Gender
Male
Birthday, Age
1931 September 12 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Date of Death
2020-06-19

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 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 Bes

Known For

Actor ( 2 )

Full Filmography

The Fifth Element
as Cornelius
Movie • 1997-05-02
Brazil
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Movie • 1985-02-20
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
Movie • 2004-07-28
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
Movie • 2004-05-26
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
Movie • 2007-06-28
From Hell
as Sir William Gull
Movie • 2001-02-08
The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell Stephens
Movie • 1997-09-25
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
Movie • 1994-11-04
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
Movie • 1999-10-03
Kafka
as Dr. Murnau
Movie • 1991-11-15
Hamlet
as Polonius
Movie • 1990-12-19
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
Movie • 2005-09-16
eXistenZ
as Kiri Vinokur
Movie • 1999-04-14
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
Movie • 2004-12-17
Bless the Child
as Reverend Grissom
Movie • 2000-08-11
Henry V
as Captain Fluellen
Movie • 1989-10-05
Naked Lunch
as Tom Frost
Movie • 1991-12-27
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duval
Movie • 1977-07-17
Robin and Marian
as King John
Movie • 1976-03-11
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Himmelstoss
Movie • 1979-11-14
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
Movie • 1978-12-27
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Movie • 1984-03-30
The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
Movie • 2000-03-31
Oh! What a Lovely War
as President Poincare
Movie • 1969-03-10
The Madness of King George
as Willis
Movie • 1994-12-28
Murder by the Book
as Hercule Poirot
Movie • 1986-01-01
Another Woman
as Ken
Movie • 1988-10-13
A Life Less Ordinary
as Mr. Naville
Movie • 1997-10-24
March or Die
as El Krim
Movie • 1977-09-08
Chariots of Fire
as Sam Mussabini
Movie • 1981-05-15
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
Movie • 2006-06-28
Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond Cussen
Movie • 1985-03-01
Emma's Time
as Mark Lang
Movie • 1970-05-13
Juggernaut
as Nicholas Porter
Movie • 1974-09-25
Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Movie • 1985-10-04
Time Bandits
as Napoleon
Movie • 1981-07-13
Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 1999-09-05
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White Knight
Movie • 1998-12-26
Esther Kahn
as Nathan Quellen
Movie • 2000-10-04
A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Movie • 1971-01-21
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam Casey
Movie • 1997-03-21
Mary, Queen of Scots
as David Riccio
Movie • 1971-12-22
Blue Ice
as Sir Hector
Movie • 1992-10-09
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
Movie • 2006-05-10
Young Winston
as George E. Buckle
Movie • 1972-07-20
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
Movie • 2007-05-04
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Movie • 2012-12-12
Shout at the Devil
as Mohammed
Movie • 1976-04-12
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
Movie • 2006-10-17
Big Night
as Pascal
Movie • 1996-09-20
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)
Movie • 1994-08-01
Loch Ness
as Water Bailiff
Movie • 1996-08-23
The Hour of the Pig
as Albertus
Movie • 1993-09-25
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Movie • 2001-08-11
S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce Ismay
Movie • 1980-02-29
The Fixer
as Grubeshov
Movie • 1968-12-08
Laughterhouse
as Ben Singleton
Movie • 1984-09-01
Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)
Movie • 1958-10-01
A Little Fish in Deep Water
as Narrator
Movie • 1996-04-18
Tale of the Tides
as Narrator
Movie • 1998-09-30
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
Movie • 1991-10-12
The Wood Demon
as Khrushchov
Movie • 1974-11-17
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
Movie • 1962-04-17
The Homecoming
as Lenny
Movie • 1973-10-29
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Movie • 2014-12-10
Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe Gould
Movie • 2000-01-21
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 2005-04-05
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 2003-03-07
Wetherby
as Stanley Pilborough
Movie • 1985-06-19
The Thief of Baghdad
as The Gatekeeper
Movie • 1978-01-10
Landscape
as Duff
Movie • 1995-10-21
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Puck
Movie • 1968-09-30
The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor Anderson
Movie • 1983-01-06
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
Movie • 2011-11-01
The Last Romantics
as F.R. Leavis
Movie • 1992-03-29
Rope
as Granillo
Movie • 1957-10-02
King Lear
as King Lear
Movie • 1998-03-21
The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard III
Movie • 1965-04-08
Beautiful Joe
as George The Geek
