Ian Holm
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)
- 2006 · Legends as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Strangers with Candy as Dr. Putney
- 2006 · Chromophobia as Edward Aylesbury
- 2005 · Lord of War as Simeon Weisz
- 2004 · The Aviator as Professor Fitz
- 2004 · Garden State as Gideon Largeman
- 2004 · The Day After Tomorrow as Terry Rapson
- 2003 · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Bilbo
- 2003 · Days That Shook the World 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 · The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Patrick
- 2000 · Bless the Child as Reverend Grissom
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Pontius Pilate (voice)
- 1999 · Animal Farm as Squealer (voice)
- 1999 · eXistenZ as Kiri Vinokur
- 1998 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as White Knight
- 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 · 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 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as The Tailor (voice)
- 1991 · Naked Lunch as Tom Frost
- 1991 · Kafka as Dr. Murnau
- 1991 · Performance as Sir William Collyer
- 1991 · Performance as Duff
- 1991 · Performance as Lear
- 1991 · Performance as Astrov
- 1990 · Hamlet as Polonius
- 1990 · Chillers as Christopher Waggoner
- 1989 · Henry V as Captain Fluellen
- 1988 · Another Woman as Ken
- 1988 · Game, Set, and Match as Bernard Samson
- 1985 · Dance with a Stranger as Desmond Cussen
- 1985 · Brazil as Mr. Kurtzmann
- 1985 · Screen Two as F.R. Leavis
- 1984 · Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · The Return of the Soldier as Doctor Anderson
- 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 · 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 · Robin and Marian as King John
- 1974 · Juggernaut as Nicholas Porter
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator (voice)
- 1972 · Young Winston as George E. Buckle
- 1971 · Mary, Queen of Scots as David Riccio
- 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Yakovlev
- 1970 · Play for Today as Alexei
- 1969 · Oh! What a Lovely War as President Poincare
- 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)
- 1964 · Horizon as Narrator
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Himmelstoss
- Future · A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Polonius (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Real Middle Earth as Narrator
- 2007 · The Treatment as Dr. Ernesto Morales
- 2006 · O Jerusalem as Ben Gurion
- 2005 · The Queen of Trees as Narrator
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · D-Day 6.6.1944 as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Last Dragon as Narrator
- 2003 · The Beast Within: Making Alien as (archive footage)
- 2003 · Monsters We Met as Narrator
- 2003 · Prisoner of Paradise as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Secret Agent as Narrator
- 2000 · Esther Kahn as Nathan Quellen
- 2000 · Beautiful Joe as George The Geek
- 2000 · Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Gould
- 1999 · Wisconsin Death Trip as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · The Match as Big Tam
- 1999 · Shergar as Joseph Maguire
- 1999 · Shanghai Vice as Himself - Narrator
- 1999 · Simon Magus as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
- 1998 · Tale of the Tides as Narrator
- 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 · The Deep Blue Sea as Sir William Collyer
- 1994 · Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom as (voice)
- 1992 · Blue Ice as Sir Hector
- 1992 · The Last Romantics as F.R. Leavis
- 1992 · Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Uncle Vanya as Astrov
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Polonius (archive footage)
- 1990 · A Season of Giants as Lorenzo de' Medici
- 1990 · Stalin as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · The Tailor of Gloucester as The Tailor
- 1989 · The Endless Game as Control
- 1989 · The Kingdom of Fun as Narrator
- 1988 · Korea: The Unknown War as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · The Fishing Party as Narrator
- 1986 · Cry From Home as Narrator
- 1986 · Murder by the Book as Hercule Poirot
- 1985 · The Browning Version as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- 1985 · Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill as Eustace Edgehill
- 1985 · Dreamchild as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- 1985 · Wetherby as Stanley Pilborough
- 1985 · Television as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · The Cost of Treachery as Narrator
- 1984 · Laughterhouse as Ben Singleton
- 1983 · Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Soft Targets as Alexei
- 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
- 1982 · The Bell as Michael Meade
- 1981 · Strike: The Birth of Solidarity as Lech Walesa
- 1980 · The Misanthrope as Alceste
- 1978 · The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
- 1978 · The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
- 1978 · Flayed as The Man
- 1977 · Jesus Of Nazareth as Zerah
- 1976 · Shout at the Devil as Mohammed
- 1974 · The Wood Demon as Khrushchov
- 1974 · Napoleon and Love as
- 1974 · The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Wedderburn
- 1973 · The Homecoming as Lenny
- 1972 · The Frighteners as
- 1971 · Funny as Huw
- 1971 · A Severed Head as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
- 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 · The Fixer as Grubeshov
- 1968 · Frankenstein as Frankenstein / The Monster
- 1968 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
- 1968 · The Bofors Gun as Gunner Flynn
- 1967 · Opus as Lenny (The Homecoming)
- 1965 · The Wars of the Roses as King Richard III
- 1963 · The Paradise Suite as Jamie Norton
- 1962 · The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov
- 1958 · Girls at Sea as Marine (uncredited)
- 1957 · Rope as Granillo