Filmografía de Ian McKellen como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Ian McKellen
🎭 Self
0
2024
Intimate documentary exploring how Paul O'Grady's creation, Lily Savage, took mainstream TV by storm. Unravel the real story of Lily with insights from Paul's daughter and famous pals. ...
🎭 Jimmy Erskine
🎭 Narrator (voice)
0
2023
A musical man lives a careful life. Each day is like the next, just how he likes it. One day, however, misfortune and fate collide, breaking his routine and rocking his world forever. ...
🎭 Self
3.2
2022
This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour. ...
0
2022
A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare's creature; his origins and his unending influence on many diverse cultures. ...
🎭 Self
0
2022
Amol Rajan speaks to Ian McKellen, one of the most celebrated performers of his generation and someone who has long defied convention and expectation. He tells Rajan about what is was like to be ...
🎭 Self
4.8
2021
The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homo ...
🎭 Dr. Charles Marland-White
5.4
2021
Jane is the subject of a twisted science experiment where she is placed in a parallel world and is forced to find a way to either alter her reality or be stuck in a time-loop, destined to repeat ...
6
2020
One-man stage performance by English stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen reprises roles over his career in the theatre (such as the works of William Shakespeare) and on film (such a ...
10
2020
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, ...
🎭 Gus, the Theatre Cat
4.1
2019
Durante una sola noche al año, una tribu de gatos llamada Jellicles se reúne en el basurero para conocer 'la elección de Jellicle': cuál de ellos ascenderá a la capa Heaviside y volverá a u ...
🎭 Roy Courtnay
6.7
2019
Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindl ...
🎭 Earl of Southampton
6.1
2018
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where ...
🎭 King Lear
8.3
2018
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleas ...
🎭 Himself
7.3
2018
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed him in the pu ...
🎭 Himself
8.3
2017
A razor-witted entertainer who found fame as two people - first his drag queen alter ego, Lily Savage, and then as himself. This documentary film charts the unique career of a working class Merse ...
🎭 Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
6.3
2017
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington. ...
🎭 Mr. Kite (voice)
0
2017
Sir Ian McKellen voices an alcoholic kite. A down-and-out who prefers to hang around his dingy local strip joint rather than get out into the blue sky. But when memories of happier times come bac ...
🎭 Cogsworth
7
2017
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell. ...
🎭 Self
6.4
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose no ...
🎭 Self - Narrator (voice)
7.2
2017
When news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make one final roll of the dice - and invest his life savings in a thoroughbred piglet with which t ...
🎭 Self
7.8
2016
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career. ...
🎭 Spooner
7.6
2016
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly i ...
0
2016
Sir Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine talking about making the film. ...
6
2016
Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine in conversation about Richard III. ...
6
2016
Acting legend Ian McKellen discusses his impressive range of Shakespearean performances. Since playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night at 12 years old, Ian McKellen has acted in more than half of Shake ...
🎭 Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
0
2016
An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Ze ...
🎭 Self - Performer
7.5
2016
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. ...
🎭 And Even Yet Another Fan
8
2016
Una breve comedia sobre la visita de un legendario creador de teatro y su legión de admiradores. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
0
2015
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they were knighted for their services to drama, we ...
🎭 Norman
6.3
2015
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curta ...
🎭 Sherlock Holmes
6.5
2015
En 1947, Holmes vive retirado en una remota granja de Sussex con un ama de llaves y el hijo de ésta. Cumplidos los 93 años, su memoria y su capacidad intelectual empiezan a deteriorarse. Su rut ...
🎭 Gandalf
7.3
2014
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves o ...
🎭 Self
0
2014
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers from every corner of the globe, we gain a un ...
🎭 Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
7.5
2014
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to s ...
🎭 The Prologue
3
2014
An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in order to find true love. ...
🎭 Gandalf
7.6
2013
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug. ...
🎭 Self
6.9
2013
A nice exploration of the samurai-ninja aspect of the story, including its roots in the actual Marvel comic books. There are the requisite interviews with the principal cast and crew along with c ...
🎭 Himself
7.9
2013
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it? ...
🎭 Self
6.5
2013
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, ...
🎭 Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
6.4
2013
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan. ...
