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 Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | 2007-05-04 |
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Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-28 |
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The Real Middle Earth | Narrator | 2007-06-01 |
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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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Ô Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | 2006-10-17 |
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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 Queen of Trees | Narrator | 2005-11-22 |
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A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2004-12-14 |
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D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
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Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real | Narrator | 2004-03-05 |
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Garden State | Gideon Largeman | 2004-07-28 |
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The Making of 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2004-04-01 |
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The Aviator | Professor Fitz | 2004-12-17 |
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The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
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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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo | 2001-12-18 |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | 2001-08-11 |
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From Hell | Sir William Gull | 2001-02-08 |
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Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | 2000-10-04 |
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Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | 2000-01-21 |
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Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | 2000-06-09 |
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The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | 2000-08-26 |
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Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
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Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-05 |
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Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil | 1999-02-17 |
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The Match | Big Tam | 1999-08-13 |
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Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | 1999-04-14 |
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Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
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Tale of the Tides | Narrator | 1998-09-30 |
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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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A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | 1997-10-24 |
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Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | 1997-03-21 |
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The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
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Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
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Le Cinquième Élément | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
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A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator | 1996-04-18 |
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Big Night | Pascal | 1996-09-20 |
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Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | 1996-08-23 |
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Landscape | Duff | 1995-10-21 |
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Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | 1995-12-25 |
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-13 |
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The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | 1994-11-12 |
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The Madness of King George | Willis | 1994-12-28 |
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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 World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice) | 1993-12-24 |
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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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The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | 1993-09-25 |
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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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Blue Ice | Sir Hector | 1992-10-09 |
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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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Bloody Sunday | Narrator | 1991-12-05 |
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Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
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A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | 1990-11-04 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-12-19 |
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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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The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor | 1989-12-28 |
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Henry V | Captain Fluellen | 1989-10-05 |
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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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Visions of Power | Narrator | 1985-02-12 |
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Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | 1985-10-04 |
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Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | 1985-06-19 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | 1985-12-15 |
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The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
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Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | 1985-03-01 |
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Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
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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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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | 1984-03-30 |
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The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | 1983-01-06 |
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Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) | 1983-11-02 |
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Soft Targets | Alexei | 1982-10-19 |
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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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Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | 1981-05-15 |
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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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All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss | 1979-11-14 |
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Alien | Ash | 1979-05-25 |
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The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | 1978-10-11 |
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Flayed | The Man | 1978-02-22 |
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Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
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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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Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | 1974-09-25 |
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The Wood Demon | Khrushchov | 1974-11-17 |
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Children in Crossfire | Narrator | 1974-03-12 |
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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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A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | 1971-01-21 |
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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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Emma's Time | Mark Lang | 1970-05-13 |
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The Salesman | Salesman | 1970-05-30 |
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The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley | 1970-06-29 |
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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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Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare | 1969-03-10 |
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Moonlight on the Highway | 1969-04-12 | |
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Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | 1968-11-11 |
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The Fixer | Grubeshov | 1968-12-08 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1968-09-30 |
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The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn | 1968-04-04 |
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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 |
