Ian Holm
Acting
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 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 Award nominations for King Lear (1998), 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 a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). 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. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 12, 1931
Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Known For
Frankenstein
A version of the famous story in which Ian Holm plays both Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature he puts together from parts of dead bodies and brings to life in his laboratory.
The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses was a 1963 theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI & Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster & the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. The plays were adapted by John Barton, and directed by Barton himself & Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The plays were heavily politicized, with Barton and Hall allowing numerous contemporaneous events of the early 1960s to inform their adaptation. The production was a huge critical & commercial success, and is generally regarded as revitalizing the reputation of the Henry VI plays in the modern theatre. Many critics feel The Wars of the Roses set a standard for future productions of the tetralogy which has yet to be surpassed. The 1965 broadcast was so successful that they were shown again, as 11 episodes, each 50 minutes long, in 1966.
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes, personally selected by director Peter Jackson, this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
The Wars of the Roses
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The Frighteners
A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Alien
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Filmography
as Old Bilbo Baggins
as Old Bilbo Baggins
as Polonius (archive footage)
as Geschichtenerzähler
as Skinner (voice)
as Narrator
as Dr. Ernesto Morales
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Ben Gurion
as Dr. Putney
as Edward Aylesbury
as Narrator
as Simeon Weisz
as Narrator (voice)
as Professor Fitz
as Gideon Largeman
as Narrator (voice)
as Terry Rapson
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
as Sir William Gull
as Narrator
as Nathan Quellen
as Patrick
as Reverend Grissom
as George The Geek
as Pontius Pilate (voice)
as Joe Gould
as Squealer (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Big Tam
as Joseph Maguire
as Kiri Vinokur
as Himself - Narrator
as Sirius / Boris / The Devil
as White Knight
as Narrator
as King Lear
as John (uncredited)
as Mr. Naville
as Mitchell Stephens
as Cornelius
as Liam Casey
as Pascal
as Water Bailiff
as Don Mini
as Narrator (voice)
as Willis
as Sir William Collyer
as Baron Frankenstein
as (voice)
as The Tailor (voice)
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
as Albertus
as The Tailor (voice)
as Pod
as Sir Hector
as F.R. Leavis
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Christopher Waggoner
as Tom Frost
as Dr. Murnau
as Astrov
as Duff
as King Lear
as Sir William Collyer
as Astrov
as Polonius
as Lorenzo de' Medici
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as The Tailor
as Captain Fluellen
as Control
as Control
as Narrator
as Ken
as Bernard Samson
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Hercule Poirot
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
as Eustace Edgehill
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
as Stanley Pilborough
as Desmond Cussen
as Mr. Kurtzmann
as Narrator
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as F.R. Leavis
as Narrator
as Ben Singleton
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Doctor Anderson
as Alexei
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
as Lech Walesa
as Narrator
as Napoleon
as Sam Mussabini
as J. Bruce Ismay
as Alceste
as Himmelstoss
as Ash
as Alan Corwin
as Thénardier
as J.M. Barrie
as J.M. Barrie
as Heinrich Himmler
as The Man
as The Gatekeeper
as The Man
as J.M. Barrie
as El Krim
as Duval
as Zerah
as Mohammed
as King John
as Wedderburn
as Khrushchov
as Nicholas Porter
as Narrator
as Napoleon Bonaparte
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Lenny
as Gordon
as George E. Buckle
as Gordon
as David Riccio
as Yakovlev
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon
as Alexei
as Mark Lang
as President Poincare
as Edward Gobey
as Grubeshov
as Frankenstein / The Monster
as Puck
as Gunner Flynn
as Lenny (The Homecoming)
as Wolfe MacFarlane
as Dr Frankenstein / The Being
as Sefton Kemp
as Oedipus
as Khrushchov
as Alceste
as Narrator (voice)
as Richard
as King Richard III
as Narrator
as Trofimov
as Marine (uncredited)
as Edward Gobey
as Self - Winner
as Himmelstoss