Actor
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. H ...

Known For
Poster Path

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Movie

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Movie

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Movie

Discovering Hamlet

Movie

Ratatouille

Acting
2025 -- The Hobbit: There and Back Again | Old Bilbo Baggins
2014 -- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo Baggins
2012 -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins
2011 -- Discovering Hamlet | Polonius (archive footage)
2007 -- Ratatouille | Skinner (voice)
2007 -- The Real Middle Earth | Narrator
2007 -- The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales
2006 -- O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion
2006 -- Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney
2006 -- Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury
2005 -- The Queen of Trees | Narrator
2005 -- Lord of War | Simeon Weisz
2005 -- The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- The Aviator | Professor Fitz
2004 -- A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self
2004 -- Garden State | Gideon Largeman
2004 -- D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson
2004 -- The Last Dragon | Narrator
2003 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo
2003 -- The Beast Within: Making Alien | (archive footage)
2003 -- Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice)
2001 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo
2001 -- The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001 -- From Hell | Sir William Gull
2000 -- Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen
2000 -- The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick
2000 -- Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom
2000 -- Beautiful Joe | George The Geek
2000 -- The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000 -- Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould
1999 -- Animal Farm | Squealer (voice)
1999 -- Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice)
1999 -- The Match | Big Tam
1999 -- Shergar | Joseph Maguire
1999 -- eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur
1999 -- Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1998 -- Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight
1998 -- Tale of the Tides | Narrator
1998 -- King Lear | King Lear
1997 -- Incognito | John (uncredited)
1997 -- A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville
1997 -- The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens
1997 -- The Fifth Element | Cornelius
1997 -- Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey
1996 -- Big Night | Pascal
1996 -- Loch Ness | Water Bailiff
1996 -- A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator
1995 -- Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini
1995 -- Landscape | Duff
1994 -- The Madness of King George | Willis
1994 -- The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer
1994 -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein
1994 -- Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | (voice)
1993 -- The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice)
1993 -- The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993 -- The Hour of the Pig | Albertus
1992 -- Blue Ice | Sir Hector
1992 -- The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis
1992 -- Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | Self - Narrator (voice)
1991 -- Naked Lunch | Tom Frost
1991 -- Kafka | Dr. Murnau
1991 -- Uncle Vanya | Astrov
1991 -- Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Polonius (archive footage)
1990 -- Hamlet | Polonius
1990 -- A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici
1989 -- The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor
1989 -- Henry V | Captain Fluellen
1989 -- The Endless Game | Control
1989 -- The Kingdom of Fun | Narrator
1988 -- Another Woman | Ken
1986 -- The Fishing Party | Narrator
1986 -- Cry From Home | Narrator
1986 -- Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot
1985 -- The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985 -- Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill
1985 -- Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985 -- Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough
1985 -- Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen
1985 -- Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann
1984 -- The Cost of Treachery | Narrator
1984 -- Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton
1984 -- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1983 -- Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice)
1983 -- The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson
1982 -- Soft Targets | Alexei
1982 -- Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1981 -- Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa
1981 -- Time Bandits | Napoleon
1981 -- Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini
1980 -- S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay
1980 -- The Misanthrope | Alceste
1979 -- All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss
1979 -- Alien | Ash
1978 -- Les Misérables | Thénardier
1978 -- The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie
1978 -- Flayed | The Man
1978 -- The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper
1977 -- March or Die | El Krim
1977 -- The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval
1977 -- Jesus Of Nazareth | Zerah
1976 -- Shout at the Devil | Mohammed
1976 -- Robin and Marian | King John
1974 -- The Wood Demon | Khrushchov
1974 -- Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter
1973 -- The Homecoming | Lenny
1972 -- Young Winston | George E. Buckle
1971 -- Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio
1971 -- Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev
1971 -- Funny | Huw
1971 -- A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1970 -- The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley
1970 -- Emma's Time | Mark Lang
1969 -- Omri's Burning | Omri
1969 -- Moonlight on the Highway |
1969 -- Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare
1969 -- Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey
1968 -- The Fixer | Grubeshov
1968 -- Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster
1968 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck
1968 -- The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn
1967 -- Opus | Lenny (The Homecoming)
1965 -- The Wars of the Roses | King Richard III
1963 -- The Paradise Suite | Jamie Norton
1962 -- The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov
1958 -- Girls at Sea | Marine (uncredited)
1957 -- Rope | Granillo
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