Ian Holm

Actor Sep 12 (died age 88) Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK 1951–2021 (70 year career)

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Biography

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. H…

Known For

Film

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Bilbo

Film

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Bilbo

Film

Alien

Ash

Film

Ratatouille

Skinner (voice)

Film

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Old Bilbo Baggins

Film

The Fifth Element

Cornelius

Film

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Old Bilbo Baggins

Film

Brazil

Mr. Kurtzmann

Filmography

Acting (177)

Movies (136)

The Hobbit: M4 Book edit

2021

as Old Bilbo Baggins

9.0

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014

as Old Bilbo Baggins

7.3

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

as Old Bilbo Baggins

7.4

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Polonius (archive footage)

7.0

Ratatouille

2007

as Skinner (voice)

7.8

The Real Middle Earth

2007

as Narrator

7.0

The Treatment

2007

as Dr. Ernesto Morales

Chromophobia

as Edward Aylesbury

Strangers with Candy

as Dr. Putney

O Jerusalem

as Ben Gurion

Lord of War

as Simeon Weisz

The Queen of Trees

as Narrator

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Narrator (voice)

The Aviator

as Professor Fitz

The Day After Tomorrow

as Terry Rapson

Garden State

as Gideon Largeman

Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real

2004

as Narrator

8.0

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

2004

as Self

8.8

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

as Self

D-Day 6.6.1944

as Narrator (voice)

Cast & crew User reviews IMDbPro The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Special Extended Edition Scenes

2004

as Bilbo Baggins

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

as Bilbo

Prisoner of Paradise

as Narrator (voice)

The Appendices, Part Two: From Vision to Reality

2002

as Self

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

as Bilbo

From Hell

as Sir William Gull

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

6.7

Bless the Child

2000

as Reverend Grissom

5.3

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000

as Patrick

6.7

The Miracle Maker

2000

as Pontius Pilate (voice)

Beautiful Joe

as George The Geek

Joe Gould's Secret

as Joe Gould

Esther Kahn

as Nathan Quellen

Wisconsin Death Trip

as Narrator (voice)

eXistenZ

as Kiri Vinokur

Animal Farm

as Squealer (voice)

Simon Magus

as Sirius / Boris / The Devil

The Match

as Big Tam

Shergar

as Joseph Maguire

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1998

as White Knight

5.1

Tale of the Tides

1998

as Narrator

King Lear

as King Lear

The Fifth Element

as Cornelius

The Sweet Hereafter

as Mitchell Stephens

Night Falls on Manhattan

as Liam Casey

Incognito

as John (uncredited)

A Life Less Ordinary

as Mr. Naville

Big Night

as Pascal

Loch Ness

as Water Bailiff

A Little Fish in Deep Water

1996

as Narrator

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

1995

as Narrator (voice)

Landscape

1995

as Duff

10.0

Little Red Riding Hood

1995

as Don Mini

6.0

Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

1994

as (voice)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

as Baron Frankenstein

6.4

The Deep Blue Sea

1994

as Sir William Collyer

1.0

The Madness of King George

1994

as Willis

6.8

Chappaquiddick

1994

as Narrator

The Hour of the Pig

1993

as Albertus

6.1

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

1993

as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)

7.5

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester

1993

as The Tailor (voice)

The Last Romantics

1992

as F.R. Leavis

Blue Ice

1992

as Sir Hector

5.0

Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

1992

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Naked Lunch

as Tom Frost

Uncle Vanya

as Astrov

Kafka

1991

as Dr. Murnau

6.4

Bloody Sunday

1991

as Narrator

Hamlet

1990

as Polonius

6.6

A Season of Giants

1990

as Lorenzo de' Medici

The Endless Game

as Control

Henry V

as Captain Fluellen

The Kingdom of Fun

as Narrator

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989

as The Tailor

Another Woman

1988

as Ken

6.8

The Fishing Party

1986

as Narrator

Murder by the Book

1986

as Hercule Poirot

4.0

Cry From Home

1986

as Narrator

Brazil

1985

as Mr. Kurtzmann

7.7

Dreamchild

1985

as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

6.5

Dance with a Stranger

1985

as Desmond Cussen

6.1

Wetherby

1985

as Stanley Pilborough

5.9

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

1985

as Eustace Edgehill

7.0

The Browning Version

1985

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

6.2

Visions of Power

1985

as Narrator

The Cost of Treachery

1984

as Narrator

1.0

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984

as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

6.4

Laughterhouse

1984

as Ben Singleton

5.0

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

1983

as Narrator (voice)

