Ian Holm
Acting
Born: September 12, 1931 · Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Died: June 19, 2020 (aged 88)
Highest Rated
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
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
Ratatouille
2007
Alien
1979
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Fifth Element
1997
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
The Aviator
2004
Lord of War
2005
Alien: Romulus
2024
Brazil
1985
Photos (12)
Movies (118)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
Alien
Ash
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
Alien: Romulus
Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
From Hell
Sir William Gull
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits
Napoleon
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
Hamlet
Polonius
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
The Madness of King George
Willis
Big Night
Pascal
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
Soft Targets
Alexei
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Les Misérables
Thénardier
Robin and Marian
King John
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
Another Woman
Ken
March or Die
El Krim
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
Incognito
John (uncredited)
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
The Match
Big Tam
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
The Fixer
Grubeshov
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
Flayed
The Man
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
The Endless Game
Control
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
King Lear
King Lear
The Homecoming
Lenny
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
The Fishing Party
Narrator
Children in Crossfire
Narrator
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
The Misanthrope
Alceste
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
Cry From Home
Narrator
Visions of Power
Narrator
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
The Treat
Gordon
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
TV Shows (49)
Play for Today
Alexei · 1 eps
NOVA
Narrator · 1 eps
NOVA
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Horizon
Narrator · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Alceste · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Mark Lang · 1 eps
Natural World
Narrator · 7 eps
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis · 1 eps
Screen Two
Albertus · 1 eps
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
David Peters · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Huw · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin · 1 eps
Performance
Duff · 1 eps
Performance
King Lear · 1 eps
Performance
Sir William Collyer · 1 eps
Performance
Astrov · 1 eps
40 Minutes
Narrator · 2 eps
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man · 1 eps
BBC2 Play of the Week
J.M. Barrie · 3 eps
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah · 4 eps
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Charles Stubbs · 1 eps
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler · 2 eps
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Secret History
Narrator · 1 eps
Survival
1 eps
The Power Game
Sefton Kemp · 4 eps
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner · 1 eps
The Borrowers
Pod · 12 eps
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels · 2 eps
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice) · 1 eps
The Frighteners
Gordon · 1 eps
Mystery and Imagination
Wolfe MacFarlane · 1 eps
Mystery and Imagination
Dr Frankenstein / The Being · 1 eps
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon Bonaparte · 9 eps
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson · 13 eps
The Wars of the Roses
Richard III · 2 eps
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss · 1 eps
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie · 3 eps
The Endless Game
Control · 2 eps
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Jamie Norton · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Reverend P. Bagley · 1 eps
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler · 2 eps
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Secret Agent
Narrator · 4 eps
Monsters We Met
Narrator · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (9)
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Television
Self - Narrator (voice) · 13 eps
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator · 7 eps
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
Self
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)