Ian Holm
Known for Acting · 187 credits
- Born
- 1931-09-12
- Died
- 2020-06-19
- Place of birth
- Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
- Also known as
- Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE · Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert · Sir Ian Holm
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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Known For
TV Shows (52)
NOVA
1974
as Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Horizon
1964
as Narrator
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Play for Today
1970
as Alexei
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
Screen Two
1985
as F.R. Leavis / Albertus
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Oedipus / Khrushchov / Alceste
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Alan Corwin
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Mark Lang
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Huw
Film '72
1971
as Self
40 Minutes
1981
as Narrator
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Charles Stubbs
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as David Peters
Performance
1991
as Sir William Collyer / Duff / King Lear / Astrov
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as The Man / J.M. Barrie
Legends
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Zerah
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Wolfe MacFarlane / Dr Frankenstein / The Being
Television
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Holocaust
1978
as Heinrich Himmler
Chillers
1990
as Christopher Waggoner
The Frighteners
1972
as Gordon
Jubilee 1977
1977
as Bill Ramsey
National Geographic Specials
1965
as Narrator (voice)
Private Affairs
1975
as David Garrick
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Himmelstoss
Survival
1961
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as The Tailor (voice)
The Power Game
1965
as Sefton Kemp
Secret History
1991
as Narrator
The Borrowers
1992
as Pod
Napoleon and Love
1974
as Napoleon Bonaparte
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Edward Gobey / Jamie Norton / Reverend P. Bagley
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
as Wedderburn
Masquerade
1974
as Blake
Game, Set, and Match
1988
as Bernard Samson
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as Richard III
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
Do You Remember?
1978
as Walter Street
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
as Geschichtenerzähler
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Pod
Shanghai Vice
1999
as Himself - Narrator
Stalin
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Bell
1982
as Michael Meade
Secret Agent
2001
as Narrator
Monsters We Met
2003
as Narrator
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Man from Haven
1972
as Jack Byron Lever
We, the Accused
1980
as Paul Presset
Movies (135)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Bilbo
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Ratatouille
2007
as Skinner (voice)
Alien: Romulus
2024
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
Alien
1979
as Ash
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Fifth Element
1997
as Cornelius
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Terry Rapson
Lord of War
2005
as Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
2004
as Professor Fitz
eXistenZ
1999
as Kiri Vinokur
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Sam Mussabini
Brazil
1985
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Loch Ness
1996
as Water Bailiff
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Baron Frankenstein
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Astrov
Flayed
1978
as The Man
From Hell
2001
as Sir William Gull
Young Winston
1972
as George E. Buckle
Garden State
2004
as Gideon Largeman
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version
1985
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
as The Gatekeeper
Time Bandits
1981
as Napoleon
Juggernaut
1974
as Nicholas Porter
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Dreamchild
1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
as Sir William Collyer
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as J. Bruce Ismay
The End of the Line
1970
as Reverend P. Bagley
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Mitchell Stephens
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Strangers with Candy
2006
as Dr. Putney
Blue Ice
1992
as Sir Hector
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
as Don Mini
Naked Lunch
1991
as Tom Frost
Big Night
1996
as Pascal
Robin and Marian
1976
as King John
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Gould
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Himmelstoss
Hamlet
1990
as Polonius
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Duval
Les Misérables
1978
as Thénardier
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Albertus
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Doctor Anderson
Girls at Sea
1958
as Marine (uncredited)
The Fixer
1968
as Grubeshov
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Yakovlev
Chromophobia
2006
as Edward Aylesbury
Bless the Child
2000
as Reverend Grissom
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Liam Casey
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Puck
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Mr. Naville
Animal Farm
1999
as Squealer (voice)
A Season of Giants
1990
as Lorenzo de' Medici
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Richard III
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as David Riccio
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
The Madness of King George
1994
as Willis
O Jerusalem
2006
as Ben Gurion
Dance with a Stranger
1985
as Desmond Cussen
Henry V
1989
as Captain Fluellen
Another Woman
1988
as Ken
Omri's Burning
1969
as Omri
Soft Targets
1982
as Alexei
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as President Poincare
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Trofimov
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Homecoming
1973
as Lenny
Bloody Sunday
1991
as Narrator
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975
as Mr. Garrick
Esther Kahn
2000
as Nathan Quellen
A Severed Head
1971
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
March or Die
1977
as El Krim
The Last Romantics
1992
as F.R. Leavis
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Polonius (archive footage)
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Salesman
1970
as Salesman
Chappaquiddick
1994
as Narrator
The Match
1999
as Big Tam
Incognito
1997
as John (uncredited)
Beautiful Joe
2000
as George The Geek
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002
as Self
Ramsey
1977
as Bill Ramsey
The Queen of Trees
2005
as Narrator
Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mohammed
Simon Magus
1999
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
The Treat
1972
as Gordon
The Wood Demon
1974
as Khrushchov
The Misanthrope
1980
as Alceste
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
Cry From Home
1986
as Narrator
Wetherby
1985
as Stanley Pilborough
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Gunner Flynn
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as The Tailor
The Real Middle Earth
2007
as Narrator
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as White Knight
The Cost of Treachery
1984
as Narrator
Rope
1957
as Granillo
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004
as Narrator
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
Edward the Confessor
1969
as Edward Gobey
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
as The Tailor (voice)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Patrick
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Lech Walesa
Kafka
1991
as Dr. Murnau
King Lear
1998
as King Lear
The Fishing Party
1986
as Narrator
Laughterhouse
1984
as Ben Singleton
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Landscape
1995
as Duff
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Frankenstein
1968
as Frankenstein / The Monster
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
as Narrator
About 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 Acto… With 187 credits spanning from 1951 to 2024, Ian Holm has appeared in 135 films and 52 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ian Holm Movies
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) — as Bilbo
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) — as Bilbo
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Old Bilbo Baggins
- Ratatouille (2007) — as Skinner (voice)
- Alien: Romulus (2024) — as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
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