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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 12, 1931
Place of Birth:
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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Ian Holm
Biography
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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Polonius (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) |
| 2007 | The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales |
| 2007 | The Real Middle Earth | Narrator |
| 2006 | Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney |
| 2006 | Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury |
| 2006 | O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion |
| 2005 | Lord of War | Simeon Weisz |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | The Queen of Trees | Narrator |
| 2004 | Garden State | Gideon Largeman |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Professor Fitz |
| 2004 | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self |
| 2004 | The Last Dragon | Narrator |
| 2004 | The Making of the Return of the King | Self |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo |
| 2003 | Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | The Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage) |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo |
| 2001 | From Hell | Sir William Gull |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand |
| 2000 | Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould |
| 2000 | Beautiful Joe | George The Geek |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur |
| 1999 | Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Shergar | Joseph Maguire |
| 1999 | The Match | Big Tam |
| 1999 | Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil |
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight |
| 1998 | Tale of the Tides | Narrator |
| 1998 | King Lear | King Lear |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Cornelius |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville |
| 1997 | Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey |
| 1997 | Incognito | John (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Big Night | Pascal |
| 1996 | Loch Ness | Water Bailiff |
| 1996 | A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator |
| 1995 | Landscape | Duff |
| 1995 | Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein |
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | Willis |
| 1994 | Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | (voice) |
| 1994 | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Albertus |
| 1993 | The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice) |
| 1993 | The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald) |
| 1992 | Blue Ice | Sir Hector |
| 1992 | The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis |
| 1992 | Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Kafka | Dr. Murnau |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost |
| 1991 | Uncle Vanya | Astrov |
| 1991 | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Polonius (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Polonius |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 1989 | Henry V | Captain Fluellen |
| 1989 | The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor |
| 1989 | The Endless Game | Control |
| 1989 | The Kingdom of Fun | Narrator |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Ken |
| 1986 | Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot |
| 1986 | Cry From Home | Narrator |
| 1986 | The Fishing Party | Narrator |
| 1985 | Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen |
| 1985 | Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough |
| 1985 | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill |
| 1985 | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris |
| 1985 | Visions of Power | Narrator |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot |
| 1984 | Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton |
| 1984 | The Cost of Treachery | Narrator |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson |
| 1983 | Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels |
| 1982 | Soft Targets | Alexei |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Napoleon |
| 1981 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa |
| 1980 | S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay |
| 1980 | The Misanthrope | Alceste |
| 1979 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss |
| 1979 | Alien | Ash |
| 1978 | Les Misérables | Thénardier |
| 1978 | The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie |
| 1978 | Flayed | The Man |
| 1977 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval |
| 1977 | March or Die | El Krim |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | King John |
| 1976 | Shout at the Devil | Mohammed |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter |
| 1974 | The Wood Demon | Khrushchov |
| 1973 | The Homecoming | Lenny |
| 1972 | Young Winston | George E. Buckle |
| 1971 | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio |
| 1971 | Funny | Huw |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev |
| 1970 | Emma's Time | Mark Lang |
| 1970 | The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare |
| 1969 | Moonlight on the Highway | |
| 1969 | Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey |
| 1969 | Omri's Burning | Omri |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Grubeshov |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck |
| 1968 | Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn |
| 1967 | Opus | Lenny (The Homecoming) |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses | King Richard III |
| 1963 | The Paradise Suite | Jamie Norton |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea | Marine (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Rope | Granillo |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth | Geschichtenerzähler |
| 2006 | Legends | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Monsters We Met | Narrator |
| 2001 | Secret Agent | Narrator |
| 1999 | Shanghai Vice | Himself - Narrator |
| 1993 | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod |
| 1992 | The Borrowers | Pod |
| 1992 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | The Tailor (voice) |
| 1991 | Performance | Sir William Collyer |
| 1991 | Performance | Duff |
| 1991 | Performance | Lear |
| 1991 | Performance | Astrov |
| 1990 | Chillers | Christopher Waggoner |
| 1990 | Stalin | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Game, Set, and Match | Bernard Samson |
| 1988 | Korea: The Unknown War | Narrator (voice) |
| 1985 | Television | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1985 | Screen Two | F.R. Leavis |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator |
| 1982 | The Bell | Michael Meade |
| 1981 | 40 Minutes | Narrator |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Alan Corwin |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Zerah |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love | |
| 1974 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Wedderburn |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) |
| 1972 | The Frighteners | Gordon |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Alexei |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Oedipus |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Khrushchov |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials | Narrator (voice) |
| 1964 | Horizon | Narrator |
| 1961 | Survival | |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Himmelstoss |