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: Acting

Born: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK, 1931-09-12

Died: 2020-06-19

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Rope	Granillo	0
2	1958	Girls at Sea	Marine (uncredited)	60
3	1962	The Cherry Orchard	Trofimov	80
4	1963	The Paradise Suite	Jamie Norton	0
5	1965	The Wars of the Roses	King Richard III	85
6	1967	Opus	Lenny (The Homecoming)	50
7	1968	The Bofors Gun	Gunner Flynn	58
8	1968	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck	54
9	1968	Frankenstein	Frankenstein / The Monster	95
10	1968	The Fixer	Grubeshov	58
11	1969	Edward the Confessor	Edward Gobey	0
12	1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	President Poincare	67
13	1969	Moonlight on the Highway		40
14	1969	Omri's Burning	Omri	0
15	1970	Emma's Time	Mark Lang	0
16	1970	The End of the Line	Reverend P. Bagley	0
17	1971	A Severed Head	Martin Lynch-Gibbon	53
18	1971	Funny	Huw	0
19	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Yakovlev	69
20	1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	David Riccio	67
21	1972	Young Winston	George E. Buckle	62
22	1973	The Homecoming	Lenny	59
23	1974	Juggernaut	Nicholas Porter	61
24	1974	The Wood Demon	Khrushchov	0
25	1976	Robin and Marian	King John	63
26	1976	Shout at the Devil	Mohammed	59
27	1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Duval	63
28	1977	March or Die	El Krim	58
29	1978	The Thief of Baghdad	The Gatekeeper	52
30	1978	Flayed	The Man	0
31	1978	The Lost Boys	J.M. Barrie	80
32	1978	Les Misérables	Thénardier	72
33	1979	Alien	Ash	82
34	1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Himmelstoss	67
35	1980	The Misanthrope	Alceste	0
36	1980	S.O.S. Titanic	J. Bruce Ismay	59
37	1981	Chariots of Fire	Sam Mussabini	68
38	1981	Time Bandits	Napoleon	66
39	1981	Strike: The Birth of Solidarity	Lech Walesa	0
40	1982	Inside the Third Reich	Dr. Joseph Goebbels	73
41	1982	Soft Targets	Alexei	0
42	1983	The Return of the Soldier	Doctor Anderson	62
43	1983	Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano	Narrator (voice)	73
44	1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot	64
45	1984	Laughterhouse	Ben Singleton	50
46	1984	The Cost of Treachery	Narrator	10
47	1985	Brazil	Mr. Kurtzmann	77
48	1985	Dance with a Stranger	Desmond Cussen	60
49	1985	Wetherby	Stanley Pilborough	60
50	1985	Dreamchild	Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll	67
51	1985	Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill	Eustace Edgehill	70
52	1985	The Browning Version	Andrew Crocker-Harris	62
53	1986	Murder by the Book	Hercule Poirot	30
54	1986	Cry From Home	Narrator	0
55	1986	The Fishing Party	Narrator	0
56	1988	Another Woman	Ken	68
57	1989	The Kingdom of Fun	Narrator	0
58	1989	The Endless Game	Control	60
59	1989	Henry V	Captain Fluellen	72
60	1989	The Tailor of Gloucester	The Tailor	0
61	1990	A Season of Giants	Lorenzo de' Medici	65
62	1990	Hamlet	Polonius	66
63	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Polonius (archive footage)	0
64	1991	Uncle Vanya	Astrov	0
65	1991	Kafka	Dr. Murnau	64
66	1991	Naked Lunch	Tom Frost	70
67	1992	Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen	Self - Narrator (voice)	78
68	1992	The Last Romantics	F.R. Leavis	0
69	1992	Blue Ice	Sir Hector	51
70	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Albertus	62
71	1993	The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald	Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)	70
72	1993	The Tailor of Gloucester	The Tailor (voice)	0
73	1994	Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom	(voice)	0
74	1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Baron Frankenstein	64
75	1994	The Deep Blue Sea	Sir William Collyer	10
76	1994	The Madness of King George	Willis	68
77	1995	Landscape	Duff	100
78	1995	Little Red Riding Hood	Don Mini	0
79	1996	A Little Fish in Deep Water	Narrator	0
80	1996	Loch Ness	Water Bailiff	56
81	1996	Big Night	Pascal	69
82	1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Liam Casey	63
83	1997	The Fifth Element	Cornelius	76
84	1997	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens	69
85	1997	A Life Less Ordinary	Mr. Naville	61
86	1997	Incognito	John (uncredited)	58
87	1998	King Lear	King Lear	80
88	1998	Tale of the Tides	Narrator	0
89	1998	Alice Through the Looking Glass	White Knight	51
90	1999	Simon Magus	Sirius / Boris / The Devil	73
91	1999	eXistenZ	Kiri Vinokur	68
92	1999	Shergar	Joseph Maguire	63
93	1999	The Match	Big Tam	62
94	1999	Wisconsin Death Trip	Narrator (voice)	57
95	1999	Animal Farm	Squealer (voice)	57
96	2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Gould	61
97	2000	The Miracle Maker	Pontius Pilate (voice)	60
98	2000	Beautiful Joe	George The Geek	54
99	2000	Bless the Child	Reverend Grissom	53
100	2000	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Patrick	67
101	2000	Esther Kahn	Nathan Quellen	60
102	2001	From Hell	Sir William Gull	67
103	2001	The Emperor's New Clothes	Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand	67
104	2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Bilbo	84
105	2003	Prisoner of Paradise	Narrator (voice)	63
106	2003	The Beast Within: Making Alien	(archive footage)	82
107	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Bilbo	85
108	2004	The Last Dragon	Narrator	78
109	2004	The Making of the Return of the King	Self	86
110	2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Terry Rapson	65
111	2004	D-Day 6.6.1944	Narrator (voice)	71
112	2004	Garden State	Gideon Largeman	71
113	2004	A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'	Self	60
114	2004	The Aviator	Professor Fitz	72
115	2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn	Narrator (voice)	78
116	2005	Lord of War	Simeon Weisz	73
117	2005	The Queen of Trees	Narrator	73
118	2006	Chromophobia	Edward Aylesbury	53
119	2006	Strangers with Candy	Dr. Putney	56
120	2006	O Jerusalem	Ben Gurion	60
121	2007	The Treatment	Dr. Ernesto Morales	60
122	2007	The Real Middle Earth	Narrator	0
123	2007	Ratatouille	Skinner (voice)	78
124	2011	Discovering Hamlet	Polonius (archive footage)	70
125	2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Old Bilbo Baggins	74
126	2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Old Bilbo Baggins	73

