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Ian McKellen

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Filmography

The Critic

2023
as Jimmy Erskine

A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

2020
as Ian McKellen

Hating Peter Tatchell

2020
as Ian McKellen

On Broadway

2019
as Ian McKellen

The Good Liar

2019
as Roy Courtnay

Cats

2019
as Gus The Theater Cat

All Is True

2019
as Henry Wriothesley

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2018
as King Lear

McKellen: Playing the Part

2018
as Himself

Edmund the Magnificent

2017
as Narrator

Animal Crackers

2017
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

The Paul O'Grady Story

2017
as Ian McKellen

Beauty and the Beast

2017
as Cogsworth

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

2016
as Himself

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

2016
as Spooner

X-Men: Unguarded

2015
as Himself

Muslim Drag Queens

2015
as Narrator

Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of X-Men: Days of Future Past

2015
as Himself

The Battle of Dol Guldur

2015
as Gandalf

The Dresser

2015
as Norman

Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery

2015
as Gandalf

Mr. Holmes

2015
as Sherlock Holmes

Miss in Her Teens

2014
as The Prologue

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Gandalf

X-Men: Days of Future Past

2014
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Old)

Middle-earth: There and Back Again

2014
as Ian McKellen

X-Men: Reunited

2014
as Himself

The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over

2014
as Ian McKellen

Vicious

2013
as Freddie

The Wolverine

2013
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013
as Gandalf

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Gandalf

London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony

2012
as Himself

Lady Grey London

2011

The Betty Driver Story

2011
as Ian McKellen

Small-Time Revolutionary

2010
as Hamish Miller

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

2010
as Narrator

E'gad, Zombies!

2010
as Narrator

The Prisoner (2009)

2009
as 2 / Curtis / Un-Two

King Lear

2008
as King Lear

For the Love of God

2007
as The Jackdaw

Cubism: Pet Shop Boys in Concert - Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City

2007
as Self - Interval Announcer

Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!

2007
as Self - Audience Member

Stardust

2007
as Narrator (voice)

The Golden Compass

2007
as Iorek Byrnison (voice)

Flushed Away

2006
as The Toad (voice)

X-Men: The Excitement Continues

2006
as Ian McKellen

Saint of 9/11

2006
as Narrator

X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy

2006
as Ian McKellen

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

Doogal

2006
as Zebedee

The Da Vinci Code

2006
as Sir Leigh Teabing

Asylum

2005
as Dr. Peter Cleave

The Hobart Shakespeareans

2005
as Ian McKellen

The Magic Roundabout

2005
as Zebedee

Neverwas

2005
as Gabriel Finch

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

2004
as Himself

From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter

2004
as Ian McKellen

Cameras in Middle-Earth

2004
as Ian McKellen

The Passing of an Age

2004
as Ian McKellen

Costume Design

2004
as Ian McKellen

Designing Middle-Earth

2004
as Self

Home of the Horse Lords

2004
as Ian McKellen

Churchill

2003

X-Men: Premieres Around the World

2003
as Himself

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003
as Gandalf the White

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2

2003
as Ian McKellen

X-Factor: The Look of X-Men

2003
as Ian McKellen

X-Men: The Uncanny Suspects

2003
as Himself

X2

2003
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

Émile

2003
as Emile

The Lord of the Rings: The Quest Fulfilled

2003

Designing Middle-Earth

2002
as Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002
as Gandalf the White

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Gandalf

A Day in the Life of a Hobbit

2002
as Ian McKellen

Weta Workshop

2002
as Self - Gandalf

A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'

2001
as Himself

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001
as Gandalf the Grey

Quest for the Ring

2001
as Himself

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

2000
as Narrator (voice)

X-Men: Production Scrapbook

2000
as Himself

X-Men

2000
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

2000
as Himself

Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed!

