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