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Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Acting1931Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

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).

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Acting History

2012
2011
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
2009
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
TVas Geschichtenerzähler
2007
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
Legends
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)1 eps
2006
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
2005
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
Secret Agent
TVas Narrator
2000
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
The Match
as Big Tam
Shanghai Vice
TVas Himself - Narrator
1998
King Lear
as King Lear
1997
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
1996
Big Night
as Pascal
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
1995
Landscape
as Duff
Natural World
TVas Narrator7 eps
1994
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TVas The Tailor (voice)1 eps
1992
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
Screen Two
TVas F.R. Leavis1 eps
1991
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
Bloody Sunday
as Narrator
Performance
TVas Astrov1 eps
1990
Hamlet
as Polonius
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Chillers
TVas Christopher Waggoner1 eps
Stalin
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game
TVas Control
1988
Game, Set, and Match
TVas Bernard Samson13 eps
Korea: The Unknown War
TVas Narrator (voice)
1986
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
Cry From Home
as Narrator
1985
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Visions of Power
as Narrator
Television
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
1984
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
1983
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
BBC Play of the Month
TVas Alceste1 eps
1982
Soft Targets
as Alexei
Play for Today
TVas Alexei1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
TVas Alan Corwin1 eps
The Bell
TVas Michael Meade
Inside the Third Reich
TVas Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1981
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
National Geographic Specials
TVas Narrator (voice)1 eps
40 Minutes
TVas Narrator
1980
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
1979
1978
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
Flayed
as The Man
Holocaust
TVas Heinrich Himmler2 eps
BBC2 Play of the Week
TVas J.M. Barrie3 eps
The Lost Boys
TVas J.M. Barrie
1977
March or Die
as El Krim
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
Jesus of Nazareth
TVas Zerah4 eps
Jubilee 1977
TVas Bill Ramsey
1976
Robin and Marian
as King John
1974
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
NOVA
TVas Narrator (voice) / Narrator
Napoleon and Love
TVas Napoleon Bonaparte
1973
1972
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
The Treat
as Gordon
The Frighteners
TVas Gordon
1971
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
Funny
as Huw
1970
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
The Salesman
as Salesman
1968
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
Mystery and Imagination
TVas Dr Frankenstein / The Being1 eps
1967
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
1966
The Power Game
TVas Sefton Kemp4 eps
1965
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
1964
Horizon
TVas Narrator
1963
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
1962
1958
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
1957
Rope
as Granillo
1956
Armchair Theatre
TVas Edward Gobey
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Himmelstoss

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/12/1931
Day of Death
6/19/2020
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK