Alien: Romulus
2024 · Movie
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
Ian Holm
1931-09-12
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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.
Filmography
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Movie
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Movie
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Movie
as Polonius (archive footage)
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009 · TV Show
as Geschichtenerzähler
Ratatouille
2007 · Movie
as Skinner (voice)
The Treatment
2007 · Movie
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Real Middle Earth
2007 · Movie
as Narrator
Strangers with Candy
2006 · Movie
as Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
2006 · Movie
as Edward Aylesbury
O Jerusalem
2006 · Movie
as Ben Gurion
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2006 · Movie
as Self
Legends
2006 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lord of War
2005 · Movie
as Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Queen of Trees
2005 · Movie
as Narrator
Garden State
2004 · Movie
as Gideon Largeman
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Movie
as Terry Rapson
The Aviator
2004 · Movie
as Professor Fitz
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Movie
as Self
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004 · Movie
as Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Movie
as Bilbo
Prisoner of Paradise
2003 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Monsters We Met
2003 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002 · Movie
as Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Movie
as Bilbo
From Hell
2001 · Movie
as Sir William Gull
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001 · Movie
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Secret Agent
2001 · TV Show
as Narrator
Bless the Child
2000 · Movie
as Reverend Grissom
The Miracle Maker
2000 · Movie
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Esther Kahn
2000 · Movie
as Nathan Quellen
Joe Gould's Secret
2000 · Movie
as Joe Gould
Beautiful Joe
2000 · Movie
as George The Geek
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000 · Movie
as Patrick
Animal Farm
1999 · Movie
as Squealer (voice)
eXistenZ
1999 · Movie
as Kiri Vinokur
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Shergar
1999 · Movie
as Joseph Maguire
The Match
1999 · Movie
as Big Tam
Simon Magus
1999 · Movie
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Shanghai Vice
1999 · TV Show
as Himself - Narrator
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 · Movie
as White Knight
Tale of the Tides
1998 · Movie
as Narrator
King Lear
1998 · Movie
as King Lear
The Fifth Element
1997 · Movie
as Cornelius
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Movie
as Mitchell Stephens
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Movie
as Mr. Naville
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Movie
as Liam Casey
Incognito
1997 · Movie
as John (uncredited)
Big Night
1996 · Movie
as Pascal
Loch Ness
1996 · Movie
as Water Bailiff
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A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996 · Movie
as Narrator
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Landscape
1995 · Movie
as Duff
Little Red Riding Hood
1995 · Movie
as Don Mini
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
as Baron Frankenstein
The Madness of King George
1994 · Movie
as Willis
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994 · Movie
as (voice)
The Deep Blue Sea
1994 · Movie
as Sir William Collyer
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Chappaquiddick
1994 · Movie
as Narrator
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Movie
as Albertus
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993 · Movie
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993 · Movie
as The Tailor (voice)
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The Return of the Borrowers
1993 · TV Show
as Pod
Blue Ice
1992 · Movie
as Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
1992 · Movie
as F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Borrowers
1992 · TV Show
as Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · TV Show
as The Tailor (voice)
Kafka
1991 · Movie
as Dr. Murnau
Naked Lunch
1991 · Movie
as Tom Frost
Uncle Vanya
1991 · Movie
as Astrov
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Bloody Sunday
1991 · Movie
as Narrator
Performance
1991 · TV Show
as Sir William Collyer, Duff, King Lear, Astrov
Secret History
1991 · TV Show
as Narrator
Hamlet
1990 · Movie
as Polonius
A Season of Giants
1990 · Movie
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Stalin
1990 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Chillers
1990 · TV Show
as Christopher Waggoner
Henry V
1989 · Movie
as Captain Fluellen
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989 · Movie
as The Tailor
The Endless Game
1989 · Movie
as Control
The Kingdom of Fun
1989 · Movie
as Narrator
The Endless Game
1989 · TV Show
as Control
Another Woman
1988 · Movie
as Ken
Game, Set, and Match
1988 · TV Show
as Bernard Samson
Korea: The Unknown War
1988 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Murder by the Book
1986 · Movie
as Hercule Poirot
Cry From Home
1986 · Movie
as Narrator
The Fishing Party
1986 · Movie
as Narrator
Brazil
1985 · Movie
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Dance with a Stranger
1985 · Movie
as Desmond Cussen
Dreamchild
1985 · Movie
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
1985 · Movie
as Stanley Pilborough
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985 · Movie
as Eustace Edgehill
