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Ian Holm

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

12/09/1931

Day of Death

19/06/2020
(89) years old

Place of Birth

Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

Ian Holm

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 includin... Read More

Known For

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Discovering Hamlet

Ratatouille

The Real Middle Earth

The Treatment

O Jerusalem

Strangers with Candy

Chromophobia

The Queen of Trees

Filmography

Cast

2014

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armie...

as Old Bilbo Baggins

2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

as Old Bilbo Baggins

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Polonius (archive footage)

2007

Ratatouille

as Skinner (voice)

2007

The Real Middle Earth

as Narrator

2007

The Treatment

as Dr. Ernesto Morales

2006

O Jerusalem

as Ben Gurion

2006

Strangers with Candy

as Dr. Putney

2006

Chromophobia

as Edward Aylesbury

2005

The Queen of Trees

as Narrator

2005

Lord of War

as Simeon Weisz

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Narrator (voice)

2004

The Aviator

as Professor Fitz

2004

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Retur...

as Self

2004

Garden State

as Gideon Largeman

2004

D-Day 6.6.1944

as Narrator (voice)

2004

The Day After Tomorrow

as Terry Rapson

2004

The Making of the Return of the King

as Self

2004

The Last Dragon

as Narrator

2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the...

as Bilbo

2003

The Beast Within: Making Alien

as (archive footage)

2003

Prisoner of Paradise

as Narrator (voice)

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of...

as Bilbo

2001

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Len...

2001

From Hell

as Sir William Gull

2000

Esther Kahn

as Nathan Quellen

2000

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

as Patrick

2000

Bless the Child

as Reverend Grissom

2000

Beautiful Joe

as George The Geek

2000

The Miracle Maker

as Pontius Pilate (voice)

2000

Joe Gould's Secret

as Joe Gould

1999

Animal Farm

as Squealer (voice)

1999

Wisconsin Death Trip

as Narrator (voice)

1999

The Match

as Big Tam

1999

Shergar

as Joseph Maguire

1999

eXistenZ

as Kiri Vinokur

1999

Simon Magus

as Sirius / Boris / The Devil

1998

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as White Knight

1998

Tale of the Tides

as Narrator

1998

King Lear

as King Lear

1997

Incognito

as John (uncredited)

1997

A Life Less Ordinary

as Mr. Naville

1997

The Sweet Hereafter

as Mitchell Stephens

1997

The Fifth Element

as Cornelius

1997

Night Falls on Manhattan

as Liam Casey

1996

Big Night

as Pascal

1996

Loch Ness

as Water Bailiff

1996

A Little Fish in Deep Water

as Narrator

1995

Little Red Riding Hood

as Don Mini

1995

Landscape

as Duff

1995

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

as Narrator (voice)

1994

The Madness of King George

as Willis

1994

The Deep Blue Sea

as Sir William Collyer

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

1994

Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom

as (voice)

1993

The Tailor of Gloucester

as The Tailor (voice)

1993

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswa...

as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch:...

1993

The Hour of the Pig

as Albertus

1992

Blue Ice

as Sir Hector

1992

The Last Romantics

as F.R. Leavis

1992

Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Q...

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1991

Naked Lunch

as Tom Frost

1991

Kafka

as Dr. Murnau

1991

Uncle Vanya

as Astrov

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Polonius (archive footage)

1990

Hamlet

as Polonius

1990

A Season of Giants

as Lorenzo de' Medici

1989

The Tailor of Gloucester

as The Tailor

1989

Henry V

as Captain Fluellen

1989

The Endless Game

as Control

1989

The Kingdom of Fun

as Narrator

1988

Another Woman

as Ken

1986

The Fishing Party

as Narrator

1986

Cry From Home

as Narrator

1986

Murder by the Book

as Hercule Poirot

1985

The Browning Version

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

1985

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

as Eustace Edgehill

1985

Dreamchild

as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carr...

1985

Wetherby

as Stanley Pilborough

1985

Dance with a Stranger

as Desmond Cussen

1985

Brazil

as Mr. Kurtzmann

1985

Visions of Power

as Narrator

1984

The Cost of Treachery

as Narrator

1984

Laughterhouse

as Ben Singleton

1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of...

as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

1983

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

as Narrator (voice)

1983

The Return of the Soldier

as Doctor Anderson

1982

Soft Targets

as Alexei

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Dr. Joseph Goebbels

1981

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

as Lech Walesa

1981

Time Bandits

as Napoleon

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Sam Mussabini

1980

S.O.S. Titanic

as J. Bruce Ismay

1980

The Misanthrope

as Alceste

1979

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Himmelstoss

1979

Alien

as Ash

1978

Les Misérables

as Thénardier

1978

The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

1978

Flayed

as The Man

1978

The Thief of Baghdad

as The Gatekeeper

1977

March or Die

as El Krim

1977

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Duval

1976

Shout at the Devil

as Mohammed

1976

Robin and Marian

as King John

1974

The Wood Demon

as Khrushchov

1974

Juggernaut

as Nicholas Porter

1973

The Homecoming

as Lenny

1972

Young Winston

as George E. Buckle

1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

as David Riccio

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

as Yakovlev

1971

Funny

as Huw

1971

A Severed Head

as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

1970

The End of the Line

as Reverend P. Bagley

1970

Emma's Time

as Mark Lang

1969

Omri's Burning

as Omri

1969

Moonlight on the Highway

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as President Poincare

1969

Edward the Confessor

as Edward Gobey

1968

The Fixer

as Grubeshov

1968

Frankenstein

as Frankenstein / The Monster

1968

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Puck

1968

The Bofors Gun

as Gunner Flynn

1967

Opus

as Lenny (The Homecoming)

1965

The Wars of the Roses

as King Richard III

1963

The Paradise Suite

as Jamie Norton

1962

The Cherry Orchard

as Trofimov

1958

Girls at Sea

as Marine (uncredited)

1957

Rope

as Granillo