Ian Holm
Actor
Born September 12, 1931 in 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).
Filmography
Alien: Romulus
Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
Monsters We Met
Narrator
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
Sir William Gull
Secret Agent
Narrator
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
The Match
Big Tam
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
King Lear
King Lear
Incognito
John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
Big Night
Pascal
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
The Madness of King George
Willis
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice)
The Borrowers
Pod
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
Secret History
Narrator
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
Performance
Sir William Collyer
Hamlet
Polonius
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game
Control
The Endless Game
Control
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
Another Woman
Ken
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice)
The Fishing Party
Narrator
Cry From Home
Narrator
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
Visions of Power
Narrator
Television
Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
Natural World
Narrator
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
Soft Targets
Alexei
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
40 Minutes
Narrator
Time Bandits
Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
Alien
Ash
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin
Les Misérables
Thénardier
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
Flayed
The Man
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man
March or Die
El Krim
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
Robin and Marian
King John
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
Children in Crossfire
Narrator
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon Bonaparte
NOVA
Narrator
The Homecoming
Lenny
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Charles Stubbs
The Treat
Gordon
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
The Frighteners
Gordon
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Play for Today
Alexei
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
Moonlight on the Highway
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
David Peters
The Fixer
Grubeshov
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
ITV Playhouse
Huw
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Mystery and Imagination
Wolfe MacFarlane
The Power Game
Sefton Kemp
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
The Wars of the Roses
Richard III
The Wednesday Play
Mark Lang
Horizon
Narrator
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
Survival
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss