Indeed it is! Listening to Tolkien’s voice both shaped McKellen’s depiction of Gandalf, and assured him that the adaptations were in keeping with the author’s original intent. “We found a ...

The 85-year-old took time out from the dancefloor to pose with two topless hunks as he joined revellers at Roast, a men-only club night in North London. While most partygoers wore very few items ...

Sir Ian McKellen is in "good spirits" and expected ... who is a former Bolton schoolboy and is currently portraying John Falstaff in Player Kings at the Noel Coward Theatre, lost his footing ...

Sir Ian McKellen and cast at the curtain call during ... I was in the audience when the accident happened. Sir Ian - who plays John Falstaff - had been circling a battle scene involving the ...

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If Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum features Viggo Mortensen reprising his original role as Aragorn, he will be older ...

From the moment John Hurt first set foot in Ireland, he felt a strong affinity to it - he felt that it was his home. Equipped with a family tale that his great grandmother, Emma Stafford ...

One of the best examples of this approach is the 1995 version of Richard III, which starred Ian McKellen in a tour de force performance that used Shakespeare's psychological examination of ...

Sir Ian said he hoped to "take the rest of the year off" from acting Sir Ian McKellen has said he has ... Sir Ian played John Falstaff in Player Kings - a production adapted by Robert Icke from ...

25 years on from first donning the wizard hat as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sir Ian McKellen is returning ... the stage playing Sir John Falstaff in a production ...

The longtime friends enjoyed sharing several special moments in their careers Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images; SGranitz/WireImage Sir Ian McKellen (left), Dame Maggie Smith Dame Maggie Smith ...

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