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Ian McKellen Filmography

Can you guess Sir Ian McKellen's legendary filmography?
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#1
Plays
1953, 1962
Ten Little N*****s
1958
The Apple Cart
1958
Camino Real
1959
A Month in the Country
1959
Henry IV, Part 2
1959
Deutsches Haus
1959
Love's Labours
1959
Saint's Day
1959
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1959, 1978
Three Sisters
1960
Cymbeline
1960
The Duenna
1960
Lullaby of Park Street
1960
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
1960
Twelfth Night
1960
The Wild Duck
1960
Cards of Identity
1960, 1974-1975
Dr. Faustus
1961
The Birthday Party
1961
Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3
1961
The Country Wife
1961
The Lark
1961
Caesar and Cleopatra
1961
A Man for All Seasons
1961
When We Are Married
1961
You Never Can Tell
1961
Black Coffee
1961
Celebration
1961
End of Conflict
1961
Mr. Pickwick
1961-1962
Toad of Toad Hall
1962
The Bride Comes Back
1962
Happy Returns
1962
The Irregular Verb to Love
1962
Noah
1962
Semi-Detached
1962
Becket
1962
The Gazebo
1962
Caste
1962
The Big Killing
1962
The Amorous Pawn
1962
The Keep
1962
David Copperfield
1962-1963
Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp
1962, 1965
Much Ado About Nothing
1962, 1998, 2007-2008
The Seagull
1963
How Dare We!
1963
Henry V
1963
Under Milk Wood
1963
Arsenic and Old Lace
1963
The Big Contract
1963
Long Day's Journey into Night
1963
To Dorothy a Son
1963
I, John Brown
1963
Salad Days
1963
The Corn Is Green
1963
The Public Eye
1963
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
1963
All in Good Time
1963-1964, 1984
Coriolanus
1964
The Life in My Hands
1964
The Bashful Genius
1964
The Mayor of Zalamea
1964
Morning
1964
Sir Thomas More
1964
A Scent of Flowers
1965
Armstrong's Last Goodnight
1965
Trelawny of the 'Wells'
1966
The Man of Destiny
1966
A Lily in Little India
1966
Their Very Own and Golden City
1966
O'Flaherty V.C.
1966-1967
The Promise
1968
The White Liars
1968
Black Comedy
1968-1970
Richard II
1969
The Bacchae
1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969-1970
Edward II
1970
Billy's Last Stand
1970
The Recruiting Officer
1970
Chips with Everything
1971
The Swan Song
1971, 1989, 2021-2022
Hamlet
1972
Ruling the Roost
1972
The Three Arrows
1972, 1974
Tis Pity She's a Whore
1973, 1974
Knots
1973-1974
The Way of the World
1973-1974
The Wood Demon
1974
The Marquis of Keith
1974, 1990, 2007-2008, 2017-2018
King Lear
1975
King John
1975
Ashes
1975
Too True to be Good
1976
The Winter's Tale
1976-1977
Romeo and Juliet
1976-1978
Macbeth
1977
Pillars of the Community
1977
The Days of the Commune
1977
Acting Shakespeare
1977-1978
The Alchemist
1977, 1982
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1978
A Miserable and Lonely Death
1978
Is There Honey Still for Tea?
1978-1979
Twelfth Night/Three Sisters
1979, 1989, 1990
Bent
1980-1983
Amadeus
1981
A Night in Old Peking
1983
Short List
1983
Cowardice
1984
Venice Preserv'd
1984, 1986-1987
Wild Honey
1985-1986
The Duchess of Malfi
1985-1986
The Real Inspector Hound
1985-1986
The Critic
1985, 2021
The Cherry Orchard
1988-1989
Henceforward...
1989
Othello
1989
Hedda Gabler
1989
Whale
1989
Ghetto
1989
The Misanthrope
1989
The March on Russia
1989
Juno and the Paycock
1989
The Secret Rapture
1989
The Voysey Inheritance
1989
Fuente Ovejuna
1989
Tango Varsoviano
1989
The Grapes of Wrath
1989
The Shaughraun
1989
Speed-the-Plow
1989
The Long Wat Round
1989
Schism in England
1989
Suicide for Love
1989
The Magic Carpet
1989
Man Beast and Virtue
1989
The Beaux Stratagem
1989
The Good Person of Sichaun
1989
Salome
1989
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1989, 1992
Uncle Vanya
1990
Chip in the Sugar
1990-1992
Richard III
1991
Napoli Milionara
1993-1997
A Knight Out
1997
Peter Pan
1997-1998
An Enemy of the People
1998
Present Laughter
1999
The Tempest
2001-2002, 2003, 2004
The Dance of Death
2004-2005, 2005-2006
Aladdin
2006
The Cut
2009-2010, 2013-2014
Waiting for Godot
2011
The Syndicate
2013
Luther
2013-2014, 2016
No Man's Land
2017
Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others and You
2019
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
2019
Whodunnit
2019-2020
Freestyle Love Supreme
#2
TV Shows
1964
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
1965
The Wednesday Play
1966
David Copperfield
1968, 1970, 1972, 1973
BBC Play of the Month
1970
Solo
1972
Country Matters
1972
ITV Sunday Night Theatre
1972
BBC Show of the Week
1974
ITV Playhouse
1978
Jackanory
1979
BBC2 Playhouse
1980
Armchair Thriller
1980
Play for Today
1990
Theatre Night
1995
Live from the Lilydrome
2002
Saturday Night Live
2003
The Simpsons
2005
Coronation Street
2006
Extras
2008
Great Performances
2012
Doctor Who
2013-2016
Vicious
2018
Family Guy
2022
The Degineers
 
