"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 ...

Tolkien's wizard, Gandalf (played famously by Ian McKellan), isn't just one of the ... lived much of his life as Gandalf the ...

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.

Ian McKellen modeled his Gandalf performance on J.R.R. Tolkien's 'smoky voice' Ian McKellen returns to a dark era of gay history with The Critic: 'I didn't have to do any research' Ian McKellen ...

Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, who played Merry and Pippin, are set to reunite with Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf, in a new TV show. The pair released the trailer for their new food ...

Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them ...

SIR Ian is one of the most gifted and widely-respected actors on the planet - appearing in some of Hollywood's biggest films. But there is so much more to the man who brought Gandalf the Grey to ...

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 ...