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Ian Holm
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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 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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
As Bilbo
Alien
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As Bilbo
Time Bandits
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Brazil
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eXistenZ
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Henry V
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Game On: Cinematic Journeys Through Digital Worlds
From arcade nostalgia to virtual reality epics, these films explore the thrill and terror of living inside the game.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos
From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...
8 films
The Stage on Screen: A Theatrical Journey
From the claustrophobic confines of a cabin to the sprawling sets of a Shakespearean epic, these eight films celebrate the art of theatre translated to cinema.
7 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.
5 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Alien: Romulus
2024 · Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Old Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Old Bilbo Baggins
Ratatouille
2007 · Skinner (voice)
Lord of War
2005 · Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
2004 · Professor Fitz
Garden State
2004 · Gideon Largeman
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Terry Rapson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Bilbo
From Hell
2001 · Sir William Gull
Bless the Child
2000 · Reverend Grissom
Joe Gould's Secret
2000 · Joe Gould
eXistenZ
1999 · Kiri Vinokur
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Mr. Naville
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Mitchell Stephens
The Fifth Element
1997 · Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Liam Casey
Big Night
1996 · Pascal
The Madness of King George
1994 · Willis
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Baron Frankenstein
Henry V
1989 · Captain Fluellen
Dreamchild
1985 · Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Brazil
1985 · Mr. Kurtzmann
Television
1985 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Time Bandits
1981 · Napoleon
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Sam Mussabini
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Himmelstoss
Alien
1979 · Ash
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · Duval
Robin and Marian
1976 · King John