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