Ian Holm
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 12-09-1931
- Gender: Male
- Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
- Also Known As:
Ian Holm Cuthbert
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE
- Popularity: 10.04
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Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 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.
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| Year | Movie | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | as Mitchell Stephens |
| 1999 | Wisconsin Death Trip | as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand |
| 1984 | Laughterhouse | as Ben Singleton |
| 1974 | The Wood Demon | as Khrushchov |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | as Joe Gould |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | as Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Prisoner of Paradise | as Narrator (voice) |
| 1995 | Landscape | as Duff |
| 1998 | King Lear | as King Lear |
| 1969 | Moonlight on the Highway | |
| 1969 | Edward the Confessor | as Edward Gobey |
| 2004 | D-Day 6.6.1944 | as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | The Real Middle Earth | as Narrator |
| 1982 | Soft Targets | as Alexei |
| 1980 | The Misanthrope | as Alceste |
| 1985 | The Browning Version | as Andrew Crocker-Harris |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys | as J.M. Barrie |
| 2005 | The Queen of Trees | as Narrator |
| 1984 | The Cost of Treachery | as Narrator |
| 1989 | The Kingdom of Fun | as Narrator |
| 1992 | The Last Romantics | as F.R. Leavis |
| 1993 | The Borrowers | as Pod |
| 1996 | A Little Fish in Deep Water | as Narrator |
| 1998 | Tale of the Tides | as Narrator |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | as Squealer (voice) |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot |
| 1986 | Murder by the Book | as Hercule Poirot |
| 1985 | Dreamchild | as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn | as Nathan Quellen |
| 1996 | Night Falls on Manhattan | as Liam Casey |
| 1993 | The Advocate | as Albertus |
| 1991 | Uncle Vanya | as Astrov |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | as Trofimov |
| 1973 | The Homecoming | as Lenny |
| 1985 | Wetherby | as Stanley Pilborough |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | as Patrick |
| 1985 | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | as Eustace Edgehill |
| 1983 | Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano | as Narrator (voice) |
| 1994 | Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | as (voice) |
| 1992 | Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1979 | Alien | as Ash |
| 2004 | Garden State | as Gideon Largeman |
| 2001 | From Hell | as Sir William Gull |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | as Kiri Vinokur |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | as Skinner (voice) |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | as Tom Frost |
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | as Willis |
| 1988 | Another Woman | as Ken |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger | as Desmond Cussen |
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | as White Knight |
| 1971 | A Severed Head | as Martin Lynch-Gibbon |
| 1992 | Blue Ice | as Sir Hector |
| 2007 | The Treatment | as Dr. Ernesto Morales |
| 1996 | Loch Ness | as Water Bailiff |
| 1994 | The Deep Blue Sea | as Sir William Collyer |
| 1963 | The Paradise Suite | as Jamie Norton |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | as Gunner Flynn |
| 1970 | Emma's Time | as Mark Lang |
| 1957 | Rope | as Granillo |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | as Father Vito Cornelius |
| 1985 | Brazil | as Mr. M. Kurtzmann |
| 1991 | Kafka | as Dr. Murnau |
| 1979 | All Quiet on the Western Front | as Himmelstoss |
| 1976 | Shout at the Devil | as Mohammed |
| 1968 | The Fixer | as Grubeshov |
| 1989 | The Endless Game | as Control |
| 1967 | Opus | as Lenny (The Homecoming) |
| 1990 | Hamlet | as Polonius |
| 1977 | The Man in the Iron Mask | as Duval |
| 1977 | March or Die | as El Krim |
| 2006 | Renaissance | as Jonas Muller |
| 2006 | Chromophobia | as Edward Aylesbury |
| 1972 | Young Winston | as George E. Buckle |
| 2006 | Ô Jerusalem | as Ben Gurion |
| 1980 | S.O.S. Titanic | as J. Bruce Ismay |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | as Doctor Anderson |
| 2005 | Lord of War | as Simeon Weisz |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | as Baron Frankenstein |
| 1978 | Les Misérables | as Thénardier |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | as Sam Mussabini |
| 2006 | Strangers with Candy | as Dr. Putney |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | as Nicholas Porter |
| 1999 | The Match | as Big Tam |
| 2000 | Beautiful Joe | as George The Geek |
| 2004 | The Aviator | as Professor Fitz |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | as President Poincare |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | as Pontius Pilate |
| 1978 | The Thief of Baghdad | as The Gatekeeper |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses | as King Richard III |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | as Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 1999 | Simon Magus | as Sirius / Boris / The Devil |
| 1999 | Shergar | as Joseph Maguire |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | as Bilbo Baggins |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | as King John |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | as Napoleon |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | as David Riccio |
| 2004 | The Last Dragon | as Narrator |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | as Puck |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | as Mr. Naville |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | as Dr. Joseph Goebbels |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | as Terry Rapson |
| 2000 | Bless the Child | as Reverend Grissom |
| 2003 | The Beast Within: Making Alien | as (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Big Night | as Pascal |
| 1989 | Henry V | as Captain Fluellen |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | as Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | as Bilbo Baggins |
| 1997 | Incognito | as John (uncredited) |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | as Old Bilbo Baggins |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | as Polonius (archive footage) |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea | as Marine (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | as Yakovlev |