Ian Holm
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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.
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The Fifth Element (1997)
as Cornelius
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
as Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
as Bilbo
Alien (1979)
as Ash
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
as Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
as Old Bilbo Baggins
Ratatouille (2007)
as Skinner (voice)
Alien: Romulus (2024)
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
as Terry Rapson
The Aviator (2004)
as Professor Fitz
Lord of War (2005)
as Simeon Weisz
eXistenZ (1999)
as Kiri Vinokur
Brazil (1985)
as Mr. Kurtzmann
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Sam Mussabini
Time Bandits (1981)
as Napoleon
From Hell (2001)
as Sir William Gull
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
as Baron Frankenstein
Garden State (2004)
as Gideon Largeman
Naked Lunch (1991)
as Tom Frost
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
as Mr. Naville
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Shout at the Devil (1976)
as Mohammed
Big Night (1996)
as Pascal
Robin and Marian (1976)
as King John
Bless the Child (2000)
as Reverend Grissom
The Madness of King George (1994)
as Willis
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
as Himmelstoss
Another Woman (1988)
as Ken
March or Die (1977)
as El Krim
Henry V (1989)
as Captain Fluellen
Juggernaut (1974)
as Nicholas Porter
Chromophobia (2006)
as Edward Aylesbury
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
as Liam Casey
The Miracle Maker (2000)
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
as J. Bruce Ismay
Blue Ice (1992)
as Sir Hector
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
as Duval
Loch Ness (1996)
as Water Bailiff
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
as Desmond Cussen
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
as Mitchell Stephens
The Wars of the Roses (1965)
as King Richard III
The Hour of the Pig (1993)
as Albertus
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
as Yakovlev
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
as The Gatekeeper
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as President Poincare
Dreamchild (1985)
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Hamlet (1990)
as Polonius
Animal Farm (1999)
as Squealer (voice)
Murder by the Book (1986)
as Hercule Poirot
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
as David Riccio
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
as White Knight
Uncle Vanya (1991)
as Astrov
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington (1975)
as Mr. Garrick
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' (2004)
as Self
Strangers with Candy (2006)
as Dr. Putney
Beautiful Joe (2000)
as George The Geek
D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
as Patrick
Kafka (1991)
as Dr. Murnau
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as Doctor Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
as Eustace Edgehill
The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
as Sir William Collyer
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Puck
Les Misérables (1978)
as Thénardier
The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2006)
as Self
Young Winston (1972)
as George E. Buckle
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
as Joe Gould
The Match (1999)
as Big Tam
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real (2004)
as Narrator
Incognito (1997)
as John (uncredited)
A Season of Giants (1990)
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Landscape (1995)
as Duff
Little Red Riding Hood (1995)
as Don Mini
O Jerusalem (2006)
as Ben Gurion
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
as Lech Walesa
The Fixer (1968)
as Grubeshov
Flayed (1978)
as The Man
The Homecoming (1973)
as Lenny
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester (1993)
as The Tailor (voice)
Bloody Sunday (1991)
as Narrator
The End of the Line (1970)
as Reverend P. Bagley
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast (2002)
as Self
The Last Romantics (1992)
as F.R. Leavis
Esther Kahn (2000)
as Nathan Quellen
The Cherry Orchard (1962)
as Trofimov
The Browning Version (1985)
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Lost Boys (1978)
as J.M. Barrie
Simon Magus (1999)
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Wetherby (1985)
as Stanley Pilborough
The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
as The Tailor
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
as Polonius (archive footage)
The Endless Game (1989)
as Control
King Lear (1998)
as King Lear
The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
as Narrator
Rope (1957)
as Granillo
Ramsey (1977)
as Bill Ramsey
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom (1994)
as (voice)
A Severed Head (1971)
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
The Treatment (2007)
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
Moonlight on the Highway (1969)
Actor
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Chappaquiddick (1994)
as Narrator
The Salesman (1970)
as Salesman
Girls at Sea (1958)
as Marine (uncredited)
Soft Targets (1982)
as Alexei
A Little Fish in Deep Water (1996)
as Narrator
The Queen of Trees (2005)
as Narrator
The Treat (1972)
as Gordon
The Wood Demon (1974)
as Khrushchov
Edward the Confessor (1969)
as Edward Gobey
Visions of Power (1985)
as Narrator
Tale of the Tides (1998)
as Narrator
Frankenstein (1968)
as Frankenstein / The Monster
Shergar (1999)
as Joseph Maguire
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen (1992)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Real Middle Earth (2007)
as Narrator
Prisoner of Paradise (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Cry From Home (1986)
as Narrator
Laughterhouse (1984)
as Ben Singleton
Opus (1967)
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
as Gunner Flynn
Emma's Time (1970)
as Mark Lang
The Cost of Treachery (1984)
as Narrator
Children in Crossfire (1974)
as Narrator
Omri's Burning (1969)
as Omri
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
The Paradise Suite (1963)
as Jamie Norton
Funny (1971)
as Huw
The Misanthrope (1980)
as Alceste
The Fishing Party (1986)
as Narrator
Only a Game (1974)
as Narrator