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Ian Holm
Born · September 12, 1931
Died · June 19, 2020 (88 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Bio
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.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
7.3
2014
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
7.4
2012
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
7.0
2011
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler · (2 episodes)
6.9
2009
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
7.8
2007
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
0.0
2007
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
6.0
2007
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
5.0
2006
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
6.0
2006
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
5.6
2006
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
5.3
2006
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
7.3
2005
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
7.3
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
7.8
2005
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
7.2
2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
6.0
2004
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
7.1
2004
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
7.1
2004
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
6.5
2004
The Making of the Return of the King
Self
8.8
2004
The Last Dragon
Narrator
7.8
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
8.5
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(archive footage)
8.2
2003
Days That Shook the World
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
6.3
2003
Monsters We Met
Narrator · (3 episodes)
6.6
2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
6.3
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
8.4
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
6.7
2001
From Hell
Sir William Gull
6.7
2001
Secret Agent
Narrator · (4 episodes)
0.0
2001
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
6.0
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
6.7
2000
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
5.3
2000
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
5.4
2000
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
6.0
2000
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
6.1
2000
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
5.7
1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
5.7
1999
The Match
Big Tam
6.2
1999
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
6.3
1999
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
6.8
1999
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator · (7 episodes)
0.0
1999
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
7.3
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
5.1
1998
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
0.0
1998
King Lear
King Lear
8.0
1998
Incognito
John (uncredited)
5.8
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
6.1
1997
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
6.9
1997
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
7.6
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
6.3
1997
Big Night
Pascal
6.9
1996
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
5.7
1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
0.0
1996
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
0.0
1995
Landscape
Duff
10.0
1995
The Madness of King George
Willis
6.8
1994
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
1.0
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
6.4
1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
0.0
1994
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
0.0
1993
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod · (6 episodes)
6.5
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
7.5
1993
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
6.2
1993
The Borrowers
Pod · (12 episodes)
6.4
1992
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
5.1
1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice) · (1 episode)
6.1
1992
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
0.0
1992
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
7.8
1992
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
7.0
1991
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
6.4
1991
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
0.0
1991
Performance
Sir William Collyer · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Performance
Duff · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Performance
Lear · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Performance
Astrov · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Polonius (archive footage)
0.0
1991
Hamlet
Polonius
6.6
1990
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
6.5
1990
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner · (1 episode)
6.2
1990
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice) · (3 episodes)
0.0
1990
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
0.0
1989
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
7.1
1989
The Endless Game
Control
6.0
1989
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
0.0
1989
Another Woman
Ken
6.8
1988
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson · (13 episodes)
7.5
1988
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice) · (6 episodes)
0.0
1988
The Fishing Party
Narrator
0.0
1986
Cry From Home
Narrator
0.0
1986
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
3.0
1986
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
6.2
1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
7.0
1985
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
6.7
1985
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
6.0
1985
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
6.0
1985
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
7.7
1985
Television
Self - Narrator (voice) · (13 episodes)
0.0
1985
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis · (1 episode)
6.8
1985
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
1.0
1984
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
5.0
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
6.3
1984
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
7.3
1983
Natural World
Narrator · (7 episodes)
7.1
1983
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
6.2
1983
Soft Targets
Alexei
0.0
1982
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
7.3
1982
The Bell
Michael Meade · (4 episodes)
1.0
1982
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
0.0
1981
40 Minutes
Narrator · (1 episode)
4.7
1981
Time Bandits
Napoleon
6.6
1981
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
6.8
1981
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
5.9
1980
The Misanthrope
Alceste
0.0
1980
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
6.7
1979
Alien
Ash
8.2
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
Les Misérables
Thénardier
7.2
1978
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
8.0
1978
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie · (3 episodes)
6.0
1978
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler · (2 episodes)
7.4
1978
Flayed
The Man
0.0
1978
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
5.2
1978
March or Die
El Krim
5.8
1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
6.3
1977
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah · (4 episodes)
7.8
1977
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
5.9
1976
Robin and Marian
King John
6.3
1976
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn · (1 episode)
0.0
1974
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
0.0
1974
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
6.2
1974
Napoleon and Love
(9 episodes)
0.0
1974
NOVA
Narrator · (1 episode)
6.9
1974
NOVA
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
6.9
1974
The Homecoming
Lenny
5.9
1973
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
6.2
1972
The Frighteners
Gordon · (1 episode)
8.5
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
6.7
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
6.9
1971
Funny
Huw
0.0
1971
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
5.3
1971
Play for Today
Alexei · (1 episode)
6.1
1970
The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
0.0
1970
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
0.0
1970
Omri's Burning
Omri
0.0
1969
Moonlight on the Highway
4.0
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
6.7
1969
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
0.0
1969
The Fixer
Grubeshov
5.8
1968
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
9.5
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
5.4
1968
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
5.8
1968
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
5.0
1967
Mystery and Imagination
(2 episodes)
5.5
1966
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
6.0
1965
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
8.5
1965
Horizon
Narrator · (1 episode)
7.3
1964
The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
0.0
1963
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
8.0
1962
Survival
(1 episode)
8.0
1961
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
6.0
1958
Rope
Granillo
0.0
1957
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
4.6
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss · (1 episode)
8.7
1951