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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Cornelius
Le Cinquième Élément
Mr. Kurtzmann
Brazil
Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gideon Largeman
Garden State
Terry Rapson
The Day After Tomorrow
Skinner (voice)
Ratatouille
Sir William Gull
From Hell
Baron Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mitchell Stephens
The Sweet Hereafter
Squealer (voice)
Animal Farm
Dr. Murnau
Kafka
Polonius
Hamlet
Simeon Weisz
Lord of War
Kiri Vinokur
eXistenZ
Professor Fitz
The Aviator
Reverend Grissom
Bless the Child
Captain Fluellen
Henry V
Tom Frost
Naked Lunch
Duval
The Man in the Iron Mask
Himmelstoss
All Quiet on the Western Front
King John
Robin and Marian
Thénardier
Les Misérables
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Pontius Pilate (voice)
The Miracle Maker
President Poincare
Oh! What a Lovely War
Willis
The Madness of King George
Hercule Poirot
Murder by the Book
Ken
Another Woman
Mr. Naville
A Life Less Ordinary
El Krim
March or Die
Sam Mussabini
Chariots of Fire
Dr. Putney
Strangers with Candy
Desmond Cussen
Dance with a Stranger
Mark Lang
Emma's Time
Nicholas Porter
Juggernaut
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Dreamchild
Napoleon
Time Bandits
Narrator (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
White Knight
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Nathan Quellen
Esther Kahn
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
A Severed Head
Liam Casey
Night Falls on Manhattan
David Riccio
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sir Hector
Blue Ice
Edward Aylesbury
Chromophobia
George E. Buckle
Young Winston
Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Treatment
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Mohammed
Shout at the Devil
Ben Gurion
Ô Jerusalem
Pascal
Big Night
(voice)
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
Water Bailiff
Loch Ness
Albertus
The Hour of the Pig
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
The Emperor's New Clothes
J. Bruce Ismay
S.O.S. Titanic
Grubeshov
The Fixer
Ben Singleton
Laughterhouse
Marine (uncredited)
Girls at Sea
Narrator
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
Tale of the Tides
Khrushchov
The Wood Demon
Astrov
Uncle Vanya
Trofimov
The Cherry Orchard
Lenny
The Homecoming
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Joe Gould
Joe Gould's Secret
Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
Prisoner of Paradise
Stanley Pilborough
Wetherby
The Gatekeeper
The Thief of Baghdad
Duff
Landscape
Puck
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Doctor Anderson
The Return of the Soldier
Polonius (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
F.R. Leavis
The Last Romantics
Granillo
Rope
King Lear
King Lear
King Richard III
The Wars of the Roses
George The Geek
Beautiful Joe
Lorenzo de' Medici
A Season of Giants
Sir William Collyer
The Deep Blue Sea
Joseph Maguire
Shergar
Self - Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth R
Don Mini
Little Red Riding Hood
Patrick
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Inside the Third Reich
The Tailor
The Tailor of Gloucester
Moonlight on the Highway
Jamie Norton
The Paradise Suite
Edward Gobey
Edward the Confessor
Huw
Funny
Omri
Omri's Burning
Ash
Alien
Reverend P. Bagley
The End of the Line
Narrator (voice)
D-Day 6.6.1944
Self
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Frankenstein / The Monster
Frankenstein
Polonius (archive footage)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Eustace Edgehill
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Narrator
The Real Middle Earth
Alexei
Soft Targets
Alceste
The Misanthrope
Big Tam
The Match
Control
The Endless Game
Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Browning Version
J.M. Barrie
The Lost Boys
Gunner Flynn
The Bofors Gun
John (uncredited)
Incognito
(archive footage)
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Narrator
The Queen of Trees
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Simon Magus
Yakovlev
Nicholas and Alexandra
Narrator (voice)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
The Kingdom of Fun
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Opus
Narrator
The Last Dragon
Lech Walesa
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
The Man
Flayed
Narrator
Cry From Home
Narrator
The Fishing Party
The Tailor (voice)
The Tailor of Gloucester
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Self
The Making of the Return of the King
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-09-12
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Also Known As
Ian Holm Cuthbert