Cast & creator
Ian Holm
Best known for NOVA, NOVA, Tony Awards
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.
Also known as: Ian Holm Cuthbert, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert, Sir Ian Holm
135
film credits
64
television credits
199
1951–2024 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (199)
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NOVA
Narrator
1974NOVA
Narrator (voice)
1974
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Play for Today
Alexei
1970
The Wednesday Play
Mark Lang
1964
Horizon
Narrator
1964
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
2003
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis
1985Screen Two
Albertus
1985
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin
1979
Alien
Ash
1979
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus
1965BBC Play of the Month
Khrushchov
1965BBC Play of the Month
Alceste
1965
ITV Playhouse
Huw
1967
Natural World
Narrator
1983
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
2014Film '72
Self
1971
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
2012
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
2007
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Charles Stubbs
1973
Alien: Romulus
Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)
2024
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
1997
Performance
Duff
1991Performance
King Lear
1991Performance
Sir William Collyer
1991Performance
Astrov
1991
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
David Peters
1969
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
2004
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man
1977BBC2 Play of the Week
J.M. Barrie
1977
40 Minutes
Narrator
1981
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah
1977
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
2004
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
2005
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner
1990
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
1978
Mystery and Imagination
Wolfe MacFarlane
1966Mystery and Imagination
Dr Frankenstein / The Being
1966
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
1985Jubilee 1977
Bill Ramsey
1977
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
1981
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
1999
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
1965
The Power Game
Sefton Kemp
1965
The Frighteners
Gordon
1972
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss
1951
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice)
1992
Television
Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
From Hell
Sir William Gull
2001
Time Bandits
Napoleon
1981
Secret History
Narrator
1991
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon Bonaparte
1974
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
2004
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
1991
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
1997
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
1994
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson
1988
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
1982
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey
1956Armchair Theatre
Jamie Norton
1956Armchair Theatre
Reverend P. Bagley
1956
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
1984
The Wars of the Roses
Richard III
1965
The Borrowers
Pod
1992
Robin and Marian
King John
1976
Survival
1961
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
1976
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
1979
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
1974Private Affairs
David Garrick
1975
Big Night
Pascal
1996
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
2000
The Madness of King George
Willis
1994
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
1989
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
1997
Another Woman
Ken
1988
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn
1974
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
1971
March or Die
El Krim
1977
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
1980
Hamlet
Polonius
1990
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
1992
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
2000
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
1993
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
2006
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
1999
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
1971
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
1965
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
1978
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
1977
The Endless Game
Control
1989
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
1998
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
2006
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
1997The Return of the Borrowers
Pod
1993
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
1969
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
1991
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
1986
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
1996
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
1985
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
2009
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
1991Do You Remember?
Walter Street
1978
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
2001
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
1985
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
2006
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
1978
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
1985
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
1994The Bell
Michael Meade
1982
Incognito
John (uncredited)
1997
Les Misérables
Thénardier
1978
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
1972Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Mr. Garrick
1975
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
2005
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
2004
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
1968
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
2000We, the Accused
Paul Presset
1980
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
Self
2002
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
1983
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
2004
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1985
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
1990
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
2004
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
2000Masquerade
Blake
1974The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
1970
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
The Match
Big Tam
1999Bloody Sunday
Narrator
1991Landscape
Duff
1995
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice)
1988
Flayed
The Man
1978
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
1993
The Fixer
Grubeshov
1968The Man from Haven
Jack Byron Lever
1972The Salesman
Salesman
1970
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
2006Rope
Granillo
1957
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
1995
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
2000
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
1971
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
1993
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
The Homecoming
Lenny
1973
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
1981Ramsey
Bill Ramsey
1977
King Lear
King Lear
1998
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
1992
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
1978
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
1994
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
1989
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
1983
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
2011
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
1985
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
1958A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
1996
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
1999
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
1962
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
1989
The Endless Game
Control
1989
The Treat
Gordon
1972
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
1999
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
1999Chappaquiddick
Narrator
1994
Monsters We Met
Narrator
2003
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
2005
Soft Targets
Alexei
1982
Secret Agent
Narrator
2001
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
2003
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
2007
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
1969
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
1968
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
1984
Visions of Power
Narrator
1985
The Misanthrope
Alceste
1980
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
1968The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
1963
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
1967Omri's Burning
Omri
1969
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
1998
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
1990
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
1974
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
2007
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
1984
Children in Crossfire
Narrator
1974
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
1999
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
1970
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
1995
Cry From Home
Narrator
1986Funny
Huw
1971
The Fishing Party
Narrator
1986Only a Game
Narrator
1974