Acting credits
166
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Ian Holm
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 122Series: 44
TMDB ID: 65
IMDb ID: nm0000453
Known for: Acting
Born: September 12, 1931
Died: June 19, 2020
Age: 88
Place of birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2024
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 6.63
Wikidata: Q223091
Also known as
Ian Holm Cuthbert • Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE • Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert • Sir Ian Holm
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ian Holm.
Alien: Romulus
as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
2024 Movie
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo Baggins
2014 Movie
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Old Bilbo Baggins
2012 Movie
Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)
2011 Movie
Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)
2007 Movie
The Real Middle Earth
as Narrator
2007 Movie
The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007 Movie
O Jerusalem
as Ben Gurion
2006 Movie
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2006 Movie
Strangers with Candy
as Dr. Putney
2006 Movie
Chromophobia
as Edward Aylesbury
2006 Movie
The Queen of Trees
as Narrator
2005 Movie
Lord of War
as Simeon Weisz
2005 Movie
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
2005 Movie
The Aviator
as Professor Fitz
2004 Movie
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004 Movie
Garden State
as Gideon Largeman
2004 Movie
D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)
2004 Movie
The Day After Tomorrow
as Terry Rapson
2004 Movie
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
as Narrator
2004 Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Bilbo
2003 Movie
Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)
2003 Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
2002 Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Bilbo
2001 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ian Holm.
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
as Geschichtenerzähler • 2 eps
2009 Series
Legends
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
2006 Series
Monsters We Met
as Narrator • 3 eps
2003 Series
Secret Agent
as Narrator • 4 eps
2001 Series
Shanghai Vice
as Himself - Narrator • 7 eps
1999 Series
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as The Tailor (voice) • 1 eps
1992 Series
The Borrowers
as Pod • 12 eps
1992 Series
Secret History
as Narrator • 1 eps
1991 Series
Performance
as Sir William Collyer • 1 eps
1991 Series
A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' Medici • 3 eps
1990 Series
Stalin
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 3 eps
1990 Series
Chillers
as Christopher Waggoner • 1 eps
1990 Series
The Endless Game
as Control • 2 eps
1989 Series
Game, Set, and Match
as Bernard Samson • 13 eps
1988 Series
Korea: The Unknown War
as Narrator (voice) • 6 eps
1988 Series
Television
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 13 eps
1985 Series
Screen Two
as F.R. Leavis • 1 eps
1985 Series
Natural World
as Narrator • 7 eps
1983 Series
Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels • 2 eps
1982 Series
40 Minutes
as Narrator • 2 eps
1981 Series
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alan Corwin • 1 eps
1979 Series
The Lost Boys
as J.M. Barrie • 3 eps
1978 Series
Holocaust
as Heinrich Himmler • 2 eps
1978 Series
BBC2 Play of the Week
as The Man • 1 eps
1977 Series