Acting
Ian Holm
EN, FR cinema · 137 credits
Born
12 September 1931
Died
19 June 2020 (aged 88)
Birthplace
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Also known as Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
The Match
as Big Tam
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
King Lear
as King Lear
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
Big Night
as Pascal
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
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: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
Hamlet
as Polonius
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
The Endless Game
as Control
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
Cry From Home
as Narrator
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
Dancing in the Rain
as Narrator (voice)
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Visions of Power
as Narrator
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
Soft Targets
as Alexei
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
Occupied Palestine
as Self - Narrator (voice)
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
Alien
as Ash
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
Flayed
as The Man
March or Die
as El Krim
Ramsey
1977
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
Robin and Marian
as King John
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
Children in Crossfire
as Narrator
Only a Game
1974
Only a Game
as Narrator
The Homecoming
as Lenny
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
The Treat
as Gordon
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
The End of the Line
1970
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
Moonlight on the Highway
as David Peters
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
The Paradise Suite
1963
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
Rope
1957
Rope
as Granillo