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.
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 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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Filmography (Movies)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Character:Old Bilbo Baggins
Release Date:10/12/2014
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Character:Old Bilbo Baggins
Release Date:12/12/2012
Discovering Hamlet
Character:Polonius (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2011
Ratatouille
Character:Skinner (voice)
Release Date:28/06/2007
The Real Middle Earth
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/06/2007
The Treatment
Character:Dr. Ernesto Morales
Release Date:04/05/2007
O Jerusalem
Character:Ben Gurion
Release Date:17/10/2006
Strangers with Candy
Character:Dr. Putney
Release Date:28/06/2006
Chromophobia
Character:Edward Aylesbury
Release Date:10/05/2006
The Queen of Trees
Character:Narrator
Release Date:22/11/2005
Lord of War
Character:Simeon Weisz
Release Date:16/09/2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/04/2005
The Aviator
Character:Professor Fitz
Release Date:17/12/2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Character:Self
Release Date:14/12/2004
Garden State
Character:Gideon Largeman
Release Date:28/07/2004
D-Day 6.6.1944
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/06/2004
The Day After Tomorrow
Character:Terry Rapson
Release Date:26/05/2004
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/04/2004
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Character:Narrator
Release Date:05/03/2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Character:Bilbo
Release Date:17/12/2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:07/03/2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Character:Bilbo
Release Date:18/12/2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
Character:Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Release Date:11/08/2001
From Hell
Character:Sir William Gull
Release Date:08/02/2001
Esther Kahn
Character:Nathan Quellen
Release Date:04/10/2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Character:Patrick
Release Date:26/08/2000
Bless the Child
Character:Reverend Grissom
Release Date:11/08/2000
Beautiful Joe
Character:George The Geek
Release Date:09/06/2000
The Miracle Maker
Character:Pontius Pilate (voice)
Release Date:31/03/2000
Joe Gould's Secret
Character:Joe Gould
Release Date:21/01/2000
Animal Farm
Character:Squealer (voice)
Release Date:03/10/1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/09/1999
The Match
Character:Big Tam
Release Date:13/08/1999
Shergar
Character:Joseph Maguire
Release Date:01/06/1999
eXistenZ
Character:Kiri Vinokur
Release Date:14/04/1999
Simon Magus
Character:Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Release Date:17/02/1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character:White Knight
Release Date:26/12/1998
Tale of the Tides
Character:Narrator
Release Date:30/09/1998
King Lear
Character:King Lear
Release Date:21/03/1998
Incognito
Character:John (uncredited)
Release Date:14/11/1997
A Life Less Ordinary
Character:Mr. Naville
Release Date:24/10/1997
The Sweet Hereafter
Character:Mitchell Stephens
Release Date:25/09/1997
The Fifth Element
Character:Cornelius
Release Date:02/05/1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Character:Liam Casey
Release Date:21/03/1997
Big Night
Character:Pascal
Release Date:20/09/1996
Loch Ness
Character:Water Bailiff
Release Date:23/08/1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Character:Narrator
Release Date:18/04/1996
Little Red Riding Hood
Character:Don Mini
Release Date:25/12/1995
Landscape
Character:Duff
Release Date:21/10/1995
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/10/1995
The Madness of King George
Character:Willis
Release Date:28/12/1994
The Deep Blue Sea
Character:Sir William Collyer
Release Date:12/11/1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Character:Baron Frankenstein
Release Date:04/11/1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
Character:(voice)
Release Date:01/08/1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
Character:The Tailor (voice)
Release Date:24/12/1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Character:Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Release Date:09/11/1993
The Hour of the Pig
Character:Albertus
Release Date:25/09/1993
Blue Ice
Character:Sir Hector
Release Date:09/10/1992
The Last Romantics
Character:F.R. Leavis
Release Date:29/03/1992
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/02/1992
Naked Lunch
Character:Tom Frost
Release Date:27/12/1991
Bloody Sunday
Character:Narrator
Release Date:05/12/1991
Kafka
Character:Dr. Murnau
Release Date:15/11/1991
Uncle Vanya
Character:Astrov
Release Date:12/10/1991
Hamlet
Character:Polonius
Release Date:19/12/1990
A Season of Giants
Character:Lorenzo de' Medici
Release Date:04/11/1990
The Tailor of Gloucester
Character:The Tailor
Release Date:28/12/1989
Henry V
Character:Captain Fluellen
Release Date:05/10/1989
The Endless Game
Character:Control
Release Date:20/08/1989
The Kingdom of Fun
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/01/1989
Another Woman
Character:Ken
Release Date:13/10/1988
The Fishing Party
Character:Narrator
Release Date:27/02/1986
Cry From Home
Character:Narrator
Release Date:20/02/1986
Murder by the Book
Character:Hercule Poirot
Release Date:01/01/1986
The Browning Version
Character:Andrew Crocker-Harris
Release Date:31/12/1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Character:Eustace Edgehill
Release Date:15/12/1985
Dreamchild
Character:Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Release Date:04/10/1985
Wetherby
Character:Stanley Pilborough
Release Date:19/06/1985
