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Landscape
1995
as Duff
Ian Holm
Also known as: Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert
Acting
Born:September 12, 1931
Died:June 19, 2020(aged 88)
Birthplace:Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Height:5'5" (166 cm)
Education:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Chigwell School
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
The Lord of the RingsChariots of FireAlien
Filmography (127 movies)
9.5
9.5
Frankenstein
1968
as Frankenstein / The Monster
8.8
8.8
The Making of the Return of the King
2004
as Self
8.5
8.5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Bilbo
8.5
8.5
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Richard III
8.4
8.4
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Bilbo
8.2
8.2
Alien
1979
as Ash
8.0
8.0
King Lear
1998
as King Lear
8.0
8.0
The Lost Boys
1978
as J.M. Barrie
8.0
8.0
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Trofimov
7.9
7.9
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004
as Narrator
7.8
7.8
Ratatouille
2007
as Skinner (voice)
7.8
7.8
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Narrator (voice)
7.8
7.8
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
7.7
7.7
Brazil
1985
as Mr. Kurtzmann
7.6
7.6
The Fifth Element
1997
as Cornelius
7.5
7.5
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
7.3
7.3
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Old Bilbo Baggins
7.3
7.3
Lord of War
2005
as Simeon Weisz
7.3
7.3
Simon Magus
1999
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
7.3
7.3
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Narrator (voice)
7.3
7.3
The Queen of Trees
2005
as Narrator
7.2
7.2
The Aviator
2004
as Professor Fitz
7.2
7.2
Henry V
1989
as Captain Fluellen
7.2
7.2
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
7.2
7.2
Alien: Romulus
2024
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
7.2
7.2
Les Misérables
1978
as Thénardier
7.1
7.1
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Narrator (voice)
7.1
7.1
Garden State
2004
as Gideon Largeman
7.0
7.0
Naked Lunch
1991
as Tom Frost
7.0
7.0
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Eustace Edgehill
7.0
7.0
The Real Middle Earth
2007
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Polonius (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
Big Night
1996
as Pascal
6.9
6.9
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Mitchell Stephens
6.8
6.8
The Madness of King George
1994
as Willis
6.8
6.8
Another Woman
1988
as Ken
6.8
6.8
eXistenZ
1999
as Kiri Vinokur
6.8
6.8
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Sam Mussabini
6.7
6.7
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Himmelstoss
6.7
6.7
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as President Poincare
6.7
6.7
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Patrick
6.7
6.7
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
6.7
6.7
From Hell
2001
as Sir William Gull
6.6
6.6
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as David Riccio
6.6
6.6
Time Bandits
1981
as Napoleon
6.6
6.6
Hamlet
1990
as Polonius
6.5
6.5
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Terry Rapson
6.5
6.5
Dreamchild
1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
6.5
6.5
A Season of Giants
1990
as Lorenzo de' Medici
6.4
6.4
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Baron Frankenstein
6.4
6.4
Kafka
1991
as Dr. Murnau
6.4
6.4
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
6.3
6.3
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Duval
6.3
6.3
Robin and Marian
1976
as King John
6.3
6.3
Shergar
1999
as Joseph Maguire
6.3
6.3
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
as Narrator (voice)
6.3
6.3
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Liam Casey
6.2
6.2
The Browning Version
1985
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
6.2
6.2
Juggernaut
1974
as Nicholas Porter
6.2
6.2
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Doctor Anderson
6.2
6.2
Young Winston
1972
as George E. Buckle
6.1
6.1
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Mr. Naville
6.1
6.1
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
6.1
6.1
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Albertus
6.0
6.0
The Fixer
1968
as Grubeshov
6.0
6.0
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
as Don Mini
6.0
6.0
Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mohammed
6.0
6.0
The Homecoming
1973
as Lenny
6.0
6.0
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
6.0
6.0
The Endless Game
1989
as Control
6.0
6.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Puck
5.9
5.9
Dance with a Stranger
1985
as Desmond Cussen
5.9
5.9
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as J. Bruce Ismay
5.9
5.9
O Jerusalem
2006
as Ben Gurion
5.9
5.9
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Gould
5.9
5.9
Esther Kahn
2000
as Nathan Quellen
5.9
5.9
Wetherby
1985
as Stanley Pilborough
5.8
5.8
March or Die
1977
as El Krim
5.8
5.8
The Match
1999
as Big Tam
5.8
5.8
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Gunner Flynn
5.8
5.8
Incognito
1997
as John (uncredited)
5.8
5.8
The Treatment
2007
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
5.7
5.7
Loch Ness
1996
as Water Bailiff
5.6
5.6
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999
as Narrator (voice)
5.6
5.6
Animal Farm
1999
as Squealer (voice)
5.6
5.6
Strangers with Candy
2006
as Dr. Putney
5.3
5.3
Bless the Child
2000
as Reverend Grissom
5.2
5.2
Beautiful Joe
2000
as George The Geek
5.2
5.2
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
as The Gatekeeper
5.1
5.1
Chromophobia
2006
as Edward Aylesbury
5.1
5.1
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as White Knight
5.0
5.0
A Severed Head
1971
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
5.0
5.0
Opus
1967
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
5.0
5.0
Laughterhouse
1984
as Ben Singleton
5.0
5.0
Blue Ice
1992
as Sir Hector
4.0
4.0
Murder by the Book
1986
as Hercule Poirot
4.0
4.0
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
1.0
1.0
The Cost of Treachery
1984
as Narrator
1.0
1.0
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
as Sir William Collyer
The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
as The Tailor (voice)
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994
as (voice)
The Last Romantics
1992
as F.R. Leavis
Emma's Time
1970
as Mark Lang
Rope
1957
as Granillo
Edward the Confessor
1969
as Edward Gobey
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as The Tailor
Funny
1971
as Huw
Omri's Burning
1969
as Omri
The End of the Line
1970
as Reverend P. Bagley
The Misanthrope
1980
as Alceste
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Lech Walesa
Flayed
1978
as The Man
Cry From Home
1986
as Narrator
The Fishing Party
1986
as Narrator
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Ramsey
1977
as Bill Ramsey
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975
as Mr. Garrick
The Treat
1972
as Gordon
Visions of Power
1985
as Narrator
Soft Targets
1982
as Alexei
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Astrov
The Wood Demon
1974
as Khrushchov
The Paradise Suite
1963
as Jamie Norton
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
as Narrator
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
as Narrator
Tale of the Tides
1998
as Narrator
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