Ian Holm
131 movies · 47 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 12, 1931
- Died
- Jun 19, 2020 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
- Also known as
- Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir 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).
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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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 8.4 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Film
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★ 8.5 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Film
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★ 7.8 Ratatouille
2007 · Film
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★ 8.2 Alien
1979 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Film
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★ 7.6 The Fifth Element
1997 · Film
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★ 6.6 The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Film
Ian Holm: movies and TV shows
Acting (178)
- 2024 Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
- 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
- 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
- 2009
- 2007 Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
- 2007 The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
- 2007 The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
- 2006 O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
- 2006 Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
- 2006 Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
- 2005 The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
- 2005 Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
- 2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
- 2004 Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
- 2004 D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
- 2004 Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
- 2001
- 2001 The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
- 2001 From Hell
as Sir William Gull
- 2001
- 2000 Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
- 2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
- 2000 Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
- 2000 Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
- 2000 The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
- 2000 Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
- 1999 Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
- 1999 Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 The Match
as Big Tam
- 1999 Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
- 1999 eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
- 1999 Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
- 1998 Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
- 1998 Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
- 1998 King Lear
as King Lear
- 1997 Incognito
as John (uncredited)
- 1997 A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
- 1997 The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
- 1997 The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
- 1997 Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
- 1996 Big Night
as Pascal
- 1996 Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
- 1996 A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
- 1995 Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
- 1995 Landscape
as Duff
- 1995 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 The Madness of King George
as Willis
- 1994 The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
- 1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
- 1994 Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
- 1994 Chappaquiddick
as Narrator
- 1993 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
- 1993
- 1993 The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
- 1993 The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
- 1992
- 1992
- 1992 Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
- 1992 The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
- 1991 Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
- 1991 Bloody Sunday
as Narrator
- 1991 Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
- 1991
- 1991 Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
- 1991
- 1990 Hamlet
as Polonius
- 1990 A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989 The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
- 1989 Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
- 1989 The Endless Game
as Control
- 1989
- 1989 The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
- 1988 Another Woman
as Ken
- 1988
- 1988
- 1986 The Fishing Party
as Narrator
- 1986 Cry From Home
as Narrator
- 1986 Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
- 1985 The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
- 1985 Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- 1985 Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
- 1985 Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
- 1985 Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
- 1985 Visions of Power
as Narrator
- 1985
- 1984 The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
- 1984 Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
- 1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
- 1983 Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
- 1983
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
- 1982 Soft Targets
as Alexei
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
- 1981
- 1981 Time Bandits
as Napoleon
- 1981 Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
- 1980
- 1980 S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
- 1980 The Misanthrope
as Alceste
- 1979 All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
- 1979 Alien
as Ash
- 1979
- 1978 Les Misérables
as Thénardier
- 1978 The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978 Flayed
as The Man
- 1978
- 1978 The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
- 1977
- 1977 March or Die
as El Krim
- 1977 The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
- 1977 Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
- 1977
- 1977
- 1976 Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
- 1976 Robin and Marian
as King John
- 1975 Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick
- 1975
- 1974
- 1974 The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
- 1974 Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
- 1974 Only a Game
as Narrator
- 1974
- 1974 Children in Crossfire
as Narrator
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973 The Homecoming
as Lenny
- 1973
- 1972 The Treat
as Gordon
- 1972
- 1972 Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
- 1972
- 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
- 1971 Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
- 1971 Funny
as Huw
- 1971 A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
- 1970
- 1970 The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
- 1970 The Salesman
as Salesman
- 1970 Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
- 1969 Omri's Burning
as Omri
- 1969
- 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
- 1969 Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
- 1969
- 1968 The Fixer
as Grubeshov
- 1968 Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
- 1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
- 1968 The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
- 1967
- 1967 Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1963 The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
- 1962 The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
- 1961
- 1958 Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
- 1957 Rope
as Granillo
- 1956
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2006 Legends
1 episode
- 2006
- 2004
- 2002
- 1999 Shanghai Vice
7 episodes
- 1992
- 1990 Stalin
3 episodes
- 1985 Television
13 episodes
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode