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'''Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (12 September 1931 – 19 June 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]]. He was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)]] in [[1989 Birthday Honours|1989]] by [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name="BFI Holm Obit">{{Cite web |title=Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/ian-holm-obituary-actor-many-facets |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 June 2020 |title=Sir Ian Holm: Lord of the Rings and Alien star dies aged 88 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |access-date=7 February 2021}}</ref>
'''Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from [[RADA]] (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]], he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two [[BAFTA Awards]] and a [[Tony Award]], along with nominations for an [[Academy Award]]. He was knighted by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in [[1998 Birthday Honours|1998]] for services to drama.<ref name="BFI Holm Obit">{{Cite web |title=Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/ian-holm-obituary-actor-many-facets |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=BFI |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214061357/https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/ian-holm-obituary-actor-many-facets |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BBC Obit">{{cite news |date=19 June 2020 |title=Sir Ian Holm: Lord of the Rings and Alien star dies aged 88 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |access-date=7 February 2021 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222040343/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |url-status=live }}</ref>


Holm won the [[21st Tony Awards|1967 Tony Award]] for [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|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 (theatre)|West End]] production of ''[[King Lear]]''. For his television roles he received two [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s for ''[[King Lear (1999 film)|King Lear]]'' (1998), and the [[HBO]] film ''[[The Last of the Blonde Bombshells]]'' (2003).
Holm won the [[21st Tony Awards|1967 Tony Award]] for [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|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 (theatre)|West End]] production of ''[[King Lear]]''. For his television roles he received two [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s for King Lear, 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 won a second [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|BAFTA Award]] for his role as athletics trainer [[Sam Mussabini]] in ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979), ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985), ''[[Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V]]'' (1989), ''[[Naked Lunch (film)|Naked Lunch]]'' (1991), ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994), ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' (1997), ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]'' (1997), and ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004). He played [[Napoleon]] in three different films. He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly [[Bilbo Baggins]] in [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' and [[The Hobbit (film series)|''The Hobbit'']] trilogies. He voiced Chef Skinner in the [[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille]]'' (2007).
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 won a second [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|BAFTA Award]] for his role as athletics trainer [[Sam Mussabini]] in ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979), ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985), ''[[Dreamchild]]'' (1985), ''[[Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V]]'' (1989), ''[[Naked Lunch (film)|Naked Lunch]]'' (1991), ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994), ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' (1997), ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]'' (1997), and ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004). He played [[Napoleon]] in three different films. He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly [[Bilbo Baggins]] in [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' and [[The Hobbit (film series)|''The Hobbit'']] trilogies.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==


Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in [[Goodmayes]], [[Essex]], to Scottish parents, James Harvey Cuthbert and his wife Jean Wilson (née Holm).<ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm Biography |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/41/Ian-Holm.html |work=filmreference |year=2008 |access-date=22 January 2009}}</ref> His father was a [[psychiatrist]] who worked as the superintendent of the [[Goodmayes Hospital|West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital]] and was one of the pioneers of [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electric shock therapy]]; his mother was a nurse.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm |url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/person.jsp?id=12990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218062744/http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/person.jsp?id=12990 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 December 2007 |work=Channel 4 Film |year=2008 |access-date=22 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm – Family and Companions |url=http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Ian+Holm/biography/122636/family | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114084205/http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Ian+Holm/biography/122636/family/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=14 January 2006 |work=Yahoo!7 Movies |year=2008 | access-date=22 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Excerpts from ''Loch Ness'' Presskit (1995) |url=http://www.aboutjamesfrain.com/pr28.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702142255/http://www.aboutjamesfrain.com/pr28.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 July 2004 |work=aboutjamesfrain |date=18 April 2004 |access-date=27 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sweet |first1=Matthew |title=Film: Napoleon Complex |work=The Independent |date=16 January 2004 |pages=8, 9}}</ref> He had an older brother, who died when Ian was 12 years old.<ref name=Strachan>Alan Strachan (2020) [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ian-holm-obituary-death-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-a9575566.html "Ian Holm: Versatile actor whose measured, gritty performances took him from Shakespeare to Hollywood"] ''[[The Independent]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> Holm was educated at the independent [[Chigwell School]] in Essex.<ref name=Strachan/><ref name=GuardianObit>Michael Billington & Ryan Gilbey (2020) [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/sir-ian-holm-obituary "Sir Ian Holm obituary"] ''[[The Guardian]]''. Published 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> His parents retired to [[Mortehoe]] in [[Devon]] and then to [[Worthing]], where he joined an amateur dramatic society.<ref name=ActingMyLife>{{cite book |year=2004 |author=Ian Holm with Steven Jacobi |isbn=978-0-593-05214-3 |title=Acting My Life – Ian Holm |publisher=Bantam Books}}</ref>
Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in [[Goodmayes]], [[Essex]], to Scottish parents, James Cuthbert and his wife Jean (née Holm). His father was a [[psychiatrist]] who worked as the superintendent of the [[Goodmayes Hospital|West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital]] and was one of the pioneers of [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electric shock therapy]]; his mother was a nurse.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm |url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/person.jsp?id=12990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218062744/http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/person.jsp?id=12990 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 December 2007 |work=Channel 4 Film |year=2008 |access-date=22 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm – Family and Companions |url=http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Ian+Holm/biography/122636/family | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114084205/http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Ian+Holm/biography/122636/family/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=14 January 2006 |work=Yahoo! Movies |year=2008 | access-date=22 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Excerpts from ''Loch Ness'' Presskit (1995) |url=http://www.aboutjamesfrain.com/pr28.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702142255/http://www.aboutjamesfrain.com/pr28.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 July 2004 |work=aboutjamesfrain |date=18 April 2004 |access-date=27 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sweet |first1=Matthew |title=Film: Napoleon Complex |work=The Independent |date=16 January 2004 |pages=8, 9}}</ref> He had an older brother, who died when Ian was 12 years old.<ref name=Strachan>Alan Strachan (2020) [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ian-holm-obituary-death-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-a9575566.html "Ian Holm: Versatile actor whose measured, gritty performances took him from Shakespeare to Hollywood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622022626/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ian-holm-obituary-death-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-a9575566.html |date=22 June 2020 }} ''[[The Independent]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> Holm was educated at the independent [[Chigwell School]] in Essex.<ref name="Guardian Obit">Michael Billington & Ryan Gilbey (2020) [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/sir-ian-holm-obituary "Sir Ian Holm obituary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200619162827/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/sir-ian-holm-obituary |date=19 June 2020 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''. Published 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref><ref name=Strachan/> His parents retired to [[Mortehoe]] in [[Devon]] and then to [[Worthing]], where he joined an amateur dramatic society.<ref name=ActingMyLife>{{cite book |year=2004 |author=Ian Holm with Steven Jacobi |isbn=978-0-593-05214-3 |title=Acting My Life – Ian Holm |publisher=Bantam Books}}</ref>


A chance encounter with [[Henry Baynton]], a well-known provincial Shakespearean actor, helped Holm train for admission to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], where he secured a place from 1950.<ref name=GuardianObit/><ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] in the [[British Army]],<ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> during which he was posted to [[Klagenfurt]], Austria, and attained the rank of [[Lance Corporal]]. They were interrupted a second time when he volunteered to go on an acting tour of the United States in 1952.<ref name=ActingMyLife /> Holm graduated from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in 1953.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
A chance encounter with [[Henry Baynton]], a well-known provincial Shakespearean actor, helped Holm train for admission to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], where he secured a place from 1950.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/><ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] in the [[British Army]],<ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> during which he was posted to [[Klagenfurt]], Austria, and attained the rank of [[Lance Corporal]]. They were interrupted a second time when he volunteered to go on an acting tour of the United States in 1952.<ref name=ActingMyLife /> Holm graduated from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in 1953.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/>


He made his stage debut in 1954, at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], playing a [[spear carrier]] in a staging of ''[[Othello]]''.<ref name=NYTObit>Mel Gussow (2020) [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/obituaries/ian-holm-dead.html "Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88"] ''[[The New York Times]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> Two years later, he made his London stage debut in ''Love Affair''.<ref name=NYTObit/>
He made his stage debut in 1954, at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], playing a [[spear carrier]] in a staging of ''[[Othello]]''.<ref name=NYTObit>Mel Gussow (2020) [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/obituaries/ian-holm-dead.html "Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88"] ''[[The New York Times]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> Two years later, he made his London stage debut in ''Love Affair''.<ref name=NYTObit/>
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== Career ==
== Career ==


Holm was an established actor in the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] before he gained notice in television and film. He began in 1954 with minor roles, progressing to [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' and the fool in ''[[King Lear]]''.<ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> In 1965, he played [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]] in the [[BBC]] serialisation of ''[[The Wars of the Roses (adaptation)|The Wars of The Roses]]'', based on the RSC production of the plays. In 1969, he appeared in ''[[Moonlight on the Highway]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200622074902/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bcc4ce7 "''Moonlight on the Highway'' (1969)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> He appeared in minor roles in films such as ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'' (1969),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309073043/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1e5daa "''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> ''[[Nicholas and Alexandra]]'' (1971),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160809085458/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b170907 "''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> ''[[Mary, Queen of Scots (1971 film)|Mary, Queen of Scots]]'' (1972)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170724025345/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b014217 "''Mary, Queen of Scots'' (1972)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> and ''[[Young Winston]]'' (1972).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170621155716/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb7319a "''Young Winston'' (1972)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>
Holm was an established actor in the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] before he gained notice in television and film. He began in 1954 with minor roles, progressing to [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' and the fool in ''[[King Lear]]''.<ref name="BBC Holm Obit"/> In 1965, he played [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]] in the [[BBC]] serialisation of ''[[The Wars of the Roses (adaptation)|The Wars of The Roses]]'', based on the RSC production of the plays. He gained acclaim for his role in the 1968 film ''[[The Bofors Gun]]'', winning the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role]].<ref name="Bafta Bofors">{{cite web |title=Film in 1969: BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film |website=awards.bafta.org |access-date=21 June 2020 |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122045155/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1969, he appeared in ''[[Moonlight on the Highway]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200622074902/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bcc4ce7 "''Moonlight on the Highway'' (1969)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> He took on minor roles in films such as ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'' (1969),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309073043/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1e5daa "''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> ''[[Nicholas and Alexandra]]'' (1971),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160809085458/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b170907 "''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> ''[[Mary, Queen of Scots (1971 film)|Mary, Queen of Scots]]'' (1972)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170724025345/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b014217 "''Mary, Queen of Scots'' (1972)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> and ''[[Young Winston]]'' (1972).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170621155716/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb7319a "''Young Winston'' (1972)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>


In 1967 Holm won a [[Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Lenny in ''[[The Homecoming]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]]. In 1977, Holm appeared in the television mini-series ''[[Jesus of Nazareth (film)|Jesus of Nazareth]]'' as the [[Sadducee]] [[Zerah]], and a villainous Moroccan in ''[[March or Die (film)|March or Die]]''. The following year he played [[J. M. Barrie]] in the award-winning BBC mini-series ''[[The Lost Boys (TV series)|The Lost Boys]]'',<ref name=THR>Mike Barnes (2020) [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ian-holm-dead-chariots-fire-alien-bilbo-baggins-actor-was-88-1075500 "Ian Holm, Oscar-Nominated Actor in 'Chariots of Fire,' Dies at 88"] ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> In 1981, he played [[Frodo Baggins]] in the [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|BBC radio adaptation]] of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/850-Lord-of-the-Rings-BBC-Dramatization.php |title=Review: The BBC Lord of the Rings Dramatization re-released by BBC AudioBooks America |website=www.tolkienlibrary.com}}</ref>
In 1967 Holm won a [[Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Lenny in ''[[The Homecoming]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]]. Holm appeared in the 1977 television mini-series ''[[Jesus of Nazareth (film)|Jesus of Nazareth]]'' as the [[Sadducee]] [[Zerah]], and as the villain in ''[[March or Die (film)|March or Die]]''. The following year he played [[J. M. Barrie]] in the award-winning BBC mini-series ''[[The Lost Boys (TV series)|The Lost Boys]]'',<ref name=THR>Mike Barnes (2020) [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ian-holm-dead-chariots-fire-alien-bilbo-baggins-actor-was-88-1075500 "Ian Holm, Oscar-Nominated Actor in 'Chariots of Fire,' Dies at 88"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620105146/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ian-holm-dead-chariots-fire-alien-bilbo-baggins-actor-was-88-1075500 |date=20 June 2020 }} ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> In 1981, he played [[Frodo Baggins]] in the [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|BBC radio adaptation]] of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/850-Lord-of-the-Rings-BBC-Dramatization.php |title=Review: The BBC Lord of the Rings Dramatization re-released by BBC AudioBooks America |website=www.tolkienlibrary.com |access-date=24 December 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111755/http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/850-Lord-of-the-Rings-BBC-Dramatization.php |url-status=live }}</ref>


Holm's first film role to gain much notice was that of Ash, the "calm, technocratic" science officer – later revealed to be an [[Android (robot)|android]] – in [[Ridley Scott]]'s science-fiction film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979).<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog/> His portrayal of the running coach [[Sam Mussabini]] in ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' (1981) earned him a special award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], a [[BAFTA]] award for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]], and an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]].<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog/><ref>Anastasia Tsioulcas (2020) [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880811998/actor-ian-holm-who-played-king-lear-to-bilbo-baggins-has-died "Actor Ian Holm, Who Played King Lear To Bilbo Baggins, Has Died"]. [[NPR]]. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref><ref name=BBCNews/> In the 1980s, Holm had memorable roles in ''[[Time Bandits]]'' (1981), ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]'' (1984) and ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985). He played [[Lewis Carroll]], the author of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', in ''[[Dreamchild]]'' (1985).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160729213643/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70e9350c ''"Dreamchild'' (1985)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref><ref>Roger Ebert (1986) [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dreamchild-1986 "''Dreamchild''" film review]. [[rogerebert.com]]. Published 10 January 1986. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>
Holm's first film role to gain much notice was that of Ash, the "calm, technocratic" science officer – later revealed to be an [[Android (robot)|android]] – in [[Ridley Scott]]'s science-fiction film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979).<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog/> His portrayal of the running coach [[Sam Mussabini]] in ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' (1981) earned him a special award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], a [[BAFTA]] award for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]], and an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]].<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog/><ref>Anastasia Tsioulcas (2020) [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880811998/actor-ian-holm-who-played-king-lear-to-bilbo-baggins-has-died "Actor Ian Holm, Who Played King Lear To Bilbo Baggins, Has Died"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619232920/https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880811998/actor-ian-holm-who-played-king-lear-to-bilbo-baggins-has-died |date=19 June 2020 }}. [[NPR]]. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref><ref name=BBCNews/> In the 1980s, Holm played in ''[[Time Bandits]]'' (1981), ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]'' (1984) and ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985). He played [[Lewis Carroll]], the author of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', in ''[[Dreamchild]]'' (1985).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160729213643/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70e9350c ''"Dreamchild'' (1985)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref><ref>Roger Ebert (1986) [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dreamchild-1986 "''Dreamchild''" film review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921230536/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dreamchild-1986 |date=21 September 2020 }}. [[rogerebert.com]]. Published 10 January 1986. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>


