Ian Holm
Age: N/A | From: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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Aliases: Ian Holm Cuthbert , Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE , Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert , Sir Ian Holm , 이안 홈 , 伊恩·霍姆 , ایان هولم , Іан Голм
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 106
TV Involvements: 36
Most Famous Work
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Horizon
(1964) Narrator
Alien: Romulus
(2024) Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
Screen Two
(1985) F.R. Leavis
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Nominee
NOVA
(1974) Narrator (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003) Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001) Bilbo
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
(2014) Old Bilbo BagginsActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference) | |
| 2014 | Old Bilbo Baggins | |
| 2012 | Old Bilbo Baggins | |
| 2011 | Polonius (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Geschichtenerzähler | |
| 2007 | Skinner (voice) | |
| Narrator | ||
| Dr. Ernesto Morales | ||
| 2006 | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Ben Gurion | ||
| Dr. Putney | ||
| Edward Aylesbury | ||
| 2005 | Narrator | |
| Simeon Weisz | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2004 | Professor Fitz | |
| Self | ||
| Gideon Largeman | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Terry Rapson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2003 | Bilbo | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Bilbo | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | ||
| Sir William Gull | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Nathan Quellen | |
| Patrick | ||
| Reverend Grissom | ||
| George The Geek | ||
| Pontius Pilate (voice) | ||
| Joe Gould | ||
| 1999 | Squealer (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Big Tam | ||
| Joseph Maguire | ||
| Kiri Vinokur | ||
| Himself - Narrator | ||
| Sirius / Boris / The Devil | ||
| 1998 | White Knight | |
| Narrator | ||
| King Lear | ||
| 1997 | John (uncredited) | |
| Mr. Naville | ||
| Mitchell Stephens | ||
| Cornelius | ||
| Liam Casey | ||
| 1996 | Pascal | |
| Water Bailiff | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1995 | Don Mini | |
| Duff | ||
| 1994 | Willis | |
| Sir William Collyer | ||
| Baron Frankenstein | ||
| (voice) | ||
| 1993 | The Tailor (voice) | |
| Pod | ||
| Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald) | ||
| Albertus | ||
| 1992 | Pod | |
| Sir Hector | ||
| The Tailor (voice) | ||
| F.R. Leavis | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1991 | Tom Frost | |
| Dr. Murnau | ||
| Astrov | ||
| Sir William Collyer | ||
| Duff | ||
| Lear | ||
| Astrov | ||
| Polonius (archive footage) | ||
| 1990 | Polonius | |
| Lorenzo de' Medici | ||
| Christopher Waggoner | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1989 | The Tailor | |
| Captain Fluellen | ||
| Control | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1988 | Ken | |
| Bernard Samson | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1986 | Narrator | |
| Narrator | ||
| Hercule Poirot | ||
| 1985 | Andrew Crocker-Harris | |
| Eustace Edgehill | ||
| Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | ||
| Stanley Pilborough | ||
| Desmond Cussen | ||
| Mr. Kurtzmann | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| F.R. Leavis | ||
| 1984 | Narrator | |
| Ben Singleton | ||
| Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | ||
| 1983 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator | ||
| Doctor Anderson | ||
| 1982 | Alexei | |
| Dr. Joseph Goebbels | ||
| Michael Meade | ||
| 1981 | Lech Walesa | |
| Napoleon | ||
| Sam Mussabini | ||
| 1980 | J. Bruce Ismay | |
| Alceste | ||
| 1979 | Himmelstoss | |
| Ash | ||
| Alan Corwin | ||
| 1978 | Thénardier | |
| J.M. Barrie | ||
| J.M. Barrie | ||
| Heinrich Himmler | ||
| The Man | ||
| The Gatekeeper | ||
| 1977 | El Krim | |
| Duval | ||
| Zerah | ||
| 1976 | Mohammed | |
| King John | ||
| 1974 | Wedderburn | |
| Khrushchov | ||
| Nicholas Porter | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1973 | Lenny | |
| 1972 | George E. Buckle | |
| Gordon | ||
| 1971 | David Riccio | |
| Yakovlev | ||
| Huw | ||
| Martin Lynch-Gibbon | ||
| 1970 | Alexei | |
| Reverend P. Bagley | ||
| Mark Lang | ||
| 1969 | Omri | |
| N/A | ||
| President Poincare | ||
| Edward Gobey | ||
| 1968 | Grubeshov | |
| Frankenstein / The Monster | ||
| Puck | ||
| Gunner Flynn | ||
| 1967 | Lenny (The Homecoming) | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Oedipus | |
| Khrushchov | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| King Richard III | ||
| 1964 | Narrator | |
| 1963 | Jamie Norton | |
| 1962 | Trofimov | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| 1958 | Marine (uncredited) | |
| 1957 | Granillo | |
| 1956 | Self - Nominee | |
| 1951 | Himmelstoss | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
