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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 12, 1931
Died
June 19, 2020
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Also Known As
- Ian Holm Cuthbert
- Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE
- Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert
- Sir Ian Holm
Ian Holm
2.0 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.3
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
7.4
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
7.0
Polonius (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
2011
7.1
Geschichtenerzähler
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
7.8
Skinner (voice)
Ratatouille
2007
7.0
Narrator
The Real Middle Earth
2007
5.8
Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Treatment
2007
5.0
Self - Narrator (voice)
Legends
2006
5.9
Ben Gurion
O Jerusalem
2006
5.6
Dr. Putney
Strangers with Candy
2006
Credits
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
2014
7.3
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
2012
7.4
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
2011
7.0
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
as Geschichtenerzähler
2009
7.1
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
2007
7.8
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
2007
7.0
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007
5.8
Legends
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
5.0
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
2006
5.9
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
2006
5.6
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
2006
5.2
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
2005
7.3
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
2005
7.3
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.8
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
2004
7.2
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
6.0
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
2004
7.1
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
2004
7.1
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
2004
6.5
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
8.8
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
2004
8.0
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo
2003
8.5
Monsters We Met
as Narrator
2003
5.8
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
2003
6.3
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo
2001
8.4
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001
6.7
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
2001
6.7
Secret Agent
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
2000
5.9
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
2000
6.7
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
2000
5.3
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
2000
5.2
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000
6.1
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
2000
5.9
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
1999
5.7
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
1999
5.6
The Match
as Big Tam
1999
5.8
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
1999
6.3
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
1999
6.8
Shanghai Vice
as Himself - Narrator
1999
0.0
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1999
7.3
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
1998
5.1
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
1998
0.0
King Lear
as King Lear
1998
8.0
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
1997
5.8
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
1997
6.1
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
1997
6.9
The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
1997
7.6
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
1997
6.3
Big Night
as Pascal
1996
6.9
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
1996
5.7
🎬
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
1996
0.0
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
1995
6.0
🎬
Landscape
as Duff
1995
10.0
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
1995
0.0
The Madness of King George
as Willis
1994
6.8
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
1994
1.0
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
1994
6.4
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
1994
0.0
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
1993
0.0
🎬
The Return of the Borrowers
as Pod
1993
6.5
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993
7.5
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
1993
6.1
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as The Tailor (voice)
1992
6.2
The Borrowers
as Pod
1992
6.4
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
1992
5.0
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
1992
0.0
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
7.8
Chillers
as Christopher Waggoner
1992
6.2
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
1991
7.0
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
1991
6.4
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
1991
0.0
Performance
as Sir William Collyer
1991
6.0
Performance
as Duff
1991
6.0
Performance
as King Lear
1991
6.0
Performance
as Astrov
1991
6.0
Hamlet
as Polonius
1990
6.6
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
1990
6.5
Stalin
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
1989
0.0
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
1989
7.2
The Endless Game
as Control
1989
6.0
The Endless Game
as Control
1989
0.0
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
1989
0.0
Another Woman
as Ken
1988
6.8
Game, Set, and Match
as Bernard Samson
1988
7.5
Korea: The Unknown War
as Narrator (voice)
1988
0.0
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
1986
0.0
Cry From Home
as Narrator
1986
0.0
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
1986
4.0
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985
6.2
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
1985
7.0
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985
6.5
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
1985
5.9
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
1985
6.0
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
1985
7.7
Television
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
0.0
Visions of Power
as Narrator
1985
0.0
Screen Two
as F.R. Leavis
1985
6.8
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
1984
1.0
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
1984
5.0
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1984
6.4
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
1983
7.3
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.2
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
1983
6.2
Soft Targets
as Alexei
1982
0.0
Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1982
0.0
🎬
The Bell
as Michael Meade
1982
1.0
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
1981
0.0
40 Minutes
as Narrator
1981
4.7
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
1981
6.6
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
1981
6.8
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
1980
5.9
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
1980
0.0
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
1979
6.7
Alien
as Ash
1979
8.2
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alan Corwin
1979
6.7
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
1978
7.1
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
1978
8.0
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
1978
6.0
Holocaust
as Heinrich Himmler
1978
7.3
Flayed
as The Man
1978
0.0
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
1978
5.2
BBC2 Play of the Week
as The Man
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as J.M. Barrie
1977
7.0
March or Die
as El Krim
1977
5.8
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
1977
6.3
🎬
Ramsey
as Bill Ramsey
1977
0.0
Jesus of Nazareth
as Zerah
1977
7.8
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
1976
6.0
Robin and Marian
as King John
1976
6.3
🎬
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
as Mr. Garrick
1975
0.0
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Wedderburn
1974
0.0
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
1974
0.0
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
1974
6.2
Napoleon and Love
1974
0.0
NOVA
as Narrator
1974
7.0
NOVA
as Narrator (voice)
1974
7.0
The Homecoming
as Lenny
1973
6.0
The Treat
as Gordon
1972
0.0
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
1972
6.2
The Frighteners
as Gordon
1972
8.5
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
1971
6.6
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
1971
6.9
🎬
Funny
as Huw
1971
0.0
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1971
5.0
Play for Today
as Alexei
1970
6.3
🎬
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
1970
0.0
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
1970
0.0
🎬
Omri's Burning
as Omri
1969
0.0
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
4.0
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
1969
6.7
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
1969
0.0
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
1968
6.0
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
1968
9.5
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
1968
6.0
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
1968
5.8
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
1967
5.0
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5
The Power Game
as Sefton Kemp
1965
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Oedipus
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Khrushchov
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Alceste
1965
5.0
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator (voice)
1965
6.9
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
1965
8.5
The Wars of the Roses
as Richard
1965
9.0
Horizon
as Narrator
1964
7.4
🎬
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
1963
0.0
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
1962
8.0
Survival
1961
8.0
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
1958
6.0
🎬
Rope
as Granillo
1957
0.0
Armchair Theatre
as Edward Gobey
1956
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Himmelstoss
1951
8.6