He provided the voice of Iorek Byrnison in The Golden Compass, and you may have seen another of his characters trapped on a bridge and shouting "You shall not pass!"
Chances are you didn't see this man playing Chauvelin in the 1982 adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, or as Dr. Peter Cleave in Asylum. It's more likely you saw him portraying James Whale in Gods and Monsters, or playing himself on The Simpsons and getting struck by lightning because people keep saying "MacBeth". He provided the voice of Iorek Byrnison in The Golden Compass, and you may have seen another of his characters trapped on a bridge and shouting "You shall not pass!" FTP, name this British actor and gay rights activist, best-known for playing Magneto in X-Men and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings.
Chances are you didn't see this man playing Chauvelin in the 1982 adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, or as Dr. Peter Cleave in Asylum.
Sir Ian {McKellen}