2002 as Gandalf the Grey in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'
I like him most in the X-Men-movies and in 'The Da Vinci Code' (2006)
he was knighted in 1990
his mother Margery Lois McKellen died in 1951
his father Denis Murray McKellen died in a car crash in 1964, a week after seeing his son Ian in his West End debut
he has an older sister, Jean (* 1934)