Ian Holm

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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.

Filmography

• Alien: Romulus (2024)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
• Discovering Hamlet (2011)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• The Real Middle Earth (2007)
• The Treatment (2007)
• O Jerusalem (2006)
• The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2006)
• Strangers with Candy (2006)
• Chromophobia (2006)
• The Queen of Trees (2005)
• Lord of War (2005)
• The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
• The Aviator (2004)
• A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' (2004)
• Garden State (2004)
• D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real (2004)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Prisoner of Paradise (2003)
• The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
• From Hell (2001)
• Esther Kahn (2000)
• The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
• Bless the Child (2000)
• Beautiful Joe (2000)
• The Miracle Maker (2000)
• Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
• Animal Farm (1999)
• Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
• The Match (1999)
• Shergar (1999)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Simon Magus (1999)
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
• Tale of the Tides (1998)
• King Lear (1998)
• Incognito (1997)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
• Big Night (1996)
• Loch Ness (1996)
• A Little Fish in Deep Water (1996)
• Little Red Riding Hood (1995)
• Landscape (1995)
• There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (1995)
• The Madness of King George (1994)
• The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
• Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom (1994)
• Chappaquiddick (1994)
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester (1993)
• The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
• The Hour of the Pig (1993)
• Blue Ice (1992)
• The Last Romantics (1992)
• Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen (1992)
• Naked Lunch (1991)
• Bloody Sunday (1991)
• Kafka (1991)
• Uncle Vanya (1991)
• Hamlet (1990)
• A Season of Giants (1990)
• The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
• Henry V (1989)
• The Endless Game (1989)
• The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
• Another Woman (1988)
• The Fishing Party (1986)
• Cry From Home (1986)
• Murder by the Book (1986)
• The Browning Version (1985)
• Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
• Dreamchild (1985)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Dance with a Stranger (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• Visions of Power (1985)
• The Cost of Treachery (1984)
• Laughterhouse (1984)
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
• Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano (1983)
• The Return of the Soldier (1983)
• Soft Targets (1982)
• Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
• The Misanthrope (1980)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
• Alien (1979)
• Les Misérables (1978)
• The Lost Boys (1978)
• Flayed (1978)
• The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
• March or Die (1977)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
• Ramsey (1977)
• Shout at the Devil (1976)
• Robin and Marian (1976)
• Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington (1975)
• The Wood Demon (1974)
• Juggernaut (1974)
• Only a Game (1974)
• Children in Crossfire (1974)
• The Homecoming (1973)
• The Treat (1972)
• Young Winston (1972)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• Funny (1971)
• A Severed Head (1971)
• The End of the Line (1970)
• The Salesman (1970)
• Emma's Time (1970)
• Omri's Burning (1969)
• Moonlight on the Highway (1969)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Edward the Confessor (1969)
• The Fixer (1968)
• Frankenstein (1968)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
• The Bofors Gun (1968)
• Opus (1967)
• The Wars of the Roses (1965)
• The Paradise Suite (1963)
• The Cherry Orchard (1962)
• Girls at Sea (1958)
• Rope (1957)