Ian McKellen has revealed why he never played Dumbledore after being offered the role in Harry Potter following Richard ...

The legendary thespian was offered the role of the iconic Hogwarts headmaster - but decided he 'couldn't do it'.

The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf the Grey faces off against the Balrog of Morgoth in the Mines of Moria. The wizard ...

Decades later, it's interesting to think about how different "The Lord of the Rings" franchise could have looked like had ...

Gandalf forgetting Lord of the Rings' Blue Wizards' names in The Hobbit was even funnier than the mildly insulting put-down ...

Sir Ian McKellen may have brought many iconic characters to life but none more so than Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, but even ...

Discover the many Lord of the Rings souvenirs that Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf, has kept including the keys to Bag ...

Jared Harris has spoken about how his father, the late actor Richard Harris, was once offered the roles of two wizard characters at the same time. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

Harris’ middle son and fellow actor, Jared, told The Times just why his dad had turned down playing Gandalf. “Dad was offered Gandalf and Dumbledore at the same time, but he didn’t want to spend all ...

Movie lovers were stunned after realising an X-Men star wasn't even meant to appear in the films, only being cast after the ...

In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment ...