Ian Holm

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-09-12 (89 years old)

Deathday

2020-06-19

Place of Birth

Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK

Ian Holm

Biography

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. 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...

Acting

1997

The Fifth Element

as Cornelius

1985

Brazil

as Mr. Kurtzmann

2004

Garden State

as Gideon Largeman

2004

The Day After Tomorrow

as Terry Rapson

2007

Ratatouille

as Skinner (voice)

2001

From Hell

as Sir William Gull

1997

The Sweet Hereafter

as Mitchell Stephens

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

1999

Animal Farm

as Squealer (voice)

1991

Kafka

as Dr. Murnau

1990

Hamlet

as Polonius

2005

Lord of War

as Simeon Weisz

1999

eXistenZ

as Kiri Vinokur

2004

The Aviator

as Professor Fitz

2000

Bless the Child

as Reverend Grissom

1989

Henry V

as Captain Fluellen

1991

Naked Lunch

as Tom Frost

1976

Robin and Marian

as King John

1978

Les Misérables

as Thénardier

1984

2000

The Miracle Maker

as Pontius Pilate (voice)

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as President Poincare

1986

Murder by the Book

as Hercule Poirot

1988

1997

A Life Less Ordinary

as Mr. Naville

1977

March or Die

as El Krim

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Sam Mussabini

2006

1985

Dance with a Stranger

as Desmond Cussen

1970

Emma's Time

as Mark Lang

1974

Juggernaut

as Nicholas Porter

1985

Dreamchild

as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

1981

Time Bandits

as Napoleon

1999

Wisconsin Death Trip

as Narrator (voice)

2000

Esther Kahn

as Nathan Quellen

1971

A Severed Head

as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

1997

1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

as David Riccio

1992

Blue Ice

as Sir Hector

2006

Chromophobia

as Edward Aylesbury

1972

Young Winston

as George E. Buckle

2007

The Treatment

as Dr. Ernesto Morales

2012

1976

2006

O Jerusalem

as Ben Gurion

1996

Big Night

as Pascal

1996

Loch Ness

as Water Bailiff

1993

2001

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

1980

S.O.S. Titanic

as J. Bruce Ismay

1968

The Fixer

as Grubeshov

1984

Laughterhouse

as Ben Singleton

1958

Girls at Sea

as Marine (uncredited)

1998

1991

Uncle Vanya

as Astrov

1974

The Wood Demon

as Khrushchov

1962

1973

2000

Joe Gould's Secret

as Joe Gould

2005

2003

Prisoner of Paradise

as Narrator (voice)

1985

Wetherby

as Stanley Pilborough

1978

The Thief of Baghdad

as The Gatekeeper

1995

Landscape

as Duff

1983

The Return of the Soldier

as Doctor Anderson

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Polonius (archive footage)

1992

The Last Romantics

as F.R. Leavis

1957

Rope

as Granillo

1998

King Lear

as King Lear

1965

The Wars of the Roses

as King Richard III

2000

Beautiful Joe

as George The Geek

1990

A Season of Giants

as Lorenzo de' Medici

1994

The Deep Blue Sea

as Sir William Collyer

1999

Shergar

as Joseph Maguire

1992

1995

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Dr. Joseph Goebbels

1989

1963

The Paradise Suite

as Jamie Norton

1969

Edward the Confessor

as Edward Gobey

1969

1971

Funny

as Huw

1979

Alien

as Ash

1970

The End of the Line

as Reverend P. Bagley

2004

D-Day 6.6.1944

as Narrator (voice)

1968

Frankenstein

as Frankenstein / The Monster

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Polonius (archive footage)

1985

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

as Eustace Edgehill

2007

1982

Soft Targets

as Alexei

1980

The Misanthrope

as Alceste

1999

The Match

as Big Tam

1989

1985

The Browning Version

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

1978

The Lost Boys

as J.M. Barrie

1968

The Bofors Gun

as Gunner Flynn

1997

Incognito

as John (uncredited)

2003

The Beast Within: Making Alien

as (archive footage)

2005

1999

Simon Magus

as Sirius / Boris / The Devil

1971

1984

1989

1967

Opus

as Lenny (The Homecoming)

2004

The Last Dragon

as Narrator

1978

Flayed

as The Man

1986

Cry From Home

as Narrator

1986

1993

The Tailor of Gloucester

as The Tailor (voice)

1993

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)

1985

Visions of Power

as Narrator

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