 
#3
TV Films
1965
Sunday Out of Season
1970
The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970
Edward II
1970
Hamlet
1979
A Performance of Macbeth
1982
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982
Walter
1983
Walter and June
1989
Countdown to War
1993
And the Band Played On
1995
Cold Comfort Farm
1996
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
2006
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
2008
King Lear
2015
The Dresser
#4
Films
1969
The Promise
1969
Alfred the Great
1969
A Touch of Love
1981
Priest of Love
1983
The Keep
1985
Plenty
1985
Zina
1989
Scandal
1993
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
Last Action Hero
1994
To Die For
1994
The Shadow
1994
I'll Do Anything
1995
Restoration
1995
Richard III
1995
Jack and Sarah
1997
Swept from the Sea
1997
Bent
1998
Gods and Monsters
1998
Apt Pupil
1999
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
X-Men
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
Emile
2003
X2
2004
Eighteen
2005
Neverwas
2005
Asylum
2005
The Magic Roundabout
2006
Flushed Away
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
The Da Vinci Code
2006
Displaced
2007
Stardust
2007
The Golden Compass
2009
The Academy Part 2: First Impressions
2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2013
The Wolverine
2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2014
Miss in Her Teens
2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015
Mr. Holmes
2016
Look Back in Anger
2017
Beauty and the Beast
2017
Animal Crackers
2018
All Is True
2018
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2019
The Good Liar
2019
Cats
2021
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
2023
Hamlet Within
2023
The Critic
TBA
Schadenfreude
 
 
#5
Documentary Series
1969, 1971
Omnibus
1992
Anglia at War
1997
Great Composers
2004
Arena
#6
Documentary Mini-Series
1981
Pillar of Fire
2003-2004
Churchill
 
 
#7
TV Specials
1982
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
2009
Premio Donostia a Ian McKellen
2012
The Academy: Special
2016
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
 
 
#8
TV Mini-Series
1988
Windmills of the Gods
1993
Tales of the City
1999
David Copperfield
2009
The Prisoner
 
 
#9
Music Videos
1988
Heart
2014
Listen to the Man
 
 
#10
Documentaries
1988
Süleyman the Magnificent
1997
A Bit of Scarlet
1997
Surviving Friendly Fire
2006
Saint of 9/11
2014
The Road to Rome
2017
McKellen: Playing the Part
 
 
#11
TV Documentaries
1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
2001
Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
2015
Muslim Drag Queens
2022
Happy Birthday Bill
 
 
#12
Video Games
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
2006
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king
 
 
#13
Audiobook
2004
The Tempest
 
 
#14
Radio Plays
2006
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2009
Walter Now
2010
Goldfinger: The Radio Play
 
 
#15
Short Films
2007
For the Love of God
2009
The Academy
2010
Small-Time Revolutionary
2010
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
2010
E'gad, Zombies!
2011
Lady Grey London
2011
Claude et Claudette
2013
The Egg Trick
2016
The Roof
2017
Edmund the Magnificent
2019
The King and the Master Builder
2019
Darrylgorn
2020
Herbie
2023
The One Note Man
 
 
#16
TV Short
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
 
 
#17
Short Documentaries
2014
I Am the Flame
2017
Random Acts: Ian McKellen on Growing Up Gay and Coming Out
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