Cast
Ian Holm
Acting
Cast
Ian Holm
Known for
Acting
Born
1931-09-12
From
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Died
2020-06-19
Also known as Ian Holm Cuthbert, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert
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.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
Alien
as Ash
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
Hamlet
as Polonius
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Big Night
as Pascal
Another Woman
as Ken
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
The Match
as Big Tam
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
The Madness of King George
as Willis
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
March or Die
as El Krim
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
Robin and Marian
as King John
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Soft Targets
as Alexei
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
The Homecoming
as Lenny
The Endless Game
as Control
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
Flayed
as The Man
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
Funny
as Huw
King Lear
as King Lear
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
Rope
as Granillo
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
Landscape
as Duff
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Moonlight on the Highway
The Treat
as Gordon
Visions of Power
as Narrator
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
Cry From Home
as Narrator
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
Chappaquiddick
as Narrator
Omri's Burning
as Omri
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
Bloody Sunday
as Narrator
Children in Crossfire
as Narrator
The Salesman
as Salesman