In 1989, Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television series ''[[Game, Set and Match]]''. Based on the novels by [[Len Deighton]], this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who learns that his own wife is an enemy spy. He continued to perform [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] in films. He appeared with [[Kenneth Branagh]] in ''[[Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V]]'' (1989) and as [[Polonius]] to [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1990). Holm was reunited with Branagh in ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (1994), playing the father of Branagh's [[Victor Frankenstein]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160505234311/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c457939 ''"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'' (1994)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>
In 1989, Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television series ''[[Game, Set and Match]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Television in 1989: BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1989/television |website=awards.bafta.org |access-date=21 June 2020 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102941/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1989/television |url-status=live }}</ref> Based on the novels by [[Len Deighton]], this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who finds a security leak at the heart of his network.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John |title=13 Hours' Worth of British Spying on the 'Mystery' Series |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/23/arts/review-television-13-hours-worth-of-british-spying-on-the-mystery-series.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 March 1989 |accessdate=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206101233/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/23/arts/review-television-13-hours-worth-of-british-spying-on-the-mystery-series.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He continued to perform [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] in films. He appeared with [[Kenneth Branagh]] in ''[[Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V]]'' (1989)<ref name="BFI Henry V">{{cite web |title=Henry V |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150333405 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=339343 |archive-date=3 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203224428/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150333405 |url-status=live }}</ref> and as [[Polonius]] to [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1990).<ref name="BFI Hamlet">{{cite web |title=Hamlet |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150342735 |publisher=BFI |ref=348471 |access-date=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206161623/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150342735 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Holm was reunited with Branagh in ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (1994), playing the father of Branagh's [[Victor Frankenstein]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160505234311/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c457939 ''"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'' (1994)"] [[British Film Institute]]. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>


[[File:Ian_Holm_studying_the_Ring_FOTR_2001.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Holm's fame increased markedly with his role as the Hobbit [[Bilbo Baggins]] in [[Peter Jackson]]'s 2001 blockbuster film ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. This has been said to have overshadowed the rest of his acting career.<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/>]]
[[File:Ian_Holm_studying_the_Ring_FOTR_2001.jpg|thumb|Holm as [[Bilbo Baggins]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. The role brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/>]]


Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the priest Vito Cornelius in [[Luc Besson]]'s sci-fi ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' and the lawyer Mitchell Stephens in ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''. In 2001 he starred in ''[[From Hell (film)|From Hell]]'' as the physician [[William Withey Gull|Sir William Withey Gull]].<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/> The same year, he followed up his radio role as Frodo by appearing as Frodo's older cousin<!--familiarly called "uncle"--> [[Bilbo Baggins]] in the blockbuster film ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. This brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/> He returned for ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003), for which he shared a [[Screen Actors Guild|SAG]] award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He later reprised his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in the movie ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]''.<ref name="BBC Holm Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Ian Holm |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=[[BBC]] |date=19 June 2020 |quote=he took the part of Frodo Baggins in BBC Radio 4's massive adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, which featured Holm alongside a host of other stars including Michael Hordern and Robert Stephens.}}</ref> [[Martin Freeman]] portrayed the young Bilbo in those films.<ref>Rodrigo Perez (2012) [https://www.indiewire.com/2012/12/review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-rallies-from-a-goofy-opening-to-become-another-thrilling-if-familiar-action-adventure-epic-103367/ "Review: ‘''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey''’ Rallies From A Goofy Opening To Become Another Thrilling, If Familiar, Action-Adventure Epic"] ''[[IndieWire]]''. Published 4 December 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>
Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the priest Vito Cornelius in [[Luc Besson]]'s sci-fi ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' and the lawyer Mitchell Stephens in ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''. In 2001 he starred in ''[[From Hell (film)|From Hell]]'' as the physician [[William Withey Gull|Sir William Withey Gull]].<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/> The same year, he followed up his radio role as Frodo by appearing as Frodo's older cousin<!--familiarly called "uncle"--> [[Bilbo Baggins]] in the blockbuster film ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. This brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.<ref name="BFI Holm Obit"/> He returned for ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003), for which he shared a [[Screen Actors Guild|SAG]] award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He later reprised his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in the movie ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]''.<ref name="BBC Holm Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Ian Holm |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=[[BBC]] |date=19 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619182212/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Martin Freeman]] portrayed the young Bilbo in those films.<ref>Rodrigo Perez (2012) [https://www.indiewire.com/2012/12/review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-rallies-from-a-goofy-opening-to-become-another-thrilling-if-familiar-action-adventure-epic-103367/ "Review: ‘''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey''’ Rallies From A Goofy Opening To Become Another Thrilling, If Familiar, Action-Adventure Epic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024183729/https://www.indiewire.com/2012/12/review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-rallies-from-a-goofy-opening-to-become-another-thrilling-if-familiar-action-adventure-epic-103367/ |date=24 October 2020 }} ''[[IndieWire]]''. Published 4 December 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>


