Ian Holm
Acteur·rice
12 septembre 1931
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Died 19 juin 2020
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
As an actor
Alien: Romulus
2024 · Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Polonius (archive footage)
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009 · Geschichtenerzähler
Ratatouille
2007 · Skinner (voice)
The Treatment
2007 · Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Real Middle Earth
2007 · Narrator
Strangers with Candy
2006 · Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
2006 · Edward Aylesbury
O Jerusalem
2006 · Ben Gurion
Legends
2006 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Lord of War
2005 · Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Narrator (voice)
The Queen of Trees
2005 · Narrator
Garden State
2004 · Gideon Largeman
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Terry Rapson
The Aviator
2004 · Professor Fitz
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004 · Narrator (voice)
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Self
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004 · Narrator
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Bilbo
Prisoner of Paradise
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Monsters We Met
2003 · Narrator
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002 · Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Bilbo
From Hell
2001 · Sir William Gull
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001 · Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Secret Agent
2001 · Narrator
Bless the Child
2000 · Reverend Grissom
The Miracle Maker
2000 · Pontius Pilate (voice)
Esther Kahn
2000 · Nathan Quellen
Joe Gould's Secret
2000 · Joe Gould
Beautiful Joe
2000 · George The Geek
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000 · Patrick
Animal Farm
1999 · Squealer (voice)
eXistenZ
1999 · Kiri Vinokur
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Shergar
1999 · Joseph Maguire
The Match
1999 · Big Tam
Simon Magus
1999 · Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Shanghai Vice
1999 · Himself - Narrator
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 · White Knight
Tale of the Tides
1998 · Narrator
King Lear
1998 · King Lear
The Fifth Element
1997 · Cornelius
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Mitchell Stephens
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Mr. Naville
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Liam Casey
Incognito
1997 · John (uncredited)
Big Night
1996 · Pascal
Loch Ness
1996 · Water Bailiff
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996 · Narrator
Landscape
1995 · Duff
Little Red Riding Hood
1995 · Don Mini
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995 · Narrator (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Baron Frankenstein
The Madness of King George
1994 · Willis
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994 · (voice)
The Deep Blue Sea
1994 · Sir William Collyer
Chappaquiddick
1994 · Narrator
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Albertus
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993 · Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993 · The Tailor (voice)
The Return of the Borrowers
1993 · Pod
Blue Ice
1992 · Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
1992 · F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Borrowers
1992 · Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · The Tailor (voice)
Kafka
1991 · Dr. Murnau
Naked Lunch
1991 · Tom Frost
Uncle Vanya
1991 · Astrov
Bloody Sunday
1991 · Narrator
Performance
1991 · Sir William Collyer, Duff, King Lear, Astrov
Secret History
1991 · Narrator
Hamlet
1990 · Polonius
A Season of Giants
1990 · Lorenzo de' Medici
Stalin
1990 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Chillers
1990 · Christopher Waggoner
Henry V
1989 · Captain Fluellen
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989 · The Tailor
The Endless Game
1989 · Control
The Kingdom of Fun
1989 · Narrator
The Endless Game
1989 · Control
Another Woman
1988 · Ken
Game, Set, and Match
1988 · Bernard Samson
Korea: The Unknown War
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Murder by the Book
1986 · Hercule Poirot
Cry From Home
1986 · Narrator
The Fishing Party
1986 · Narrator
Brazil
1985 · Mr. Kurtzmann
Dance with a Stranger
1985 · Desmond Cussen
Dreamchild
1985 · Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
1985 · Stanley Pilborough
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985 · Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version
1985 · Andrew Crocker-Harris
Visions of Power
1985 · Narrator
Television
1985 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
1985 · F.R. Leavis, Albertus
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Laughterhouse
1984 · Ben Singleton
The Cost of Treachery
1984 · Narrator
The Return of the Soldier
1983 · Doctor Anderson
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983 · Narrator (voice)
Natural World
1983 · Narrator
Soft Targets
1982 · Alexei
The Bell
1982 · Michael Meade
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits
1981 · Napoleon
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Lech Walesa
40 Minutes
1981 · Narrator
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
1980 · Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Himmelstoss
Alien
1979 · Ash
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Alan Corwin
Les Misérables
1978 · Thénardier
The Thief of Baghdad
1978 · The Gatekeeper
The Lost Boys
1978 · J.M. Barrie
Flayed
1978 · The Man
Holocaust
1978 · Heinrich Himmler
The Lost Boys
1978 · J.M. Barrie
Do You Remember?
1978 · Walter Street
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · Duval
March or Die
1977 · El Krim
Ramsey
1977 · Bill Ramsey
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Zerah
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · The Man, J.M. Barrie
Jubilee 1977
1977 · Bill Ramsey
Robin and Marian
1976 · King John
Shout at the Devil
1976 · Mohammed
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975 · Mr. Garrick
Private Affairs
1975 · David Garrick
Juggernaut
1974 · Nicholas Porter
The Wood Demon
1974 · Khrushchov
Children in Crossfire
1974 · Narrator
Only a Game
1974 · Narrator
Napoleon and Love
1974 · Napoleon Bonaparte
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974 · Wedderburn
NOVA
1974 · Narrator, Narrator (voice)
Masquerade
1974 · Blake
The Homecoming
1973 · Lenny
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Charles Stubbs
Young Winston
1972 · George E. Buckle
The Treat
1972 · Gordon
The Frighteners
1972 · Gordon
The Man from Haven
1972 · Jack Byron Lever
A Severed Head
1971 · Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · David Riccio
Funny
1971 · Huw
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Yakovlev
Film '72
1971 · Self
Emma's Time
1970 · Mark Lang
The End of the Line
1970 · Reverend P. Bagley
The Salesman
1970 · Salesman
Play for Today
1970 · Alexei
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · President Poincare
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Edward the Confessor
1969 · Edward Gobey
Omri's Burning
1969 · Omri
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · David Peters
The Fixer
1968 · Grubeshov
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968 · Puck
Frankenstein
1968 · Frankenstein / The Monster
The Bofors Gun
1968 · Gunner Flynn
Opus
1967 · Lenny (The Homecoming)
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Huw
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Wolfe MacFarlane, Dr Frankenstein / The Being
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · King Richard III
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Oedipus, Khrushchov, Alceste
National Geographic Specials
1965 · Narrator (voice)
The Power Game
1965 · Sefton Kemp
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Richard III
Horizon
1964 · Narrator
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Mark Lang
The Paradise Suite
1963 · Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Trofimov
Survival
1961
Girls at Sea
1958 · Marine (uncredited)
Rope
1957 · Granillo
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Edward Gobey, Jamie Norton, Reverend P. Bagley
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Himmelstoss