Acting · Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK · Born September 12, 1931
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.
MovieAlien: Romulus
2024
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
MovieThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Old Bilbo Baggins
MovieThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Old Bilbo Baggins
MovieDiscovering Hamlet
2011
as Polonius (archive footage)
TV1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
as Geschichtenerzähler
MovieRatatouille
2007
as Skinner (voice)
MovieThe Real Middle Earth
2007
as Narrator
MovieThe Treatment
2007
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
TVLegends
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieO Jerusalem
2006
as Ben Gurion
MovieStrangers with Candy
2006
as Dr. Putney
MovieChromophobia
2006
as Edward Aylesbury
MovieThe Queen of Trees
2005
as Narrator
MovieLord of War
2005
as Simeon Weisz
MovieThe Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Aviator
2004
as Professor Fitz
MovieA Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
MovieGarden State
2004
as Gideon Largeman
MovieD-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Terry Rapson
MovieThe Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
MovieDragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004
as Narrator
MovieThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Bilbo
TVMonsters We Met
2003
as Narrator
MoviePrisoner of Paradise
2003
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002
as Self
MovieThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Bilbo
MovieThe Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
MovieFrom Hell
2001
as Sir William Gull
TVSecret Agent
2001
as Narrator
MovieEsther Kahn
2000
as Nathan Quellen
MovieThe Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Patrick
MovieBless the Child
2000
as Reverend Grissom
MovieBeautiful Joe
2000
as George The Geek
MovieThe Miracle Maker
2000
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
MovieJoe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Gould
MovieAnimal Farm
1999
as Squealer (voice)
MovieWisconsin Death Trip
1999
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Match
1999
as Big Tam
MovieShergar
1999
as Joseph Maguire
MovieeXistenZ
1999
as Kiri Vinokur
TVShanghai Vice
1999
as Himself - Narrator
MovieSimon Magus
1999
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
MovieAlice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as White Knight
MovieTale of the Tides
1998
as Narrator
MovieKing Lear
1998
as King Lear
MovieIncognito
1997
as John (uncredited)
MovieA Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Mr. Naville
MovieThe Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Mitchell Stephens
MovieThe Fifth Element
1997
as Cornelius
MovieNight Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Liam Casey
MovieBig Night
1996
as Pascal
MovieLoch Ness
1996
as Water Bailiff
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
as Narrator
MovieLittle Red Riding Hood
1995
as Don Mini
Landscape
1995
as Duff
MovieThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Madness of King George
1994
as Willis
MovieThe Deep Blue Sea
1994
as Sir William Collyer
MovieMary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Baron Frankenstein
MovieMustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994
as (voice)
Chappaquiddick
1994
as Narrator
MovieThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
as The Tailor (voice)
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Pod
MovieThe Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
MovieThe Hour of the Pig
1993
as Albertus
TVThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as The Tailor (voice)
TVThe Borrowers
1992
as Pod
MovieBlue Ice
1992
as Sir Hector
MovieThe Last Romantics
1992
as F.R. Leavis
MovieElizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieNaked Lunch
1991
as Tom Frost
Bloody Sunday
1991
as Narrator
MovieKafka
1991
as Dr. Murnau
TVSecret History
1991
as Narrator
MovieUncle Vanya
1991
as Astrov
TVPerformance
1991
as Sir William Collyer
MovieHamlet
1990
as Polonius
MovieA Season of Giants
1990
as Lorenzo de' Medici
TVStalin
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVChillers
1990
as Christopher Waggoner
MovieThe Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as The Tailor
MovieHenry V
1989
as Captain Fluellen
MovieThe Endless Game
1989
as Control
TVThe Endless Game
1989
as Control
MovieThe Kingdom of Fun
1989
as Narrator
MovieAnother Woman
1988
as Ken
TVGame, Set, and Match
