Ian Holm
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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NOVA
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NOVA
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Horizon
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Natural World
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Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Play for Today
Alexei
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin
Performance
Sir William Collyer
Performance
Duff
Performance
Lear
Performance
Astrov
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus
BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
Alien
Ash
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
The Borrowers
Pod
Mystery and Imagination
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Frighteners
Gordon
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
Napoleon and Love
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah
40 Minutes
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Survival
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
Monsters We Met
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The Aviator
Professor Fitz
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
Time Bandits
Napoleon
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
From Hell
Sir William Gull
The Bell
Michael Meade
Television
Self - Narrator (voice)
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice)
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Big Night
Pascal
Hamlet
Polonius
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
Les Misérables
Thénardier
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
The Madness of King George
Willis
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
Secret Agent
Narrator
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
March or Die
El Krim
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
Another Woman
Ken
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
Incognito
John (uncredited)
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
Robin and Marian
King John
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
The Endless Game
Control
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
The Making of the Return of the King
Self
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(archive footage)
The Match
Big Tam
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
The Queen of Trees
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Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Polonius (archive footage)
The Fixer
Grubeshov
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
The Last Dragon
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Tale of the Tides
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Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
The Homecoming
Lenny
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
King Lear
King Lear
Flayed
The Man
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
Landscape
Duff
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Soft Targets
Alexei
Moonlight on the Highway
The Cost of Treachery
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A Little Fish in Deep Water
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The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
Wisconsin Death Trip
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The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Funny
Huw
The Misanthrope
Alceste
The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
The Fishing Party
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Emma's Time
Mark Lang
The Real Middle Earth
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Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
The Kingdom of Fun
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Omri's Burning
Omri
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Rope
Granillo
Visions of Power
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Cry From Home
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