Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 12, 1931
Died
Jun 19, 2020
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Credits
187 titles
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
Filmography
Alien: Romulus
Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
Monsters We Met
Narrator
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
Sir William Gull
Secret Agent
Narrator
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
The Match
Big Tam
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
King Lear
King Lear
Incognito
John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
Cornelius