Holm was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] twice, for a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] broadcast of a National Theatre production of ''[[King Lear]]'', in 1999; and for a supporting role in the [[HBO]] film ''[[The Last of the Blonde Bombshells]]'' opposite [[Judi Dench]], in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Holm |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/ian-holm |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=Television Academy}}</ref> He appeared in two [[David Cronenberg]] films: ''[[Naked Lunch (film)|Naked Lunch]]'' (1991) and ''[[eXistenZ]]'' (1999).<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog>Peter Bradshaw (2020) [https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-a-virtuoso-actor-of-steel-sinew-and-charm-peter-bradshaw-appreciation "Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charm"] ''[[The Guardian]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> He was [[Harold Pinter]]'s favourite actor: the playwright once said: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!"<ref>Brantley, Ben. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/theater/theater-review-talk-about-a-reality-show-a-pinter-classic-is-it.html THEATER REVIEW; Talk About a Reality Show. A Pinter Classic Is It] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305171034/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/theater/theater-review-talk-about-a-reality-show-a-pinter-classic-is-it.html |date=5 March 2016 }}. ''The New York Times'' 21 July 2001.</ref> Holm played Lenny in both the London and New York City premieres of Pinter's ''[[The Homecoming]]''.<ref name=BBCNews>[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 "Obituary: Ian Holm"] [[BBC News]]. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> He played [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] three times: in the television mini-series ''[[Napoleon and Love]]'' (1974), [[Terry Gilliam]]'s ''[[Time Bandits]]'' (1981), and ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film)|The Emperor's New Clothes]]''.<ref name=THR/> Holm received royal recognition for his contributions: he was made CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
Holm was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] twice, for a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] broadcast of a National Theatre production of ''[[King Lear]]'', in 1999; and for a supporting role in the [[HBO]] film ''[[The Last of the Blonde Bombshells]]'' opposite [[Judi Dench]], in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Holm |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/ian-holm |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=Television Academy |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622025314/https://www.emmys.com/bios/ian-holm |url-status=live }}</ref> He voiced Chef Skinner in the [[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille]]'' (2007).<ref name="Turner Filmography"/> He appeared in two [[David Cronenberg]] films: ''[[Naked Lunch (film)|Naked Lunch]]'' (1991) and ''[[eXistenZ]]'' (1999).<ref name=GuardianFilmBlog>Peter Bradshaw (2020) [https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-a-virtuoso-actor-of-steel-sinew-and-charm-peter-bradshaw-appreciation "Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620043717/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-a-virtuoso-actor-of-steel-sinew-and-charm-peter-bradshaw-appreciation |date=20 June 2020 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> His acting was admired by [[Harold Pinter]]: the playwright once said: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!"<ref>Brantley, Ben. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/theater/theater-review-talk-about-a-reality-show-a-pinter-classic-is-it.html THEATER REVIEW; Talk About a Reality Show. A Pinter Classic Is It] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305171034/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/theater/theater-review-talk-about-a-reality-show-a-pinter-classic-is-it.html |date=5 March 2016 }}. ''The New York Times'' 21 July 2001.</ref> Holm played Lenny in both the London and New York City premieres of Pinter's ''[[The Homecoming]]''; the BBC wrote that he "electrified audiences" in the play.<ref name=BBCNews>[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 "Obituary: Ian Holm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620154909/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 |date=20 June 2020 }} [[BBC News]]. Published 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref> He played [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] three times: in the television mini-series ''[[Napoleon and Love]]'' (1974), [[Terry Gilliam]]'s ''[[Time Bandits]]'' (1981), and ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film)|The Emperor's New Clothes]]''.<ref name=THR/> Holm received royal recognition for his contributions: he was made CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/>


== Personal life ==
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[[File:Holm, Ian 2020.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Holm's grave in [[Highgate Cemetery]] ]]
[[File:Holm, Ian 2020.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Holm's grave in [[Highgate Cemetery]] ]]


Holm was married four times:<ref name=holm>{{cite book |last=Holm |first=Ian |author2=Jacobi, Steven |title=Acting my Life |pages=220, 224, 313ff |location=London |publisher=Bantam Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-593-05214-3}}</ref> to Lynn Mary Shaw in 1955 (divorced 1965); to Sophie Baker in 1982 (divorced 1986); to the actress [[Penelope Wilton]], in [[Wiltshire]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220163304/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp|url-status=dead|title=England and Wales Marriages 1984–2005|archive-date=20 February 2009}}</ref> in 1991 (divorced 2002); and to the artist Sophie de Stempel in 2003. He had two daughters from his first marriage, a son from his second marriage, and a son and daughter from his 15-year relationship with photographer Bee Gilbert.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Telegraph Obituaries |date=19 June 2020 |title=Sir Ian Holm, gifted actor whose many films included Alien and The Lord of the Rings – obituary |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/19/sir-ian-holm-gifted-actor-whose-many-films-included-alien-lord/|access-date=19 June 2020|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
Holm was married four times:<ref name=holm>{{cite book |last=Holm |first=Ian |author2=Jacobi, Steven |title=Acting my Life |pages=220, 224, 313ff |location=London |publisher=Bantam Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-593-05214-3}}</ref> to Lynn Mary Shaw in 1955 (divorced 1965); to Sophie Baker in 1982 (divorced 1986); to the actress [[Penelope Wilton]], in [[Wiltshire]], in 1991 (divorced 2002); and to the artist Sophie de Stempel in 2003. He had five children.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/><ref name="Telegraph Obit">{{Cite news |author=Telegraph Obituaries |date=19 June 2020 |title=Sir Ian Holm, gifted actor whose many films included Alien and The Lord of the Rings – obituary |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/19/sir-ian-holm-gifted-actor-whose-many-films-included-alien-lord/ |access-date=19 June 2020 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=20 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620112745/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/19/sir-ian-holm-gifted-actor-whose-many-films-included-alien-lord/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


Holm and Wilton appeared together in the BBC miniseries ''[[The Borrowers (miniseries)|The Borrowers]]'' (1993). His last wife, Sophie de Stempel, was a protégée and a [[Model (art)|life model]] of [[Lucian Freud]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Portrait of the actor and his fourth wife |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/02/07/dp0701.xml |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 February 2004 |access-date=14 July 2008 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040630191135/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2004%2F02%2F07%2Fdp0701.xml |archive-date=30 June 2004}}</ref> as well as an artist in her own right.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sophie De Stempel |url=https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/artists/drawing-year-alumni/sophie-de-stempel/ |publisher=[[Royal Drawing School]] |access-date=26 January 2024}}</ref>
Holm and Wilton appeared together in the BBC miniseries ''[[The Borrowers (miniseries)|The Borrowers]]'' (1993). His last wife, Sophie de Stempel, was a protégée and a [[Model (art)|life model]] of [[Lucian Freud]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Portrait of the actor and his fourth wife |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/02/07/dp0701.xml |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 February 2004 |access-date=14 July 2008 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040630191135/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2004%2F02%2F07%2Fdp0701.xml |archive-date=30 June 2004}}</ref> as well as an artist in her own right.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sophie De Stempel |url=https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/artists/drawing-year-alumni/sophie-de-stempel/ |publisher=[[Royal Drawing School]] |access-date=26 January 2024 |archive-date=26 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126201732/https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/artists/drawing-year-alumni/sophie-de-stempel/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


