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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Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | 2006-06-28 |
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Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | 2006-05-10 |
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Ô Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | 2006-10-17 |
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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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Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real | 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 Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
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Garden State | Gideon Largeman | 2004-07-28 |
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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 Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage) | 2003-12-02 |
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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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From Hell | Sir William Gull | 2001-02-08 |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | 2001-08-11 |
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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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Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | 2000-10-04 |
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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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Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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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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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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Le Cinquième Élément | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
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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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Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
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The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
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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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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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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 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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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 Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice) | 1993-12-24 |
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The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | 1992-03-29 |
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Elizabeth R | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1992-02-06 |
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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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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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A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | 1990-11-04 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-12-19 |
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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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The Kingdom of Fun | Narrator | 1989-01-19 |
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The Endless Game | Control | 1989-08-20 |
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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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Cry From Home | Narrator | 1986-02-20 |
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The Fishing Party | Narrator | 1986-02-27 |
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Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | 1985-03-01 |
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The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
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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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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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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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Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels | 1982-05-09 |
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Soft Targets | Alexei | 1982-10-19 |
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Time Bandits | Napoleon | 1981-07-13 |
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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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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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The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper | 1978-01-10 |
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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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Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
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March or Die | El Krim | 1977-09-08 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | 1977-07-17 |
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Ramsey | Bill Ramsey | 1977-05-22 |
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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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Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio | 1971-12-22 |
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Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | 1971-11-29 |
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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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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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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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Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey | 1969-02-24 |
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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1968-09-30 |
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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 |
