Ian Holm
Highest Rated: 100% All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Lowest Rated: 4% Bless the Child (2000)
Birthday: Sep 12, 1931
Birthplace: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Considering his late arrival to the screen, the more than 100 films and television credits amassed by actor Sir Ian Holm was all the more impressive, given the breadth and inarguable quality displayed in his body of work. Trained on the stages of London, the talented thespian was initially seen in relatively minor roles in such films as "The Bofors Gun" (1968) and "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971). The reprisal of his Tony-winning role in the film adaptation of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming" (1973) boosted Holm's reputation among his peers, but did little to increase his modest exposure. His career in film reached an entirely new level, however, after he stunned audiences as a murderous android in the sci-fi horror classic "Alien" (1979), before endearing himself as a nurturing coach in "Chariots of Fire" (1981). An amazing array of performances followed in such efforts as "Time Bandits" (1981), "Brazil" (1985), "Naked Lunch" (1991), "Big Night" (1996) and "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997), all of which were recognized when Holm was knighted by the Queen of England in 1998 for his services in drama. Nearly 40 years into his film career and still going strong, the actor delivered one of his more beloved portrayals as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001). Whether playing a tortured soul, a caring patriarch or an eccentric madman, Holm inhabited each character with an ease that audiences, critics and his fellow actors could only marvel at.
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Ian Holm
Filmography
Movies
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59% |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo (Character) | $255.1M | 2014 |
64% |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo (Character) | $303.0M | 2012 |
96% |
|
Ratatouille | Skinner (Voice) | $206.4M | 2007 |
36% |
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O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion (Character) | $233.5K | 2006 |
50% |
|
Renaissance | Jonas Muller (Voice) | $63.3K | 2006 |
68% |
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The Treatment | Dr. Morales (Character) | $82.7K | 2006 |
51% |
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Strangers With Candy | Dr. Putney (Character) | $2.1M | 2005 |
62% |
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Lord of War | Simeon Weisz (Character) | $24.1M | 2005 |
31% |
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Chromophobia | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator | - | 2004 |
86% |
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Garden State | Gideon Largeman (Character) | $26.8M | 2004 |
87% |
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The Aviator | Professor Fitz (Character) | $102.6M | 2004 |
45% |
|
The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson (Character) | $186.7M | 2004 |
94% |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo (Character) | $377.8M | 2003 |
94% |
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Alien: The Director's Cut | Science Officer Ash (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lord of Rings 3 | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
82% |
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Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator | - | 2002 |
73% |
|
The Emperor's New Clothes |
Napoleon Bonaparte/ |
$569.4K | 2001 |
92% |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo Baggins (Character) | $315.5M | 2001 |
57% |
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From Hell | Sir William Gull (Character) | $31.6M | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (Voice) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick (Character) | - | 2000 |
54% |
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Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen (Character) | $9.3K | 2000 |
60% |
|
Beautiful Joe | George The Geek (Character) | - | 2000 |
4% |
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Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom (Character) | $29.4M | 2000 |
65% |
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Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould (Character) | $641.1K | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Animal Farm | Squealer (Voice) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Shergar | Joseph Maguire (Character) | - | 1999 |
75% |
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eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur (Character) | $2.8M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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The Match | Big Tam (Character) | - | 1999 |
63% |
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Simon Magus | Sirius (Character) | $38.2K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King Lear | Lear (Character) | - | 1998 |
33% |
|
Incognito | John (Character) | - | 1997 |
41% |
|
A Life Less Ordinary | Naville (Character) | $4.3M | 1997 |
98% |
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The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell (Character) | $4.4M | 1997 |
71% |
|
The Fifth Element | Father Vito Cornelius (Character) | $63.7M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Loch Ness | Water Bailiff (Character) | - | 1996 |
72% |
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Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey (Character) | $9.9M | 1996 |
97% |
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Big Night | Pascal (Character) | $12.0M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod (Character) | - | 1996 |
94% |
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The Madness of King George | Dr. Willis (Character) | $15.2M | 1994 |
42% |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein (Character) | $22.0M | 1994 |
80% |
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The Advocate | Albertus (Character) | $231.0K | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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The Borrowers | Pod (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Blue Ice | Sir Hector (Character) | - | 1992 |
72% |
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Naked Lunch | Tom Frost (Character) | $2.2M | 1991 |
52% |
|
Kafka | Doctor Murnau (Character) | $57.6K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo De Medici (Character) | - | 1991 |
76% |
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Hamlet | Polonius (Character) | $18.2M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Endless Game | Control (Character) | - | 1990 |
98% |
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Henry V | Fluellen (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
59% |
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Another Woman | Dr. Ken Post (Character) | $499.5K | 1988 |
100% |
|
Dreamchild |
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / |
$38.5K | 1985 |
67% |
|
Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough (Character) | $1.1M | 1985 |
91% |
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Dance With a Stranger | Desmond Cussen (Character) | $2.3M | 1985 |
98% |
|
Brazil | Mr. M. Kurtzmann (Character) | $3.7M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Singleton's Pluck | Ben Singleton (Character) | - | 1984 |
73% |
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laughter House | Ben Singleton (Character) | - | 1984 |
84% |
|
Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini (Character) | - | 1981 |
91% |
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Time Bandits | Napoleon (Character) | - | 1981 |
100% |
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All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss (Character) | - | 1979 |
93% |
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Alien | Science Officer Ash (Character) | $82.6M | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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March or Die | El Krim (Character) | - | 1977 |
50% |
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Shout at the Devil | Mohammed (Character) | - | 1976 |
73% |
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Robin and Marian | King John (Character) | - | 1976 |
80% |
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Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter (Character) | - | 1974 |
86% |
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The Homecoming | Lenny (Character) | - | 1973 |
50% |
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Young Winston | George E. Buckle (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon (Character) | - | 1971 |
67% |
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Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio (Character) | - | 1971 |
75% |
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Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck (Character) | - | 1968 |
56% |
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The Fixer | Grubeshov (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bofors Gun | Flynn (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Opus | Lenny (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cherry Orchard | Piotr Sergeyevich Trofimov (Character) | - | 1962 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Borrowers | Pod (Character) | 1992-1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Alan Corwin (Character) | 1982 |