The Lord of the Rings may well welcome Ian McKellen back to his role as Gandalf, and with Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 teasing its own Gandalf appearance, there could be two ...

Sir Ian McKellen may have brought many iconic characters to life but none more so than Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, but even that had its moments ...

Ian McKellen has revealed why he never played Dumbledore after being offered the role in Harry Potter following Richard ...

The legendary thespian was offered the role of the iconic Hogwarts headmaster - but decided he 'couldn't do it'.

"I'm told Gandalf's involved but I'm not yet told how much he's going to be paid.” 25 years on from first donning the wizard hat as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ...

Ian McKellen has said he’ll star in a recently announced Lord of the Rings franchise – on one morbid condition. The actor, ...

The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf the Grey faces off against the Balrog of Morgoth in the Mines of Moria. The wizard manages to cast it into the abyss, but at the last moment, one of its tentacles ...

Sir Ian McKellen “I found myself on stage with ... which is absolutely lovely.” He thinks Gandalf and Magneto are handy characters for crowd control Putting the X-Men films in the same ...

Discover the many Lord of the Rings souvenirs that Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf, has kept including the keys to Bag End.

Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf the Grey in "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug," discusses whether the wizard may or may not be gay, in this excerpt from a conversation with WSJ's Barbara Chai.

Jared Harris has spoken about how his father, the late actor Richard Harris, was once offered the roles of two wizard characters at the same time. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939 ... Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), Magneto in the X-Men films, and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012 ...