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Ian Holm
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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 t…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Ian Holm's Filmography
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Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
The Match
as Big Tam
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
King Lear
as King Lear
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
Big Night
as Pascal
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
No Poster
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
No Poster
Landscape
as Duff
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
The Madness of King George
as Willis
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
No Poster
Chappaquiddick
as Narrator
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
No Poster
Bloody Sunday
as Narrator
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
Hamlet
as Polonius
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game
as Control
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
Another Woman
as Ken
Dancing in the Rain
as Narrator (voice)
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
Cry From Home
as Narrator
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Visions of Power
as Narrator
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
Soft Targets
as Alexei
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
Alien
as Ash
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
Flayed
as The Man
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
March or Die
as El Krim
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
No Poster
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
Robin and Marian
as King John
No Poster
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
No Poster
Only a Game
as Narrator
Children in Crossfire
as Narrator
The Homecoming
as Lenny
The Treat
as Gordon
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
No Poster
Funny
as Huw
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
No Poster
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
No Poster
The Salesman
as Salesman
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
No Poster
Omri's Burning
as Omri
Moonlight on the Highway
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
No Poster
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
No Poster
Rope
as Granillo