Stewart's classical theater chops invested genre film and television roles with unlikely dramatic weight, psychological depth and piercing feeling.

McKellen and Stewart led the original 'X-Men' franchise for 20th Century Fox, portraying Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr and Professor Charles Xavier, respectively.

Sir Pat Stew's collaborator on his 2023 memoir, 'Making It So,' retraces the late actor's unlikely second act, plucked from the Shakespearean stage and placed at the helm 'USS Enterprise' — and a nonpareil Hollywood career.

Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles at 86 following “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak announced.

Silver screen legend Patrick Stewart, who gained fans the world over for generations starring in iconic rolls from "Star Trek's" Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" franchise, has died. He was 86. 

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