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Ian Holm

Ian Holm Cuthbert began his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and went on to became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He is known for BBC's mini-series The Wars of the Roses, The Man from Haven, Napoleon and Love, Game Set and Match, and films including Alien (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Dreamchild (1985), Hamlet (1990), The Madness of King George (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), The Emperor's New Clothes (2001), and The Lord of the Rings franchise

Aliases
  • Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE
  • Sir Ian Holm
English
Filmography

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Old Bilbo

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Older Bilbo

The Last Art Film

2012
as Various

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

2009
as Storyteller

The Real Middle Earth

2007
as Narrator

Ratatouille

2007
as Skinner (voice)

The Treatment

2006
as Dr. Ernesto Morales

Renaissance

2006
as Jonas Muller

Strangers with Candy

2006
as Dr. Putney

Ô Jerusalem

2006
as Ben Gurion

The Queen of Trees

2005
as Narrator

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005
as Narrator

Lord of War

2005
as Simeon Weisz

Chromophobia

2005
as Edward Aylesbury

D-Day 6.6.1944

2004
as Narrator (voice)

Garden State

2004
as Gideon Largeman

Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real

2004
as Narrator

The Day After Tomorrow

2004
as Terry Rapson

The Aviator

2004
as Professor Fitz

The Beast Within: Making 'Alien'

2003
as Ash / Himself (archive footage)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003
as Bilbo Baggins

Prisoner of Paradise

2002
as Narrator

A Day in the Life of a Hobbit

2002
as Ian Holm

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Bilbo Baggins

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001
as Bilbo Baggins

From Hell

2001
as Sir William Gull

The Miracle Maker

2000
as Pontius Pilate

Joe Gould's Secret

2000
as Joe Gould

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000
as Patrick

Esther Kahn

2000
as Nathan Quellen

Bless the Child

2000
as Reverend Grissom

The Holocaust on Trial

2000
as Narrator

The Alien Legacy

1999
as Ian Holm

Wisconsin Death Trip

1999
as Narrator (voice)

eXistenZ

1999
as Kiri Vinokur

Animal Farm

1999
as Squealer (voice)

The Match

1999
as Big Tam

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1998
as White Knight

The Fifth Element

1997
as Father Vito Cornelius

The Sweet Hereafter

1997
as Mitchell Stephens

A Life Less Ordinary

1997
as Mr. Naville

Loch Ness

1996
as Water Bailiff

Night Falls on Manhattan

1996
as Liam Casey

Big Night

1996
as Pascal

Frankenstein

1994
as Baron Frankenstein

The Madness of King George

1994
as Dr. Willis

The Advocate

1993
as Albertus

The Return of the Borrowers

1993

The Borrowers

1992

Blue Ice

1992
as Sir Hector

Kafka

1991
as Dr. Murnau

Naked Lunch

1991
as Tom Frost

Uncle Vanya

1991

Hamlet

1990
as Polonius

Henry V

1989
as Captain Fluellen

The Endless Game

1989
as Control

Another Woman

1988
as Ken

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

1985
as Eustace Edgehill

Brazil

1985
as Mr. M. Kurtzmann

Wetherby

1985
as Stanley Pilborough

Dreamchild

1985
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

Laughterhouse

1985
as Ben Singleton

Television

1985

Dance with a Stranger

1985
as Desmond Cussen

The Cost of Treachery

1984
as Narrator

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano

1983
as Ian Holm

Soft Targets

1982
as Alexei

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Dr. Joseph Goebbels

The Return of the Soldier

1982
as Doctor Anderson

Time Bandits

1981
as Napoleon

Chariots of Fire

1981
as Sam Mussabini

Alien

1979
as Ash

S.O.S. Titanic

1979
as J. Bruce Ismay

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979
as Himmelstoss

The Lost Boys

1978
as J.M. Barrie

The Thief of Bagdad

1978
as The Gatekeeper

Les Misérables

1978
as Thénardier

Holocaust

1978
as Heinrich Himmler

March or Die

1977
as El Krim

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977
as Duval

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as Zerah

Robin and Marian

1976
as King John

Shout at the Devil

1976
as Mohammed

Juggernaut

1974
as Nicholas Porter

The Homecoming

1973
as Lenny

Young Winston

1972
as George E. Buckle

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971
as David Riccio

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971
as Yakovlev

A Severed Head

1970
as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as President Poincare

Moonlight on the Highway

1969
as David Peters

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1968
as Puck

The Bofors Gun

1968
as Flynn

The Fixer

1968
as Grubeshov

The Wars of the Roses

1965
as King Richard III

Horizon

1964
as Himself - Narrator

The Cherry Orchard

1962
as Trofimov

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

as Ian Holm

Korea: The Unknown War

as Narrator

Guest Star

Episode Natural World
The Queen of Trees 		2005
Episode Natural World
Hammerhead 		2004
Episode NOVA
Holocaust On Trial 		2000
Episode Natural World
Dolphins: The Wild Side 		1999
Episode Natural World
Manu: Amazon Paradise 		1998
Episode Natural World
Wings Over the Serengeti 		1997
Episode Natural World
Paracas and the Billion Dollar Bird 		1997
Episode Savage Skies
Fire and Rain 		1996
Episode Savage Skies
Riders on the Storm 		1996
Episode Savage Skies
Monsters of the Deep 		1996
Episode Savage Skies
The Winter's Tale 		1996
Episode Natural World
Sulawesi: an Island Bewitched 		1995
Episode Performance
The Deep Blue Sea 		1994
Episode Performance
Uncle Vanya 		1991
Episode Arena (1975)
The Fever 		1990
Episode Tuesday Documentary
Malta GC 		1982
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Death Can Add 		1982
Episode Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Trial for Murder 		1976
Episode The Frighteners
The Treat 		1972
Episode ITV Playhouse
Funny 		1971
Episode The Wednesday Play
Emma's Time 		1970
Episode ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Salesman 		1970
Episode Armchair Theatre
Edward the Confessor 		1969
Episode ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Moonlight on the Highway 		1969