Ian Holm
Acting • Born 1931-09-12 – Died 2020-06-19
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
180 credits
The Fifth Element
Movie • 1997
Cornelius
Brazil
Movie • 1985
Mr. Kurtzmann
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Movie • 2001
Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Movie • 2003
Bilbo
Garden State
Movie • 2004
Gideon Largeman
The Day After Tomorrow
Movie • 2004
Terry Rapson
Ratatouille
Movie • 2007
Skinner (voice)
From Hell
Movie • 2001
Sir William Gull
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Baron Frankenstein
The Sweet Hereafter
Movie • 1997
Mitchell Stephens
Animal Farm
Movie • 1999
Squealer (voice)
Kafka
Movie • 1991
Dr. Murnau
Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Polonius
Lord of War
Movie • 2005
Simeon Weisz
eXistenZ
Movie • 1999
Kiri Vinokur
The Aviator
Movie • 2004
Professor Fitz
Bless the Child
Movie • 2000
Reverend Grissom
Henry V
Movie • 1989
Captain Fluellen
Naked Lunch
Movie • 1991
Tom Frost
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1977
Duval
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie • 1979
Himmelstoss
Robin and Marian
Movie • 1976
King John
Les Misérables
Movie • 1978
Thénardier
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie • 1984
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
The Miracle Maker
Movie • 2000
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie • 1969
President Poincare
The Madness of King George
Movie • 1994
Willis
Murder by the Book
Movie • 1986
Hercule Poirot
Another Woman
Movie • 1988
Ken
A Life Less Ordinary
Movie • 1997
Mr. Naville
March or Die
Movie • 1977
El Krim
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Sam Mussabini
Strangers with Candy
Movie • 2006
Dr. Putney
Dance with a Stranger
Movie • 1985
Desmond Cussen
Emma's Time
Movie • 1970
Mark Lang
Juggernaut
Movie • 1974
Nicholas Porter
Dreamchild
Movie • 1985
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Time Bandits
Movie • 1981
Napoleon
Wisconsin Death Trip
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 1998
White Knight
Esther Kahn
Movie • 2000
Nathan Quellen
A Severed Head
Movie • 1971
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Night Falls on Manhattan
Movie • 1997
Liam Casey
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie • 1971
David Riccio
Blue Ice
Movie • 1992
Sir Hector
Chromophobia
Movie • 2006
Edward Aylesbury
Young Winston
Movie • 1972
George E. Buckle
The Treatment
Movie • 2007
Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Movie • 2012
Old Bilbo Baggins
Shout at the Devil
Movie • 1976
Mohammed
O Jerusalem
Movie • 2006
Ben Gurion
Big Night
Movie • 1996
Pascal
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
Movie • 1994
(voice)
Loch Ness
Movie • 1996
Water Bailiff
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Albertus
The Emperor's New Clothes
Movie • 2001
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie • 1980
J. Bruce Ismay
The Fixer
Movie • 1968
Grubeshov
Laughterhouse
Movie • 1984
Ben Singleton
Girls at Sea
Movie • 1958
Marine (uncredited)
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Tale of the Tides
Movie • 1998
Narrator
The Wood Demon
Movie • 1974
Khrushchov
Uncle Vanya
Movie • 1991
Astrov
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1962
Trofimov
The Homecoming
Movie • 1973
Lenny
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Movie • 2014
Old Bilbo Baggins
Joe Gould's Secret
Movie • 2000
Joe Gould
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Prisoner of Paradise
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Wetherby
Movie • 1985
Stanley Pilborough
The Thief of Baghdad
Movie • 1978
The Gatekeeper
Landscape
Movie • 1995
Duff
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1968
Puck
The Return of the Soldier
Movie • 1983
Doctor Anderson
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
Polonius (archive footage)
The Last Romantics
Movie • 1992
F.R. Leavis
Rope
Movie • 1957
Granillo
King Lear
Movie • 1998
King Lear
The Wars of the Roses
Movie • 1965
King Richard III
Beautiful Joe
Movie • 2000
George The Geek
A Season of Giants
Movie • 1990
Lorenzo de' Medici
The Deep Blue Sea
Movie • 1994
Sir William Collyer
Shergar
Movie • 1999
Joseph Maguire
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Movie • 1992
Self - Narrator (voice)
Little Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1995
Don Mini
