Ian Holm
Born
September 12, 1931
Died
June 19, 2020 (88 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
2014
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
2012
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
2011
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler · (2 episodes)
2009
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
2007
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
2007
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
2006
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
2006
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
2006
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
2006
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
2005
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
2005
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
2004
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
2004
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
2004
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
2004
The Making of the Return of the King
Self
2004
The Last Dragon
Narrator
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(archive footage)
2003
Monsters We Met
Narrator · (3 episodes)
2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001
From Hell
Sir William Gull
2001
Secret Agent
Narrator · (4 episodes)
2001
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
2000
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
2000
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
2000
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
2000
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
1999
The Match
Big Tam
1999
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
1999
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
1999
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator · (7 episodes)
1999
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
1998
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
1998
King Lear
King Lear
1998
Incognito
John (uncredited)
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
1997
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
1997
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
1997
Big Night
Pascal
1996
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
1996
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
1995
Landscape
Duff
1995
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
1995
The Madness of King George
Willis
1994
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
1994
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
1993
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod · (6 episodes)
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
1993
The Borrowers
Pod · (12 episodes)
1992
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice) · (1 episode)
1992
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
1992
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
1991
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
1991
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
1991
Performance
Sir William Collyer · (1 episode)
1991
Performance
Duff · (1 episode)
1991
Performance
King Lear · (1 episode)
1991
Performance
Astrov · (1 episode)
1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Polonius (archive footage)
1991
Hamlet
Polonius
1990
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
1990
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner · (1 episode)
1990
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice) · (3 episodes)
1990
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
1989
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
1989
The Endless Game
Control
1989
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
1989
Another Woman
Ken
1988
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson · (13 episodes)
1988
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice) · (6 episodes)
1988
The Fishing Party
Narrator
1986
Cry From Home
Narrator
1986
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
1986
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
1985
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
1985
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
1985
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
1985
Visions of Power
Narrator
1985
Television
Self - Narrator (voice) · (13 episodes)
1985
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis · (1 episode)
1985
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
1984
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1984
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
1983
Natural World
Narrator · (7 episodes)
1983
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
1983
Soft Targets
Alexei
1982
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1982
The Bell
Michael Meade · (4 episodes)
1982
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
1981
40 Minutes
Narrator · (1 episode)
1981
Time Bandits
Napoleon
1981
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
1981
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
1980
The Misanthrope
Alceste
1980
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
1979
Alien
Ash
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin · (1 episode)
1979
Les Misérables
Thénardier
1978
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
1978
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie · (3 episodes)
1978
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler · (2 episodes)
1978
Flayed
The Man
1978
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man · (1 episode)
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
J.M. Barrie · (3 episodes)
1977
March or Die
El Krim
1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
1977
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah · (4 episodes)
1977
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
1976
Robin and Marian
King John
1976
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn · (1 episode)
1974
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
1974
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
1974
Napoleon and Love
(9 episodes)
1974
NOVA
Narrator · (1 episode)
1974
NOVA
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
1974
The Homecoming
Lenny
1973
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
1972
The Frighteners
Gordon · (1 episode)
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
1971
Funny
Huw
1971
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1971
Play for Today
Alexei · (1 episode)
1970
The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
1970
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
1970
Omri's Burning
Omri
1969
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
1969
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
1969
The Fixer
Grubeshov
1968
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
1968
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
1968
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
1967
Mystery and Imagination
(2 episodes)
1966
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus · (1 episode)
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov · (1 episode)
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Alceste · (1 episode)
1965
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
1965
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
1965
Horizon
Narrator · (1 episode)
1964
The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
1963
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
1962
Survival
(1 episode)
1961
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
1958
Rope
Granillo
1957
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey · (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss · (1 episode)
1951