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

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

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Legends — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2006The Making of 'The Return of the King' — Self
• 2004A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' — Self
• 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast — Self
• Shanghai Vice — Himself - Narrator
• 1992Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Stalin — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Television — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Film '72 — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee