Ian Holm
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.
Known For
NOVA
1974
NOVA
1974
0Tony Awards
1956
Play for Today
1970
The Wednesday Play
1964
Horizon
1964
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Alien
1979
Screen Two
1985
Screen Two
1985
Filmography
NOVA
as Narrator · 1974
NOVA
as Narrator (voice) · 1974
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
Play for Today
as Alexei · 1970
The Wednesday Play
as Mark Lang · 1964
Horizon
as Narrator · 1964
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo · 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo · 2003
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins · 2014
Alien
as Ash · 1979
Screen Two
as F.R. Leavis · 1985
Screen Two
as Albertus · 1985
Natural World
as Narrator · 1983
ITV Playhouse
as Huw · 1967
Film '72
as Self · 1971
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins · 2012
BBC Play of the Month
as Oedipus · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Khrushchov · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Alceste · 1965
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice) · 2007
Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference) · 2024
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alan Corwin · 1979
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius · 1997
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as David Peters · 1969
Performance
as Sir William Collyer · 1991
Performance
as Duff · 1991
Performance
as King Lear · 1991
Performance
as Astrov · 1991
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Charles Stubbs · 1973
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson · 2004
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz · 2004
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz · 2005
40 Minutes
as Narrator · 1981
BBC2 Play of the Week
as The Man · 1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
as J.M. Barrie · 1977
Jesus of Nazareth
as Zerah · 1977
Legends
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2006
Chillers
as Christopher Waggoner · 1990
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur · 1999
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini · 1981
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann · 1985
Mystery and Imagination
as Wolfe MacFarlane · 1966
Mystery and Imagination
as Dr Frankenstein / The Being · 1966
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein · 1994
From Hell
as Sir William Gull · 2001
Holocaust
as Heinrich Himmler · 1978
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost · 1991
The Power Game
as Sefton Kemp · 1965
The Frighteners
as Gordon · 1972
Time Bandits
as Napoleon · 1981
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman · 2004
Television
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1985
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as The Tailor (voice) · 1992
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator (voice) · 1965
Jubilee 1977
as Bill Ramsey · 1977
Napoleon and Love
as Napoleon Bonaparte · 1974
The Borrowers
as Pod · 1992
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot · 1984
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville · 1997
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen · 1989
Private Affairs
as David Garrick · 1975
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss · 1979
The Wars of the Roses
as Richard III · 1965
Secret History
as Narrator · 1991
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter · 1974
Game, Set, and Match
as Bernard Samson · 1988
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed · 1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Himmelstoss · 1951
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio · 1971
Survival
· 1961
Another Woman
as Ken · 1988
Big Night
as Pascal · 1996
Armchair Theatre
as Edward Gobey · 1956
Armchair Theatre
as Jamie Norton · 1956
Armchair Theatre
as Reverend P. Bagley · 1956
Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels · 1982
The Madness of King George
as Willis · 1994
Robin and Marian
as King John · 1976
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III · 1965
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom · 2000
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Wedderburn · 1974
March or Die
as El Krim · 1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval · 1977
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus · 1993
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice) · 1999
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice) · 2000
The Return of the Borrowers
as Pod · 1993
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev · 1971
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey · 1997
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
as Geschichtenerzähler · 2009
The Endless Game
as Control · 1989
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay · 1980
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot · 1986
We, the Accused
as Paul Presset · 1980
Hamlet
as Polonius · 1990
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie · 1978
The Bell
as Michael Meade · 1982
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens · 1997
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff · 1996
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury · 2006
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney · 2006
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight · 1998
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector · 1992
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare · 1969
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek · 2000
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill · 1985
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen · 1985
Les Misérables
as Thénardier · 1978
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau · 1991
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer · 1994
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov · 1991
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper · 1978
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici · 1990
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll · 1985
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle · 1972
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self · 2006
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator · 2004
Do You Remember?
as Walter Street · 1978
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck · 1968
Incognito
as John (uncredited) · 1997
The Match
as Big Tam · 1999
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice) · 2004
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov · 1962
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand · 2001
Korea: The Unknown War
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice) · 2005
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson · 1983
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self · 2002
Masquerade
as Blake · 1974
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick · 2000
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self · 2004
The Man from Haven
as Jack Byron Lever · 1972
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici · 1990
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris · 1985
Stalin
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1990
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould · 2000
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley · 1970
Monsters We Met
as Narrator · 2003
Shanghai Vice
as Himself - Narrator · 1999
The Fixer
as Grubeshov · 1968
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini · 1995
Bloody Sunday
as Narrator · 1991
Flayed
as The Man · 1978
The Salesman
as Salesman · 1970
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion · 2006
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick · 1975
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice) · 1993
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor · 1989
The Endless Game
as Control · 1989
Landscape
as Duff · 1995
King Lear
as King Lear · 1998
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen · 2000
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie · 1978
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage) · 2011
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey · 1977
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon · 1971
Moonlight on the Highway
· 1969
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited) · 1958
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis · 1992
The Homecoming
as Lenny · 1973
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator · 1989
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald) · 1993
The Treat
as Gordon · 1972
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa · 1981
Chappaquiddick
as Narrator · 1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice) · 1994
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice) · 1999
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough · 1985
Secret Agent
as Narrator · 2001
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator · 1996
Rope
as Granillo · 1957
Soft Targets
as Alexei · 1982
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil · 1999
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn · 1968
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice) · 1983
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton · 1984
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov · 1974
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator · 2005
Visions of Power
as Narrator · 1985
Omri's Burning
as Omri · 1969
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster · 1968
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang · 1970
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales · 2007
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1992
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice) · 2003
Children in Crossfire
as Narrator · 1974
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey · 1969
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice) · 1995
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator · 1984
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator · 2007
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton · 1963
The Misanthrope
as Alceste · 1980
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator · 1998
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming) · 1967
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire · 1999
Only a Game
as Narrator · 1974
Cry From Home
as Narrator · 1986
The Fishing Party
as Narrator · 1986
Funny
as Huw · 1971