Ian Holm
Acting
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.
Born: September 12, 1931
Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Old Bilbo Baggins
as Old Bilbo Baggins
as Polonius (archive footage)
as Geschichtenerzähler
as Skinner (voice)
as Narrator
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Ben Gurion
as Dr. Putney
as Edward Aylesbury
as Narrator
as Simeon Weisz
as Narrator (voice)
as Professor Fitz
as Gideon Largeman
as Narrator (voice)
as Terry Rapson
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
as Sir William Gull
as Narrator
as Nathan Quellen
as Patrick
as Reverend Grissom
as George The Geek
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
as Joe Gould
as Squealer (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Big Tam
as Joseph Maguire
as Kiri Vinokur
as Himself - Narrator
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
as White Knight
as Narrator
as King Lear
as John (uncredited)
as Mr. Naville
as Mitchell Stephens
as Cornelius
as Liam Casey
as Pascal
as Water Bailiff
as Don Mini
as Narrator (voice)
as Willis
as Sir William Collyer
as Baron Frankenstein
as (voice)
as The Tailor (voice)
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
as Albertus
as Pod
as Sir Hector
as The Tailor (voice)
as F.R. Leavis
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Tom Frost
as Dr. Murnau
as Astrov
as Sir William Collyer
as Duff
as King Lear
as Astrov
as Polonius
as Lorenzo de' Medici
as Christopher Waggoner
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as The Tailor
as Captain Fluellen
as Control
as Narrator
as Ken
as Bernard Samson
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Hercule Poirot
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
as Eustace Edgehill
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
as Stanley Pilborough
as Desmond Cussen
as Mr. Kurtzmann
as Narrator
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as F.R. Leavis
as Narrator
as Ben Singleton
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Doctor Anderson
as Alexei
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
as Lech Walesa
as Narrator
as Napoleon
as Sam Mussabini
as J. Bruce Ismay
as Alceste
as Himmelstoss
as Ash
as Alan Corwin
as Thénardier
as J.M. Barrie
as J.M. Barrie
as Heinrich Himmler
as The Man
as The Gatekeeper
as The Man
as J.M. Barrie
as El Krim
as Duval
as Zerah
as Mohammed
as King John
as Wedderburn
as Khrushchov
as Nicholas Porter
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Lenny
as Gordon
as George E. Buckle
as Gordon
as David Riccio
as Yakovlev
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
as Alexei
as Mark Lang
as President Poincare
as Edward Gobey
as Grubeshov
as Frankenstein / The Monster
as Puck
as Gunner Flynn
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
as Sefton Kemp
as Oedipus
as Khrushchov
as Alceste
as Narrator (voice)
as Richard
as King Richard III
as Narrator
as Trofimov
as Marine (uncredited)
as Edward Gobey
as Self - Nominee
as Himmelstoss