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:
- 118
- First Appeared:
- In the movie A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014-12-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | 2025 |
| 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 | The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | 2007-05-04 |
| Movie | Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | 2007-06-21 |
| Movie | Renaissance | Jonas Muller | 2006-03-16 |
| Movie | O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | 2006-06-28 |
| Movie | Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | 2006-05-10 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) | 2005-04-05 |
| Movie | Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | The Last Dragon | Narrator | 2004-03-05 |
| Movie | The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | 2004-05-26 |
| Movie | Garden State | Gideon Largeman | 2004-07-28 |
| Movie | The Aviator | Professor Fitz | 2004-12-17 |
| Movie | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | 2004-06-06 |
| Movie | Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) | 2003-03-07 |
| Movie | The Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage) | 2003-12-02 |
| 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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | 2001-08-11 |
| Movie | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | 2000-01-21 |
| Movie | The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
| Movie | Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | 2000-10-04 |
| Movie | Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | 2000-08-26 |
| Movie | Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil | 1999-02-17 |
| Movie | eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
| Movie | Shergar | Joseph Maguire | 1999-06-01 |
| Movie | The Match | Big Tam | 1999-08-13 |
| 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 | A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | 1997-10-24 |
| Movie | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | 1997-09-25 |
| Movie | Incognito | John (uncredited) | 1997-11-14 |
| Movie | Big Night | Pascal | 1996-09-20 |
| Movie | Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | 1996-08-23 |
| Movie | Landscape | Duff | 1995-10-21 |
| Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | 1995-12-25 |
| Movie | The Madness of King George | Willis | 1994-12-28 |
| Movie | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | 1994-11-12 |
| Movie | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1994-11-04 |
| Series | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod | 1993-11-14 |
| Movie | The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | 1993-09-25 |
| Movie | Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1992-02-06 |
| Movie | Blue Ice | Sir Hector | 1992-10-09 |
| Movie | The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | 1992-03-29 |
| Series | The Borrowers | Pod | 1992-11-08 |
| Movie | Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1991-10-12 |
| Movie | Kafka | Dr. Murnau | 1991-11-15 |
| Movie | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | 1991-12-27 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | 1990-11-04 |
| Movie | The Endless Game | Control | 1989-08-20 |
| Movie | Henry V | Captain Fluellen | 1989-10-05 |
| Movie | The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor | 1989-12-28 |
| 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 | Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | 1985-02-20 |
| Movie | Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | 1985-03-01 |
| Movie | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | 1985-12-15 |
| Movie | Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | 1985-06-19 |
| Movie | Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | 1985-10-04 |
| Movie | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | 1985-12-31 |
| Movie | Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton | 1984-09-01 |
| Movie | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | 1984-03-30 |
| Movie | Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) | 1983-11-02 |
| Movie | The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | 1983-01-06 |
| Movie | Soft Targets | Alexei | 1982-10-19 |
| Series | The Bell | Michael Meade | 1982-01-13 |
| Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels | 1982-05-09 |
| Movie | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | 1981-05-15 |
| Movie | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa | 1981-12-18 |
| Movie | Time Bandits | Napoleon | 1981-07-13 |
| Movie | S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | 1980-02-29 |
| Movie | The Misanthrope | Alceste | 1980-01-27 |
| 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 | Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | 1976-04-12 |
| Movie | Robin and Marian | King John | 1976-03-11 |
| Movie | Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | 1974-09-25 |
| Series | Napoleon and Love | 1974-03-05 | |
| Movie | The Homecoming | Lenny | 1973-10-29 |
| Series | The Frighteners | 1972-05-14 | |
| Movie | Young Winston | George E. Buckle | 1972-07-20 |
| Movie | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | 1971-01-21 |
| Movie | Funny | Huw | 1971-11-16 |
| 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 | The Fixer | Grubeshov | 1968-12-08 |
| Movie | Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | 1968-11-11 |
| 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 |