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Himmelstoss	87
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
3	1961	Survival		80
4	1964	Horizon	Narrator	73
5	1965	National Geographic Specials	Narrator (voice)	60
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Oedipus	50
7	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Khrushchov	50
8	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
9	1970	Play for Today	Alexei	61
10	1972	The Frighteners	Gordon	85
11	1974	NOVA	Narrator	69
12	1974	NOVA	Narrator (voice)	69
13	1974	Napoleon and Love		0
14	1974	The Lives of Benjamin Franklin	Wedderburn	0
15	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Zerah	78
16	1978	Holocaust	Heinrich Himmler	74
17	1978	The Lost Boys	J.M. Barrie	60
18	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Alan Corwin	67
19	1982	The Bell	Michael Meade	10
20	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
21	1985	Screen Two	F.R. Leavis	68
22	1985	Television	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
23	1988	Korea: The Unknown War	Narrator (voice)	0
24	1988	Game, Set, and Match	Bernard Samson	75
25	1990	Stalin	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
26	1990	Chillers	Christopher Waggoner	62
27	1991	Performance	Sir William Collyer	60
28	1991	Performance	Duff	60
29	1991	Performance	Lear	60
30	1991	Performance	Astrov	60
31	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	The Tailor (voice)	61
32	1992	The Borrowers	Pod	64
33	1993	The Return of the Borrowers	Pod	65
34	1999	Shanghai Vice	Himself - Narrator	0
35	2001	Secret Agent	Narrator	0
36	2003	Monsters We Met	Narrator	60
37	2003	Days That Shook the World	Narrator (voice)	63
38	2006	Legends	Self - Narrator (voice)	50
39	2009	1066: The Battle for Middle Earth	Geschichtenerzähler	69