Holm was treated for [[prostate cancer]] in 2001.<ref name=holm/> He was diagnosed with [[Parkinson's disease]],<ref name="Variety obit">{{cite web |last=Dagan |first=Carmel |date=19 June 2020 |title=Ian Holm, Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins, Dies at 88 |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ian-holm-dead-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-1234642549/ |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=Variety}}</ref><ref name="BBC obit">{{cite news |date=19 June 2020 |title=Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian Holm dies aged 88 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref name="Steeple Times">{{cite web |date=27 May 2019 |title=True Crime Stories: Baroness de Stempel (and family) |url=https://www.thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/true-crime-stories-baroness-de-stempel-and-family/ |access-date=19 June 2020 |website=The Steeple Times |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612092158/https://www.thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/true-crime-stories-baroness-de-stempel-and-family/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> and died in hospital in London on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite news |author=Pulver, Andrew |date=19 June 2020 |title=Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins |access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref> His ashes are interred on the western side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref name="Frommers">{{cite web |last1=Cochran |first1=Jason |title=Highgate Cemetery: Coffins, Catacombs, and Celebrities in London's Creepy Necropolis |url=https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848545-highgate-cemetery-coffins-catacombs-and-celebrities-in-london-s-creepy-necropolis |publisher=Frommer's |access-date=26 January 2024}}</ref>
He was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)]] in [[1989 Birthday Honours|1989]] by [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name="BFI Holm Obit">{{Cite web |title=Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/ian-holm-obituary-actor-many-facets |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=BFI |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214061357/https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/ian-holm-obituary-actor-many-facets |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BBC Obit">{{cite news |date=19 June 2020 |title=Sir Ian Holm: Lord of the Rings and Alien star dies aged 88 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |access-date=7 February 2021 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222040343/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Holm was treated for [[prostate cancer]] in 2001.<ref name=holm/> He was diagnosed with [[Parkinson's disease]] in 2007,<ref name="Variety obit">{{cite web |last=Dagan |first=Carmel |date=19 June 2020 |title=Ian Holm, Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins, Dies at 88 |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ian-holm-dead-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-1234642549/ |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=Variety |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619143304/https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ian-holm-dead-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-1234642549/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BBC obit">{{cite news |date=19 June 2020 |title=Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian Holm dies aged 88 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |access-date=19 June 2020 |work=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619124429/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Steeple Times">{{cite web |date=27 May 2019 |title=True Crime Stories: Baroness de Stempel (and family) |url=https://www.thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/true-crime-stories-baroness-de-stempel-and-family/ |access-date=19 June 2020 |website=The Steeple Times |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612092158/https://www.thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/true-crime-stories-baroness-de-stempel-and-family/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> and died in hospital in London on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite news |author=Pulver, Andrew |date=19 June 2020 |title=Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins |access-date=19 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619191759/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins |url-status=live }}</ref> His remains<!--ashes--> are interred on the western side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref name="Frommers">{{cite web |last1=Cochran |first1=Jason |title=Highgate Cemetery: Coffins, Catacombs, and Celebrities in London's Creepy Necropolis |url=https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848545-highgate-cemetery-coffins-catacombs-and-celebrities-in-london-s-creepy-necropolis |publisher=Frommer's |access-date=26 January 2024 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129213752/https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848545-highgate-cemetery-coffins-catacombs-and-celebrities-in-london-s-creepy-necropolis |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Filmography ==
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|<ref name=BFIFilmography>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef5e0ea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506032604/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef5e0ea |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 May 2016 |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref>
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| ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
| ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
| [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]]
| [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]]
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=A Midsummer Night's Dream |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150028931 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=37815 |archive-date=23 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023113203/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150028931 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| ''[[Shout at the Devil (film)|Shout at the Devil]]''
| ''[[Shout at the Devil (film)|Shout at the Devil]]''
| Mohammed
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| ''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]''
| ''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]''
| [[J. Bruce Ismay]]
| [[J. Bruce Ismay]]
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| ''[[Time Bandits]]''
| ''[[Time Bandits]]''
| [[Napoleon]]
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| ''[[Inside the Third Reich (film)|Inside the Third Reich]]''
| ''[[Inside the Third Reich (film)|Inside the Third Reich]]''
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| ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes|Greystoke:<br />The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]''
| ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes|Greystoke:<br />The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]''
| Capitain Philippe D'Arnot
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| ''[[Terror in the Aisles]]''
| ''[[Terror in the Aisles]]''
| Ash
| Ash
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|<ref>{{cite book|last=Lambie|first=Ryan|title=The Geek's Guide to SF Cinema|date=4 June 2019|isbn=978-1-4721-3985-6|location=London|oclc=1027484713|page=119}}</ref>
| <ref>{{cite book |last=Lambie |first=Ryan |title=The Geek's Guide to SF Cinema |publisher=Robinson |date=4 June 2019 |isbn=978-1-4721-3985-6 |location=London |oclc=1027484713 |page=119}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Browning Version (play)#Adaptations|The Browning Version]]''
| Andrew Crocker-Harris
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| ''[[Dreamchild]]''
| ''[[Dreamchild]]''
| [[Lewis Carroll|Charles L. Dodgson]]
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| ''[[Wetherby (film)|Wetherby]]''
| ''[[Wetherby (film)|Wetherby]]''
| Stanley Pilborough
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| ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]''
| ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]''
| Mr Kurtzmann
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| ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]''
| ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]''
| Desmond Cussen
| Desmond Cussen

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| ''Mr and Mrs Edgehill''
| ''Mr and Mrs Edgehill''
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=Mr & Mrs Edgehill |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150293829 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=291882 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206181646/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150293829 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| ''[[Kafka (film)|Kafka]]''
| ''[[Kafka (film)|Kafka]]''
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| ''[[The Madness of King George]]''
| ''[[The Madness of King George]]''
| [[Francis Willis (physician)|Dr. Francis Willis]]
| [[Francis Willis (physician)|Dr. Francis Willis]]
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| ''[[Loch Ness (film)|Loch Ness]]''
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| ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''
| ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''
| Mitchell Stephens
| Mitchell Stephens
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| ''[[The Fifth Element]]''
| ''[[The Fifth Element]]''
| Father Vito Cornelius
| Father Vito Cornelius
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| ''[[A Life Less Ordinary]]''
| ''[[A Life Less Ordinary]]''
| Naville
| Naville
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| ''[[Incognito (1998 film)|Incognito]]''
| ''[[Incognito (1998 film)|Incognito]]''
| John
| John
| Uncredited cameo
| Uncredited cameo
|<ref>{{cite web|last=Elley|first=Derek|date=17 November 1997|title=Incognito|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/incognito-2-1200451859/|access-date=20 June 2020|website=Variety}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web|last=Elley|first=Derek|date=17 November 1997|title=Incognito|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/incognito-2-1200451859/|access-date=20 June 2020|website=Variety|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020151233/https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/incognito-2-1200451859/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|rowspan=2| 1998
|rowspan=2| 1998
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| White Knight
| White Knight
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''King Lear''
| ''King Lear''
| Lear
| Lear
|
|
| <ref>{{cite web |title=King Lear |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150494139 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=495503 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206181648/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150494139 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| rowspan="5" |1999
| rowspan="5" |1999
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| Joseph Maguire
| Joseph Maguire
|
|
|<ref name="BFIFilmography" />
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Existenz|eXistenZ]]''
| ''[[Existenz|eXistenZ]]''
| Kiri Vinokur
| Kiri Vinokur
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Simon Magus (film)|Simon Magus]]''
| ''[[Simon Magus (film)|Simon Magus]]''
| Sirius/Boris/The Devil
| Sirius/Boris/The Devil
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Wisconsin Death Trip (film)|Wisconsin Death Trip]]''
| ''[[Wisconsin Death Trip (film)|Wisconsin Death Trip]]''
| Frank Cooper (voice)
| Frank Cooper (voice)
|
|
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Wisconsin Death Trip |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150544992 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=552009 |archive-date=7 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207013307/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150544992 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Match (1999 film)|The Match]]''
| ''[[The Match (1999 film)|The Match]]''
| Big Tam
| Big Tam
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=6| 2000
|rowspan=6| 2000
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| Joe Gould
| Joe Gould
|
|
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Gould's Secret |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150521317 |publisher=BFI |access-date=6 February 2024 |ref=529107 |archive-date=7 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207011800/https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150521317 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Miracle Maker (2000 film)|The Miracle Maker]]''
| ''[[The Miracle Maker (2000 film)|The Miracle Maker]]''
| [[Pontius Pilate]] (voice)
| [[Pontius Pilate]] (voice)
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Last of the Blonde Bombshells]]''
| ''[[The Last of the Blonde Bombshells]]''
| Patrick
| Patrick
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Esther Kahn]]''
| ''[[Esther Kahn]]''
| Nathan Quellen
| Nathan Quellen
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Beautiful Joe (film)|Beautiful Joe]]''
| ''[[Beautiful Joe (film)|Beautiful Joe]]''
| George The Geek
| George The Geek
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Bless the Child]]''
| ''[[Bless the Child]]''
| Reverend Grissom
| Reverend Grissom
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3| 2001
|rowspan=3| 2001
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| [[William Withey Gull|Sir William Gull]]
| [[William Withey Gull|Sir William Gull]]
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film)|The Emperor's New Clothes]]''
| ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film)|The Emperor's New Clothes]]''
| [[Napoleon]] / Eugene Lenormand
| [[Napoleon]] / Eugene Lenormand
|
|
|<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=The Emperor's New Clothes movie review (2002)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-emperors-new-clothes-2002|access-date=20 June 2020|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=The Emperor's New Clothes movie review (2002)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-emperors-new-clothes-2002|access-date=20 June 2020|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|archive-date=23 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623003429/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-emperors-new-clothes-2002|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Bilbo Baggins]]
|rowspan=2|[[Bilbo Baggins]]
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| 2003
| 2003
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3| 2004
|rowspan=3| 2004
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| Professor Terry Rapson
| Professor Terry Rapson
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]''
| ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]''
| Gideon Largeman
| Gideon Largeman
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''
| ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''
| Professor Fitz
| Professor Fitz
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3| 2005
|rowspan=3| 2005
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| Dr. Putney
| Dr. Putney
|
|
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Strangers with Candy (2005)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1152191_strangers_with_candy|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/><!--<ref>{{cite web |title=Strangers with Candy (2005) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1152191_strangers_with_candy |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>-->
|-
|-
| ''[[Chromophobia (film)|Chromophobia]]''
| ''[[Chromophobia (film)|Chromophobia]]''
| Edward Aylesbury
| Edward Aylesbury
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Lord of War]]''
| ''[[Lord of War]]''
| Simeon Weisz
| Simeon Weisz
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3| 2006
|rowspan=3| 2006
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| Jonas Muller (voice)
| Jonas Muller (voice)
|
|
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Renaissance |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/renaissance-2006 |publisher=MUBI |access-date=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206104408/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/renaissance-2006 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| ''[[O Jerusalem (film)|O Jerusalem]]''
| ''[[O Jerusalem (film)|O Jerusalem]]''
| Ben Gurion
| Ben Gurion
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Treatment (2006 film)|The Treatment]]''
| ''[[The Treatment (2006 film)|The Treatment]]''
| Dr. Ernesto Morales
| Dr. Ernesto Morales
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| 2007
| 2007
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| Chef Skinner (voice)
| Chef Skinner (voice)
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| 2012
| 2012
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|rowspan=2| Older Bilbo Baggins
|rowspan=2| Older Bilbo Baggins
|
|
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| 2014
| 2014
| ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
| ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
|Final film role
|Final film role
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|}
|}


