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Filmography

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001
as Gandalf the Grey

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003
as Gandalf the White

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013
as Gandalf

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Gandalf

X-Men

2000
as Magneto

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

X2

2003
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

Beauty and the Beast

2017
as Cogsworth

The Da Vinci Code

2006
as Sir Leigh Teabing

Flushed Away

2006
as The Toad (voice)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002
as Gandalf the White

X-Men: Days of Future Past

2014
as Magneto

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Gandalf

Stardust

2007
as Narrator (voice)

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

2000
as Himself

Cats

2019
as Gus The Theater Cat

The Golden Compass

2007
as Iorek Byrnison (voice)

Mr. Holmes

2015
as Sherlock Holmes

The Good Liar

2019
as Roy Courtnay

Vicious

2013
as Freddie

Last Action Hero

1993
as Death

The Prisoner (2009)

2009
as 2 / Curtis / Un-Two

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

2020
as Ian McKellen

Rasputin

1996
as Tsar Nicholas II

Asylum

2005
as Dr. Peter Cleave

Home of the Horse Lords

2004
as Ian McKellen

Cameras in Middle-Earth

2004
as Ian McKellen

The Paul O'Grady Story

2017
as Ian McKellen

McKellen: Playing the Part

2018
as Himself

David Copperfield (1999)

1999
as Creakle

The Keep

1983
as Dr. Theodore Cuza

Churchill

2003

David Copperfieldd (1966)

1966
as David Copperfield

Walter

1982
as Walter

Neverwas

2005
as Gabriel Finch

Lady Grey London

2011

Six Degrees of Separation

1993
as Geoffrey Miller

Scandal

1989
as John Profumo

Small-Time Revolutionary

2010
as Hamish Miller

The Betty Driver Story

2011
as Ian McKellen

All Is True

2019
as Henry Wriothesley

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

2015
as Himself

Costume Design

2004
as Ian McKellen

Hamlet Revenant

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

Designing Middle-Earth

2004
as Self

I'll Do Anything

1994
as John Earl McAlpine

The Passing of an Age

2004
as Ian McKellen

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994
as Augustus Caesaar

A Day in the Life of a Hobbit

2002
as Ian McKellen

Cold Comfort Farm

1995
as Amos Starkadder

Priest of Love

1981
as D.H. Lawrence

Hating Peter Tatchell

2020
as Ian McKellen

For the Love of God

2007
as The Jackdaw

Edward II

1970
as King Edward

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

2016
as Himself

Émile

2003
as Emile

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

2007
as Self - Interval Announcer

Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed!

2000
as Ian McKellen

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

2004
as Himself

X-Men: Production Scrapbook

2000
as Himself

On Broadway

2019
as Ian McKellen

Walter and June

1983
as Walter

To Die For

1994
as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)

Alfred the Great

1969
as Roger

A Performance of Macbeth

1979
as Macbeth

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

2000
as Narrator (voice)

Saint of 9/11

2006
as Narrator

Swept from the Sea

1998
as Dr. James Kennedy

X-Factor: The Look of X-Men

2003
as Ian McKellen

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993
as Percy Corcoran

Quest for the Ring

2001
as Himself

Apt Pupil

1998
as Kurt Dussander

Plenty

1985
as Sir Andrew Charleson

X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy

2006
as Ian McKellen

X-Men: Reunited

2014
as Himself

Restoration

1995
as Will Gates

X-Men: The Uncanny Suspects

2003
as Himself

Windmills of the Gods

1988
as Chairman

X-Men: Premieres Around the World

2003
as Himself

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

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

Designing Middle-Earth

2002
as Gandalf

The Shadow

1994
as Dr. Reinhardt Lane

The Dresser

2015
as Norman

Bent

1997
as Uncle Freddie

King Lear

2008
as King Lear

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

as Ian McKellen

A Touch of Love

1969
as George Matthews

Doogal

2006
as Zebedee

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2018
as King Lear

Zina

1986
as Kronfeld

The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over

2014
as Ian McKellen

Animal Crackers

2017
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

The Critic

2023
as Jimmy Erskine

The Magic Roundabout

2005
as Zebedee

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

2001
as Himself

From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter

2004
as Ian McKellen

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

2007
as Self - Audience Member

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1982
as Chauvelin

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

2016
as Spooner

Muslim Drag Queens

2015
as Narrator

E'gad, Zombies!

2010
as Narrator

The Lord of the Rings: The Quest Fulfilled

2003

Jack & Sarah

1995
as William

Richard III

1995
as Richard III

X-Men: The Excitement Continues

2006
as Ian McKellen

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Gandalf

Miss in Her Teens

2014
as The Prologue

Weta Workshop

2002
as Self - Gandalf

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2

2003
as Ian McKellen

The Battle of Dol Guldur

2015
as Gandalf

A Bit Of Scarlet

1997
as Narrator

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

Middle-earth: There and Back Again

2014
as Ian McKellen

The Hobart Shakespeareans

2005
as Ian McKellen

Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery

2015
as Gandalf

X-Men: Unguarded

2015
as Himself

Edmund the Magnificent

2017
as Narrator

The Promise

1969

עמוד האש

1981
as קריין - גירסה אנגלית

London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony

2012
as Himself

And the Band Played On

1993
as Bill Kraus

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

1982

Gods and Monsters

1998
as James Whale

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

2010
as Narrator

Writer

Movie Richard III 1995

Producer

Movie The Isle 2018

Guest Star

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