Ian Holm
Known for Acting · 177 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 (44)
NOVA
1974
as Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Horizon
1964
as Narrator
Play for Today
1970
as Alexei
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Alan Corwin
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Oedipus / Khrushchov / Alceste
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
Screen Two
1985
as F.R. Leavis / Albertus
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Huw
Performance
1991
as Sir William Collyer / Duff / King Lear / Astrov
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as David Peters
Legends
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as The Man / J.M. Barrie
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Wolfe MacFarlane / Dr Frankenstein / The Being
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Zerah
Holocaust
1978
as Heinrich Himmler
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Charles Stubbs
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Himmelstoss
Chillers
1990
as Christopher Waggoner
The Borrowers
1992
as Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as The Tailor (voice)
The Power Game
1965
as Sefton Kemp
The Frighteners
1972
as Gordon
National Geographic Specials
1965
as Narrator (voice)
Napoleon and Love
1974
as Napoleon Bonaparte
40 Minutes
1981
as Narrator
Game, Set, and Match
1988
as Bernard Samson
Survival
1961
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Edward Gobey / Jamie Norton / Reverend P. Bagley
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
as Wedderburn
Jubilee 1977
1977
as Bill Ramsey
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Pod
Television
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
as Geschichtenerzähler
The Bell
1982
as Michael Meade
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as Richard III
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Shanghai Vice
1999
as Himself - Narrator
Stalin
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
Monsters We Met
2003
as Narrator
Secret Agent
2001
as Narrator
Movies (133)
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
Alien
1979
as Ash
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Ratatouille
2007
as Skinner (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Fifth Element
1997
as Cornelius
Alien: Romulus
2024
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Terry Rapson
Lord of War
2005
as Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
2004
as Professor Fitz
Brazil
1985
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Garden State
2004
as Gideon Largeman
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Sam Mussabini
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Baron Frankenstein
From Hell
2001
as Sir William Gull
eXistenZ
1999
as Kiri Vinokur
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as White Knight
Time Bandits
1981
as Napoleon
Henry V
1989
as Captain Fluellen
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Naked Lunch
1991
as Tom Frost
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Himmelstoss
The Match
1999
as Big Tam
March or Die
1977
as El Krim
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Mitchell Stephens
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Liam Casey
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Yakovlev
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Duval
Bless the Child
2000
as Reverend Grissom
Big Night
1996
as Pascal
Animal Farm
1999
as Squealer (voice)
Hamlet
1990
as Polonius
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Another Woman
1988
as Ken
Robin and Marian
1976
as King John
The Madness of King George
1994
as Willis
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Mr. Naville
Les Misérables
1978
as Thénardier
Juggernaut
1974
as Nicholas Porter
Chromophobia
2006
as Edward Aylesbury
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
Incognito
1997
as John (uncredited)
Dance with a Stranger
1985
as Desmond Cussen
Beautiful Joe
2000
as George The Geek
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as David Riccio
Loch Ness
1996
as Water Bailiff
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as President Poincare
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as J. Bruce Ismay
Young Winston
1972
as George E. Buckle
Strangers with Candy
2006
as Dr. Putney
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Doctor Anderson
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
as The Gatekeeper
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Puck
Blue Ice
1992
as Sir Hector
Kafka
1991
as Dr. Murnau
The Fixer
1968
as Grubeshov
Esther Kahn
2000
as Nathan Quellen
Wetherby
1985
as Stanley Pilborough
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mohammed
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Shergar
1999
as Joseph Maguire
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Albertus
Soft Targets
1982
as Alexei
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Polonius (archive footage)
The Treatment
2007
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Richard III
Dreamchild
1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Patrick
A Severed Head
1971
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Trofimov
O Jerusalem
2006
as Ben Gurion
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Gould
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Lech Walesa
Murder by the Book
1986
as Hercule Poirot
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Eustace Edgehill
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Simon Magus
1999
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as The Tailor
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Laughterhouse
1984
as Ben Singleton
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
Girls at Sea
1958
as Marine (uncredited)
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004
as Narrator
The Homecoming
1973
as Lenny
The Misanthrope
1980
as Alceste
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
as Sir William Collyer
King Lear
1998
as King Lear
A Season of Giants
1990
as Lorenzo de' Medici
The Queen of Trees
2005
as Narrator
The Wood Demon
1974
as Khrushchov
Opus
1967
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
as Narrator
The Last Romantics
1992
as F.R. Leavis
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Gunner Flynn
The Browning Version
1985
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
as Narrator
The Cost of Treachery
1984
as Narrator
Landscape
1995
as Duff
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Astrov
Tale of the Tides
1998
as Narrator
Frankenstein
1968
as Frankenstein / The Monster
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
as The Tailor (voice)
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Visions of Power
1985
as Narrator
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Jamie Norton
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
as Don Mini
Funny
1971
as Huw
Flayed
1978
as The Man
Cry From Home
1986
as Narrator
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Rope
1957
as Granillo
The Real Middle Earth
2007
as Narrator
Ramsey
1977
as Bill Ramsey
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 177 credits spanning from 1951 to 2024, Ian Holm has appeared in 133 films and 44 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
- Alien (1979) — as Ash
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Old Bilbo Baggins
- Ratatouille (2007) — as Skinner (voice)
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