1931-09-12 Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo Baggins | 2014-12-10 |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins | 2012-12-12 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Polonius (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
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The Real Middle Earth | Narrator | 2007-06-01 |
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Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-28 |
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The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | 2007-05-04 |
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Ô Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | 2006-10-17 |
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Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | 2006-05-10 |
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Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | 2006-06-28 |
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The Queen of Trees | Narrator | 2005-11-22 |
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) | 2005-04-05 |
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Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | 2005-09-16 |
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The Aviator | Professor Fitz | 2004-12-17 |
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The Making of the Return of the King | Self | 2004-04-01 |
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D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
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Garden State | Gideon Largeman | 2004-07-28 |
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A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2004-12-14 |
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The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
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Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real | Narrator | 2004-03-05 |
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Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) | 2003-03-07 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo | 2003-12-17 |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | 2001-08-11 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo | 2001-12-18 |
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From Hell | Sir William Gull | 2001-02-08 |
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Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | 2000-01-21 |
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Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | 2000-10-04 |
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Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | 2000-06-09 |
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | 2000-08-26 |
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The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
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Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
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The Match | Big Tam | 1999-08-13 |
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Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-05 |
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eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | 1999-04-14 |
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Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil | 1999-02-17 |
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Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
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King Lear | King Lear | 1998-03-21 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | 1998-12-26 |
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Tale of the Tides | Narrator | 1998-09-30 |
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Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | 1997-03-21 |
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Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
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A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | 1997-10-24 |
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Le Cinquième Élément | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
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The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
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A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator | 1996-04-18 |
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Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | 1996-08-23 |
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Big Night | Pascal | 1996-09-20 |
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Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | 1995-12-25 |
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Landscape | Duff | 1995-10-21 |
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-13 |
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The Madness of King George | Willis | 1994-12-28 |
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The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | 1994-11-12 |
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Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | (voice) | 1994-08-01 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1994-11-04 |
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The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice) | 1993-12-24 |
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The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | 1993-09-25 |
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The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald) | 1993-11-09 |
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Blue Ice | Sir Hector | 1992-10-09 |
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Elizabeth R | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1992-02-06 |
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The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | 1992-03-29 |
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Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
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Kafka | Dr. Murnau | 1991-11-15 |
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Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | 1991-12-27 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-12-19 |
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A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | 1990-11-04 |
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The Kingdom of Fun | Narrator | 1989-01-19 |
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The Endless Game | Control | 1989-08-20 |
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Henry V | Captain Fluellen | 1989-10-05 |
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The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor | 1989-12-28 |
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Another Woman | Ken | 1988-10-13 |
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The Fishing Party | Narrator | 1986-02-27 |
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Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot | 1986-01-01 |
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Cry From Home | Narrator | 1986-02-20 |
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The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
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Visions of Power | Narrator | 1985-02-12 |
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Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | 1985-03-01 |
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Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | 1985-10-04 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | 1985-12-15 |
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Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | 1985-06-19 |
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Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | 1984-03-30 |
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The Cost of Treachery | Narrator | 1984-10-30 |
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Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton | 1984-09-01 |
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Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) | 1983-11-02 |
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The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | 1983-01-06 |
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Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels | 1982-05-09 |
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Soft Targets | Alexei | 1982-10-19 |
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Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | 1981-05-15 |
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa | 1981-12-18 |
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Time Bandits | Napoleon | 1981-07-13 |
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The Misanthrope | Alceste | 1980-01-27 |
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S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | 1980-02-29 |
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Alien | Ash | 1979-05-25 |
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All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss | 1979-11-14 |
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Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
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Flayed | The Man | 1978-02-22 |
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The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | 1978-10-11 |
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The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper | 1978-01-10 |
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March or Die | El Krim | 1977-09-08 |
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Ramsey | Bill Ramsey | 1977-05-22 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | 1977-07-17 |
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Robin and Marian | King John | 1976-03-11 |
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Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | 1976-04-12 |
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Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington | Mr. Garrick | 1975-05-16 |
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The Wood Demon | Khrushchov | 1974-11-17 |
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Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | 1974-09-25 |
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The Homecoming | Lenny | 1973-10-29 |
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The Treat | Gordon | 1972-09-01 |
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Young Winston | George E. Buckle | 1972-07-20 |
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Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | 1971-11-29 |
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Funny | Huw | 1971-11-16 |
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Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio | 1971-12-22 |
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A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | 1971-01-21 |
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Emma's Time | Mark Lang | 1970-05-13 |
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The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley | 1970-06-29 |
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Moonlight on the Highway | 1969-04-12 | |
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Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare | 1969-03-10 |
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Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey | 1969-02-24 |
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Omri's Burning | Omri | 1969-10-16 |
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The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn | 1968-04-04 |
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The Fixer | Grubeshov | 1968-12-08 |
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Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | 1968-11-11 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1968-09-30 |
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Opus | Lenny (The Homecoming) | 1967-01-02 |
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The Wars of the Roses | King Richard III | 1965-04-08 |
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The Paradise Suite | Jamie Norton | 1963-02-24 |
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The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | 1962-04-17 |
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Girls at Sea | Marine (uncredited) | 1958-10-01 |
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Rope | Granillo | 1957-10-02 |
