Ian Holm
Acting
- Born:
- 1931-09-12
- Died:
- 2020-06-19
- Place of birth:
- Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
Alien: Romulus
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Discovering Hamlet
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Ratatouille
The Real Middle Earth
The Treatment
Legends
O Jerusalem
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Strangers with Candy
Chromophobia
The Queen of Trees
Lord of War
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The Aviator
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Garden State
D-Day 6.6.1944
The Day After Tomorrow
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Monsters We Met
Prisoner of Paradise
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Emperor's New Clothes
From Hell
Secret Agent
Esther Kahn
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Bless the Child
Beautiful Joe
The Miracle Maker
Joe Gould's Secret
Animal Farm
Wisconsin Death Trip
The Match
Shergar
eXistenZ
Shanghai Vice
Simon Magus
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Tale of the Tides
King Lear
Incognito
A Life Less Ordinary
The Sweet Hereafter
The Fifth Element
Night Falls on Manhattan
Big Night
Loch Ness
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Little Red Riding Hood
Landscape
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Madness of King George
The Deep Blue Sea
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
Chappaquiddick
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Return of the Borrowers
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Hour of the Pig
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Borrowers
Blue Ice
The Last Romantics
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Naked Lunch
Bloody Sunday
Kafka
Secret History
Uncle Vanya
Performance
Hamlet
A Season of Giants
A Season of Giants
Stalin
Chillers
The Tailor of Gloucester
Henry V
The Endless Game
The Endless Game
The Kingdom of Fun
Another Woman
Game, Set, and Match
Korea: The Unknown War
The Fishing Party
Cry From Home
Murder by the Book
The Browning Version
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Dreamchild
Wetherby
Dance with a Stranger
Brazil
Visions of Power
Television
Screen Two
The Cost of Treachery
Laughterhouse
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Natural World
The Return of the Soldier
Soft Targets
Inside the Third Reich
The Bell
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
40 Minutes
Time Bandits
Chariots of Fire
We, the Accused
S.O.S. Titanic
The Misanthrope
All Quiet on the Western Front
Alien
Tales of the Unexpected
Les Misérables
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys
Holocaust
Flayed
Do You Remember?
The Thief of Baghdad
BBC2 Play of the Week
March or Die
The Man in the Iron Mask
Ramsey
Jesus of Nazareth
Jubilee 1977
Shout at the Devil
Robin and Marian
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Private Affairs
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
The Wood Demon
Juggernaut
Only a Game
Masquerade
Children in Crossfire
Napoleon and Love
NOVA
The Homecoming
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
The Treat
The Man from Haven
Young Winston
The Frighteners
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nicholas and Alexandra
Funny
Film '72
A Severed Head
Play for Today
The End of the Line
The Salesman
Emma's Time
Omri's Burning
Moonlight on the Highway
Oh! What a Lovely War
Edward the Confessor
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Fixer
Frankenstein
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Bofors Gun
ITV Playhouse
Opus
Mystery and Imagination
The Power Game
BBC Play of the Month
National Geographic Specials
The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses
The Wednesday Play
Horizon
The Paradise Suite
The Cherry Orchard
Survival
Girls at Sea
Rope
Armchair Theatre
Tony Awards
Hallmark Hall of Fame