7.3

The Return of the Soldier

1983

as Doctor Anderson

6.2

Soft Targets

1982

as Alexei

Chariots of Fire

as Sam Mussabini

Time Bandits

as Napoleon

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

as Lech Walesa

The Misanthrope

1980

as Alceste

S.O.S. Titanic

as J. Bruce Ismay

Alien

as Ash

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

as Himmelstoss

6.7

Flayed

1978

as The Man

Les Misérables

as Thénardier

The Thief of Baghdad

as The Gatekeeper

The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

March or Die

as El Krim

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977

as Duval

6.3

Ramsey

1977

as Bill Ramsey

Robin and Marian

as King John

Shout at the Devil

as Mohammed

Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington

1975

as Mr. Garrick

Juggernaut

1974

as Nicholas Porter

6.2

The Wood Demon

1974

as Khrushchov

Children in Crossfire

1974

as Narrator

The Homecoming

as Lenny

Young Winston

as George E. Buckle

The Treat

as Gordon

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

as David Riccio

6.7

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Yakovlev

6.9

A Severed Head

1971

as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

5.0

Funny

1971

as Huw

The End of the Line

1970

as Reverend P. Bagley

Emma's Time

1970

as Mark Lang

The Salesman

1970

as Salesman

Moonlight on the Highway

1969

4.0

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

as President Poincare

6.7

Edward the Confessor

1969

as Edward Gobey

Omri's Burning

1969

as Omri

Frankenstein

1968

as Frankenstein / The Monster

9.5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Puck

The Fixer

as Grubeshov

The Bofors Gun

as Gunner Flynn

Opus

as Lenny (The Homecoming)

5.0

The Wars of the Roses

1965

as King Richard III

8.5

The Paradise Suite

1963

as Jamie Norton

The Cherry Orchard

1962

as Trofimov

8.0

Girls at Sea

1958

as Marine (uncredited)

6.0

Rope

1957

as Granillo

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

as Bilbo

Television (41)

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

2009

as Geschichtenerzähler

7.1

Legends

2006

as Self - Narrator (voice)

5.0

Days That Shook the World

as Narrator (voice)

Monsters We Met

as Narrator

Secret Agent

as Narrator

Shanghai Vice

1999

as Himself - Narrator

The Return of the Borrowers

1993

as Pod

6.5

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992

as The Tailor (voice)

6.2

Chillers

1992

as Christopher Waggoner

The Borrowers

as Pod

Performance

as Astrov

Stalin

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Endless Game

1989

as Control

Game, Set, and Match

1988

as Bernard Samson

7.5

Korea: The Unknown War

1988

as Narrator (voice)

Screen Two

1985

as F.R. Leavis

6.8

Television

1985

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Natural World

1983

as Narrator

7.4

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Dr. Joseph Goebbels

The Bell

as Michael Meade

40 Minutes

as Narrator

Tales of the Unexpected

as Alan Corwin

Holocaust

as Heinrich Himmler

The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

Jesus of Nazareth

as Zerah

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as The Man

7.0

Jubilee 1977

1977

as Bill Ramsey

NOVA

1974

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974

as Wedderburn

Napoleon and Love

1974

as Napoleon Bonaparte

The Frighteners

as Gordon

Play for Today

as Alexei

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Wolfe MacFarlane

5.5

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Oedipus

5.0

National Geographic Specials

1965

as Narrator (voice)

6.9

The Power Game

1965

as Sefton Kemp

The Wars of the Roses

as Richard

Horizon

as Narrator

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Armchair Theatre

as Edward Gobey

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Himmelstoss

8.6