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

NOVA

Horizon

Tony Awards

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Play for Today

Tales of the Unexpected

All Movies (134)

• Alien: Romulus2024 · as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014 · as Old Bilbo Baggins
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012 · as Old Bilbo Baggins
• Discovering Hamlet2011 · as Polonius (archive footage)
• Ratatouille2007 · as Skinner (voice)
• The Real Middle Earth2007 · as Narrator
• The Treatment2007 · as Dr. Ernesto Morales
• O Jerusalem2006 · as Ben Gurion
• Strangers with Candy2006 · as Dr. Putney
• Chromophobia2006 · as Edward Aylesbury
• The Queen of Trees2005 · as Narrator
• Lord of War2005 · as Simeon Weisz
• The Adventures of Errol Flynn2005 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Aviator2004 · as Professor Fitz
• A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'2004 · as Self
• Garden State2004 · as Gideon Largeman
• D-Day 6.6.19442004 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Day After Tomorrow2004 · as Terry Rapson
• The Making of 'The Return of the King'2004 · as Self
• Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real2004 · as Narrator
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 · as Bilbo
• Prisoner of Paradise2003 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast2002 · as Self
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001 · as Bilbo
• The Emperor's New Clothes2001 · as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
• From Hell2001 · as Sir William Gull
• Esther Kahn2000 · as Nathan Quellen
• The Last of the Blonde Bombshells2000 · as Patrick
• Bless the Child2000 · as Reverend Grissom
• Beautiful Joe2000 · as George The Geek
• The Miracle Maker2000 · as Pontius Pilate (voice)
• Joe Gould's Secret2000 · as Joe Gould
• Animal Farm1999 · as Squealer (voice)
• Wisconsin Death Trip1999 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Match1999 · as Big Tam
• Shergar1999 · as Joseph Maguire
• eXistenZ1999 · as Kiri Vinokur
• Simon Magus1999 · as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
• Alice Through the Looking Glass1998 · as White Knight
• Tale of the Tides1998 · as Narrator
• King Lear1998 · as King Lear
• Incognito1997 · as John (uncredited)
• A Life Less Ordinary1997 · as Mr. Naville
• The Sweet Hereafter1997 · as Mitchell Stephens
• The Fifth Element1997 · as Cornelius
• Night Falls on Manhattan1997 · as Liam Casey
• Big Night1996 · as Pascal
• Loch Ness1996 · as Water Bailiff
• A Little Fish in Deep Water1996 · as Narrator
• Little Red Riding Hood1995 · as Don Mini
• Landscape1995 · as Duff
• There Is a Light That Never Goes Out1995 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Madness of King George1994 · as Willis
• The Deep Blue Sea1994 · as Sir William Collyer
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein1994 · as Baron Frankenstein
• Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom1994 · as (voice)
• Chappaquiddick1994 · as Narrator
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester1993 · as The Tailor (voice)
• The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald1993 · as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
• The Hour of the Pig1993 · as Albertus
• Blue Ice1992 · as Sir Hector
• The Last Romantics1992 · as F.R. Leavis
• Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen1992 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Naked Lunch1991 · as Tom Frost
• Bloody Sunday1991 · as Narrator
• Kafka1991 · as Dr. Murnau
• Uncle Vanya1991 · as Astrov
• Hamlet1990 · as Polonius
• A Season of Giants1990 · as Lorenzo de' Medici
• The Tailor of Gloucester1989 · as The Tailor
• Henry V1989 · as Captain Fluellen
• The Endless Game1989 · as Control
• The Kingdom of Fun1989 · as Narrator
• Another Woman1988 · as Ken
• The Fishing Party1986 · as Narrator
• Cry From Home1986 · as Narrator
• Murder by the Book1986 · as Hercule Poirot
• The Browning Version1985 · as Andrew Crocker-Harris
• Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill1985 · as Eustace Edgehill
• Dreamchild1985 · as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
• Wetherby1985 · as Stanley Pilborough
• Dance with a Stranger1985 · as Desmond Cussen
• Brazil1985 · as Mr. Kurtzmann
• Visions of Power1985 · as Narrator
• The Cost of Treachery1984 · as Narrator
• Laughterhouse1984 · as Ben Singleton
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes1984 · as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
• Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano1983 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Return of the Soldier1983 · as Doctor Anderson
• Soft Targets1982 · as Alexei
• Strike: The Birth of Solidarity1981 · as Lech Walesa
• Time Bandits1981 · as Napoleon
• Chariots of Fire1981 · as Sam Mussabini
• S.O.S. Titanic1980 · as J. Bruce Ismay
• The Misanthrope1980 · as Alceste
• All Quiet on the Western Front1979 · as Himmelstoss
• Alien1979 · as Ash
• Les Misérables1978 · as Thénardier
• The Lost Boys1978 · as J.M. Barrie
• Flayed1978 · as The Man
• The Thief of Baghdad1978 · as The Gatekeeper
• March or Die1977 · as El Krim
• The Man in the Iron Mask1977 · as Duval
• Ramsey1977 · as Bill Ramsey
• Shout at the Devil1976 · as Mohammed
• Robin and Marian1976 · as King John
• Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington1975 · as Mr. Garrick
• The Wood Demon1974 · as Khrushchov
• Juggernaut1974 · as Nicholas Porter
• Children in Crossfire1974 · as Narrator
• The Homecoming1973 · as Lenny
• The Treat1972 · as Gordon
• Young Winston1972 · as George E. Buckle
• Mary, Queen of Scots1971 · as David Riccio
• Nicholas and Alexandra1971 · as Yakovlev
• Funny1971 · as Huw
• A Severed Head1971 · as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
• The End of the Line1970 · as Reverend P. Bagley
• The Salesman1970 · as Salesman
• Emma's Time1970 · as Mark Lang
• Omri's Burning1969 · as Omri
• Moonlight on the Highway1969
• Oh! What a Lovely War1969 · as President Poincare
• Edward the Confessor1969 · as Edward Gobey
• The Fixer1968 · as Grubeshov
• Frankenstein1968 · as Frankenstein / The Monster
• A Midsummer Night's Dream1968 · as Puck
• The Bofors Gun1968 · as Gunner Flynn
• Opus1967 · as Lenny (The Homecoming)
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as King Richard III
• The Paradise Suite1963 · as Jamie Norton
• The Cherry Orchard1962 · as Trofimov
• Girls at Sea1958 · as Marine (uncredited)
• Rope1957 · as Granillo

