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Ian Holm
Actor
Born September 12, 1931Died June 19, 2020 (88 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus · as Rook (facial And Vocal Reference) |
| 2019 | An Accidental Studio · as Cast |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies · as Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey · as Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2012 | The Last Art Film · as Various |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet · as Polonius (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (TV Series) · as Geschichtenerzähler |
| 2007 | Ratatouille · as Skinner (voice) |
| 2007 | The Real Middle Earth · as Narrator |
| 2006 | O Jerusalem · as Ben Gurion |
| 2006 | The Treatment · as Dr. Ernesto Morales |
| 2006 | Renaissance · as Jonas Muller |
| 2005 | Strangers with Candy · as Dr. Putney |
| 2005 | The Queen of Trees · as Narrator |
| 2005 | Lord of War · as Simeon Weisz |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Chromophobia · as Edward Aylesbury |
| 2004 | The Aviator · as Professor Fitz |
| 2004 | Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real · as Narrator |
| 2004 | Garden State · as Gideon Largeman |
| 2004 | D-Day 6.6.1944 · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow · as Terry Rapson |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' · as (archive Footage) |
| 2003 | Monsters We Met (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2002 | Prisoner of Paradise · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes · as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand |
| 2001 | From Hell · as Sir William Gull |
| 2000 | Secret Agent (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn · as Nathan Quellen |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells · as Patrick |
| 2000 | Bless the Child · as Reverend Grissom |
| 2000 | Beautiful Joe · as George The Geek |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret · as Joe Gould |
| 1999 | The Miracle Maker · as Pontius Pilate (voice) |
| 1999 | Animal Farm · as Squealer (voice) |
| 1999 | Wisconsin Death Trip · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | The Match · as Big Tam |
| 1999 | Shergar · as Joseph Maguire |
| 1999 | eXistenZ · as Kiri Vinokur |
| 1999 | Simon Magus · as Sirius / Boris / The Devil |
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass · as White Knight |
| 1998 | Tale of the Tides: The Hyaena and the Mudskipper · as Narrator |
| 1998 | King Lear · as King Lear |
| 1997 | |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary · as Mr. Naville |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter · as Mitchell Stephens |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element · as Cornelius |
| 1996 | Night Falls on Manhattan · as Liam Casey |
| 1996 | Big Night · as Pascal |
| 1996 | The New Detectives (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1996 | A Little Fish in Deep Water · as Narrator |
| 1996 | Loch Ness · as Water Bailiff |
| 1996 | The Gulf War (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1995 | Little Red Riding Hood · as Don Mini |
| 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 Return of the Borrowers (TV Series) · as Pod |
| 1993 | The Advocate · as Albertus |
| 1992 | The Borrowers (TV Series) · as Pod |
| 1992 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (TV Series) · as The Tailor (voice) |
| 1992 | Blue Ice · as Sir Hector |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch · as Tom Frost |
| 1991 | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School · as Polonius (archive Footage) |
| 1991 | Kafka · as Dr. Murnau |
| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) · as King Lear |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants (TV Series) · as Lorenzo De' Medici |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | The Tailor of Gloucester · as The Tailor |
| 1989 | Henry V · as Captain Fluellen |
| 1988 | Another Woman · as Ken |
| 1988 | Game, Set, and Match (TV Series) · as Bernard Samson |
| 1987 | Murder by the Book · as Hercule Poirot |
| 1985 | The Browning Version · as Andrew Crocker-Harris |
| 1985 | Mr & Mrs Edgehill · as Eustace Edgehill |
| 1985 | Dreamchild · as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger · as Desmond Cussen |
| 1985 | Brazil · as Mr. Kurtzmann |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as F.r. Leavis |
| 1984 | Singleton's Pluck · as Ben Singleton |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes · as Capitaine Phillippe D'arnot |
| 1983 | Natural World (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1982 | Soft Targets · as Alexei |
| 1982 | Timewatch (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1982 | The Return of the Soldier · as Doctor Anderson |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich · as Dr. Joseph Goebbels |
| 1981 | Time Bandits · as Napoleon |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire · as Sam Mussabini |
| 1979 | All Quiet on the Western Front · as Himmelstoss |
| 1979 | S.O.S. Titanic · as J. Bruce Ismay |
| 1979 | Alien · as Ash |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) · as Alan Corwin |
| 1978 | Les Miserables · as Thénardier |
| 1978 | The Thief of Baghdad · as The Gatekeeper |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys (TV Series) · as J.m. Barrie |
| 1978 | Holocaust (TV Series) · as Heinrich Himmler |
| 1977 | March or Die · as El Krim |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) · as J.m. Barrie |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth (TV Series) · as Zerah |
| 1977 | The Man in the Iron Mask · as Duval |
| 1976 | Shout at the Devil · as Mohammed |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian · as King John |
| 1974 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (TV Series) · as Wedderburn |
| 1974 | Juggernaut · as Nicholas Porter |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love (TV Series) |
| 1974 | NOVA (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1973 | The Homecoming · as Lenny |
| 1973 | Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) · as Charles Stubbs |
| 1972 | Young Winston · as George E. Buckle |
| 1972 | The Frighteners (TV Series) · as Gordon |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Alexei |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War · as President Poincare |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as David Peters |
| 1968 | The Fixer · as Grubeshov |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Puck |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun · as Gunner Flynn |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Reader |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Huw |
| 1967 | Opus · as Lenny (the Homecoming) |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Power Game (TV Series) · as Sefton Kemp |
| 1965 | Play of the Month (TV Series) · as Alceste |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses (TV Series) · as Richard |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Mark Lang |
| 1964 | Horizon (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard · as Trofimov |
| 1961 | Survival (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1959 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Puck |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea · as Marine (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Theatre Night (TV Series) · as The King |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Edward Gobey |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Granillo |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Himmelstoss |