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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Alien: Romulus | Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference) | 2024-08-13 |
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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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Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-28 |
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The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | 2007-05-04 |
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The Real Middle Earth | Narrator | 2007-06-01 |
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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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Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | 2005-09-16 |
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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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The Aviator | Professor Fitz | 2004-12-17 |
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D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
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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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The Making of 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2004-04-01 |
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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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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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From Hell | Sir William Gull | 2001-02-08 |
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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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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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Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | 2000-01-21 |
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Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
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The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
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Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-05 |
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Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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The Match | Big Tam | 1999-08-13 |
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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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Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
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King Lear | King Lear | 1998-03-21 |
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Tale of the Tides | Narrator | 1998-09-30 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | 1998-12-26 |
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The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
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A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | 1997-10-24 |
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Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
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Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | 1997-03-21 |
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Le Cinquième Élément | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
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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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A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator | 1996-04-18 |
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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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Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | 1995-12-25 |
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Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | (voice) | 1994-08-01 |
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The Madness of King George | Willis | 1994-12-28 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1994-11-04 |
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Chappaquiddick | Narrator | 1994-07-21 |
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The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | 1994-11-12 |
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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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The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | 1992-03-29 |
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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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Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | 1991-12-27 |
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Kafka | Dr. Murnau | 1991-11-15 |
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Bloody Sunday | Narrator | 1991-12-05 |
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Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
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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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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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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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The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
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Visions of Power | Narrator | 1985-02-12 |
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Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
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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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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | 1984-03-30 |
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Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton | 1984-09-01 |
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The Cost of Treachery | Narrator | 1984-10-30 |
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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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Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | 1981-05-15 |
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Time Bandits | Napoleon | 1981-07-13 |
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S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | 1980-02-29 |
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The Misanthrope | Alceste | 1980-01-27 |
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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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Flayed | The Man | 1978-02-22 |
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The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper | 1978-01-10 |
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The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | 1978-10-11 |
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Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
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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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Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | 1976-04-12 |
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Robin and Marian | King John | 1976-03-11 |
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Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington | Mr. Garrick | 1975-05-16 |
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Children in Crossfire | Narrator | 1974-03-12 |
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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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Funny | Huw | 1971-11-16 |
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Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | 1971-11-29 |
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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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The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley | 1970-06-29 |
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The Salesman | Salesman | 1970-05-30 |
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Emma's Time | Mark Lang | 1970-05-13 |
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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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Moonlight on the Highway | 1969-04-12 | |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1968-09-30 |
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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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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 |
