Ian Holm
British actor (1931-2020) · United Kingdom · Actors · Died at 88
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Something wrong?He was Ash the android in Alien, the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Middle-earth, and Napoleon three separate times across three decades - a chameleon who moved from the Royal Shakespeare Company to some of the most-watched films ever made without anyone quite pinning him down.
A life in dates
The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyFilm, Old Bilbo Baggins2006
LegendsSeries
Strangers with CandyFilm, 2006Dr. Putney2004
Garden StateFilm, Gideon Largeman2001
From HellFilm, Sir William Gull1999
Animal FarmFilm, Squealer (voice)1998Knight BachelorAward1996
Big NightFilm, Pascal1994
Mary Shelley's FrankensteinFilm, Baron Frankenstein1991
PerformanceSeries, Sir William Collyer1990
HamletFilm, Polonius1989Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward1988
Another WomanFilm, Ken1985
Screen TwoSeries, F.R. Leavis1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the ApesFilm, Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot1982BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAward1979
Tales of the UnexpectedSeries, Alan Corwin
AlienFilm, 1979Ash1977
BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries, The Man1976
Robin and MarianFilm, King John1973
Orson Welles' Great MysteriesSeries, Charles Stubbs1971
Nicholas and AlexandraFilm, Yakovlev1970
Play for TodaySeries, Alexei1969BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAward1967Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a PlayAward1966
Mystery and ImaginationSeries, Wolfe MacFarlane1964
HorizonSeries, Narrator1951
Hallmark Hall of FameSeries, Himmelstoss1931Born12 September 1931Also in Deutsch
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ARAlien: Romulus
TAThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesTJThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
RARatatouilleSCStrangers with Candy
LWLord of War
TTThe Day After Tomorrow
TAThe AviatorGSGarden State
TKThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
TRThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingFHFrom Hell
BCBless the Child
EXeXistenZAFAnimal Farm
TEThe Fifth Element
AOA Life Less Ordinary
THThe Sweet Hereafter
NMNight Falls on ManhattanBNBig Night
LNLoch NessMFMary Shelley's Frankenstein
TGThe Madness of King George
NLNaked Lunch
KAKafkaHAHamlet
HVHenry VAWAnother Woman
BRBrazilGAGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
CFChariots of Fire
TBTime BanditsALAlien
AFAll Quiet on the Western Front
MDMarch or Die
TMThe Man in the Iron MaskRMRobin and Marian
SDShout at the Devil
JUJuggernautNANicholas and Alexandra199 credits on file
Television 24
LELegends
TFThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TBThe BorrowersPEPerformance
CHChillersSTScreen Two
NWNatural World
MI40 MinutesTUTales of the Unexpected
HOHolocaust
JNJesus of NazarethBWBBC2 Play of the Week
NONOVAOMOrson Welles' Great MysteriesPTPlay for Today
ITITV Saturday Night Theatre
IPITV PlayhouseMIMystery and Imagination
BMBBC Play of the MonthHOHorizon
TPThe Wednesday Play
TATony AwardsHFHallmark Hall of FameAwards
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Ian Holm graduated from RADA and built his foundation with the Royal Shakespeare Company, earning a Tony in 1967 for Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. His film break came with The Bofors Gun in 1968, which won him a BAFTA, then another for playing athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire - the role that also brought an Oscar nomination. Through the '80s and '90s he threaded himself into Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, The Madness of King George, and curiously played Napoleon in three unrelated projects between 1974 and 2001. He won the Olivier for King Lear in 1998, the same year he was knighted. Peter Jackson's casting of him as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy introduced him to a generation who'd never seen him onstage, and he returned for The Hobbit films a decade later - his last screen appearance in 2014, a year he turned 83.
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