2000
as Ian McKellen

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale

1999
as Self - Actor ("Gods and Monsters")

David Copperfield (1999)

1999
as Creakle

Gods and Monsters

1998
as James Whale

Apt Pupil

1998
as Kurt Dussander

Swept from the Sea

1998
as Dr. James Kennedy

A Bit Of Scarlet

1997
as Narrator

Bent

1997
as Uncle Freddie

Rasputin

1996
as Tsar Nicholas II

Richard III

1995
as Richard III

Jack & Sarah

1995
as William

Restoration

1995
as Will Gates

Cold Comfort Farm

1995
as Amos Starkadder

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994
as Augustus Caesaar

The Shadow

1994
as Dr. Reinhardt Lane

To Die For

1994
as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)

I'll Do Anything

1994
as John Earl McAlpine

And the Band Played On

1993
as Bill Kraus

Last Action Hero

1993
as Death

Six Degrees of Separation

1993
as Geoffrey Miller

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993
as Percy Corcoran

Scandal

1989
as John Profumo

Windmills of the Gods

1988
as Chairman

Zina

1986
as Kronfeld

Plenty

1985
as Sir Andrew Charleson

The Keep

1983
as Dr. Theodore Cuza

Walter and June

1983
as Walter

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1982
as Chauvelin

Walter

1982
as Walter

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

1982

Priest of Love

1981
as D.H. Lawrence

עמוד האש

1981
as קריין - גירסה אנגלית

A Performance of Macbeth

1979
as Macbeth

Edward II

1970
as King Edward

A Touch of Love

1969
as George Matthews

Alfred the Great

1969
as Roger

The Promise

1969

David Copperfieldd (1966)

1966
as David Copperfield

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

as Ian McKellen

Hamlet Revenant

Writer

Movie Richard III 1995

Producer

Movie The Isle 2018

Guest Star

Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 17 		2024
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 8 		2022
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 5 		2021
Episode Reunited Apart
One Zoom to Rule Them All (Lord of the Rings) 		2020
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Ian McKellen, Louis Tomlinson, Simon Pegg 		2019
Episode David Tennant Does a Podcast
Ian McKellen 		2019
Episode Family Guy
Send in Stewie, Please 		2018
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 19 		2017
Episode HARDtalk
Sir Ian McKellen, Actor 		2017
Episode BBC Documentaries
Festival Tales: Edinburgh At 70 		2017
Episode The ONE Show
Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen 		2016
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Ian McKellen, James Wolk, Adam Lambert 		2015
Episode Today
December 2, 2015 		2015
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Christmas Special 		2015
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Amy Schumer, Ian McKellen, Alan Jackson 		2015
Episode BBC Drama
The Dresser 		2015
Episode Late Night with Seth Meyers
Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Sophia Bush & Michael Che 		2014
Episode Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Kylie Minogue, Ian McKellen, Nick Grimshaw 		2014
Episode Today
December 8, 2014 		2014
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 10 		2014
Episode My Shakespeare
Christopher Plummer on King Lear 		2014
Episode Sesame Street
Waiting for the Present 		2014
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Stephen Colbert; Sir Ian McKellen; Chvrches 		2013
Episode The Daily Show
Ian McKellen 		2013
Episode Today
December 3, 2012 		2012
Episode The Colbert Report
Ian McKellen 		2012
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The Snowmen 		2012
Episode Perspectives
Looking for Lowry 		2011
Episode One Night Stand With
Scissor Sisters 		2010
Episode Great Performances
King Lear 		2009
Episode Parkinson
Peter Kay, Take That, Ian McKellan 		2006
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
April 28, 2006 		2006
Episode Extras
Sir Ian McKellen 		2006
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
February 27, 2004 		2004
Episode Have I Got News for You
Jimmy Carr, Ross Noble, Ian McKellen 		2003
Episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Ian McKellen, Petra Nemcova, The Stills 		2003
Episode The Simpsons
The Regina Monologues 		2003
Episode The Daily Show
Ian McKellan 		2002
Episode Saturday Night Live
Ian McKellen/Kylie Minogue 		2002
Episode IMAX Ultimate Collection
Cirque Du Soleil: Journey Of Man 3D 		2000
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Ian McKellen 		1992
Episode Hysteria
Hysteria 3! 		1991
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Ian McKellen 		1981
Episode ITV Playhouse
Graceless Go I 		1974
Episode Cirque Du Soleil
Journey of Man 		1970
Episode BBC Drama
Edward II 		1970
Episode The South Bank Show Originals
Ian McKellen 		1970