Ian Holm
Born in Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK — Sep 12 1931• Died Jun 19 2020
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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…
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NOVA
Narrator
Horizon
Narrator
Play for Today
Alexei
BBC Play of the Month
Oedipus
Tales of the Unexpected
Alan Corwin
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo
Natural World
Narrator
Screen Two
F.R. Leavis
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Old Bilbo Baggins
Alien
Ash
Performance
Duff
Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
Legends
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo Baggins
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Man
The Fifth Element
Cornelius
Mystery and Imagination
Wolfe MacFarlane
Jesus of Nazareth
Zerah
Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
Chillers
Christopher Waggoner
The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
The Aviator
Professor Fitz
Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
40 Minutes
Narrator
The Power Game
Sefton Kemp
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Himmelstoss
Jubilee 1977
Bill Ramsey
eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
From Hell
Sir William Gull
Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
The Frighteners
Gordon
Game, Set, and Match
Bernard Samson
The Borrowers
Pod
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tailor (voice)
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
Garden State
Gideon Largeman
Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
The Return of the Borrowers
Pod
Henry V
Captain Fluellen
Big Night
Pascal
Time Bandits
Napoleon
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Television
Self - Narrator (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Kafka
Dr. Murnau
Young Winston
George E. Buckle
Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
Hamlet
Polonius
Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
Armchair Theatre
Edward Gobey
Animal Farm
Squealer (voice)
The Bell
Michael Meade
Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
S.O.S. Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay
Les Misérables
Thénardier
Another Woman
Ken
All Quiet on the Western Front
Himmelstoss
Survival
Blue Ice
Sir Hector
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Wedderburn
Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stephens
The Wars of the Roses
Richard
March or Die
El Krim
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Geschichtenerzähler
Discovering Hamlet
Polonius (archive footage)
Robin and Marian
King John
The Homecoming
Lenny
Monsters We Met
Narrator
Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
The Thief of Baghdad
The Gatekeeper
The Match
Big Tam
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
Laughterhouse
Ben Singleton
Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
A Life Less Ordinary
Mr. Naville
Incognito
John (uncredited)
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duval
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White Knight
Shanghai Vice
Himself - Narrator
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
The Fixer
Grubeshov
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
Korea: The Unknown War
Narrator (voice)
Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
The Madness of King George
Willis
Funny
Huw
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
The Endless Game
Control
Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
D-Day 6.6.1944
Narrator (voice)
The Hour of the Pig
Albertus
Opus
Lenny (The Homecoming)
Secret Agent
Narrator
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Patrick
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Wood Demon
Khrushchov
The Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
Shergar
Joseph Maguire
King Lear
King Lear
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Narrator (voice)
The Last Romantics
F.R. Leavis
Landscape
Duff
Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
Girls at Sea
Marine (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Hood
Don Mini
Frankenstein
Frankenstein / The Monster
The Wars of the Roses
King Richard III
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
Narrator
Rope
Granillo
The Bofors Gun
Gunner Flynn
Shout at the Devil
Mohammed
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Eustace Edgehill
Soft Targets
Alexei
The Endless Game
Control
A Season of Giants
Lorenzo de' Medici
The Treat
Gordon
Flayed
The Man
Moonlight on the Highway
The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor
A Little Fish in Deep Water
Narrator
The Queen of Trees
Narrator
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Ramsey
Bill Ramsey
Edward the Confessor
Edward Gobey
The Kingdom of Fun
Narrator
The End of the Line
Reverend P. Bagley
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
(voice)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Narrator (voice)
The Salesman
Salesman
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Mr. Garrick
Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
The Misanthrope
Alceste
Omri's Burning
Omri
The Cost of Treachery
Narrator
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Prisoner of Paradise
Narrator (voice)
The Paradise Suite
Jamie Norton
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor (voice)
Bloody Sunday
Narrator
Cry From Home
Narrator
Emma's Time
Mark Lang
Murder by the Book
Hercule Poirot
The Real Middle Earth
Narrator
Tale of the Tides
Narrator
The Fishing Party
Narrator
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Narrator (voice)
Visions of Power
Narrator
Children in Crossfire
Narrator
Chappaquiddick
Narrator