Gods and Monsters

…portrayed director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, for best actor. He later played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003), a film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic

…in Bill Condon’s affecting film Gods and Monsters (1998), in which Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Whale in the final months of his life.