Ian Holm



First NameIan
Last NameHolm
Full Name at BirthIan Holm Cuthbert
Age80
Date of BirthSeptember 12, 1931
BirthplaceGoodmayes, Essex, England
Height5' 6" (168 cm)
BuildAverage
Hair ColorGrey
Star SignVirgo
EthnicityWhite
NationalityBritish
Occupation CategoryActor

Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is a British actor known for his stage work and for many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.


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Filmography

Selected Ian Holm film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

2011
The Hobbit: Part 2

2009
Storyteller

2006
Ben Gurion

2006
Jonas Muller

2006
Dr. Ernesto Morales

2005
Edward Aylesbury

2005
Simeon Weisz

2005
Dr. Putney

2004
Gideon Largeman

2004
Professor Fitz

2004
Terry Rapson

2004
Narrator

2004
Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator

2002
Waterbaby

2002
Spinning Wheels
Hood thief

2001
Sir William Gull

2001
Napoleon Bonaparte, Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

2000
George The Geek

2000
Reverend Grissom

2000
Nathan Quellen

2000
Joe Gould

2000
Pontius Pilate

2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick

2000
Field of Fish
Narrator/Old Tom Maynard

1999
Kiri Vinokur

1999
Shergar
Joseph Maguire

1999
Sirius, Boris, The Devil

1999
Big Tam

1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator

1999
Squealer

1999
Gooseberries Don't Dance
-

1999
Shanghai Vice
Narrator

1998
Frog
-

1997
Naville

1997
John

1997
Father Vito Cornelius

1997
Mitchell Stevens

1996
Pascal

1996
Water Bailiff

1996
Liam Casey

1995
Little Red Riding Hood
Narrator

1994
Dr. Francis Willis

1993
Albertus

1993
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod

1992
Sir Hector

1992
Performance
Lear, Sir William Collyer

1992
The Borrowers
Pod

1991
Doctor Murnau

1991
Tom Frost

1991
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo De Medici

1991
Uncle Vanya
Astrov

1990
Polonius

1990
The Endless Game
Control

1990
Chillers
-

1989
Captain Fluellen

1989
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor

1988
Dr. Ken Post

1988
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson

1986
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot

1985
Mr. M. Kurtzmann

1985
Desmond Cussen

1985
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson, Lewis Carroll

1985
Ben Singleton

1985
Stanley Pilborough

1985
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris

1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill

1985
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis

1985
Television
Narrator

1984
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

1983
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson

1982
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels

1982
Timewatch
Narrator

1982
The Bell
Michael Meade

1981
Sam Mussabini

1981
Napoleon

1981
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa

1980
We, the Accused
Paul Pressett

1979
Ash

1979
Joseph Bruce Ismay

1979
Alan Corwin

1978
Heinrich Himmler

1978
Les Miserables
Thenardier

1978
J.M. Barrie

1978
The Gatekeeper

1978
Do You Remember?
Walter

1977
El Krim

1977
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah

1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
-

1977
Jubilee
Bill Ramsey

1976
King John

1976
Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant

1974
Nicholas Porter

1974
Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn

1974
Masquerade
Blake

1973
Lenny

1973
Great Mysteries
Charles Stubbs

1973
Conjugal Rights
Michael

1972
George E. Buckle

1972
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon

1972
The Man from Haven
Jack Byron Lever

1971
David Riccio

1971
Yakovlev

1970
Martin Lynch-Gibbon

1970
Play for Today
Alexei

1969
President Poincare

1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
David Peters, Salesman, Walter Bardell

1968
The Bofors Gun
Flynn

1968
Grubeshov

1967
ITV Playhouse
Huw

1966
Mystery and Imagination
Frankenstein, MacFarlane, the monster

1965
War of the Roses
King Richard III, Richard Duke of Gloucester

1965
BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov, Oedipus

1965
The Power Game
Sefton Kemp

1964
The Wednesday Play
Mark Lang

1962
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov

1959
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck

1958
Girls at Sea
-

1956
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey, Jamie Norton, Reverend P. Bagley

1955
ITV Play of the Week
Granillo

1951
Himmelstoss

Other Crew Credits

1995
Treasures in Trust
-

Soundtrack Credits






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Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
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