Name - Ian Murray McKellen
DOB - May 25, 1939
Born - Burnley, England
Height - 5"11"
Eyes - Blue
Hair - White
Character In LotR - Gandalf
Films
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Gandalf
Emile (2003) - Emile
X-Men 2 (2003) - Eric Lensherr/Magneto
The Two Towers (2002) - Gandalf
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Gandalf
William Shakespeare (2000) - Richard III
X-Men (2000) - Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (2000) (voice) - Narrator
Apt Pupil (1998) - Kurt Dussander
Gods and Monsters (1998) - James Whale
Swept from the Sea (1997) - Dr. James Kennedy
Bent (1997) - Uncle Freddie
Restoration (1995) - Will Gates
Richard III (1995) - Richard III
Jack and Sarah (1995) - William
To Die For (1994) (voice) - Quilt Documentary Narrator
The Shadow (1994) - Dr. Reinhardt Lane
I'll Do Anything (1994) - John Earl McAlpine
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) - Geoffrey
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) - Percy Corcoran
Last Action Hero (1993) - Death
Scandal (1989) - John Profumo
Zina (1985) - Kronfeld
Plenty (1985) - Sir Andrew Charleson
The Keep (1983) - Dr. Theodore Cuza
Priest of Love (1981) - D. H. Lawrence
The Promise (1969) - Leonidik
Alfred the Great (1969) - Roger
A Touch of Love (1969) - George Matthews
Television
David Copperfield (1999) - Creakle
Rasputin (1996) - Tsar Nicholas II
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) - Amos Starkadder
And the Band Played On (1993) - Bill Kraus
Tales of the City (1993) - Archibald Anson Gidde
Sleepers (1991) - Andre Zorin
Othello (1990) - Iago
Countdown to War (1989) - Adolf Hitler
Windmills of the Gods (1988) - Chairman
Walter and June (1983)- Walter
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) - Chauvelin
Walter (1982) - Walter
Dying Day (1980) - Anthony Skipling
Amud Ha'Esh (1979) - Narrator (English Version)
Macbeth (1979) - Macbeth
The Recruiting Officer (1973) - Capt. Plume
Hamlet (1972) - Hamlet
Hedda Gabler (1972) - George Tesman
Edward II (1970) - King Edward
The Tragedy of King Richard II (1970) - Richard II
Ross (1970) - T.E. Lawrence
Keats (1970) - John Keats
Hay Fever (1968) - Simon Bliss
David Copperfield (1966) - David Copperfield (episodes 5-13)
Sunday Out of Season (1965) - Victor Leech
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965)
Quotes
'The Lord of the Rings is a mythology. It is a fairy tale. It's an adventure story. It never happened..except somewhere in our hearts. And yet, there was Hobbiton in three dimensions and smoke coming out of the holes where they live underground. And I believed.'
'I can't be everybody's Gandalf, I have to be the Gandalf that belongs in this particular movie and he comes out of myself, out of the script, and out of my response to it. If that Gandalf happens to accord with every other people's Gandalf, I shall be delighted.'
'Many unthinking people just don't like the idea of gays joining in their games, nor in the military and, it would seem, in the movies.'