Ian McKellen

Full filmography

• The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum (2027) as Gandalf
• Avengers: Doomsday (2026) as Magneto
• Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol (2026) as Jacob Marley
• LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes (2026) as L S Lowry
• The Christophers (2025) as Julian Sklar
• Billy & Dom Eat the World (2025) as Self
• Schadenfreude (2025) as Continuity Announcer
• Dragged Through Time (2025)
• Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness (2025)
• A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025) as Self (archive footage)
• ted (2024) as Narrator (voice)
• Dragfox (2024) as Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
• The Critic (2024) as Jimmy Erskine
• The Life and Death of Lily Savage (2024) as Self
• Hamlet (2024) as Hamlet
• The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved (2024)
• The One Note Man (2023) as Narrator (voice)
• Quintessentially British (2022) as Self
• Hamlet Within (2022)
• Freedom: 50 Years of Pride (2022) as Self
• Amol Rajan Interviews (2021) as Self - Interviewed Guest
• Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021) as Dr. Charles Marland-White
• Hating Peter Tatchell (2021) as Self
• Great British Theatre (2021)
• Reunited Apart (2020) as Self
• Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet (2020)
• Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU (2020)
• Cats (2019) as Gus, the Theatre Cat
• The Good Liar (2019) as Roy Courtnay
• On Broadway (2019) as Self
• The Isle (2019) Associate Producer
• Animal Crackers (2018) as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
• All Is True (2018) as Earl of Southampton
• McKellen: Playing the Part (2018) as Self
• National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018) as King Lear
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) as Cogsworth
• The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017) as Self
• The Paul O'Grady Story (2017) as Self
• How a Kite Flies (2017) as Mr. Kite (voice)
• Edmund the Magnificent (2017) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Roof (2016) as And Even Yet Another Fan
• Shakespeare on Film (2016)
• Play the Devil: Making Richard III (2016)
• Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (2016) as Self
• Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) as Self - Performer
• National Theatre Live: No Man's Land (2016) as Spooner
• All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film (2016) as Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
• Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen (2016)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self
• Mr. Holmes (2015) as Sherlock Holmes
• The Dresser (2015) as Norman
• Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015) as Self (archive footage)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) as Gandalf the Grey
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Magneto
• Trailblazer Honors (2014) as Self - Speaker
• Nelson Mandela Redrawn (2014) as Self
• Miss in Her Teens (2014) as The Prologue
• Double Take: Xavier & Magneto (2014) as Self
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) as Gandalf the Grey
• Vicious (2013) as Freddie Thornhill
• The Wolverine (2013) as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
• Muse of Fire (2013) as Self
• The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin (2013) as Self
• The Egg Trick (2013) as Magician
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013) as Self
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) as Gandalf the Grey
• Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012) as The Great Intelligence (voice)
• London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony (2012) as Self
• Perspectives (2011)
• The Betty Driver Story (2011) as Self
• Looking for Lowry (2011) as Self
• The Talk (2010) as Self
• A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation (2010) as Narrator (voice)
• Small-Time Revolutionary (2010) as Hamish Miller (voice)
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
• The Prisoner (2009) as 2 / Curtis
• Theatreland (2009) as Self
• King Lear (2008) as King Lear
• The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
• Stardust (2007) as Narrator (voice)
• The Golden Compass (2007) as Iorek Byrnison (voice)
• The Art of Breaking Character (2007) as Self
• For the Love of God (2007) as The Jackdaw
• Guerrilla Distribution (2007) as Self
• The One Show (2006) as Self - Guest
• The Da Vinci Code (2006) as Sir Leigh Teabing
• Flushed Away (2006) as The Toad (voice)
• Doogal (2006) as Zebedee (voice)
• Saint of 9/11 (2006) as Narrator
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
• Extras (2005) as Ian McKellen
• Asylum (2005) as Dr. Peter Cleave
• The Magic Roundabout (2005) as Zebedee (voice)
• Ringers: Lord of the Fans (2005) as Self
• Neverwas (2005) as Gabriel Finch
• Eighteen (2005) as Jason Anders (voice)
• The Hobart Shakespeareans (2005) as Self
• The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
• Who Do You Think You Are? (2004) as Self
• A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' (2004) as Self
• The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2004) as Self
• Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! (2004) as Self
• My First Time (2004) as Narrator
• Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? (2004)
• Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) as Gandalf
• Emile (2003) as Emile
• X-Men: Premieres Around the World (2003) as Self
• The Making of 'The Two Towers' (2003)
• Evolution X - The Making of X-Men (2003)
• Churchill (2003) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King (2003) as Self
• The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 (2003) as Self
• X2 (2003) as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
• The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision (2003) as Self
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) as Gandalf
• Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On.. (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast (2002) as Self
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design (2002) as Self
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as Gandalf
• Quest for the Ring (2001) as Self
• Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as Self
• Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001) as Self
• Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001) as Narrator (voice)
• X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000) as Self - 'Magneto'
• X-Men (2000) as Magneto
• Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (2000) as Narrator (voice)
• Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! (2000) as Self
• Family Guy (1999) as Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)
• David Copperfield (1999) as Creakle
• After Stonewall (1999) as Self
• The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale (1999) as Self
• Parkinson (1998) as Self
• Apt Pupil (1998) as Kurt Dussander
• Swept from the Sea (1998) as Dr. James Kennedy
• Gods and Monsters (1998) as James Whale
• The View (1997) as Self - Guest
• HARDtalk (1997)
• Bent (1997) as Uncle Freddie
• Surviving Friendly Fire (1997)
• A Bit Of Scarlet (1997) as Narrator
• An Evening with Lily Savage (1996) as Self
• Rasputin (1996) as Tsar Nicholas II
• Restoration (1995) as Will Gates
• Jack & Sarah (1995) as William
• Richard III (1995) as Richard III
• Richard III (1995) Executive Producer
• Richard III (1995) Screenplay
• Cold Comfort Farm (1995) as Amos Starkadder
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (1994) as Self
• The Shadow (1994) as Dr. Reinhardt Lane
• I'll Do Anything (1994) as John Earl McAlpine
• Inside the Actors Studio (1994) as Self
• Age of Dissent (1994) as Self
• David Macaulay: Roman City (1994) as Augustus Caesar (voice)
• To Die For (1994) as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
• Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994) as Self
• Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
• Last Action Hero (1993) as Death
• Tales of the City (1993) as Archibald Anson Gidde
• And the Band Played On (1993) as Bill Kraus
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993) as Geoffrey
• The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) as Percy Corcoran
• Camp Christmas (1993)
• A Simple Matter of Justice (1993) as Self
• Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up (1993) as Narration (voice)
• Gladio (1992) as Aldo Moro (voice)
• Have I Got News for You (1990) as Self
• Othello (1990) as Iago
• The Simpsons (1989) as Ian McKellen (voice)
• Scandal (1989) as John Profumo
• Countdown to War (1989) as Adolf Hitler
• Scarfe's Follies (1988)
• Windmills of the Gods (1988) as Chairman
• Süleyman the Magnificent (1987) as Narrator
• Plenty (1985) as Sir Andrew Charleson
• Zina (1985) as Kronfeld
• Playing Shakespeare (1984)
• The Keep (1983) as Dr. Theodore Cuza
• Walter and June (1983) as Walter
• American Playhouse (1982) as Archibald Anson Gidde
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) as Chauvelin
• Walter (1982) as Walter
• Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1982)
• Pillar of Fire (1981) as Narrator
• Priest of Love (1981) as D.H. Lawrence
• Dying Day (1980) as Antony Skipling
• Macbeth (1979) as Macbeth
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979) as Alexander Ivanov
• An Audience with... (1978) as Self
• Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
• Playhouse (1974) as Alexander
• Graceless Go I (1974) as Tony
• Country Matters (1972) as David Masterman
• Hedda Gabler (1972) as George Tesman
• Craven Arms (1972) as David Masterman
• Film '72 (1971) as Self
• Solo (1970)
• Edward II (1970) as King Edward
• Hamlet (1970) as Hamlet
• The Tragedy of King Richard II (1970) as King Richard II
• Sesame Street (1969) as Self
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) as Lyov
• The Promise (1969)
• A Touch of Love (1969) as George
• Alfred the Great (1969) as Roger
• Omnibus (1967) as Self - Reading Poetry
• ITV Playhouse (1967) as Tony
• David Copperfield (1966) as David Copperfield
• BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Captain Plume
• BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Simon Bliss
• BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Ross / T.E. Lawrence
• BBC Play of the Month (1965) as George Tesman
• The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965) as Wolf
• The Wednesday Play (1964) as Wolf
• Coronation Street (1960) as Mel Hutchwright
• Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Winner
• The Oscars (1953) as Self
• Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter
• Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Winner
• Frank and Percy as Percy
• No Man's Land as Spooner
• Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self
• Richard II as Richard II