🎭 Magician
6
2013
Do you know the joke about the broken egg? ...
🎭 The Great Intelligence (voice)
7.7
2012
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only ...
🎭 Gandalf
7.4
2012
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon. ...
🎭 Himself
7.5
2012
The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic games. ...
🎭 Himself
0
2011
Looking for Lowry is an entertaining documentary film about the life and work of the much loved British artist L.S. Lowry (1887 – 1976). This contemporary new film illuminates Lowry’s extraor ...
🎭 Himself (as Sir Ian McKellan)
🎭 Hamish Miller (voice)
4
2010
England, 1988. Thatcher, New Order, Section 28, The Kants. Russell finds himself caught between two opposing worlds and needs to decide whether to keep up the appearances or stand up for who he i ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
7
2010
When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
7.8
2010
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films. ...
🎭 King Lear
6.7
2008
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter ...
🎭 Iorek Byrnison (voice)
6.1
2007
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
7.3
2007
Tristan un joven trabajador y poco adaptado a la sociedad, siempre ha soñado con salir de Muro, pero más ha soñado con Victoria, la muchacha más linda del pueblo, y a quién él corteja incan ...
🎭 The Jackdaw
4
2007
'For the Love of God' is the wickedly irreverent tale of Graham (Coogan); an over-grown man-child still living at home under the suffocating glare of his elderly Mother, in her dusty and forgotte ...
🎭 The Toad (voice)
6.3
2006
No cabe duda de que Roddy es una "rata de la alta sociedad" que vive como un rey en un piso de Kensington atendido por dos mayordomos, los hámsteres Gilbert y Sullivan. Pero cuando una vulgar ra ...
🎭 Sir Leigh Teabing
6.7
2006
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely ...
🎭 Narrator
5.7
2006
Saint of 9/11 presents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal Judge. Compassionate champion of the needy and forgotten, a beloved Fire Department Chaplain, rou ...
🎭 Gabriel Finch
6.3
2005
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointme ...
🎭 Dr. Peter Cleave
5.7
2005
Stella (Natasha Richardson) es la atractiva esposa de Max Raphael (Hugh Bonneville), el nuevo director de un hospital psiquiátrico de máxima seguridad en las afueras de Londres. Inesperadamente ...
🎭 Himself
4
2005
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested ...
🎭 Zebedee (voice)
5.4
2005
A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twi ...
🎭 Self
6.3
2005
'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years. ...
🎭 Jason Anders (voice)
4.5
2005
Por su 18 cumpleaños, Pip recibe unas cintas grabadas por su abuelo (voz de Ian McKellen) que narran sus experiencias como soldado aliado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial... ...
🎭 Himself
6.7
2004
The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", during ...
0
2004
Profile of the life, work and ethos behind one of Britain's most controversial and prolific human rights campaigner: gay UK activist Peter Tatchell. ...
🎭 Self
🎭 Gandalf
8.5
2003
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ...
🎭 Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
7
2003
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usu ...
🎭 Self
6.1
2003
We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden. ...
🎭 Emile
5.9
2003
Cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de viajar a Canadá para recibir un reconocimiento, Emile (McKellen) vuelve a verse con su familia, con la que había perdido el contacto. Un trágico pasado ...
🎭 Himself
8.5
2003
From the very beginning of the design process on the film trilogy, right up to the summer months prior to the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the look of Gollum was ever-changin ...
🎭 Gandalf
8.4
2002
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the ...
🎭 Self
6
2001
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting ex ...
🎭 Gandalf
8.4
2001
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fell ...
🎭 Self
6.9
2001
The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work. ...
🎭 Self
🎭 Narrator (voice)
0
2001
A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family. ...
🎭 Self
6.4
2000
A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale. ...
🎭 Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
7
2000
En un futuro cercano, la humanidad comienza a ver aparecer una nueva raza; los mutantes. Dotados de extraños y variados poderes, están agrupados en dos bandos: los que abogan por la integració ...
🎭 Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
6.4
2000
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. ...
🎭 Self - 'Magneto'
7
2000
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men. ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
7
2000
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then de ...
🎭 Self
0
1999
Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-the scenes chronicle of the making of the 1998 Academy Award-winning film GODS AND MONSTERS starr ...
