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Ian Holm
Ian Holm

Ian Holm

ActingBorn September 12, 1931Died June 19, 2020 (age 88)Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

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

2024
Alien: Romulus

as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)

Movie
2014Movie
2012Movie
2011
Discovering Hamlet

as Polonius (archive footage)

Movie
2009
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

as Geschichtenerzähler

TV
2007
Ratatouille

as Skinner (voice)

Movie
2007Movie
2007
The Treatment

as Dr. Ernesto Morales

Movie
2006
Legends

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2006
O Jerusalem

as Ben Gurion

Movie
2006Movie
2006
Chromophobia

as Edward Aylesbury

Movie
2005Movie
2005
Lord of War

as Simeon Weisz

Movie
2005Movie
2004
The Aviator

as Professor Fitz

Movie
2004
Garden State

as Gideon Largeman

Movie
2004
D-Day 6.6.1944

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2004
The Day After Tomorrow

as Terry Rapson

Movie
2003
Monsters We Met

as Narrator

TV
2003
Prisoner of Paradise

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes

as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

Movie
2001
From Hell

as Sir William Gull

Movie
2001
Secret Agent

as Narrator

TV
2000
Esther Kahn

as Nathan Quellen

Movie
2000
Bless the Child

as Reverend Grissom

Movie
2000
Beautiful Joe

as George The Geek

Movie
2000
The Miracle Maker

as Pontius Pilate (voice)

Movie
2000
Joe Gould's Secret

as Joe Gould

Movie
1999
Animal Farm

as Squealer (voice)

Movie
1999
Wisconsin Death Trip

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1999
The Match

as Big Tam

Movie
1999
Shergar

as Joseph Maguire

Movie
1999
eXistenZ

as Kiri Vinokur

Movie
1999
Shanghai Vice

as Himself - Narrator

TV
1999
Simon Magus

as Sirius / Boris / The Devil

Movie
1998Movie
1998Movie
1998
King Lear

as King Lear

Movie
1997
Incognito

as John (uncredited)

Movie
1997
A Life Less Ordinary

as Mr. Naville

Movie
1997
The Sweet Hereafter

as Mitchell Stephens

Movie
1997
The Fifth Element

as Cornelius

Movie
1997Movie
1996
Big Night

as Pascal

Movie
1996
Loch Ness

as Water Bailiff

Movie
1996Movie
1995Movie
1995
Landscape

as Duff

Movie
1995Movie
1994Movie
1994
The Deep Blue Sea

as Sir William Collyer

Movie
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

Movie
1994Movie
1994
Chappaquiddick

as Narrator

Movie
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)

Movie
1993Movie
1992TV
1992TV
1992
Blue Ice

as Sir Hector

Movie
1992
The Last Romantics

as F.R. Leavis

Movie
1992Movie
1991
Naked Lunch

as Tom Frost

Movie
1991
Bloody Sunday

as Narrator

Movie
1991
Kafka

as Dr. Murnau

Movie
1991
Secret History

as Narrator

TV
1991
Uncle Vanya

as Astrov

Movie
1991
Performance

as Sir William Collyer

TV
1991TV
1991
Performance

as King Lear

TV
1991
Performance

as Astrov

TV
1990
Hamlet

as Polonius

Movie
1990
A Season of Giants

as Lorenzo de' Medici

Movie
1990
Stalin

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
1990
Chillers

as Christopher Waggoner

TV
1989Movie
1989
Henry V

as Captain Fluellen

Movie
1989Movie
1989TV
1989Movie
1988Movie
1988
Game, Set, and Match

as Bernard Samson

TV
1988
Korea: The Unknown War

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1986Movie
1986
Cry From Home

as Narrator

Movie
1986
Murder by the Book

as Hercule Poirot

Movie
1985
The Browning Version

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Movie
1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

as Eustace Edgehill

Movie
1985
Dreamchild

as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

Movie
1985
Wetherby

as Stanley Pilborough

Movie
1985
Dance with a Stranger

as Desmond Cussen

Movie
1985
Brazil

as Mr. Kurtzmann

Movie
1985
Visions of Power

as Narrator

Movie
1985
Television

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
1985
Screen Two

as F.R. Leavis

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Albertus

TV
1984Movie
1984
Laughterhouse

as Ben Singleton

Movie
1984Movie
1983Movie
1983
Natural World

as Narrator

TV
1983
The Return of the Soldier

as Doctor Anderson

Movie
1982
Soft Targets

as Alexei

Movie
1982
Inside the Third Reich

as Dr. Joseph Goebbels

TV
1982
The Bell

as Michael Meade

TV
1981Movie
1981
40 Minutes

as Narrator

TV
1981
Time Bandits

as Napoleon

Movie
1981
Chariots of Fire

as Sam Mussabini

Movie
1980
S.O.S. Titanic

as J. Bruce Ismay

Movie
1980
The Misanthrope

as Alceste

Movie
1979Movie
1979
Alien

as Ash

Movie
1979TV
1978
Les Misérables

as Thénardier

Movie
1978
The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

Movie
1978
The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

TV
1978
Holocaust

as Heinrich Himmler

TV
1978
Flayed

as The Man

Movie
1978
The Thief of Baghdad

as The Gatekeeper

Movie
1977TV
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week

as J.M. Barrie

TV
1977
March or Die

as El Krim

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Ramsey

as Bill Ramsey

Movie
1977TV
1977
Jubilee 1977

as Bill Ramsey

TV
1976Movie
1976
Robin and Marian

as King John

Movie
1975Movie
1975
Private Affairs

as David Garrick

TV
1974
The Wood Demon

as Khrushchov

Movie
1974
Juggernaut

as Nicholas Porter

Movie
1974Movie
1974
Napoleon and Love

as Napoleon Bonaparte

TV
1974
NOVA

as Narrator

TV
1974
NOVA

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1973Movie
1973TV
1972
The Treat

as Gordon

Movie
1972
Young Winston

as George E. Buckle

Movie
1972TV
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots

as David Riccio

Movie
1971Movie
1971
Funny

as Huw

Movie
1971
A Severed Head

as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

Movie
1970TV
1970
The End of the Line

as Reverend P. Bagley

Movie
1970
The Salesman

as Salesman

Movie
1970
Emma's Time

as Mark Lang

Movie
1969Movie
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as President Poincare

Movie
1969
Edward the Confessor

as Edward Gobey

Movie
1969TV
1968
The Fixer

as Grubeshov

Movie
1968
Frankenstein

as Frankenstein / The Monster

Movie
1968
The Bofors Gun

as Gunner Flynn

Movie
1967TV
1967
Opus

as Lenny (The Homecoming)

Movie
1966
Mystery and Imagination

as Wolfe MacFarlane

TV
1966
Mystery and Imagination

as Dr Frankenstein / The Being

TV
1965
The Power Game

as Sefton Kemp

TV
1965TV
1965TV
1965TV
1965
National Geographic Specials

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1965
The Wars of the Roses

as King Richard III

Movie
1965
The Wars of the Roses

as Richard III

TV
1964
The Wednesday Play

as Mark Lang

TV
1964
Horizon

as Narrator

TV
1963
The Paradise Suite

as Jamie Norton

Movie
1962Movie
1961TV
1958
Girls at Sea

as Marine (uncredited)

Movie
1957
Rope

as Granillo

Movie
1956
Armchair Theatre

as Edward Gobey

TV
1956
Armchair Theatre

as Jamie Norton

TV
1956
Armchair Theatre

as Reverend P. Bagley

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Himmelstoss

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdaySeptember 12, 1931
Day of DeathJune 19, 2020
Place of BirthGoodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Popularity2.1