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Movie • 2000
Patrick
The Tailor of Gloucester
Movie • 1989
The Tailor
Moonlight on the Highway
Movie • 1969
The Paradise Suite
Movie • 1963
Jamie Norton
Edward the Confessor
Movie • 1969
Edward Gobey
Funny
Movie • 1971
Huw
Omri's Burning
Movie • 1969
Omri
Alien
Movie • 1979
Ash
The End of the Line
Movie • 1970
Reverend P. Bagley
D-Day 6.6.1944
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Movie • 2004
Self
Frankenstein
Movie • 1968
Frankenstein / The Monster
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Movie • 1985
Eustace Edgehill
The Real Middle Earth
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Soft Targets
Movie • 1982
Alexei
The Misanthrope
Movie • 1980
Alceste
The Match
Movie • 1999
Big Tam
The Endless Game
Movie • 1989
Control
The Browning Version
Movie • 1985
Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Lost Boys
Movie • 1978
J.M. Barrie
The Bofors Gun
Movie • 1968
Gunner Flynn
Incognito
Movie • 1997
John (uncredited)
The Queen of Trees
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Simon Magus
Movie • 1999
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Nicholas and Alexandra
Movie • 1971
Yakovlev
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
The Cost of Treachery
Movie • 1984
Narrator
The Kingdom of Fun
Movie • 1989
Narrator
Opus
Movie • 1967
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Movie • 1981
Lech Walesa
Flayed
Movie • 1978
The Man
Cry From Home
Movie • 1986
Narrator
The Fishing Party
Movie • 1986
Narrator
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Movie • 2004
Self
Visions of Power
Movie • 1985
Narrator
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Movie • 1995
Narrator (voice)
Ramsey
Movie • 1977
Bill Ramsey
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Movie • 1975
Mr. Garrick
The Treat
Movie • 1972
Gordon
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
Movie • 1993
The Tailor (voice)
Children in Crossfire
Movie • 1974
Narrator
The Salesman
Movie • 1970
Salesman
Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1991
Narrator
Chappaquiddick
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Alan Corwin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Himmelstoss
The Return of the Borrowers
TV • 1993
Pod
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Heinrich Himmler
Jesus of Nazareth
TV • 1977
Zerah
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Oedipus
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Television
TV • 1985
Self - Narrator (voice)
Game, Set, and Match
TV • 1988
Bernard Samson
Napoleon and Love
TV • 1974
Napoleon Bonaparte
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
TV • 2009
Geschichtenerzähler
The Borrowers
TV • 1992
Pod
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Wedderburn
Performance
TV • 1991
Sir William Collyer
Performance
TV • 1991
Duff
Performance
TV • 1991
King Lear
NOVA
TV • 1974
Narrator
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Khrushchov
Korea: The Unknown War
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
The Bell
TV • 1982
Michael Meade
The Lost Boys
TV • 1978
J.M. Barrie
Stalin
TV • 1990
Self - Narrator (voice)
Shanghai Vice
TV • 1999
Himself - Narrator
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Alexei
Monsters We Met
TV • 2003
Narrator
Horizon
TV • 1964
Narrator
National Geographic Specials
TV • 1965
Narrator (voice)
NOVA
TV • 1974
Narrator (voice)
Legends
TV • 2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TV • 1992
The Tailor (voice)
Secret Agent
TV • 2001
Narrator
Performance
TV • 1991
Astrov
Screen Two
TV • 1985
F.R. Leavis
Survival
TV • 1961
The Frighteners
TV • 1972
Gordon
40 Minutes
TV • 1981
Narrator
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Alceste
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Edward Gobey
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
The Man
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
J.M. Barrie
The Power Game
TV • 1965
Sefton Kemp
The Wars of the Roses
TV • 1965
Richard
Inside the Third Reich
TV • 1982
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Endless Game
TV • 1989
Control
Jubilee 1977
TV • 1977
Bill Ramsey
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Wolfe MacFarlane
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Dr Frankenstein / The Being
Chillers
TV • 1990
Christopher Waggoner