Ian Holm

Born: 1931-09-12 in Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

Died: 2020-06-19

Known For: Acting

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)

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)

2009

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth as Geschichtenerzähler

2007

Ratatouille as Skinner (voice)
The Treatment as Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Real Middle Earth as Narrator

2006

Legends as Self - Narrator (voice)
Chromophobia as Edward Aylesbury
Strangers with Candy as Dr. Putney
O Jerusalem as Ben Gurion

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Bilbo
From Hell as Sir William Gull
The Emperor's New Clothes as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Secret Agent as Narrator

2000

Bless the Child as Reverend Grissom
The Miracle Maker as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Beautiful Joe as George The Geek
Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Gould
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Patrick
Esther Kahn as Nathan Quellen

1999

eXistenZ as Kiri Vinokur
Animal Farm as Squealer (voice)
The Match as Big Tam
Simon Magus as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Shergar as Joseph Maguire
Shanghai Vice as Himself - Narrator
Wisconsin Death Trip as Narrator (voice)

1998

Alice Through the Looking Glass as White Knight
King Lear as King Lear
Tale of the Tides as Narrator

1997

The Fifth Element as Cornelius
A Life Less Ordinary as Mr. Naville
Night Falls on Manhattan as Liam Casey
The Sweet Hereafter as Mitchell Stephens
Incognito as John (uncredited)

1996

Big Night as Pascal
Loch Ness as Water Bailiff
A Little Fish in Deep Water as Narrator

1995

Little Red Riding Hood as Don Mini
Landscape as Duff
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out as Narrator (voice)

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
The Madness of King George as Willis
The Deep Blue Sea as Sir William Collyer
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom as (voice)
Chappaquiddick as Narrator

1993

The Return of the Borrowers as Pod
The Hour of the Pig as Albertus
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester as The Tailor (voice)

1992

The Borrowers as Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as The Tailor (voice)
Blue Ice as Sir Hector
The Last Romantics as F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen as Self - Narrator (voice)

1991

Performance as Sir William Collyer
Naked Lunch as Tom Frost
Kafka as Dr. Murnau
Uncle Vanya as Astrov
Bloody Sunday as Narrator

1990

Chillers as Christopher Waggoner
Hamlet as Polonius
Stalin as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Season of Giants as Lorenzo de' Medici

1989

Henry V as Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game as Control
The Endless Game as Control
The Tailor of Gloucester as The Tailor
The Kingdom of Fun as Narrator

1988

Game, Set, and Match as Bernard Samson
Another Woman as Ken
Korea: The Unknown War as Narrator (voice)

1986

Murder by the Book as Hercule Poirot
Cry From Home as Narrator
The Fishing Party as Narrator

1985

Screen Two as F.R. Leavis
Brazil as Mr. Kurtzmann
Dance with a Stranger as Desmond Cussen
Wetherby as Stanley Pilborough
Dreamchild as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Television as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill as Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Visions of Power as Narrator

1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Laughterhouse as Ben Singleton
The Cost of Treachery as Narrator

1983

Natural World as Narrator
The Return of the Soldier as Doctor Anderson
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano as Narrator (voice)

1982

Inside the Third Reich as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Bell as Michael Meade
Soft Targets as Alexei

1981

Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits as Napoleon
40 Minutes as Narrator
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity as Lech Walesa

1980

S.O.S. Titanic as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope as Alceste

1979

Alien as Ash
Tales of the Unexpected as Alan Corwin
All Quiet on the Western Front as Himmelstoss

1978

Holocaust as Heinrich Himmler
Les Misérables as Thénardier
The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
The Thief of Baghdad as The Gatekeeper
The Lost Boys as J.M. Barrie
Flayed as The Man

1977

Jesus of Nazareth as Zerah
BBC2 Play of the Week as The Man
Jubilee 1977 as Bill Ramsey
March or Die as El Krim
The Man in the Iron Mask as Duval
Ramsey as Bill Ramsey

1976

Robin and Marian as King John
Shout at the Devil as Mohammed

1975

Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington as Mr. Garrick

1974

NOVA as Narrator
Napoleon and Love as Napoleon Bonaparte
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Wedderburn
Juggernaut as Nicholas Porter
The Wood Demon as Khrushchov
Children in Crossfire as Narrator

1973

The Homecoming as Lenny

1972

The Frighteners as Gordon
Young Winston as George E. Buckle
The Treat as Gordon

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra as Yakovlev
Mary, Queen of Scots as David Riccio
Funny as Huw
A Severed Head as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

1970

Play for Today as Alexei
Emma's Time as Mark Lang
The End of the Line as Reverend P. Bagley
The Salesman as Salesman

1969

ITV Saturday Night Theatre as David Peters
Oh! What a Lovely War as President Poincare
Moonlight on the Highway
Edward the Confessor as Edward Gobey
Omri's Burning as Omri

1968

A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
The Fixer as Grubeshov
Frankenstein as Frankenstein / The Monster
The Bofors Gun as Gunner Flynn

1967

ITV Playhouse as Huw
Opus as Lenny (The Homecoming)

1966

Mystery and Imagination as Wolfe MacFarlane

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Oedipus
The Power Game as Sefton Kemp
National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
The Wars of the Roses as Richard III
The Wars of the Roses as King Richard III

1964

Horizon as Narrator

1963

The Paradise Suite as Jamie Norton

1962

The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov

1961

Survival

1958

Girls at Sea as Marine (uncredited)

1957

Rope as Granillo

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
Armchair Theatre as Edward Gobey

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Himmelstoss