Ian McKellen

Person · Open Library

Born

1939

Works

9

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1939-05-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,186

Total plays

8,574

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939), is an English actor of stage and screen. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known to many for roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films. THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: King Lear / The Seagull Dir Trevor Nunn (RSC); <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ian+McKellen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

2. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 25,538x

3. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,564x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,616x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

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Quotes

• “I think this country will be a healthier place if people in public life who are gay, announce that they are gay and left it at that so that the majority in society would understand that homosexuals are their friends, their supporters and a major contribution to the cultural and healthy life of this nation.”
• “The audience I play to really is the bright 14-year-old: someone who is capable of sitting still and listening and watching and feeling for even three hours. I know, as I did at that age, they'll potentially have their lives changed.”
• “Heterosexuality is far too interesting a phenomenon to be ignored.”
• “Well, nobody looks to Hollywood for social commentary, do they? They only recently discovered that there were black people in the world.”
• “Hollywood has mistreated women in every possible way throughout its history. Gay men don't exist.”
• “There aren't many plays in which a character says "Has the doctor looked at my sample yet?" He knows he is old, that soon he will die. The Henry plays are the great England plays: you get a sense of the country from top to bottom, from monarch to prostitute, from Westminster to Cheapside. But they are also about death. The plays are immortal and I am not. So I hitch a lift on the back.”

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