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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The Real Middle Earth | Narrator | 2007-06-01 |
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Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-28 |
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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 Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) | 2005-04-05 |
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The Queen of Trees | Narrator | 2005-11-22 |
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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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D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
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The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
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The Last Dragon | Narrator | 2004-03-05 |
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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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Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) | 2003-03-07 |
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The Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage) | 2003-12-02 |
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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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The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
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Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | 2000-06-09 |
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Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | 2000-08-26 |
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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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Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-05 |
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Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
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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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Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | 1998-12-26 |
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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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Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
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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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Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | 1997-03-21 |
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Le Cinquième Élément | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
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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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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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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1994-11-04 |
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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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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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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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Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Polonius (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
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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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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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Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot | 1986-01-01 |
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The Fishing Party | Narrator | 1986-02-27 |
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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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Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | 1985-12-15 |
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Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
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Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | 1985-10-04 |
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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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Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | 1985-06-19 |
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The Cost of Treachery | Narrator | 1984-10-30 |
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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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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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S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | 1980-02-29 |
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The Misanthrope | Alceste | 1980-01-27 |
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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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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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Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | 1977-07-17 |
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March or Die | El Krim | 1977-09-08 |
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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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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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Young Winston | George E. Buckle | 1972-07-20 |
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Funny | Huw | 1971-11-16 |
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A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | 1971-01-21 |
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Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio | 1971-12-22 |
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Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | 1971-11-29 |
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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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Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare | 1969-03-10 |
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Omri's Burning | Omri | 1969-10-16 |
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Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey | 1969-02-24 |
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Moonlight on the Highway | 1969-04-12 | |
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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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Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | 1968-11-11 |
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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 |
