Ian Holm
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).
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Acted in
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Polonius (archive footage)
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
as Geschichtenerzähler
Ratatouille
2007
as Skinner (voice)
The Real Middle Earth
2007
as Narrator
The Treatment
2007
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
Legends
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
O Jerusalem
2006
as Ben Gurion
Strangers with Candy
2006
as Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
2006
as Edward Aylesbury
The Queen of Trees
2005
as Narrator
Lord of War
2005
as Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The Aviator
2004
as Professor Fitz
Garden State
2004
as Gideon Largeman
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Terry Rapson
The Last Dragon
2004
as Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Bilbo
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as (archive footage)
Days That Shook the World
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Monsters We Met
2003
as Narrator
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Bilbo
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
2001
as Sir William Gull
Secret Agent
2001
as Narrator
Esther Kahn
2000
as Nathan Quellen
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Patrick
Bless the Child
2000
as Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe
2000
as George The Geek
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Gould
Animal Farm
1999
as Squealer (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999
as Narrator (voice)
The Match
1999
as Big Tam
Shergar
1999
as Joseph Maguire
eXistenZ
1999
as Kiri Vinokur
Shanghai Vice
1999
as Himself - Narrator
Simon Magus
1999
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as White Knight
Tale of the Tides
1998
as Narrator
King Lear
1998
as King Lear
Incognito
1997
as John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
1997
as Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Liam Casey
Big Night
1996
as Pascal
Loch Ness
1996
as Water Bailiff
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
as Narrator
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
as Don Mini
Landscape
1995
as Duff
The Madness of King George
1994
as Willis
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
as Sir William Collyer
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Baron Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994
as (voice)
The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
as The Tailor (voice)
The Borrowers
1993
as Pod
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Pod
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Albertus
The Borrowers
1992
as Pod
Blue Ice
1992
as Sir Hector
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as The Tailor (voice)
The Last Romantics
1992
as F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Naked Lunch
1991
as Tom Frost
Kafka
1991
as Dr. Murnau
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Astrov
Performance
1991
as Sir William Collyer
Performance
1991
as Duff
Performance
1991
as Lear
Performance
1991
as Astrov
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
as Polonius (archive footage)
Hamlet
1990
as Polonius
A Season of Giants
1990
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Chillers
1990
as Christopher Waggoner
Stalin
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as The Tailor
Henry V
1989
as Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
as Narrator
Another Woman
1988
as Ken
Game, Set, and Match
1988
as Bernard Samson
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Fishing Party
1986
as Narrator
Cry From Home
1986
as Narrator
Murder by the Book
1986
as Hercule Poirot
The Browning Version
1985
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Eustace Edgehill
Dreamchild
1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
1985
as Stanley Pilborough
Dance with a Stranger
1985
as Desmond Cussen
Brazil
1985
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Television
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
1985
as F.R. Leavis
The Cost of Treachery
1984
as Narrator
Laughterhouse
1984
as Ben Singleton
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Doctor Anderson
Soft Targets
1982
as Alexei
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Bell
1982
as Michael Meade
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Lech Walesa
Time Bandits
1981
as Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Sam Mussabini
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
1980
as Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Himmelstoss
Alien
1979
as Ash
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Alan Corwin
Les Misérables
1978
as Thénardier
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
Holocaust
1978
as Heinrich Himmler
Flayed
1978
as The Man
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
as The Gatekeeper
March or Die
1977
as El Krim
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Duval
Jesus Of Nazareth
1977
as Zerah
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Zerah
Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mohammed
Robin and Marian
1976
as King John
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
as Wedderburn
The Wood Demon
1974
as Khrushchov
Juggernaut
1974
as Nicholas Porter
Napoleon and Love
1974
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
NOVA
1974
as Narrator (voice)
The Homecoming
1973
as Lenny
Young Winston
1972
as George E. Buckle
The Frighteners
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as David Riccio
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Yakovlev
Funny
1971
as Huw
A Severed Head
1971
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Play for Today
1970
as Alexei
The End of the Line
1970
as Reverend P. Bagley
Emma's Time
1970
as Mark Lang
Omri's Burning
1969
as Omri
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as President Poincare
Edward the Confessor
1969
as Edward Gobey
The Fixer
1968
as Grubeshov
Frankenstein
1968
as Frankenstein / The Monster
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Puck
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Gunner Flynn
Opus
1967
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
Mystery and Imagination
1966
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Oedipus
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Khrushchov
National Geographic Specials
1965
as Narrator (voice)
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Richard III
Horizon
1964
as Narrator
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Trofimov
Girls at Sea
1958
as Marine (uncredited)
Rope
1957
as Granillo
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Himmelstoss
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self