Actor
Ian Holm
135 movies as actor
Born Sep 12, 1931 – Jun 19, 2020 (aged 88)From Goodmayes, Essex, England, UKAlso known as Ian Holm Cuthbert, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert
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 no…
Known for
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Adventure, Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Adventure, Fantasy
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Adventure, Fantasy
Ratatouille
2007 · Animation, Comedy
Alien
1979 · Horror, Sci-Fi
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Action, Adventure
The Fifth Element
1997 · Sci-Fi, Action
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Aviator
2004 · Drama
Lord of War
2005 · Crime, Drama
Alien: Romulus
2024 · Horror, Sci-Fi
Brazil
1985 · Comedy, Sci-Fi
Ian Holm movies
Alien: Romulus
2024 · Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Old Bilbo Baggins
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Polonius (archive footage)
Ratatouille
2007 · Skinner (voice)
The Real Middle Earth
2007 · Narrator
The Treatment
2007 · Dr. Ernesto Morales
O Jerusalem
2006 · Ben Gurion
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2006 · Self
Strangers with Candy
2006 · Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
2006 · Edward Aylesbury
The Queen of Trees
2005 · Narrator
Lord of War
2005 · Simeon Weisz
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Narrator (voice)
The Aviator
2004 · Professor Fitz
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Self
Garden State
2004 · Gideon Largeman
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004 · Narrator (voice)
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Terry Rapson
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004 · Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Bilbo
Prisoner of Paradise
2003 · Narrator (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002 · Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Bilbo
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001 · Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
From Hell
2001 · Sir William Gull
Esther Kahn
2000 · Nathan Quellen
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000 · Patrick
Bless the Child
2000 · Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe
2000 · George The Geek
The Miracle Maker
2000 · Pontius Pilate (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret
2000 · Joe Gould
Animal Farm
1999 · Squealer (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999 · Narrator (voice)
The Match
1999 · Big Tam
Shergar
1999 · Joseph Maguire
eXistenZ
1999 · Kiri Vinokur
Simon Magus
1999 · Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 · White Knight
Tale of the Tides
1998 · Narrator
King Lear
1998 · King Lear
Incognito
1997 · John (uncredited)
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
1997 · Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Liam Casey
Big Night
1996 · Pascal
Loch Ness
1996 · Water Bailiff
A Little Fish in Deep Water
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996 · Narrator
Little Red Riding Hood
1995 · Don Mini
Landscape
Landscape
1995 · Duff
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995 · Narrator (voice)
The Madness of King George
1994 · Willis
The Deep Blue Sea
1994 · Sir William Collyer
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Baron Frankenstein
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994 · (voice)
Chappaquiddick
Chappaquiddick
1994 · Narrator
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993 · The Tailor (voice)
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993 · Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Albertus
Blue Ice
1992 · Sir Hector
The Last Romantics
1992 · F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Naked Lunch
1991 · Tom Frost
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday
1991 · Narrator
Kafka
1991 · Dr. Murnau
Uncle Vanya
1991 · Astrov
Hamlet
1990 · Polonius
A Season of Giants
1990 · Lorenzo de' Medici
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989 · The Tailor
Henry V
1989 · Captain Fluellen
The Endless Game
1989 · Control
The Kingdom of Fun
1989 · Narrator
Another Woman
1988 · Ken
The Fishing Party
1986 · Narrator
Cry From Home
1986 · Narrator
Murder by the Book
1986 · Hercule Poirot
The Browning Version
1985 · Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985 · Eustace Edgehill
Dreamchild
1985 · Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Wetherby
1985 · Stanley Pilborough
Dance with a Stranger
1985 · Desmond Cussen
Brazil
1985 · Mr. Kurtzmann
Visions of Power
1985 · Narrator
The Cost of Treachery
1984 · Narrator
Laughterhouse
1984 · Ben Singleton
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983 · Narrator (voice)
The Return of the Soldier
1983 · Doctor Anderson
Soft Targets
1982 · Alexei
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Lech Walesa
Time Bandits
1981 · Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Sam Mussabini
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · J. Bruce Ismay
The Misanthrope
1980 · Alceste
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Himmelstoss
Alien
1979 · Ash
Les Misérables
1978 · Thénardier
The Lost Boys
1978 · J.M. Barrie
Flayed
1978 · The Man
The Thief of Baghdad
1978 · The Gatekeeper
March or Die
1977 · El Krim
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · Duval
Ramsey
Ramsey
1977 · Bill Ramsey
Shout at the Devil
1976 · Mohammed
Robin and Marian
1976 · King John
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975 · Mr. Garrick
The Wood Demon
1974 · Khrushchov
Juggernaut
1974 · Nicholas Porter
Only a Game
Only a Game
1974 · Narrator
Children in Crossfire
1974 · Narrator
The Homecoming
1973 · Lenny
The Treat
1972 · Gordon
Young Winston
1972 · George E. Buckle
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · David Riccio
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Yakovlev
Funny
Funny
1971 · Huw
A Severed Head
1971 · Martin Lynch-Gibbon
The End of the Line
The End of the Line
1970 · Reverend P. Bagley
The Salesman
The Salesman
1970 · Salesman
Emma's Time
1970 · Mark Lang
Omri's Burning
Omri's Burning
1969 · Omri
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · President Poincare
Edward the Confessor
1969 · Edward Gobey
The Fixer
1968 · Grubeshov
Frankenstein
1968 · Frankenstein / The Monster
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968 · Puck
The Bofors Gun
1968 · Gunner Flynn
Opus
1967 · Lenny (The Homecoming)
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · King Richard III
The Paradise Suite
The Paradise Suite
1963 · Jamie Norton
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Trofimov
Girls at Sea
1958 · Marine (uncredited)
Rope
Rope
1957 · Granillo
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