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Age 87

HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPARISON

Age 90

#41

Current Rank

Not Ranked

#3

Peak Rank

#6

43

Years Ranked

46

6

Years in Top 10

3

28.2

Average Rank

34.0

42

Theatrical Releases

46

Beauty and the Beast $504.0 Million

Biggest Hit

Captain America: The Winter Soldier $259.8 Million

$3.9 Billion

Career Domestic
Box Office

$2.6 Billion

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CAREER RANKING HISTORY

Ian McKellen Robert Redford

FILMOGRAPHY COMPARISON

Ian McKellen

42 theatrical releases • $3.9 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office Domestic BO
2026 The Christophers $1.8 Million
2024 The Critic $449,020
2019 Cats $27.2 Million
2019 The Good Liar $17.2 Million
2019 All Is True $1.2 Million

Robert Redford

46 theatrical releases • $2.6 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office Domestic BO
2019 Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million
2018 Buttons A New Musical Film $151,983
2018 The Old Man & the Gun $11.3 Million
2017 Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary $16,397
2016 Pete's Dragon $76.2 Million