Ian Holm
Acting
🎂 1931-09-12
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.
Cast credits(171)
Narrator
1964
Narrator
1974
Narrator (voice)
1974
Narrator
1983
Alexei
1970
Oedipus
1965
Khrushchov
1965
Alceste
1965
F.R. Leavis
1985
Self - Nominee
1956
Alan Corwin
1979
Narrator (voice)
1965
Zerah
1977
1966
Bilbo
2001
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Himmelstoss
1951
Duff
1991
King Lear
1991
Sir William Collyer
1991
Astrov
1991
The Man
1977
J.M. Barrie
1977
Bilbo
2003
Skinner (voice)
2007
Narrator
1981
Old Bilbo Baggins
2014
Wedderburn
1974
Ash
1979
Christopher Waggoner
1990
J.M. Barrie
1978
Old Bilbo Baggins
2012
Heinrich Himmler
1978
Gordon
1972
1961
Cornelius
1997
Pod
1992
Bernard Samson
1988
Narrator
2003
Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
Himself - Narrator
1999
Geschichtenerzähler
2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
The Tailor (voice)
1992
Terry Rapson
2004
Michael Meade
1982
Simeon Weisz
2005
Narrator
2001
Professor Fitz
2004
Edward Gobey
1956
Pod
1993
Mr. Kurtzmann
1985
Napoleon
1981
Sir William Gull
2001
Kiri Vinokur
1999
Tom Frost
1991
Sam Mussabini
1981
Baron Frankenstein
1994
1974
Captain Fluellen
1989
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1984
Gideon Largeman
2004
Pascal
1996
Nicholas Porter
1974
Squealer (voice)
1999
Willis
1994
Himmelstoss
1979
King John
1976
Mr. Naville
1997
Reverend Grissom
2000
Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000
Liam Casey
1997
Yakovlev
1971
Thénardier
1978
Polonius
1990
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985
Ken
1988
Duval
1977
John (uncredited)
1997
Doctor Anderson
1983
Mohammed
1976
Water Bailiff
1996
Dr. Murnau
1991
Mitchell Stephens
1997
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001
The Gatekeeper
1978
Dr. Putney
2006
David Riccio
1971
Desmond Cussen
1985
El Krim
1977
Edward Aylesbury
2006
Narrator (voice)
1988
George E. Buckle
1972
President Poincare
1969
Puck
1968
White Knight
1998
J. Bruce Ismay
1980
Albertus
1993
Stanley Pilborough
1985
King Richard III
1965
Grubeshov
1968
Big Tam
1999
Joe Gould
2000
Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007
Narrator (voice)
2005
Hercule Poirot
1986
Ben Gurion
2006
Patrick
2000
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1982
Polonius (archive footage)
2011
Sir Hector
1992
George The Geek
2000
Self
2004
Narrator (voice)
2004
Nathan Quellen
2000
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993
Marine (uncredited)
1958
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985
Frankenstein / The Monster
1968
Narrator
2004
Narrator
2005
Ben Singleton
1984
(archive footage)
2003
Gunner Flynn
1968
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1971
Don Mini
1995
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1999
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Narrator
1996
Control
1989
Self
2004
Trofimov
1962
Joseph Maguire
1999
Narrator
1984
Astrov
1991
Lorenzo de' Medici
1990
Lenny
1973
Narrator (voice)
2003
Narrator
1998
J.M. Barrie
1978
Polonius (archive footage)
1991
Khrushchov
1974
Huw
1971
Alexei
1982
Alceste
1980
The Tailor
1989
Narrator (voice)
1983
The Tailor (voice)
1993
Jamie Norton
1963
King Lear
1998
Lech Walesa
1981
Narrator (voice)
1999
Lenny (The Homecoming)
1967
F.R. Leavis
1992
Narrator
2007
The Man
1978
Edward Gobey
1969
Omri
1969
Granillo
1957
Sir William Collyer
1994
Mark Lang
1970
Eustace Edgehill
1985
Duff
1995
Narrator
1985
1969
Narrator
1986
Reverend P. Bagley
1970
(voice)
1994
Narrator
1989
Narrator
1986
Narrator (voice)
1995