2017Edmund the MagnificentSelf - Narrator (voice)

2016Judi Dench: All the World's Her StageSelf

2016National Theatre Live: No Man's LandSpooner

2016Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen

2016Shakespeare on Film

2016Play the Devil: Making Richard III

2016All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on FilmProspero's Speech Reader (voice)

2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSCSelf - Performer

2016The RoofAnd Even Yet Another Fan

2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBCSelf (archive footage)

2015The DresserNorman

2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest

2015Mr. HolmesSherlock Holmes

2014Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsSelf

2014The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesGandalf the Grey

2014Double Take: Xavier & MagnetoSelf

2014Nelson Mandela RedrawnSelf

2014Trailblazer HonorsSelf - Speaker

2014X-Men: Days of Future PastMagneto

2014Miss in Her TeensThe Prologue

2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest

2013The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugGandalf the Grey

2013The Wolverine: Path of a RoninSelf

2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf

2013Muse of FireSelf

2013The WolverineErik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)

2013The Egg TrickMagician

2013ViciousFreddie Thornhill

2012Doctor Who: The SnowmenThe Great Intelligence (voice)

2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyGandalf the Grey

2012London 2012: Paralympics Opening CeremonySelf

2011Looking for LowrySelf

2011Perspectives

2011The Betty Driver StorySelf

2010The TalkSelf

2010Small-Time RevolutionaryHamish Miller (voice)

2010A Lost and Found Box of Human SensationNarrator (voice)

2009The Prisoner2 / Curtis

2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest

2009TheatrelandSelf

2008King LearKing Lear

2007The Golden CompassIorek Byrnison (voice)

2007StardustNarrator (voice)

2007The Art of Breaking CharacterSelf

2007For the Love of GodThe Jackdaw

2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf - Guest

2007Guerrilla DistributionSelf

2006Flushed AwayThe Toad (voice)

2006The One ShowSelf - Guest

2006X-Men: The Last StandErik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2006The Da Vinci CodeSir Leigh Teabing

2006Saint of 9/11Narrator

2006DoogalZebedee (voice)

2005NeverwasGabriel Finch

2005AsylumDr. Peter Cleave

2005The Hobart ShakespeareansSelf

2005ExtrasIan McKellen

2005The Magic RoundaboutZebedee (voice)

2005Ringers: Lord of the FansSelf

2005EighteenJason Anders (voice)

2004A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'Self

2004My First TimeNarrator

2004Who Do You Think You Are?Self

2004The Paul O'Grady Show

2004Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!Self

2004The Making of 'The Return of the King'Self

2004Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?

2003The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's VisionSelf

2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingGandalf

2003Beyond the Movie: The Return of the KingSelf

2003The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2Self

2003ChurchillSelf - Narrator (voice)

2003X2Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

2003The Making of 'The Two Towers'

2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf

2003Evolution X - The Making of X-Men

2003X-Men: Premieres Around the WorldSelf

2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self

2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersGandalf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to ScriptSelf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume DesignSelf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the CastSelf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earthSelf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: ScaleSelf

2002The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..Self

2002Ant & Dec's Saturday Night TakeawaySelf

2001Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the RingSelf

2001The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingGandalf

2001Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'Self

2001Quest for the RingSelf

2001Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in LoveNarrator (voice)

2000Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!Self

2000X-MenMagneto

2000X-Men: The Mutant WatchSelf - 'Magneto'

2000Cirque du Soleil: Journey of ManNarrator (voice)

1999David CopperfieldCreakle

1999The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James WhaleSelf

1999After StonewallSelf

1999Family GuyDr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)

1998Apt PupilKurt Dussander

1998Gods and MonstersJames Whale

1998Swept from the SeaDr. James Kennedy

1998ParkinsonSelf

1997BentUncle Freddie

1997The ViewSelf - Guest

1997Surviving Friendly Fire

1997A Bit Of ScarletNarrator

1996An Evening with Lily SavageSelf

1996RasputinTsar Nicholas II

1995Richard IIIRichard III

1995RestorationWill Gates

1995Jack & SarahWilliam

1995Cold Comfort FarmAmos Starkadder

1994To Die ForQuilt Documentary Narrator (voice)

1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestSelf

1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf

1994Age of DissentSelf

1994The ShadowDr. Reinhardt Lane

1994David Macaulay: Roman CityAugustus Caesar (voice)

1994I'll Do AnythingJohn Earl McAlpine

1994Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi GrasSelf

1993Camp Christmas

1993Six Degrees of SeparationGeoffrey

1993A Simple Matter of JusticeSelf

1993Tales of the CityArchibald Anson Gidde

1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest

1993And the Band Played OnBill Kraus

1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf - Guest

1993The Ballad of Little JoPercy Corcoran

1993Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt UpNarration (voice)

1993Last Action HeroDeath

1992GladioAldo Moro (voice)

1990Have I Got News for YouSelf

1990OthelloIago

1989The SimpsonsIan McKellen (voice)

1989Countdown to WarAdolf Hitler

1989ScandalJohn Profumo

1988Windmills of the GodsChairman

1988Scarfe's Follies

1987Süleyman the MagnificentNarrator

1985ZinaKronfeld

1985PlentySir Andrew Charleson

1984Playing Shakespeare

1983The KeepDr. Theodore Cuza

1983Walter and JuneWalter

1982The Scarlet PimpernelChauvelin

1982WalterWalter

1982Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

1982American PlayhouseArchibald Anson Gidde

1981Pillar of FireNarrator

1981Priest of LoveD.H. Lawrence

1980Dying DayAntony Skipling

1979Every Good Boy Deserves FavourAlexander Ivanov

1979MacbethMacbeth

1978An Audience with...Self

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host

1974Graceless Go ITony

1974PlayhouseAlexander

1972Hedda GablerGeorge Tesman

1972Craven ArmsDavid Masterman

1972Country MattersDavid Masterman

1971Film '72Self

1970HamletHamlet

1970Edward IIKing Edward

1970The Tragedy of King Richard IIKing Richard II

1969The Promise

1969Sesame StreetSelf

1969Alfred the GreatRoger

1969A Touch of LoveGeorge

1969ITV Saturday Night TheatreLyov

1967OmnibusSelf - Reading Poetry

1967ITV PlayhouseTony

1966David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield

1965The Trial and Torture of Sir John RampayneWolf

1965BBC Play of the MonthCaptain Plume

1964The Wednesday PlayWolf

1960Coronation StreetMel Hutchwright

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner

1953The OscarsSelf

1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Presenter

Richard IIRichard II

Untitled Anthony Hopkins DocumentarySelf

No Man's LandSpooner

Frank and PercyPercy

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