=== Television ===
=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
! Year
! Year
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| Khrushchov/Oedipus
| Khrushchov/Oedipus
| 2 episodes
| 2 episodes
|<ref>{{cite web|title=King Oedipus|url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150213512|access-date=20 June 2020|website=BFI Collections Search}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BBC One – Play of the Month, The Wood Demon|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032khth|access-date=20 June 2020|website=BBC Programmes|date=17 November 1974 }}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=King Oedipus |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150213512 |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=BFI Collections Search |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621125147/http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150213512 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One – Play of the Month, The Wood Demon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032khth |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=BBC Programmes |date=17 November 1974 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621125030/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032khth |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
|1974
|1974
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| [[Napoleon I]]
| [[Napoleon I]]
| 9 episodes
| 9 episodes
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Napoleon and Love|website=Nostalgia Central|date=12 May 2004|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1970s/napoleon-and-love/|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Napoleon and Love |website=Nostalgia Central |date=12 May 2004 |url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1970s/napoleon-and-love/ |access-date=20 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622102743/https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1970s/napoleon-and-love/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
|1974–75
|1974–75
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|Wedderburn
|Wedderburn
|3 episodes
|3 episodes
|<ref name=Britannica>{{cite web|title=Ian Holm Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/factsIan-Holm|access-date=20 June 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref>
|<ref name=Britannica>{{cite web |title=Ian Holm Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/factsIan-Holm |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref>
|-
|-
|1975
|1975
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|David Garrick
|David Garrick
|Episode: Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington
|Episode: Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington
|<ref>{{cite news|date=8 July 1976|title=Private Affairs|pages=15|work=The Radio Times|issue=2748|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6f4d8aeeffc149b1a13f92ea0a40a320|access-date=20 June 2020|issn=0033-8060}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite news |date=8 July 1976 |title=Private Affairs |page=15 |work=The Radio Times |issue=2748 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6f4d8aeeffc149b1a13f92ea0a40a320 |access-date=20 June 2020 |issn=0033-8060 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622133117/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6f4d8aeeffc149b1a13f92ea0a40a320 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3|1977
|rowspan=3|1977
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| Duval
| Duval
|Television film
|Television film
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|''[[Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries)|Jesus of Nazareth]]''
|''[[Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries)|Jesus of Nazareth]]''
|Zerah
|Zerah
| Parts 1 & 2
| Parts 1 & 2
|<ref name=GuardianObit/>
|<ref name="Guardian Obit"/>
|-
|-
|''Jubilee''
|''Jubilee''
|Bill Ramsey
|Bill Ramsey
|Episode: Ramsey
|Episode: Ramsey
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Jubilee |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1977-05-22 |website=BBC Genome |access-date=6 February 2024 |date=22 May 1977 |quote=BBC One London |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206130303/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1977-05-22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
|rowspan=5|1978
|rowspan=5|1978
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| Walter Street
| Walter Street
| Episode: Night School
| Episode: Night School
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Night School|website=British Universities Film & Video Council|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/2906|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Night School |website=British Universities Film & Video Council |url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/2906 |access-date=20 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622065552/http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/2906 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Lost Boys (docudrama)|The Lost Boys]]''
| ''[[The Lost Boys (docudrama)|The Lost Boys]]''
| [[J. M. Barrie]]
| [[J. M. Barrie]]
| 3 episodes
| 3 episodes
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Banks-Smith |first=Nancy |title=Review: The Lost Boys |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=12 October 1978}}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]]''
| ''[[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]]''
| [[Heinrich Himmler]]
| [[Heinrich Himmler]]
| 2 episodes
| 2 episodes
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|<ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
| ''[[Les Misérables (1978 film)|Les Misérables]]''
| ''[[Les Misérables (1978 film)|Les Misérables]]''
| Thénardier
| Thénardier
| Television film
| Television film
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|''[[The Thief of Baghdad (1978 film)|The Thief of Baghdad]]''
|''[[The Thief of Baghdad (1978 film)|The Thief of Baghdad]]''
|The Gatekeeper
|The Gatekeeper
| Television film
| Television film
|<ref>{{cite web|title=The Thief of Baghdad (1978)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_thief_of_baghdad_1978|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=The Thief of Baghdad (1978) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_thief_of_baghdad_1978 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=20 June 2020 |archive-date=18 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918174934/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_thief_of_baghdad_1978 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
|rowspan=2|1979
|rowspan=2|1979
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| Himmelstoss
| Himmelstoss
| Television film
| Television film
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]''
|''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]''
|Bruce Ismay
|Bruce Ismay
|Television film
|Television film
|<ref>{{cite web|title=SOS Titanic – review|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fpg2gz/sos-titanic/|access-date=20 June 2020|website=Radio Times|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023121126/https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fpg2gz/sos-titanic/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=SOS Titanic – review |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fpg2gz/sos-titanic/ |access-date=20 June 2020 |website=Radio Times |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023121126/https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fpg2gz/sos-titanic/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1980
| rowspan="2" | 1980
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| Paul Pressett
| Paul Pressett
| Miniseries; 5 episodes
| Miniseries; 5 episodes
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
| <ref name="Turner Filmography"/>
|-
|-
|''[[The Misanthrope]]''
|''[[The Misanthrope]]''
|Alceste
|Alceste
|Television film
|Television film
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Festival: The Misanthrope |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1a2df1d2082497bbca8e8cb81777439 |website=BBC Genome |date=27 January 1980 |access-date=6 February 2024 |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601120048/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1a2df1d2082497bbca8e8cb81777439 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| 1981–2008
| 1981–2008
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| Narrator
| Narrator
| Television documentary
| Television documentary
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Horizon (1964)|website=Video Detective|date=2 May 1964|url=https://www.videodetective.com/show/horizon-1268|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=3 December 1981|title=Horizon: A Race Against Time|pages=43|work=The Radio Times|issue=3030|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ef1e666a7ed4b4587af551b9b252eb5|access-date=20 June 2020|issn=0033-8060}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Horizon (1964) |website=Video Detective |date=2 May 1964 |url=https://www.videodetective.com/show/horizon-1268 |access-date=20 June 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621115001/https://www.videodetective.com/show/horizon-1268 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=3 December 1981 |title=Horizon: A Race Against Time |pages=43 |work=The Radio Times |issue=3030 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ef1e666a7ed4b4587af551b9b252eb5 |access-date=20 June 2020 |issn=0033-8060 |archive-date=20 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620230017/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ef1e666a7ed4b4587af551b9b252eb5 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1982
| rowspan="2" | 1982
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| Michael Meade
| Michael Meade
| Television drama
| Television drama
| <ref>{{cite web |title=The Bell (1982) |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film830479.html |website=FilmAffinity |access-date=6 February 2024}}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
|''[[Play for Today]]''
|''[[Play for Today]]''
|Alexie
|Alexie
|Television play (episode: Soft Targets)
|Television play (episode: Soft Targets)
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Soft Targets |url=https://www.helen-mirren.net/projects/1982softtargets/ |publisher=[[Helen Mirren]] |access-date=6 February 2024 |date=19 October 1982 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206130303/https://www.helen-mirren.net/projects/1982softtargets/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name="BFIFilmography" />
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" | 1982
| rowspan="1" | 1982
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| Alan Corwin
| Alan Corwin
| Television play (episode: Death Can Add)
| Television play (episode: Death Can Add)
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Tales of the Unexpected — Season 5, Episode 10 Death Can Add |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tales_of_the_unexpected/s05/e10 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206121620/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tales_of_the_unexpected/s05/e10 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|<ref name=BFIFilmography/>
|-
|-
| 1985
| 1985
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| Narrator
| Narrator
| Television documentary series
| Television documentary series
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Howard |title=The Best and Worst of Television |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-19-ca-15161-story.html |access-date=5 February 2024 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=19 April 1985 |archive-date=5 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205092303/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-19-ca-15161-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Sir
Ian Holm
CBE
In Edinburgh, 2004
Born
Ian Holm Cuthbert

