If you were making a league table of famous fictional wizards, Dumbledore and Gandalf ... in 2002 after filming the first two Harry Potter films, was Ian McKellen (a.k.a. Gandalf) not considered ...

Getting an invitation to Hogwarts is a Harry Potter fan's dream ... That was almost reality for Ian McKellen who was asked to take on the role of Albus Dumbledore following the death of Richard ...

Richard famously played Albus Dumbledore ... would I be interested in being in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, they didn’t say in what part,” McKellen said on the BBC’s HARDtalk with Stephen ...

With the Harry Potter TV series starting filming in the ... Other names being thrown around by fans are Ian McKellen, Denzel Washington and even Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black in the film ...