The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003
As Bilbo
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Ian Holm
Born
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (135)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001
As Bilbo
TMDb 8.4 / 10
Alien1979
As Ash
TMDb 8.2 / 10
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014
As Old Bilbo Baggins
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Ratatouille2007
As Skinner (voice)
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Alien: Romulus2024
As Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012
As Old Bilbo Baggins
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Fifth Element1997
As Cornelius
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Lord of War2005
As Simeon Weisz
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Aviator2004
As Professor Fitz
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Day After Tomorrow2004
As Terry Rapson
TMDb 6.6 / 10
eXistenZ1999
As Kiri Vinokur
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Brazil1985
As Mr. Kurtzmann
TMDb 7.7 / 10
From Hell2001
As Sir William Gull
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Time Bandits1981
As Napoleon
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Chariots of Fire1981
As Sam Mussabini
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Naked Lunch1991
As Tom Frost
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein1994
As Baron Frankenstein
TMDb 6.4 / 10
A Life Less Ordinary1997
As Mr. Naville
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Loch Ness1996
As Water Bailiff
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Garden State2004
As Gideon Largeman
TMDb 7.1 / 10
All Quiet on the Western Front1979
As Himmelstoss
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Big Night1996
As Pascal
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Hamlet1990
As Polonius
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes1984
As Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Henry V1989
As Captain Fluellen
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Blue Ice1992
As Sir Hector
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday1991
As Narrator
Juggernaut1974
As Nicholas Porter
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Night Falls on Manhattan1997
As Liam Casey
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Miracle Maker2000
As Pontius Pilate (voice)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Madness of King George1994
As Willis
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Robin and Marian1976
As King John
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Adventures of Errol Flynn2005
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
March or Die1977
As El Krim
TMDb 5.8 / 10
S.O.S. Titanic1980
As J. Bruce Ismay
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Nicholas and Alexandra1971
As Yakovlev
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Chromophobia2006
As Edward Aylesbury
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Another Woman1988
As Ken
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Animal Farm1999
As Squealer (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Joe Gould's Secret2000
As Joe Gould
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Sweet Hereafter1997
As Mitchell Stephens
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Bless the Child2000
As Reverend Grissom
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Uncle Vanya1991
As Astrov
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Man in the Iron Mask1977
As Duval
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Dreamchild1985
As Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Alice Through the Looking Glass1998
As White Knight
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Shout at the Devil1976
As Mohammed
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Young Winston1972
As George E. Buckle
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Incognito1997
As John (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Simon Magus1999
As Sirius / Boris / The Devil
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Kafka1991
As Dr. Murnau
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Oh! What a Lovely War1969
As President Poincare
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Les Misérables1978
As Thénardier
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Landscape
Landscape1995
As Duff
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Strangers with Candy2006
As Dr. Putney
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Dance with a Stranger1985
As Desmond Cussen
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Beautiful Joe2000
As George The Geek
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Fixer1968
As Grubeshov
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Thief of Baghdad1978
As The Gatekeeper
TMDb 5.5 / 10
O Jerusalem2006
As Ben Gurion
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Emperor's New Clothes2001
As Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Hour of the Pig1993
As Albertus
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Match1999
As Big Tam
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mary, Queen of Scots1971
As David Riccio
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Salesman
The Salesman1970
As Salesman
A Midsummer Night's Dream1968
As Puck
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Esther Kahn2000
As Nathan Quellen
TMDb 6.0 / 10
King Lear1998
As King Lear
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Rope
Rope1957
As Granillo
D-Day 6.6.19442004
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Homecoming1973
As Lenny
TMDb 6.2 / 10
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'2004
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real2004
As Narrator
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Girls at Sea1958
As Marine (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Wars of the Roses1965
As King Richard III
TMDb 8.7 / 10
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald1993
As Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Deep Blue Sea1994
As Sir William Collyer
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Wetherby1985
As Stanley Pilborough
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Treat1972
As Gordon
Chappaquiddick
Chappaquiddick1994
As Narrator
Ramsey
Ramsey1977
As Bill Ramsey
Soft Targets1982
As Alexei
TMDb 10.0 / 10
A Severed Head1971
As Martin Lynch-Gibbon
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Endless Game1989
As Control
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Flayed1978
As The Man
Shergar1999
As Joseph Maguire
TMDb 6.4 / 10
A Season of Giants1990
As Lorenzo de' Medici
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill1985
As Eustace Edgehill
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Browning Version1985
As Andrew Crocker-Harris
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Making of 'The Return of the King'2006
As Self
TMDb 8.8 / 10
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester1993
As The Tailor (voice)
The Return of the Soldier1983
As Doctor Anderson
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Little Red Riding Hood1995
As Don Mini
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells2000
As Patrick
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano1983
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity1981
As Lech Walesa
The Cherry Orchard1962
As Trofimov
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast2002
As Self
The End of the Line
The End of the Line1970
As Reverend P. Bagley
The Treatment2007
As Dr. Ernesto Morales
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Lost Boys1978
As J.M. Barrie
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Last Romantics1992
As F.R. Leavis
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen1992
As Self - Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Wisconsin Death Trip1999
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Murder by the Book1986
As Hercule Poirot
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Paradise Suite
The Paradise Suite1963
As Jamie Norton
Prisoner of Paradise2003
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Bofors Gun1968
As Gunner Flynn
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Laughterhouse1984
As Ben Singleton
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington1975
As Mr. Garrick
Discovering Hamlet2011
As Polonius (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Visions of Power1985
As Narrator
The Wood Demon1974
As Khrushchov
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Frankenstein1968
As Frankenstein / The Monster
TMDb 9.5 / 10
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom1994
As (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Kingdom of Fun1989
As Narrator
Opus1967
As Lenny (The Homecoming)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Cry From Home1986
As Narrator
Tale of the Tides1998
As Narrator
Edward the Confessor1969
As Edward Gobey
The Queen of Trees2005
As Narrator
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Children in Crossfire1974
As Narrator
A Little Fish in Deep Water
A Little Fish in Deep Water1996
As Narrator
Only a Game
Only a Game1974
As Narrator
The Real Middle Earth2007
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Omri's Burning
Omri's Burning1969
As Omri
Moonlight on the Highway1969
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Emma's Time1970
As Mark Lang
The Misanthrope1980
As Alceste
The Tailor of Gloucester1989
As The Tailor
The Cost of Treachery1984
As Narrator
TMDb 1.0 / 10
Funny
Funny1971
As Huw
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out1995
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Fishing Party1986
As Narrator
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