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

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

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

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

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

1999

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

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

1996

Loch Ness as Water Bailiff
Big Night as Pascal
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
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom as (voice)
The Deep Blue Sea as Sir William Collyer

1993

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

1992

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

1991

Performance as Duff
Naked Lunch as Tom Frost
Kafka as Dr. Murnau
Uncle Vanya as Astrov

1990

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

1989

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

1988

Another Woman as Ken
Game, Set, and Match as Bernard Samson
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

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

1984

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

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

1981

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

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

1977

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

1976

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

1975

Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington as Mr. Garrick

1974

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

1973

The Homecoming as Lenny

1972

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

1971

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

1970

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

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War as President Poincare
Omri's Burning as Omri
Moonlight on the Highway
Edward the Confessor as Edward Gobey

1968

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

1967

Opus as Lenny (The Homecoming)

1966

Mystery and Imagination

1965

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

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 - Winner
Armchair Theatre as Edward Gobey

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Himmelstoss