Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is a British actor known for his stage work and for many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Sep 12, 1931 In Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 119
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Girls at Sea 1958-10-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014-12-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo Baggins | 2014-12-10 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Polonius (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
| Series | 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth | Geschichtenerzähler | 2009-05-18 |
| Movie | Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-21 |
| Movie | The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | 2007-05-04 |
| Movie | Renaissance | Jonas Muller | 2006-03-16 |
| Movie | Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | 2006-05-10 |
| Movie | Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | 2006-06-28 |
| Movie | O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) | 2005-04-05 |
| Movie | Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
| Movie | The Last Dragon | Narrator | 2004-03-05 |
| Movie | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
| Movie | The Aviator | Professor Fitz | 2004-12-17 |
| Movie | Garden State | Gideon Largeman | 2004-07-28 |
| Movie | A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2004-12-14 |
| Movie | The Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage) | 2003-12-02 |
| Movie | Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) | 2003-03-07 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | From Hell | Sir William Gull | 2001-02-08 |
| Movie | The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | 2001-08-11 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
| Movie | Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | 2000-01-21 |
| Movie | Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | 2000-10-04 |
| Movie | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | 2000-08-26 |
| Movie | eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
| Movie | Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil | 1999-02-17 |
| Movie | The Match | Big Tam | 1999-08-13 |
| Movie | Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
| Movie | Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-05 |
| Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 1998-03-21 |
| Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | 1998-12-26 |
| Movie | Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | 1997-03-21 |
| Movie | The Fifth Element | Cornelius | 1997-05-02 |
| Movie | Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
| Movie | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
| Movie | A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | 1997-10-24 |
| Movie | Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | 1996-08-23 |
| Movie | Big Night | Pascal | 1996-09-20 |
| Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | 1995-12-25 |
| Movie | Landscape | Duff | 1995-10-21 |
| Movie | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | 1994-11-12 |
| Movie | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1994-11-04 |
| Movie | The Madness of King George | Willis | 1994-12-28 |
| Movie | The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | 1993-09-25 |
| Series | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod | 1993-11-14 |
| Movie | Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1992-02-06 |
| Movie | The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | 1992-03-29 |
| Series | The Borrowers | Pod | 1992-11-08 |
| Movie | Blue Ice | Sir Hector | 1992-10-09 |
| Movie | Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
| Movie | Kafka | Dr. Murnau | 1991-11-15 |
| Movie | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | 1991-12-27 |
| Movie | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | 1990-11-04 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor | 1989-12-28 |
| Movie | The Endless Game | Control | 1989-08-20 |
| Movie | Henry V | Captain Fluellen | 1989-10-05 |
| Series | Game, Set, and Match | Bernard Samson | 1988-10-03 |
| Movie | Another Woman | Ken | 1988-10-13 |
| Movie | Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | 1985-03-01 |
| Movie | Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
| Movie | Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | 1985-06-19 |
| Movie | Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | 1985-10-04 |
| Movie | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | 1985-12-15 |
| Movie | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
| Movie | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | 1984-03-30 |
| Movie | Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton | 1984-09-01 |
| Movie | The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | 1983-01-06 |
| Movie | Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) | 1983-11-02 |
| Series | The Bell | Michael Meade | 1982-01-13 |
| Movie | Soft Targets | Alexei | 1982-10-19 |
| Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels | 1982-05-09 |
| Movie | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | 1981-05-15 |
| Movie | Time Bandits | Napoleon | 1981-07-13 |
| Movie | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa | 1981-12-18 |
| Movie | The Misanthrope | Alceste | 1980-01-27 |
| Movie | S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | 1980-02-29 |
| Movie | Alien | Ash | 1979-05-25 |
| Movie | All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss | 1979-11-14 |
| Series | Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler | 1978-04-16 |
| Movie | The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper | 1978-01-10 |
| Series | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | 1978-10-11 |
| Movie | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | 1978-10-11 |
| Movie | Les Misérables | Thénardier | 1978-12-27 |
| Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Zerah | 1977-03-27 |
| Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | 1977-07-17 |
| Movie | March or Die | El Krim | 1977-09-08 |
| Movie | Robin and Marian | King John | 1976-03-11 |
| Movie | Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | 1976-04-12 |
| Series | Napoleon and Love | 1974-03-05 | |
| Movie | The Wood Demon | Khrushchov | 1974-11-17 |
| Movie | Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | 1974-09-25 |
| Movie | The Homecoming | Lenny | 1973-10-29 |
| Series | The Frighteners | 1972-07-07 | |
| Movie | Young Winston | George E. Buckle | 1972-07-20 |
| Movie | Funny | Huw | 1971-11-16 |
| Movie | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | 1971-01-21 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | 1971-11-29 |
| Movie | Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio | 1971-12-22 |
| Movie | Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey | 1969-02-24 |
| Movie | Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare | 1969-03-10 |
| Movie | Moonlight on the Highway | 1969-04-12 | |
| Movie | The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn | 1968-04-04 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 1968-09-30 |
| Movie | Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | 1968-11-11 |
| Movie | The Fixer | Grubeshov | 1968-12-08 |
| Movie | Opus | Lenny (The Homecoming) | 1967-01-02 |
| Movie | The Wars of the Roses | King Richard III | 1965-04-08 |
| Movie | The Paradise Suite | Jamie Norton | 1963-02-24 |
| Movie | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | 1962-04-17 |
| Movie | Girls at Sea | Marine (uncredited) | 1958-10-01 |