🎭 Kurt Dussander
6.5
1998
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war crim ...
🎭 Dr. James Kennedy
6.5
1998
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after t ...
🎭 James Whale
6.9
1998
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanie ...
🎭 Uncle Freddie
6.8
1997
Max (Clive Owen) es gay, y por ese motivo es enviado a Dachau, un campo de concentración bajo el régimen nazi. Max trata de negar su sexualidad y consigue una etiqueta amarilla, reservada para ...
1
1997
In the early 90's seventy youth from a Hollywood homeless shelter started a theatre project encouraging them to tell their stories.. The youth ran the gamut of racial, cultural and sexual identit ...
🎭 Narrator
2.5
1997
A Bit of Scarlet excavates clips from Britain's cinema archives to create a moving and humorous testament to the closeted gay and lesbian images from filmmaking's earliest days. ...
🎭 Self
0
1996
An Evening with Lily Savage ...
🎭 Tsar Nicholas II
6.4
1996
En la Rusia de fin de siglo XIX, con el Imperio al borde de la revolución, un hombre cambiará la historia para siempre. Es Rasputin, y le llaman el monje loco, pero muchos creen en sus poderes ...
🎭 Will Gates
6
1995
Restauración de la monarquía inglesa por parte de Carlos II (mediados del XVII). Tras ser llamado por el rey a palacio, Robert Maribell, un joven médico, sucumbe hasta tal punto a los placeres ...
🎭 Richard III
6.7
1995
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of Yo ...
🎭 William
6.7
1995
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a t ...
🎭 Amos Starkadder
6.6
1995
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. ...
🎭 Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
2.2
1994
Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and th ...
0
1994
Finished a quarter century after the earth-shaking protests that forever altered the public perception of LGBTQ people in America, Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest, produced by th ...
🎭 Dr. Reinhardt Lane
6
1994
Basado en un cómic de los años 30. "La Sombra" es un misterioso personaje que posee la facultad de hacerse invisible. Cuando no se encuentra combatiendo el mal, "La Sombra" toma la personalidad ...
🎭 Augustus Caesar (voice)
0
1994
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well- ...
🎭 John Earl McAlpine
5.6
1994
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding rel ...
🎭 Geoffrey
6.4
1993
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family. ...
🎭 Bill Kraus
6.4
1993
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it. ...
🎭 Percy Corcoran
5.8
1993
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West. ...
🎭 Narration (voice)
0
1993
An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story more bizarre than his fictional characters(inclu ...
🎭 Death
6.4
1993
Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater. After being given a magic ticket by theate ...
🎭 Adolf Hitler
5
1989
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caus ...
🎭 John Profumo
5.9
1989
Esta es la verdadera historia del caso Profumo, el escándalo sexual que hizo tambalear los cimientos del Reino Unido en 1963, en plena Guerra Fría. Todo comenzó en el momento en que Christine ...
🎭 Sir Andrew Charleson
5.6
1985
Susan Traherne ha sufrido una transformación irreversible debido a las terribles experiencias vividas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Profundamente impresionada por los héroes an ...
🎭 Dr. Theodore Cuza
5.8
1983
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un destacamento del ejército alemán se defiende de las tropas aliadas en un paraje montañoso en Rumanía. Allí se acuartelan en una misteriosa fortificació ...
🎭 Walter
7
1983
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter". ...
🎭 Chauvelin
6.8
1982
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as ...
0
1982
A record of McKellen's one-man Broadway show about the Bard. ...
🎭 D.H. Lawrence
5
1981
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return ...
🎭 Alexander Ivanov
0
1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidenc ...
🎭 Macbeth
7.4
1979
La clásica tragedia de Shakespeare de ambición, brujas y asesinatos. ...
0
1978
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs. ...
🎭 George Tesman
🎭 King Edward
4
1970
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile. ...
🎭 King Richard II
0
1970
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall. ...
🎭 Richard II
0
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death. ...
🎭 Scrooge (rumored)
🎭 Self
0
Anthony Hopkins has confirmed that his wife is working on a documentary about his life. ...
🎭 Roger
4.3
1969
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up ...
🎭 George
6.5
1969
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advi ...
🎭 Wolf
0
1965
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda. ...