He is to portray the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who will be reprising his role as Gandalf.

A common sketch will start up with a set-up of the scene ( e. g. a Schwarzenegger-esque action hero battling armed men in an action film ), then McKellen will burst onto the screen in an electric wheelchair and mock the protagonist of the sketch ( often he opens with the line: " I'm Ian McKellen aka Doctor Death!

Besides their archive footages, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, and Ian McKellen reprise their roles in the video game with new dialogue that was recorded.

Fellow actor and friend, Sir Ian McKellen, said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life ; McKellen called it " the perfect Hamlet ".

Both Ian McKellen in the title role and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth received exceptionally favourable reviews.

On 25 April 2008, ITV announced that the new series would go into production, and in June 2008, that American actor James Caviezel would star in the role of Number 6, with Ian McKellen taking on the role of Number 2 in all six episodes.

He was nominated for his first Tony Award ( Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ) for this role, but lost out to his co-star Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri.

Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ( 2001 – 2003 ) directed by Peter Jackson, though Sean Connery was also offered the role.

Guare adapted the play for film released in 1993 directed by Fred Schepisi with Stockard Channing ( reprising her role as Ouisa Kittredge ), Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Anthony Rapp and Will Smith.

It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen and Sting in the role of the soldier.

Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices.

Both Ian McKellen in the title role and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth received exceptionally favourable reviews.

Starring Ian McKellen as Richard ( reprising his role from the stage production ), John Wood as Edward, Nigel Hawthorne as George and Annette Bening as Queen Elizabeth, the film begins prior to the Battle of Tewkesbury, with Henry VI ( portrayed by Edward Jewesbury ) still in power.

A critically acclaimed drama it starred Ian McKellen in the eponymous lead role as a handicapped man adjusting to life after the death of his mother.

Nunn directed the RSC production of Macbeth starring Ian McKellen in the title role and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth in 1976.

Nunn's television production of King Lear was screened on Boxing Day, 2008 with McKellen in the title role.

The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley ( also famed from her role as Patsy in the British TV comedy " Absolutely Fabulous ") as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as Mrs Hawk-Monitor.

It starred William Gaunt and Ian McKellen as Sorin ( who alternated with William Gaunt in the role, as McKellen also played the title role in King Lear ), Richard Goulding as Treplyov, Frances Barber as Arkadina, Jonathan Hyde as Dorn, Monica Dolan as Masha, and Romola Garai as Nina.

Sir Thomas More has been acted in whole or in part several times as a radio play, twice by BBC Third Programme ( 1948, 1956 ), by the Austrian public radio ORF in 1960, and then again by BBC Radio 3 in 1983 with Ian McKellen playing the title role.

McKellen also played the role at the Nottingham Playhouse 10 June-4 July 1964, taking over from John Neville on short notice, when the latter had artistic differences with director Frank Dunlop during rehearsals.

Many famous actors have taken on the role ( especially those of the aforementioned body type ), notably Bert Lahr, Sir Ian McKellen and Robin Williams ( with Steve Martin as Vladimir ).

Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

David Dickinson, John Prescott, Robin Cook, Gandalf, David Cameron, Magneto and Ian McKellen, Professor Robert Winston, Dr Rowan Williams, David Blunkett, Tom Paulin, Saddam Hussein, Peter Mandelson, Graham Norton, Martin Jarvis, Trevor McDonald ( on radio ), Bob Geldof, Ken Livingstone, Brian Blessed, Luciano Pavarotti, Monty Don, Richard Briers, Patrick Stewart, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Toby Ziegler, Donald Rumsfeld, Adam Hart-Davis, Hannibal Lecter ( on radio ), Lord Voldemort ( on radio ), Hercule Poirot, Second Doctor & Patrick Troughton, Bernard Matthews, Rocky Balboa, Al Gore, George Lamb

McKellen was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Whale.

Also notable are the 1995 film version starring Sir Ian McKellen, set in a fictional 1930s fascist England, and Looking for Richard, a 1996 documentary film directed by Al Pacino, who plays the title character as well as himself.

It ran for 1, 181 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards ( best actor for both McKellen and Curry, best director for Peter Hall, best play, best costume design, lighting, and set design for John Bury ), of which it won five ( including a best actor Tony for McKellen ).< ref >

For the first film, McKellen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Father of Frankenstein served as the basis of the 1998 film Gods and Monsters with Ian McKellen as Whale and Brendan Fraser as Boone.

** Richard III ( 1995 film ), a film starring Ian McKellen

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* Marco Williamson in the 1995 film version, alongside Ian McKellen as Richard.

Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst, as well as politician Lord David Owen .< ref >< cite > David Owen biography accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > Limehouse was also the home of the late film director Sir David Lean.

The two best-known film versions are those with Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen.

McKellen wrote the screenplay for his film version, although he did not direct it.

Richard Loncraine's 1995 film, starring Ian McKellen, is set in a fictional fascist England in the 1930s, and based on an earlier highly successful stage production.

After appearing in the finale of Sean Bean's series Sharpe as HRH The Prince of Orange at the Battle of Waterloo, he made his film debut with a small part in Bent, a Holocaust drama which also featured Clive Owen, Jude Law, and Ian McKellen.

Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West.

Includes McKellen introducing a clip from his film.

His 1995 novel Father of Frankenstein, about film director James Whale, was made into the 1998 movie Gods and Monsters starring Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser.

On 3 April 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Goldfinger with Toby Stephens ( who played villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day ) as Bond, Ian McKellen as Goldfinger and Stephens ' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike as Pussy Galore.

On 3 July 2011, a radio adaptation directed by Martin Jarvis was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 starring Ian McKellen as Sartorius, Charles Dance as William Cokane, Honeysuckle Weeks as Blanche, Dan Stevens as Harry Trench and Tim Pigott-Smith as Lickcheese.

The insignia for Oberst-Gruppenführer is also worn by Ian McKellen as the dictator-king Richard III in the film adaptation of the play, set in 1930s Great Britain.