Movie • 2000-06-09
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Movie • 1990-11-04
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
Movie • 1994-11-12
Shergar
as Joseph Maguire
Movie • 1999-06-01
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie • 1992-02-06
Little Red Riding Hood
as Don Mini
Movie • 1995-12-25
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Patrick
Movie • 2000-08-26
Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Movie • 1982-05-09
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor
Movie • 1989-12-28
Moonlight on the Highway
Movie • 1969-04-12
The Paradise Suite
as Jamie Norton
Movie • 1963-02-24
Edward the Confessor
as Edward Gobey
Movie • 1969-02-24
Omri's Burning
as Omri
Movie • 1969-10-16
Funny
as Huw
Movie • 1971-11-16
Alien
as Ash
Movie • 1979-05-25
The End of the Line
as Reverend P. Bagley
Movie • 1970-06-29
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 2004-06-06
Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The Monster
Movie • 1968-11-11
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Polonius (archive footage)
Movie • 1991-01-01
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Eustace Edgehill
Movie • 1985-12-15
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
Movie • 2007-06-01
Soft Targets
as Alexei
Movie • 1982-10-19
The Misanthrope
as Alceste
Movie • 1980-01-27
The Match
as Big Tam
Movie • 1999-08-13
The Endless Game
as Control
Movie • 1989-08-20
The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Movie • 1985-12-31
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
Movie • 1978-10-11
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner Flynn
Movie • 1968-04-04
Incognito
as John (uncredited)
Movie • 1997-11-14
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as (archive footage)
Movie • 2003-12-02
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
Movie • 2005-11-22
Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Movie • 1999-02-17
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Yakovlev
Movie • 1971-11-29
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 1983-11-02
The Cost of Treachery
as Narrator
Movie • 1984-10-30
The Kingdom of Fun
as Narrator
Movie • 1989-01-19
Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
Movie • 1967-01-02
The Last Dragon
as Narrator
Movie • 2004-03-05
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech Walesa
Movie • 1981-12-18
Flayed
as The Man
Movie • 1978-02-22
Cry From Home
as Narrator
Movie • 1986-02-20
The Fishing Party
as Narrator
Movie • 1986-02-27
The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)
Movie • 1993-12-24
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Movie • 1993-11-09
The Making of the Return of the King
as Self
Movie • 2004-04-01
Visions of Power
as Narrator
Movie • 1985-02-12
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 1995-10-13
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alan Corwin
Tv • 1979-03-24
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Himmelstoss
Tv • 1951-12-24
The Return of the Borrowers
as Pod
Tv • 1993-11-14
Holocaust
as Heinrich Himmler
Tv • 1978-04-16
Jesus of Nazareth
as Zerah
Tv • 1977-03-27
BBC Play of the Month
as Oedipus
Tv • 1965-10-19
Natural World
as Narrator
Tv • 1983-10-30
Television
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tv • 1985-02-12
Game, Set, and Match
as Bernard Samson
Tv • 1988-10-03
Napoleon and Love
Tv • 1974-03-05
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
as Geschichtenerzähler
Tv • 2009-05-18
The Borrowers
as Pod
Tv • 1992-11-08
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Wedderburn
Tv • 1974-11-21
Performance
as Duff
Tv • 1991-10-05
Performance
as King Lear
Tv • 1991-10-05
Performance
as Sir William Collyer
Tv • 1991-10-05
NOVA
as Narrator
Tv • 1974-03-03
BBC Play of the Month
as Khrushchov
Tv • 1965-10-19
Chillers
as Christopher Waggoner
Tv • 1990-04-14
Korea: The Unknown War
as Narrator (voice)
Tv • 1988-06-18
The Bell
as Michael Meade
Tv • 1982-01-13
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie
Tv • 1978-10-11
Stalin
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tv • 1990-03-13
Shanghai Vice
as Himself - Narrator
Tv • 1999-02-28
Play for Today
as Alexei
Tv • 1970-10-15
Monsters We Met
as Narrator
Tv • 2003-04-08
Horizon
as Narrator
Tv • 1964-02-04
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator (voice)
Tv • 1965-09-10
NOVA
as Narrator (voice)
Tv • 1974-03-03
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Tv • 1956-04-01
Legends
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tv • 2006-11-17
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as The Tailor (voice)
Tv • 1992-05-13
Secret Agent
as Narrator
Tv • 2001-01-01
Performance
as Astrov
Tv • 1991-10-05
Screen Two
as F.R. Leavis
Tv • 1985-01-06
Survival
Tv • 1961-02-01
The Frighteners
as Gordon
Tv • 1972-07-07
40 Minutes
as Narrator
Tv • 1981-10-01
BBC Play of the Month
as Alceste
Tv • 1965-10-19
Armchair Theatre
as Edward Gobey
Tv • 1956-07-08
BBC2 Play of the Week
as The Man
Tv • 1977-09-21
BBC2 Play of the Week
as J.M. Barrie
Tv • 1977-09-21