Ian Holm
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-09-12
Day of Death
2020-06-19 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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
Acting
(2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
(2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
(2011)
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
(2007)
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
(2007)
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
(2007)
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
(2006)
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
(2006)
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
(2006)
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
(2005)
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
(2005)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
(2005)
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
(2004)
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
(2004)
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
(2004)
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Last Dragon
as Narrator
(2003)
(2003)
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as (archive footage)
(2003)
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
(2001)
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
(2001)
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
(2000)
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
(2000)
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
(2000)
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
(2000)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
(2000)
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
(2000)
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
(1999)
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
(1999)
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
(1999)
The Match
as Big Tam
(1999)
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
(1999)
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
(1999)
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
(1998)
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
(1998)
King Lear
as King Lear
(1997)
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
(1997)
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
(1997)
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
(1997)
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
(1997)
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
(1996)
Big Night
as Pascal
(1996)
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
(1996)
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
(1995)
Landscape
as Duff
(1995)
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
(1994)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
(1994)
The Madness of King George
as Willis
(1994)
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
(1994)
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
(1993)
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
(1993)
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
(1993)
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
(1992)
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
(1992)
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1992)
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
(1991)
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
(1991)
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Polonius (archive footage)
(1991)
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
(1990)
Hamlet
as Polonius
(1990)
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
(1989)
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
(1989)
The Endless Game
as Control
(1989)
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
(1989)
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
(1988)
Another Woman
as Ken
(1986)
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
(1986)
Cry From Home
as Narrator
(1986)
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
(1985)
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
(1985)
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
(1985)
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
(1985)
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
(1985)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
(1985)
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
(1984)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
(1984)
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
(1984)
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
(1983)
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
(1983)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
(1982)
Soft Targets
as Alexei
(1982)
Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
(1981)
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
(1981)
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
(1981)
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
(1980)
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
(1980)
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
(1979)
Alien
as Ash
(1979)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
(1978)
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
(1978)
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
(1978)
Flayed
as The Man
(1978)
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
(1977)
March or Die
as El Krim
(1977)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
(1976)
Robin and Marian
as King John
(1976)
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
(1974)
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
(1974)
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
(1973)
The Homecoming
as Lenny
(1972)
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
(1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
(1971)
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
(1971)
Funny
as Huw
(1970)
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
(1970)
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
(1969)
(1969)
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
(1969)
Omri's Burning
as Omri
(1968)
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
(1968)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
(1968)
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
(1968)
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
(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