(1931-09-12)12 September 1931
Goodmayes, Essex, England
Died19 June 2020(2020-06-19) (aged 88)
London, England
Resting placeHighgate Cemetery
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active1957–2014
Spouses
  • Lynn Mary Shaw
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    ​
    (m. 1955; div. 1965)​
  • Sophie Baker
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    ​
    (m. 1982; div. 1986)​
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 1991; div. 2001)​
  • Sophie de Stempel
    ​
    (m. 2003)​
Children5
Awards

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 for services to drama.[1][2]

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 Awards for King Lear, 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 won a second BAFTA Award for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Dreamchild (1985), Henry V (1989), Naked Lunch (1991), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He played Napoleon in three different films. 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.

Early life and education

Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents, James Cuthbert and his wife Jean (née Holm). His father was a psychiatrist who worked as the superintendent of the West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital and was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy; his mother was a nurse.[3][4][5][6][7] He had an older brother, who died when Ian was 12 years old.[8] Holm was educated at the independent Chigwell School in Essex.[3][8] His parents retired to Mortehoe in Devon and then to Worthing, where he joined an amateur dramatic society.[9]

A chance encounter with Henry Baynton, a well-known provincial Shakespearean actor, helped Holm train for admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he secured a place from 1950.[3][10] His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for National Service in the British Army,[10] during which he was posted to Klagenfurt, Austria, and attained the rank of Lance Corporal. They were interrupted a second time when he volunteered to go on an acting tour of the United States in 1952.[9] Holm graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953.[3]

He made his stage debut in 1954, at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing a spear carrier in a staging of Othello.[11] Two years later, he made his London stage debut in Love Affair.[11]

Career

Holm was an established actor in the Royal Shakespeare Company before he gained notice in television and film. He began in 1954 with minor roles, progressing to Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the fool in King Lear.[10] In 1965, he played Richard III in the BBC serialisation of The Wars of The Roses, based on the RSC production of the plays. He gained acclaim for his role in the 1968 film The Bofors Gun, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[12] In 1969, he appeared in Moonlight on the Highway.[13] He took on minor roles in films such as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969),[14] Nicholas and Alexandra (1971),[15] Mary, Queen of Scots (1972)[16] and Young Winston (1972).[17]

In 1967 Holm won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Lenny in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Holm appeared in the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth as the Sadducee Zerah, and as the villain in March or Die. The following year he played J. M. Barrie in the award-winning BBC mini-series The Lost Boys,[18] In 1981, he played Frodo Baggins in the BBC radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[19]

Holm's first film role to gain much notice was that of Ash, the "calm, technocratic" science officer – later revealed to be an android – in Ridley Scott's science-fiction film Alien (1979).[20] His portrayal of the running coach Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981) earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival, a BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[20][21][22] In the 1980s, Holm played in Time Bandits (1981), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and Brazil (1985). He played Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, in Dreamchild (1985).[23][24]

In 1989, Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television series Game, Set and Match.[25] Based on the novels by Len Deighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who finds a security leak at the heart of his network.[26] He continued to perform Shakespeare in films. He appeared with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)[27] and as Polonius to Mel Gibson's Hamlet (1990).[28] Holm was reunited with Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), playing the father of Branagh's Victor Frankenstein.[29]

Holm as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The role brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.[1]

Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the priest Vito Cornelius in Luc Besson's sci-fi The Fifth Element and the lawyer Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter. In 2001 he starred in From Hell as the physician Sir William Withey Gull.[1] The same year, he followed up his radio role as Frodo by appearing as Frodo's older cousin Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. This brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.[1] He returned for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), for which he shared a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He later reprised his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.[10] Martin Freeman portrayed the young Bilbo in those films.[30]

