Ian McKellen

McKellen, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen A Slight Trick of the Mind

  2014, role: actor , character name: Sherlock Holmes
• Play in Full Screen The Curse of The Buxom Strumpet

  2014, role: actor , character name: Gerald Macklin
• Play in Full Screen Miss in Her Teens

  2014, role: actor , character name: The Prologue
• Play in Full Screen X-Men: Days of Future Past

  2014, role: actor , character name: Erik Lehnsherr
• Play in Full Screen X-Men: Days of Future Past

  2014, role: actor , character name: Magneto - older
• Play in Full Screen The Hobbit: There and Back Again

  2014, role: actor , character name: Gandalf
• Play in Full Screen Muse of Fire

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Wolverine

  2013, role: actor , character name: Magneto
• Play in Full Screen The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

  2013, role: actor , character name: Gandalf
• Play in Full Screen The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Egg Trick

  2013, role: actor , character name: Magician
• Play in Full Screen Legacy X: Wolverine and the X-men

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The EE British Academy Film Awards

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony: Enlightenment

  2012, role: actor , character name: The Tempest - Prospero
• Play in Full Screen The Academy: Special

  2012, role: actor , character name: Murray
• Play in Full Screen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  2012, role: actor , character name: Gandalf
• Play in Full Screen Great West End Theatres

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Pride of Britain Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lady Grey London

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Betty Driver Story

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Claude et Claudette

  2011, role: actor , character name: The Voice
• Play in Full Screen The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Muse of Fire: A Documentary

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

  2010, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The People Speak UK

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Stars of the Street: 50 Years, 50 Classic Characters

  2010, role: actor , character name: Mel Hutchwright
• Play in Full Screen A Six Hour Film Shot in 92 Days: The Diary of 'The Prisoner'

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beautiful Prison: The World of 'The Prisoner'

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Man Behind '2'

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen E'gad, Zombies!

  2010, role: actor , character name: The Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Small-Time Revolutionary

  2010, role: actor , character name: Hamish Miller
• Play in Full Screen Premio Donostia a Ian McKellen

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honoree
• Play in Full Screen The Orange British Academy Film Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen The Variety Club Showbiz Awards 2009

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Bernard Delfonte Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness Awardee
• Play in Full Screen The Academy Part 2: First Impressions

  2009, role: actor , character name: Murray
• Play in Full Screen Stars on the Street

  2009, role: actor , character name: Mel Hutchwright
• Play in Full Screen The Academy

  2009, role: actor , character name: Murray
• Play in Full Screen What's on Theatre

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Orange British Academy Film Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 2008

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Spisok korabley

  2008, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen King Lear

  2008, role: actor , character name: King Lear
• Play in Full Screen Cubism: Pet Shop Boys in Concert - Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interval announcer
• Play in Full Screen Stardust

  2007, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Orange British Academy Film Awards

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Guerrilla Distribution

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Golden Compass

  2007, role: actor , character name: Iorek Byrnison
• Play in Full Screen For the Love of God

  2007, role: actor , character name: Jackdaw

Famous quotes by Ian Mckellen:

"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy."

"If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart."

"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."

"Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one."

"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly."

"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."

"I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes."

"It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier."

"It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk."

"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing."

"Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came."

"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."

"I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!"

"The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears."

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."

"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying."

"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."

"Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting."

"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."