Ian Holm
September 12, 1931 (93 years old) in Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Old Bilbo Baggins
- 2012 · The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Old Bilbo Baggins
- 2009 · 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth as Geschichtenerzähler
- 2007 · Ratatouille as Skinner (voice)
- 2007 · The Real Middle Earth as Narrator
- 2007 · The Treatment as Dr. Ernesto Morales
- 2006 · Legends as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · O Jerusalem as Ben Gurion
- 2006 · Strangers with Candy as Dr. Putney
- 2006 · Chromophobia as Edward Aylesbury
- 2005 · The Queen of Trees as Narrator
- 2005 · Lord of War as Simeon Weisz
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Aviator as Professor Fitz
- 2004 · Garden State as Gideon Largeman
- 2004 · D-Day 6.6.1944 as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Day After Tomorrow as Terry Rapson
- 2004 · The Last Dragon as Narrator
- 2003 · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Bilbo
- 2003 · The Beast Within: Making Alien as (archive footage)
- 2003 · Days That Shook the World as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Monsters We Met as Narrator
- 2003 · Prisoner of Paradise as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Bilbo
- 2001 · The Emperor's New Clothes as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
- 2001 · From Hell as Sir William Gull
- 2000 · Esther Kahn as Nathan Quellen
- 2000 · The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Patrick
- 2000 · Bless the Child as Reverend Grissom
- 2000 · Beautiful Joe as George The Geek
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Pontius Pilate (voice)
- 2000 · Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Gould
- 1999 · Animal Farm as Squealer (voice)
- 1999 · Wisconsin Death Trip as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · The Match as Big Tam
- 1999 · eXistenZ as Kiri Vinokur
- 1999 · Shanghai Vice as Himself - Narrator
- 1999 · Simon Magus as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
- 1998 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as White Knight
- 1998 · Tale of the Tides as Narrator
- 1997 · Incognito as John (uncredited)
- 1997 · A Life Less Ordinary as Mr. Naville
- 1997 · The Sweet Hereafter as Mitchell Stephens
- 1997 · The Fifth Element as Cornelius
- 1997 · Night Falls on Manhattan as Liam Casey
- 1996 · Big Night as Pascal
- 1996 · Loch Ness as Water Bailiff
- 1994 · The Madness of King George as Willis
- 1994 · The Deep Blue Sea as Sir William Collyer
- 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
- 1993 · The Borrowers as Pod
- 1993 · The Return of the Borrowers as Pod
- 1993 · The Hour of the Pig as Albertus
- 1992 · The Borrowers as Pod
- 1992 · Blue Ice as Sir Hector
- 1992 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as The Tailor (voice)
- 1991 · Naked Lunch as Tom Frost
- 1991 · Kafka as Dr. Murnau
- 1991 · Uncle Vanya as Astrov
- 1991 · Performance as Sir William Collyer
- 1991 · Performance as Duff
- 1991 · Performance as Lear
- 1991 · Performance as Astrov
- 1990 · Hamlet as Polonius
- 1990 · A Season of Giants as Lorenzo de' Medici
- 1990 · Chillers as Christopher Waggoner
- 1989 · Henry V as Captain Fluellen
- 1989 · The Endless Game as Control
- 1988 · Another Woman as Ken
- 1988 · Game, Set, and Match as Bernard Samson
- 1988 · Korea: The Unknown War as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · Murder by the Book as Hercule Poirot
- 1985 · Dreamchild as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- 1985 · Wetherby as Stanley Pilborough
- 1985 · Dance with a Stranger as Desmond Cussen
- 1985 · Brazil as Mr. Kurtzmann
- 1985 · Television as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1985 · Screen Two as F.R. Leavis
- 1984 · The Cost of Treachery as Narrator
- 1984 · Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
- 1983 · Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · The Return of the Soldier as Doctor Anderson
- 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
- 1982 · The Bell as Michael Meade
- 1981 · Time Bandits as Napoleon
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
- 1980 · S.O.S. Titanic as J. Bruce Ismay
- 1979 · All Quiet on the Western Front as Himmelstoss
- 1979 · Alien as Ash
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Alan Corwin
- 1978 · Les Misérables as Thénardier
- 1978 · The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
- 1978 · Holocaust as Heinrich Himmler
- 1978 · The Thief of Baghdad as The Gatekeeper
- 1977 · March or Die as El Krim
- 1977 · The Man in the Iron Mask as Duval
- 1977 · Jesus of Nazareth as Zerah
- 1976 · Shout at the Devil as Mohammed
- 1976 · Robin and Marian as King John
- 1974 · The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Wedderburn
- 1974 · Juggernaut as Nicholas Porter
- 1974 · Napoleon and Love as
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator (voice)
- 1973 · The Homecoming as Lenny
- 1972 · Young Winston as George E. Buckle
- 1972 · The Frighteners as
- 1971 · Mary, Queen of Scots as David Riccio
- 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Yakovlev
- 1971 · A Severed Head as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
- 1970 · Play for Today as Alexei
- 1969 · Oh! What a Lovely War as President Poincare
- 1968 · The Fixer as Grubeshov
- 1968 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
- 1968 · The Bofors Gun as Gunner Flynn
- 1966 · Mystery and Imagination as
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Oedipus
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Khrushchov
- 1965 · National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
- 1965 · The Wars of the Roses as King Richard III
- 1964 · Horizon as Narrator
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Polonius (archive footage)
- 2001 · Secret Agent as Narrator
- 1999 · Shergar as Joseph Maguire
- 1998 · King Lear as King Lear
- 1996 · A Little Fish in Deep Water as Narrator
- 1995 · Little Red Riding Hood as Don Mini
- 1995 · Landscape as Duff
- 1994 · Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom as (voice)
- 1993 · The Tailor of Gloucester as The Tailor (voice)
- 1993 · The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
- 1992 · The Last Romantics as F.R. Leavis
- 1992 · Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Polonius (archive footage)
- 1990 · Stalin as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · The Tailor of Gloucester as The Tailor
- 1989 · The Kingdom of Fun as Narrator
- 1986 · The Fishing Party as Narrator
- 1986 · Cry From Home as Narrator
- 1985 · The Browning Version as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- 1985 · Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill as Eustace Edgehill
- 1984 · Laughterhouse as Ben Singleton
- 1982 · Soft Targets as Alexei
- 1981 · Strike: The Birth of Solidarity as Lech Walesa
- 1980 · The Misanthrope as Alceste
- 1978 · The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
- 1978 · Flayed as The Man
- 1977 · Jesus Of Nazareth as Zerah
- 1974 · The Wood Demon as Khrushchov
- 1971 · Funny as Huw
- 1970 · The End of the Line as Reverend P. Bagley
- 1970 · Emma's Time as Mark Lang
- 1969 · Omri's Burning as Omri
- 1969 · Moonlight on the Highway as
- 1969 · Edward the Confessor as Edward Gobey
- 1968 · Frankenstein as Frankenstein / The Monster
- 1967 · Opus as Lenny (The Homecoming)
- 1963 · The Paradise Suite as Jamie Norton
- 1962 · The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov
- 1958 · Girls at Sea as Marine (uncredited)
- 1957 · Rope as Granillo
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Himmelstoss