
Ian Holm
Acting
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.
TV Shows(43)

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
2009

Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006

Monsters We Met
Narrator
2003

Secret Agent
Narrator
2001

Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
1999
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod
1993

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice)
1992

The Borrowers
Pod
1992

Performance
Duff
1991

Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
1990

Chillers
Christopher Waggoner
1990

The Endless Game
Control
1989

Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson
1988

Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice)
1988

Television
Self - Narrator (voice)
1985

Screen Two
F.R. Leavis
1985

Natural World
Narrator
1983

Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1982
The Bell
Michael Meade
1982

40 Minutes
Narrator
1981

Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin
1979

The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
1978

Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
1978

BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man
1977

Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah
1977
Jubilee 1977
Bill Ramsey
1977

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn
1974

Napoleon and Love
Napoleon Bonaparte
1974

NOVA
Narrator
1974

The Frighteners
Gordon
1972

Play for Today
Alexei
1970

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
David Peters
1969

ITV Playhouse
Huw
1967

Mystery and Imagination
Wolfe MacFarlane
1966

The Power Game
Sefton Kemp
1965

BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus
1965

National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
1965

The Wars of the Roses
Richard
1965

Horizon
Narrator
1964

Survival
1961

Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey
1956

Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss
1951
Movies(133)

Alien: Romulus
Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
2024

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
2014

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
2012

Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
2011

Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
2007

The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
2007

The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007

O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
2006

Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
2006

Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
2006

The Queen of Trees
Narrator
2005

Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
2005

The Aviator
Professor Fitz
2004

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
2004

Garden State
Gideon Largeman
2004

D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
2004

The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
2004

The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
2004

Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
2003

Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
2001

The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001

From Hell
Sir William Gull
2001

Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
2000

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
2000

Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
2000

Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
2000

The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000

Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
2000

Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
1999

Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
1999

The Match
Big Tam
1999

Shergar
Joseph Maguire
1999

eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
1999

Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1999

Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
1998

Tale of the Tides
Narrator
1998

King Lear
King Lear
1998

Incognito
John (uncredited)
1997

A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
1997

The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
1997

The Fifth Element
Cornelius
1997

Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
1997

Big Night
Pascal
1996

Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
1996

Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
1995
Landscape
Duff
1995

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
1995

The Madness of King George
Willis
1994

The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
1994

Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
1994
Chappaquiddick
Narrator
1994

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
1993

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993

The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
1993

Blue Ice
Sir Hector
1992

The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
1992

Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992

Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
1991
Bloody Sunday
Narrator
1991

Kafka
Dr. Murnau
1991

Uncle Vanya
Astrov
1991

Hamlet
Polonius
1990

A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
1990

The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
1989

Henry V
Captain Fluellen
1989

The Endless Game
Control
1989

The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
1989

Another Woman
Ken
1988

The Fishing Party
Narrator
1986

Cry From Home
Narrator
1986

Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
1986

The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
1985

Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985

Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
1985

Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
1985

Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
1985

Visions of Power
Narrator
1985

The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
1984

Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1984

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
1983

The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
1983

Soft Targets
Alexei
1982

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
1981

Time Bandits
Napoleon
1981

Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
1981

S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
1980

The Misanthrope
Alceste
1980

All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
1979

Alien
Ash
1979

Les Misérables
Thénardier
1978

The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
1978

Flayed
The Man
1978

The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
1978

March or Die
El Krim
1977

The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
1977
Ramsey
Bill Ramsey
1977

Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
1976

Robin and Marian
King John
1976
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Mr. Garrick
1975

The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
1974

Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
1974

Children in Crossfire
Narrator
1974

The Homecoming
Lenny
1973

The Treat
Gordon
1972

Young Winston
George E. Buckle
1972

Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
1971

Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
1971
Funny
Huw
1971

A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1971
The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
1970
The Salesman
Salesman
1970

Emma's Time
Mark Lang
1970
Omri's Burning
Omri
1969

Moonlight on the Highway
1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
1969

Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
1969

The Fixer
Grubeshov
1968

Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
1968

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
1968

The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
1968

Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
1967

The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
1965
The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
1963

The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
1962

Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
1958
Rope
Granillo
1957