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