Ian Holm
British actor (1931–2020)
- Fame59.7
- Momentum0.4
- United Kingdom rank#236
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- Fame59.7
- Momentum0.4
- United Kingdom rank#236
- Actors rank#161
- Wikipedia87.1K
Lived 1931–2020, aged 89United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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,…
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- Knight Bachelor
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Historical27.1
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