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Ian Holm

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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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 Father Vito 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 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 Astrov

Performance

1991

as Sir William Collyer

Performance

1991

as Duff

Performance

1991

as Lear

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)

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

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

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

Shout at the Devil

1976

as Mohammed

Robin and Marian

1976

as King John

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 Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974

as Wedderburn

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

Remy

as Skinner