Ian Holm

Acting · 2.5 popularity

Age

Movies

135

Born: September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020
From: 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.

Works

135 films

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

20038.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

20018.4

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

20147.3

Ratatouille

20077.8

Alien: Romulus

20247.2

The Fifth Element

19977.6

Alien

19798.2

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

20127.4

The Day After Tomorrow

20046.6

The Aviator

20047.2

Brazil

19857.7

Lord of War

20057.3

From Hell

20016.7

eXistenZ

19996.8

Time Bandits

19816.6

Garden State

20047.1

Naked Lunch

19917.0

Chariots of Fire

19816.8

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

19946.4

Loch Ness

19965.7

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

19846.4

Juggernaut

19746.3

Henry V

19897.1

A Life Less Ordinary

19976.2

Animal Farm

19995.7

Big Night

19967.0

Night Falls on Manhattan

19976.3

All Quiet on the Western Front

19796.7

Hamlet

19906.6

Robin and Marian

19766.3

Another Woman

19886.8

The Madness of King George

19946.8

The Sweet Hereafter

19976.9

The Miracle Maker

20006.1

The Man in the Iron Mask

19776.4

Bless the Child

20005.4

Dreamchild

19856.6

Les Misérables

19787.1

Blue Ice

19925.3

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

Alice Through the Looking Glass

19985.2

S.O.S. Titanic

19806.0

March or Die

19775.8

Oh! What a Lovely War

19696.6

Chromophobia

20065.2

Nicholas and Alexandra

19717.0

D-Day 6.6.1944

20047.1

Strangers with Candy

20065.7

Uncle Vanya

19917.0

Incognito

19975.8

Kafka

19916.4

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

20006.9

Young Winston

19726.2

O Jerusalem

20066.1

Shout at the Devil

19766.0

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

19857.3

The Match

19996.0

The Return of the Soldier

19836.3

The Emperor's New Clothes

20016.8

Beautiful Joe

20005.4

The Fixer

19686.2

Dance with a Stranger

19856.1

The Thief of Baghdad

19785.5

The Hour of the Pig

19936.2

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

20057.7

Landscape

199510.0

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

19837.8

Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real

20047.9

Joe Gould's Secret

20006.0

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19686.3

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

20068.9

The Deep Blue Sea

19945.0

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester

1993

Flayed

1978

Bloody Sunday

1991

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

20046.5

Wetherby

19856.0

Esther Kahn

20006.0

Girls at Sea

19587.3

Prisoner of Paradise

20036.8

Rope

1957

The Salesman

1970

Ramsey

1977

Little Red Riding Hood

19956.0

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast

2002

Children in Crossfire

1974

The Browning Version

19856.2

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

The Treatment

20076.0

The Wars of the Roses

19658.7

Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington

1975

The Last Romantics

1992

King Lear

19988.5

The Treat

1972

Simon Magus

19997.4

Edward the Confessor

1969

Chappaquiddick

1994

The End of the Line

1970

The Cherry Orchard

19628.0

Emma's Time

1970

The Homecoming

19736.2

Omri's Burning

1969

A Little Fish in Deep Water

1996

Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

19949.0

Moonlight on the Highway

19696.0

Murder by the Book

19865.3

A Severed Head

19715.2

A Season of Giants

19907.7

Shergar

19996.4

The Endless Game

19896.3

Soft Targets

198210.0

The Misanthrope

1980

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

19937.5

Frankenstein

19689.5

The Queen of Trees

20057.3

Laughterhouse

19845.8

Opus

19677.5

The Real Middle Earth

20077.0

The Kingdom of Fun

1989

The Lost Boys

19788.0

Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

19927.7

Wisconsin Death Trip

19995.7

Funny

1971

The Paradise Suite

1963

The Bofors Gun

19686.5

Visions of Power

1985

Cry From Home

1986

The Cost of Treachery

19841.0

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

19958.0

Tale of the Tides

1998

The Wood Demon

19749.0

Only a Game

1974

The Fishing Party

1986