Ian Holm

from Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

Artwork for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingImage of Ian Holm

Biography

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 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).

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Timeline

2024Aged 93

  • Poster for Alien: Romulus

    Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)

2014Aged 83

  • Poster for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    Old Bilbo Baggins

2012Aged 81

  • Poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    Old Bilbo Baggins

2011Aged 80

  • Poster for Discovering Hamlet

    Polonius (archive footage)

2007Aged 76

  • Poster for The Treatment

    Dr. Ernesto Morales

  • Poster for The Real Middle Earth

    Narrator

  • Poster for Ratatouille

    Skinner (voice)

2006Aged 75

  • Poster for Chromophobia

    Edward Aylesbury

  • Poster for Strangers with Candy

    Dr. Putney

  • Poster for The Making of 'The Return of the King'

    Self

  • Poster for O Jerusalem

    Ben Gurion

2005Aged 74

  • Poster for The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Lord of War

    Simeon Weisz

  • Poster for The Queen of Trees

    Narrator

2004Aged 73

  • Poster for Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Day After Tomorrow

    Terry Rapson

  • Poster for D-Day 6.6.1944

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Garden State

    Gideon Largeman

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

    Self

  • Poster for The Aviator

    Professor Fitz

2003Aged 72

  • Poster for Prisoner of Paradise

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    Bilbo

2002Aged 71

  • Poster for The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast

    Self

2001Aged 70

  • Poster for From Hell

    Sir William Gull

  • Poster for The Emperor's New Clothes

    Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

  • Poster for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    Bilbo

2000Aged 69

  • Poster for Joe Gould's Secret

    Joe Gould

  • Poster for The Miracle Maker

    Pontius Pilate (voice)

  • Poster for Beautiful Joe

    George The Geek

  • Poster for Bless the Child

    Reverend Grissom

  • Poster for The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

    Patrick

  • Poster for Esther Kahn

    Nathan Quellen

1999Aged 68

  • Poster for Simon Magus

    Sirius / Boris / The Devil

  • Poster for eXistenZ

    Kiri Vinokur

  • Poster for Shergar

    Joseph Maguire

  • Poster for The Match

    Big Tam

  • Poster for Wisconsin Death Trip

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Animal Farm

    Squealer (voice)

1998Aged 67

  • Poster for King Lear

    King Lear

  • Poster for Tale of the Tides

    Narrator

  • Poster for Alice Through the Looking Glass

    White Knight

1997Aged 66

  • Poster for Night Falls on Manhattan

    Liam Casey

  • Poster for The Fifth Element

    Cornelius

  • Poster for The Sweet Hereafter

    Mitchell Stephens

  • Poster for A Life Less Ordinary

    Mr. Naville

  • Poster for Incognito

    John (uncredited)

1996Aged 65

1995Aged 64

1994Aged 63

  • Chappaquiddick

    Narrator

  • Poster for Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

    (voice)

  • Poster for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Baron Frankenstein

  • Poster for The Deep Blue Sea

    Sir William Collyer

  • Poster for The Madness of King George

    Willis

1993Aged 62

  • Poster for The Hour of the Pig

    Albertus

  • Poster for The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

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

  • Poster for The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor (voice)

1992Aged 61

  • Poster for Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Last Romantics

    F.R. Leavis

  • Poster for Blue Ice

    Sir Hector

1991Aged 60

1990Aged 59

  • Poster for A Season of Giants

    Lorenzo de' Medici

  • Poster for Hamlet

    Polonius

1989Aged 58

  • Poster for The Kingdom of Fun

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Endless Game

    Control

  • Poster for Henry V

    Captain Fluellen

  • Poster for The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor

1988Aged 57

  • Poster for Another Woman

    Ken

1986Aged 55

  • Poster for Murder by the Book

    Hercule Poirot

  • Poster for Cry From Home

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Fishing Party

    Narrator

1985Aged 54

  • Poster for Visions of Power

    Narrator

  • Poster for Brazil

    Mr. Kurtzmann

  • Poster for Dance with a Stranger

    Desmond Cussen

  • Poster for Wetherby

    Stanley Pilborough

  • Poster for Dreamchild

    Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

  • Poster for Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

    Eustace Edgehill

  • Poster for The Browning Version

    Andrew Crocker-Harris

1984Aged 53

  • Poster for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

  • Poster for Laughterhouse

    Ben Singleton

  • Poster for The Cost of Treachery

    Narrator

1983Aged 52

  • Poster for The Return of the Soldier

    Doctor Anderson

  • Poster for Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

    Narrator (voice)

1982Aged 51

  • Poster for Soft Targets

    Alexei

1981Aged 50

  • Poster for Chariots of Fire

    Sam Mussabini

  • Poster for Time Bandits

    Napoleon

  • Poster for Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

    Lech Walesa

1980Aged 49

  • Poster for The Misanthrope

    Alceste

  • Poster for S.O.S. Titanic

    J. Bruce Ismay

1979Aged 48

  • Poster for Alien

    Ash

  • Poster for All Quiet on the Western Front

    Himmelstoss

1978Aged 47

  • Poster for The Thief of Baghdad

    The Gatekeeper

  • Poster for Flayed

    The Man

  • Poster for The Lost Boys

    J.M. Barrie

  • Poster for Les Misérables

    Thénardier

1977Aged 46

1976Aged 45

  • Poster for Robin and Marian

    King John

  • Poster for Shout at the Devil

    Mohammed

1975Aged 44

1974Aged 43

1973Aged 42

  • Poster for The Homecoming

    Lenny

1972Aged 41

  • Poster for Young Winston

    George E. Buckle

  • Poster for The Treat

    Gordon

1971Aged 40

  • Poster for A Severed Head

    Martin Lynch-Gibbon

  • Funny

    Huw

  • Poster for Nicholas and Alexandra

    Yakovlev

  • Poster for Mary, Queen of Scots

    David Riccio

1970Aged 39

1969Aged 38

1968Aged 37

  • Poster for The Bofors Gun

    Gunner Flynn

  • Poster for A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Puck

  • Poster for Frankenstein

    Frankenstein / The Monster

  • Poster for The Fixer

    Grubeshov

1967Aged 36

  • Poster for Opus

    Lenny (The Homecoming)

1965Aged 34

  • Poster for The Wars of the Roses

    King Richard III

1963Aged 32

1962Aged 31

  • Poster for The Cherry Orchard

    Trofimov

1958Aged 27

  • Poster for Girls at Sea

    Marine (uncredited)

1957Aged 26