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.
★8.5
MOVIE2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo
★8.4
MOVIE2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo
★7.3
MOVIE2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
★7.8
MOVIE2007
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
★8.2
MOVIE1979
Alien
as Ash
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
★7.4
MOVIE2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
★7.6
MOVIE1997
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
★6.6
MOVIE2004
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
★7.2
MOVIE2004
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
★7.3
MOVIE2005
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
★7.7
MOVIE1985
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
★6.8
MOVIE1999
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
★6.8
MOVIE1981
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
★5.7
MOVIE1996
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
★6.4
MOVIE1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
★6.7
MOVIE2001
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
★6.6
MOVIE1981
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
★7.1
MOVIE2004
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
★6.3
MOVIE1974
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
★6.4
MOVIE1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
MOVIE1978
Flayed
as The Man
★6.7
MOVIE1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
★6.6
MOVIE1985
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
★5.5
MOVIE1978
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
★7.1
MOVIE1978
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
★6.3
MOVIE1976
Robin and Marian
as King John
★6.2
MOVIE1985
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
★5.3
MOVIE1992
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
★5.8
MOVIE1977
March or Die
as El Krim
★6.1
MOVIE2000
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
★5.7
MOVIE2006
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
★6.9
MOVIE1997
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
★7.3
MOVIE1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
★6.2
MOVIE1997
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
★6.2
MOVIE1972
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
MOVIE1970
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
★6.8
MOVIE1994
The Madness of King George
as Willis
MOVIE1991
Bloody Sunday
as Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
★7.0
MOVIE1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
★6.2
MOVIE1993
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
★7.1
MOVIE1989
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
★5.4
MOVIE2000
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
★6.0
MOVIE1980
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
★6.6
MOVIE1990
Hamlet
as Polonius
★5.2
MOVIE2006
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
★5.7
MOVIE1999
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
★6.8
MOVIE2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
★7.0
MOVIE1996
Big Night
as Pascal
★6.7
MOVIE1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
★5.0
MOVIE1994
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
★6.8
MOVIE1988
Another Woman
as Ken
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
★6.3
MOVIE1983
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
★6.0
MOVIE2000
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
★6.0
MOVIE1976
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
★7.3
MOVIE1958
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
MOVIE1975
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick
★5.3
MOVIE2000
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
★5.8
MOVIE1997
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1968
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
★8.7
MOVIE1965
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
MOVIE1957
Rope
as Granillo
★7.5
MOVIE2011
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
MOVIE1994
Chappaquiddick
as Narrator
★7.9
MOVIE2004
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
★5.2
MOVIE1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
★6.0
MOVIE2000
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
★6.1
MOVIE2006
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
MOVIE1977
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
★6.3
MOVIE1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
MOVIE1972
The Treat
as Gordon
MOVIE1970
The Salesman
as Salesman
MOVIE1969
Omri's Burning
as Omri
★5.2
MOVIE1971
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
★6.2
MOVIE1973
The Homecoming
as Lenny
★6.3
MOVIE1989
The Endless Game
as Control
★7.7
MOVIE1990
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
★8.8
MOVIE2004
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
MOVIE1992
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
★6.0
MOVIE1999
The Match
as Big Tam
★6.4
MOVIE1991
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
★10.0
MOVIE1995
Landscape
as Duff
★6.8
MOVIE2003
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1962
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
MOVIE1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1982
Soft Targets
as Alexei
MOVIE1980
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
MOVIE1989
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
MOVIE1969
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
★7.1
MOVIE2004
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1985
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Moonlight on the Highway
★8.0
MOVIE1978
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
★6.9
MOVIE2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
★9.0
MOVIE1974
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
MOVIE1989
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2007
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE1968
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
★7.4
MOVIE1999
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
★1.0
MOVIE1984
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
★5.8
MOVIE1984
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
MOVIE1985
Visions of Power
as Narrator
MOVIE1981
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
MOVIE1963
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
★7.5
MOVIE1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
★7.3
MOVIE2005
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
★8.5
MOVIE1998
King Lear
as King Lear
MOVIE1986
Cry From Home
as Narrator
★5.3
MOVIE1986
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
MOVIE1970
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
MOVIE1986
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
★9.5
MOVIE1968
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
MOVIE1974
Children in Crossfire
as Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
★9.0
MOVIE1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
MOVIE1971
Funny
as Huw
MOVIE1998
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
★5.9
MOVIE2007
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
★7.8
MOVIE1983
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1995
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE1992
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1967
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
MOVIE1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
MOVIE1974
Only a Game
as Narrator