Biography: Ian McKellen |

Widely considered one of the leading British actors of his generation, Ian McKellen has had a rich and varied career encompassing the stage, screen, and television. A renowned stage actor in his native Britain for decades, McKellen was not familiar to... more
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Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 95min
Independent Canadian filmmaker Carl Bessai directs Emile, the final entry in his identity trilogy that started with Johnny and Lola. Ian McKellen plays Emile, a retired university professor who travels from England to his hometown in Canada in order...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Cast: Peter Jackson   
Tags: Epic Sword-and-Sorcery Fantasy Adventure Fantasy 
Length: 179min
The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular -Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring...

Cast: Halle Berry   
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Action Fantasy Superhero Film 
Length: 135min
When a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for the crime. While...

Cast: Patrick Stewart Hugh Jackman   
Tags: Fantasy Sci-Fi Action Action Superhero Film 
Length: 104min
One of the most popular superhero teams in comic book history finally comes to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Cast: Ian Holm   
Tags: Epic Sword-and-Sorcery Fantasy Adventure Fantasy 
Length: 165min
New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit...

Cast: Lynn Redgrave   
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Gay & Lesbian Films 
Length: 120min
Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton...

Cast: Maggie Smith Bob Hoskins   
Tags: Childhood Drama Drama Period Film 
Length: 186min
A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather,...

Cast: Kathy Bates   
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama 
Length: 120min
Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss...

Tags: Psychological Thriller Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 111min
Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's...

Cast: Ian McKellen Greta Scacchi   
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama Historical Film 
Length: 105min
Rasputin is a dramatization of the life story of one of the most intriguing figures in all history. A crude peasant from Siberia, Rasputin (Alan Rickman) was a self-styled charismatic holy man who traveled widely, openly engaging in drunkenness,...




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