Dance with a Stranger
Character:Desmond Cussen
Release Date:01/03/1985
Brazil
Character:Mr. Kurtzmann
Release Date:20/02/1985
Visions of Power
Character:Narrator
Release Date:12/02/1985
The Cost of Treachery
Character:Narrator
Release Date:30/10/1984
Laughterhouse
Character:Ben Singleton
Release Date:01/09/1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Character:Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Release Date:30/03/1984
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/11/1983
The Return of the Soldier
Character:Doctor Anderson
Release Date:06/01/1983
Soft Targets
Character:Alexei
Release Date:19/10/1982
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Character:Lech Walesa
Release Date:18/12/1981
Time Bandits
Character:Napoleon
Release Date:13/07/1981
Chariots of Fire
Character:Sam Mussabini
Release Date:15/05/1981
S.O.S. Titanic
Character:J. Bruce Ismay
Release Date:29/02/1980
The Misanthrope
Character:Alceste
Release Date:27/01/1980
All Quiet on the Western Front
Character:Himmelstoss
Release Date:14/11/1979
Alien
Character:Ash
Release Date:25/05/1979
Les Misérables
Character:Thénardier
Release Date:27/12/1978
The Lost Boys
Character:J.M. Barrie
Release Date:11/10/1978
Flayed
Character:The Man
Release Date:22/02/1978
The Thief of Baghdad
Character:The Gatekeeper
Release Date:10/01/1978
March or Die
Character:El Krim
Release Date:08/09/1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
Character:Duval
Release Date:17/07/1977
Ramsey
Character:Bill Ramsey
Release Date:22/05/1977
Shout at the Devil
Character:Mohammed
Release Date:12/04/1976
Robin and Marian
Character:King John
Release Date:11/03/1976
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Character:Mr. Garrick
Release Date:16/05/1975
The Wood Demon
Character:Khrushchov
Release Date:17/11/1974
Juggernaut
Character:Nicholas Porter
Release Date:25/09/1974
Children in Crossfire
Character:Narrator
Release Date:12/03/1974
The Homecoming
Character:Lenny
Release Date:29/10/1973
The Treat
Character:Gordon
Release Date:01/09/1972
Young Winston
Character:George E. Buckle
Release Date:20/07/1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
Character:David Riccio
Release Date:22/12/1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
Character:Yakovlev
Release Date:29/11/1971
Funny
Character:Huw
Release Date:16/11/1971
A Severed Head
Character:Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Release Date:21/01/1971
The End of the Line
Character:Reverend P. Bagley
Release Date:29/06/1970
The Salesman
Character:Salesman
Release Date:30/05/1970
Emma's Time
Character:Mark Lang
Release Date:13/05/1970
Omri's Burning
Character:Omri
Release Date:16/10/1969
Moonlight on the Highway
Character:
Release Date:12/04/1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character:President Poincare
Release Date:10/03/1969
Edward the Confessor
Character:Edward Gobey
Release Date:24/02/1969
The Fixer
Character:Grubeshov
Release Date:08/12/1968
Frankenstein
Character:Frankenstein / The Monster
Release Date:11/11/1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character:Puck
Release Date:30/09/1968
The Bofors Gun
Character:Gunner Flynn
Release Date:04/04/1968
Opus
Character:Lenny (The Homecoming)
Release Date:02/01/1967
The Wars of the Roses
Character:King Richard III
Release Date:08/04/1965
The Paradise Suite
Character:Jamie Norton
Release Date:24/02/1963
The Cherry Orchard
Character:Trofimov
Release Date:17/04/1962
Girls at Sea
Character:Marine (uncredited)
Release Date:01/10/1958
Rope
Character:Granillo
Release Date:02/10/1957
Television Appearances
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Character:Geschichtenerzähler
Legends
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Monsters We Met
Character:Narrator
Secret Agent
Character:Narrator
Shanghai Vice
Character:Himself - Narrator
The Return of the Borrowers
Character:Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Character:The Tailor (voice)
The Borrowers
Character:Pod
Chillers
Character:Christopher Waggoner
Performance
Character:Sir William Collyer
Performance
Character:Duff
Performance
Character:King Lear
Performance
Character:Astrov
Stalin
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
The Endless Game
Character:Control
Game, Set, and Match
Character:Bernard Samson
Korea: The Unknown War
Character:Narrator (voice)
Television
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
Character:F.R. Leavis
Natural World
Character:Narrator
Inside the Third Reich
Character:Dr. Joseph Goebbels
The Bell
Character:Michael Meade
40 Minutes
Character:Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
Character:Alan Corwin
The Lost Boys
Character:J.M. Barrie
Holocaust
Character:Heinrich Himmler
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:The Man
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:J.M. Barrie
Jesus of Nazareth
Character:Zerah
Jubilee 1977
Character:Bill Ramsey
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Character:Wedderburn
Napoleon and Love
Character:
NOVA
Character:Narrator
NOVA
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Frighteners
Character:Gordon
Play for Today
Character:Alexei
Mystery and Imagination
Character:Wolfe MacFarlane
Mystery and Imagination
Character:Dr Frankenstein / The Being
The Power Game
Character:Sefton Kemp
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Oedipus
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Khrushchov
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Alceste
National Geographic Specials
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Wars of the Roses
Character:Richard
Horizon
Character:Narrator
Survival
Character:
Armchair Theatre
Character:Edward Gobey
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Himmelstoss
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