1988
as Bernard Samson
TVKorea: The Unknown War
1988
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Fishing Party
1986
as Narrator
MovieCry From Home
1986
as Narrator
MovieMurder by the Book
1986
as Hercule Poirot
MovieThe Browning Version
1985
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
MovieMr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Eustace Edgehill
MovieDreamchild
1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
MovieWetherby
1985
as Stanley Pilborough
MovieDance with a Stranger
1985
as Desmond Cussen
MovieBrazil
1985
as Mr. Kurtzmann
MovieVisions of Power
1985
as Narrator
TVTelevision
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVScreen Two
1985
as F.R. Leavis
MovieThe Cost of Treachery
1984
as Narrator
MovieLaughterhouse
1984
as Ben Singleton
MovieGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
MovieBette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Narrator (voice)
TVNatural World
1983
as Narrator
MovieThe Return of the Soldier
1983
as Doctor Anderson
MovieSoft Targets
1982
as Alexei
TVInside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Bell
1982
as Michael Meade
MovieStrike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Lech Walesa
TV40 Minutes
1981
as Narrator
MovieTime Bandits
1981
as Napoleon
MovieChariots of Fire
1981
as Sam Mussabini
We, the Accused
1980
as Paul Presset
MovieS.O.S. Titanic
1980
as J. Bruce Ismay
MovieThe Misanthrope
1980
as Alceste
MovieAll Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Himmelstoss
MovieAlien
1979
as Ash
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as Alan Corwin
MovieLes Misérables
1978
as Thénardier
MovieThe Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
TVThe Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
TVHolocaust
1978
as Heinrich Himmler
MovieFlayed
1978
as The Man
Do You Remember?
1978
as Walter Street
MovieThe Thief of Baghdad
1978
as The Gatekeeper
TVBBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as The Man
MovieMarch or Die
1977
as El Krim
MovieThe Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Duval
Ramsey
1977
as Bill Ramsey
TVJesus of Nazareth
1977
as Zerah
Jubilee 1977
1977
as Bill Ramsey
MovieShout at the Devil
1976
as Mohammed
MovieRobin and Marian
1976
as King John
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975
as Mr. Garrick
Private Affairs
1975
as David Garrick
TVThe Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
as Wedderburn
MovieThe Wood Demon
1974
as Khrushchov
MovieJuggernaut
1974
as Nicholas Porter
Only a Game
1974
as Narrator
Masquerade
1974
as Blake
MovieChildren in Crossfire
1974
as Narrator
TVNapoleon and Love
1974
as Napoleon Bonaparte
TVNOVA
1974
as Narrator
MovieThe Homecoming
1973
as Lenny
TVOrson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Charles Stubbs
MovieThe Treat
1972
as Gordon
The Man from Haven
1972
as Jack Byron Lever
MovieYoung Winston
1972
as George E. Buckle
TVThe Frighteners
1972
as Gordon
MovieMary, Queen of Scots
1971
as David Riccio
MovieNicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Yakovlev
Funny
1971
as Huw
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieA Severed Head
1971
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
TVPlay for Today
1970
as Alexei
The End of the Line
1970
as Reverend P. Bagley
The Salesman
1970
as Salesman
MovieEmma's Time
1970
as Mark Lang
Omri's Burning
1969
as Omri
MovieMoonlight on the Highway
1969
MovieOh! What a Lovely War
1969
as President Poincare
MovieEdward the Confessor
1969
as Edward Gobey
TVITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as David Peters
MovieThe Fixer
1968
as Grubeshov
MovieFrankenstein
1968
as Frankenstein / The Monster
MovieA Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Puck
MovieThe Bofors Gun
1968
as Gunner Flynn
TVITV Playhouse
1967
as Huw
MovieOpus
1967
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
TVMystery and Imagination
1966
as Wolfe MacFarlane
TVThe Power Game
1965
as Sefton Kemp
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Oedipus
TVNational Geographic Specials
1965
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Richard III
TVThe Wars of the Roses
1965
as Richard III
TVThe Wednesday Play
1964
as Mark Lang
TVHorizon
1964
as Narrator
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Jamie Norton
MovieThe Cherry Orchard
1962
as Trofimov
TVSurvival
1961
MovieGirls at Sea
1958
as Marine (uncredited)
Rope
1957
as Granillo
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Edward Gobey
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Himmelstoss