Holm was nominated for an Emmy Award twice, for a PBS broadcast of a National Theatre production of King Lear, in 1999; and for a supporting role in the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells opposite Judi Dench, in 2001.[31] He voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007).[32] He appeared in two David Cronenberg films: Naked Lunch (1991) and eXistenZ (1999).[20] His acting was admired by Harold Pinter: the playwright once said: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!"[33] Holm played Lenny in both the London and New York City premieres of Pinter's The Homecoming; the BBC wrote that he "electrified audiences" in the play.[22] He played Napoleon Bonaparte three times: in the television mini-series Napoleon and Love (1974), Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits (1981), and The Emperor's New Clothes.[18] Holm received royal recognition for his contributions: he was made CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.[3]

Personal life

Holm's grave in Highgate Cemetery

Holm was married four times:[34] to Lynn Mary Shaw in 1955 (divorced 1965); to Sophie Baker in 1982 (divorced 1986); to the actress Penelope Wilton, in Wiltshire, in 1991 (divorced 2002); and to the artist Sophie de Stempel in 2003. He had five children.[3][35]

Holm and Wilton appeared together in the BBC miniseries The Borrowers (1993). His last wife, Sophie de Stempel, was a protégée and a life model of Lucian Freud,[36] as well as an artist in her own right.[37]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II.[1][2]

Holm was treated for prostate cancer in 2001.[34] He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2007,[38][39][40] and died in hospital in London on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88.[41] His remains are interred on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.[42]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1968 The Bofors Gun Flynn [12]
The Fixer Grubeshov [32]
A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck [43]
1969 Oh! What a Lovely War Raymond Poincaré [32]
1970 A Severed Head Martin Lynch-Gibbon [32]
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra Vasily Yakovlev [32]
Mary, Queen of Scots David Rizzio [32]
1972 Young Winston George E. Buckle [32]
1973 The Homecoming Lenny [32]
1974 Juggernaut Nicholas Porter [32]
1976 Robin and Marian King John [32]
Shout at the Devil Mohammed [32]
1977 March or Die El Krim [44]
1979 Alien Ash [32]
S.O.S. Titanic J. Bruce Ismay [32]
1981 Chariots of Fire Sam Mussabini [32]
Time Bandits Napoleon [32]
1982 The Return of the Soldier Doctor Anderson [32]
Inside the Third Reich Joseph Goebbels [45]
1984 Laughterhouse Ben Singleton [32]
Greystoke:
The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 		Capitain Philippe D'Arnot [32]
Terror in the Aisles Ash [46]
1985 Dreamchild Charles L. Dodgson [32]
Wetherby Stanley Pilborough [32]
Brazil Mr Kurtzmann [32]
Dance with a Stranger Desmond Cussen [32]
Mr and Mrs Edgehill Eustace Edgehill [47]
1988 Another Woman Ken Post [32]
1989 Henry V Fluellen [27]
1990 Hamlet Polonius [28]
1991 Naked Lunch Tom Frost [48]
Kafka Doctor Murnau [32]
1992 Blue Ice Sir Hector [32]
1993 The Hour of the Pig Albertus [49]
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Baron Alphonse Frankenstein [32]
The Madness of King George Dr. Francis Willis [32]
1996 Big Night Pascal [32]
Loch Ness Water Bailiff [32]
1997 Night Falls on Manhattan Liam Casey [32]
The Sweet Hereafter Mitchell Stephens [32]
The Fifth Element Father Vito Cornelius [32]
A Life Less Ordinary Naville [32]
Incognito John Uncredited cameo [50]
1998 Alice through the Looking Glass White Knight [32]
King Lear Lear [51]
1999 Shergar Joseph Maguire [32]
eXistenZ Kiri Vinokur [32]
Simon Magus Sirius/Boris/The Devil [32]
Wisconsin Death Trip Frank Cooper (voice) [52]
The Match Big Tam [32]
2000 Joe Gould's Secret Joe Gould [53]
The Miracle Maker Pontius Pilate (voice) [32]
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Patrick [32]
Esther Kahn Nathan Quellen [32]
Beautiful Joe George The Geek [32]
Bless the Child Reverend Grissom [32]
2001 From Hell Sir William Gull [32]
The Emperor's New Clothes Napoleon / Eugene Lenormand [54]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo Baggins [32]
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [32]
2004 The Day After Tomorrow Professor Terry Rapson [32]
Garden State Gideon Largeman [32]
The Aviator Professor Fitz [32]
2005 Strangers with Candy Dr. Putney [32]
Chromophobia Edward Aylesbury [32]
Lord of War Simeon Weisz [32]
2006 Renaissance Jonas Muller (voice) [55]
O Jerusalem Ben Gurion [32]
The Treatment Dr. Ernesto Morales [32]
2007 Ratatouille Chef Skinner (voice) [32]
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Older Bilbo Baggins [32]
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Final film role [32]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1972–74 BBC Play of the Month Khrushchov/Oedipus 2 episodes [56][57]
1974 Napoleon and Love Napoleon I 9 episodes [58]
1974–75 The Lives of Benjamin Franklin Wedderburn 3 episodes [59]
1975 Private Affairs David Garrick Episode: Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington [60]
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask Duval Television film [32]
Jesus of Nazareth Zerah Parts 1 & 2 [3]
Jubilee Bill Ramsey Episode: Ramsey [61]
1978 Do You Remember? Walter Street Episode: Night School [62]
The Lost Boys J. M. Barrie 3 episodes [63]
Holocaust Heinrich Himmler 2 episodes [32]
Les Misérables Thénardier Television film [32]
The Thief of Baghdad The Gatekeeper Television film [64]
1979 All Quiet on the Western Front Himmelstoss Television film [32]
S.O.S. Titanic Bruce Ismay Television film [65]
1980 We, the Accused Paul Pressett Miniseries; 5 episodes [32]
The Misanthrope Alceste Television film [66]
1981–2008 Horizon Narrator Television documentary [67][68]
1982 The Bell Michael Meade Television drama [69]
Play for Today Alexie Television play (episode: Soft Targets) [70]
1982 Tales of the Unexpected Alan Corwin Television play (episode: Death Can Add) [71]
1985 Television Narrator Television documentary series [72]
1986 Murder by the Book Hercule Poirot Television film [73]
1988 Game, Set and Match Bernard Samson 13 episodes [74]
1989 The Tailor of Gloucester The Tailor Television film [75]
1989 The Endless Game Control 2 episodes [76]
1991 Uncle Vanya Astrov BBC TV [77]
1992 The Borrowers Pod Clock 6 episodes [32]
1993 The Return of the Borrowers Pod Clock 6 episodes [32]
1999 Animal Farm Squealer (voice) Television film [78]
2003 Monsters We Met Narrator Television documentary [79]
2004 The Last Dragon Narrator Television film [80]
2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn Narrator Television documentary [81]
2009 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth Narrator 2 episodes [82][83]

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue Ref.
1954– Shakespeare plays multiple roles Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [10]
1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [84]
1959 King Lear The Fool Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [10]
1962 Troilus and Cressida Troilus Aldwych Theatre, London [84]
1965 Henry V Henry V Aldwych Theatre, London [84]
1966 Twelfth Night Malvolio Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [84]
1967 Romeo and Juliet Romeo Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [10]
1967 The Homecoming Lenny Music Box Theatre, Broadway [10]
1997 King Lear Lear Cottesloe Theatre, London [10]

Honours and accolades

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Ian Holm

Bibliography

  • Holm, Ian; Jacobi, Steven (2004). Acting my Life. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-05214-3.

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