The Browning Version
1985 · Movie
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Visions of Power
1985 · Movie
as Narrator
Television
1985 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
as F.R. Leavis, Albertus
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Movie
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Laughterhouse
1984 · Movie
as Ben Singleton
The Cost of Treachery
1984 · Movie
as Narrator
The Return of the Soldier
1983 · Movie
as Doctor Anderson
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Natural World
1983 · TV Show
as Narrator
Soft Targets
1982 · Movie
as Alexei
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The Bell
1982 · TV Show
as Michael Meade
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · TV Show
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Movie
as Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits
1981 · Movie
as Napoleon
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Movie
as Lech Walesa
40 Minutes
1981 · TV Show
as Narrator
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · Movie
as J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
1980 · Movie
as Alceste
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We, the Accused
1980 · TV Show
as Paul Presset
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Movie
as Himmelstoss
Alien
1979 · Movie
as Ash
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
as Alan Corwin
Les Misérables
1978 · Movie
as Thénardier
The Thief of Baghdad
1978 · Movie
as The Gatekeeper
The Lost Boys
1978 · Movie
as J.M. Barrie
Flayed
1978 · Movie
as The Man
Holocaust
1978 · TV Show
as Heinrich Himmler
The Lost Boys
1978 · TV Show
as J.M. Barrie
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Do You Remember?
1978 · TV Show
as Walter Street
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · Movie
as Duval
March or Die
1977 · Movie
as El Krim
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Ramsey
1977 · Movie
as Bill Ramsey
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · TV Show
as Zerah
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · TV Show
as The Man, J.M. Barrie
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Jubilee 1977
1977 · TV Show
as Bill Ramsey
Robin and Marian
1976 · Movie
as King John
Shout at the Devil
1976 · Movie
as Mohammed
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Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975 · Movie
as Mr. Garrick
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Private Affairs
1975 · TV Show
as David Garrick
Juggernaut
1974 · Movie
as Nicholas Porter
The Wood Demon
1974 · Movie
as Khrushchov
Children in Crossfire
1974 · Movie
as Narrator
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Only a Game
1974 · Movie
as Narrator
Napoleon and Love
1974 · TV Show
as Napoleon Bonaparte
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974 · TV Show
as Wedderburn
NOVA
1974 · TV Show
as Narrator, Narrator (voice)
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Masquerade
1974 · TV Show
as Blake
The Homecoming
1973 · Movie
as Lenny
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · TV Show
as Charles Stubbs
Young Winston
1972 · Movie
as George E. Buckle
The Treat
1972 · Movie
as Gordon
The Frighteners
1972 · TV Show
as Gordon
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The Man from Haven
1972 · TV Show
as Jack Byron Lever
A Severed Head
1971 · Movie
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · Movie
as David Riccio
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Funny
1971 · Movie
as Huw
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Movie
as Yakovlev
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Film '72
1971 · TV Show
as Self
Emma's Time
1970 · Movie
as Mark Lang
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The End of the Line
1970 · Movie
as Reverend P. Bagley
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The Salesman
1970 · Movie
as Salesman
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
as Alexei
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Movie
as President Poincare
Moonlight on the Highway
1969 · Movie
Edward the Confessor
1969 · Movie
as Edward Gobey
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Omri's Burning
1969 · Movie
as Omri
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · TV Show
as David Peters
The Fixer
1968 · Movie
as Grubeshov
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968 · Movie
as Puck
Frankenstein
1968 · Movie
as Frankenstein / The Monster
The Bofors Gun
1968 · Movie
as Gunner Flynn
Opus
1967 · Movie
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV Show
as Huw
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · TV Show
as Wolfe MacFarlane, Dr Frankenstein / The Being
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Movie
as King Richard III
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · TV Show
as Oedipus, Khrushchov, Alceste
National Geographic Specials
1965 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
The Power Game
1965 · TV Show
as Sefton Kemp
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · TV Show
as Richard III
Horizon
1964 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Wednesday Play
1964 · TV Show
as Mark Lang
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The Paradise Suite
1963 · Movie
as Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Movie
as Trofimov
Survival
1961 · TV Show
Girls at Sea
1958 · Movie
as Marine (uncredited)
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Rope
1957 · Movie
as Granillo
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Edward Gobey, Jamie Norton, Reverend P. Bagley
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Himmelstoss
