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Ian McKellen

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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)

Stardust

2007
as Narrator (voice)

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

The Prisoner (2009)

2009
as 2 / Curtis / Un-Two

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

The Keep

1983
as Dr. Theodore Cuza

David Copperfieldd (1966)

1966
as David Copperfield

Walter

1982
as Walter

Neverwas

2005
as Gabriel Finch

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

Costume Design

2004
as Ian McKellen

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

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

Émile

2003
as Emile

On Broadway

2019
as Ian McKellen

Walter and June

1983
as Walter

To Die For

1994
as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)

Saint of 9/11

2006
as Narrator

Swept from the Sea

1998
as Dr. James Kennedy

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993
as Percy Corcoran

Apt Pupil

1998
as Kurt Dussander

Plenty

1985
as Sir Andrew Charleson

X-Men: Reunited

2014
as Himself

Restoration

1995
as Will Gates

The Shadow

1994
as Dr. Reinhardt Lane

The Dresser

2015
as Norman

Bent

1997
as Uncle Freddie

King Lear

2008
as King Lear

A Touch of Love

1969
as George Matthews

Doogal

2006
as Zebedee

Zina

1986
as Kronfeld

Animal Crackers

2017
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

The Critic

2023
as Jimmy Erskine

Muslim Drag Queens

2015
as Narrator

E'gad, Zombies!

2010
as Narrator

Jack & Sarah

1995
as William

Richard III

1995
as Richard III

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Gandalf

Miss in Her Teens

2014
as The Prologue

Weta Workshop

2002
as Self - Gandalf

A Bit Of Scarlet

1997
as Narrator

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

X-Men: Unguarded

2015
as Himself

עמוד האש

1981
as קריין - גירסה אנגלית

Gods and Monsters

1998
as James Whale

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