All TV Shows (58)

• 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth2009 · as Geschichtenerzähler
• Legends2006 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Monsters We Met2003 · as Narrator
• Secret Agent2001 · as Narrator
• Shanghai Vice1999 · as Himself - Narrator
• The Return of the Borrowers1993 · as Pod
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends1992 · as The Tailor (voice)
• The Borrowers1992 · as Pod
• Secret History1991 · as Narrator
• Performance1991 · as Sir William Collyer
• Performance1991 · as Duff
• Performance1991 · as King Lear
• Performance1991 · as Astrov
• Stalin1990 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Chillers1990 · as Christopher Waggoner
• The Endless Game1989 · as Control
• Game, Set, and Match1988 · as Bernard Samson
• Korea: The Unknown War1988 · as Narrator (voice)
• Television1985 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Screen Two1985 · as F.R. Leavis
• Screen Two1985 · as Albertus
• Natural World1983 · as Narrator
• Inside the Third Reich1982 · as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
• The Bell1982 · as Michael Meade
• 40 Minutes1981 · as Narrator
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Alan Corwin
• The Lost Boys1978 · as J.M. Barrie
• Holocaust1978 · as Heinrich Himmler
• BBC2 Play of the Week1977 · as The Man
• BBC2 Play of the Week1977 · as J.M. Barrie
• Jesus of Nazareth1977 · as Zerah
• Jubilee 19771977 · as Bill Ramsey
• Private Affairs1975 · as David Garrick
• The Lives of Benjamin Franklin1974 · as Wedderburn
• Napoleon and Love1974 · as Napoleon Bonaparte
• NOVA1974 · as Narrator
• NOVA1974 · as Narrator (voice)
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1973 · as Charles Stubbs
• The Frighteners1972 · as Gordon
• Play for Today1970 · as Alexei
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969 · as David Peters
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Huw
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Wolfe MacFarlane
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Dr Frankenstein / The Being
• The Power Game1965 · as Sefton Kemp
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Oedipus
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Khrushchov
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Alceste
• National Geographic Specials1965 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as Richard III
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Mark Lang
• Horizon1964 · as Narrator
• Survival1961
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Edward Gobey
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Jamie Norton
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Reverend P. Bagley
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Himmelstoss