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Sir Ian Holm is an Academy Award-nominated British film and stage actor who was a star of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and played more than 100 roles in films and on television. He was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on September 12, 1931, in Goodmayes, Essex, UK. His father, Doctor James Cuthbert, was a psychiatrist in the Essex mental asylum... See full bio »

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2014 The Hobbit: There and Back Again (post-production)
Old Bilbo
 
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (post-production)
Old Bilbo
 
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Old Bilbo
 
2009 1066 (TV series)
Storyteller
– The Last Battle (2009) … Storyteller (voice)
– Episode #1.1 (2009) … Storyteller (voice)
 
2007 Ratatouille (Video Game)
Skinner (voice)
 
2007 Ratatouille
Skinner (voice)
 
2006 O Jerusalem
Ben Gurion
 
2006 The Treatment
Dr. Ernesto Morales
 
2006 Renaissance
Jonas Muller (voice)
 
2005 Lord of War
Simeon Weisz
 
2005 Chromophobia
Edward Aylesbury
 
2005 Strangers with Candy
Dr. Putney
 
2004 The Aviator
Professor Fitz
 
2004 Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (TV movie)
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
 
2004 D-Day 6.6.1944 (TV movie)
Narrator (voice)
 
2004 The Day After Tomorrow
Terry Rapson
 
2004 Garden State
Gideon Largeman
 
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bilbo
 
2003 Days That Shook the World (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– Wright Brothers First Flight/Apollo Moon Landing (2003) … Narrator
 
2002 Spinning Wheels (short)
Hood thief
 
2002 Waterbaby (TV movie)
God (voice)
 
2002 The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– Murder for Hire (2002) … Narrator (voice)
 
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo Baggins
 
2001 From Hell
Sir William Gull
 
2001 The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
 
2000 Field of Fish (short)
Narrator/Old Tom Maynard
 
2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV movie)
Patrick
 
2000 Bless the Child
Reverend Grissom
 
2000 Beautiful Joe
George The Geek
 
2000 Esther Kahn
Nathan Quellen
 
2000 The Holocaust on Trial (TV documentary)
Narrator
 
2000 The Miracle Maker
Pontius Pilate (voice)
 
2000 Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould
 
1999 Animal Farm (TV movie)
Squealer (voice)
 
1999 Wisconsin Death Trip
Narrator (voice)
 
1999 The Match
Big Tam
 
1999 Shergar
Joseph Maguire
 
1999 Simon Magus
Sirius / Boris / The Devil
 
1999 eXistenZ
Kiri Vinokur
 
1999 Shanghai Vice (TV mini-series)
Narrator (voice)
 
1999 Gooseberries Don't Dance (short)
 
1998 Alice Through the Looking Glass (TV movie)
White Knight
 
1998 The Fifth Element (Video Game)
Priest Vito Cornelius (voice)
 
1991-1998 Performance (TV series)
Astrov / Duff / Lear / …
– King Lear (1998) … Lear
– Landscape (1995) … Duff
– The Deep Blue Sea (1994) … Sir William Collyer
– Uncle Vanya (1991) … Astrov
 
1998 Frog (short)
 
1997 Incognito
John (uncredited)
 
1997 A Life Less Ordinary
Naville
 
1997 The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stevens
 
1997 The Fifth Element
Father Vito Cornelius
 
1996 Night Falls on Manhattan
Liam Casey
 
1996 Loch Ness
Water Bailiff
 
1996 Big Night
Pascal
 
1996 The Gulf War (TV movie)
Narrator
 
1995 Little Red Riding Hood (TV movie)
Narrator (1995)
 
1994 The Madness of King George
Dr. Francis Willis
 
1994 Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
 
1993 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (TV series)
The Tailor
– The Tailor of Gloucester (1993) … The Tailor (voice)
 
1993 The Return of the Borrowers (TV series)
Pod
 
1993 Timewatch (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– Hunger Strike: A Hidden History (1993) … Narrator
 
1993 The Advocate
Albertus
 
1992 The Borrowers (TV series)
Pod
 
1992 Blue Ice
Sir Hector
 
1992 Screen Two (TV series)
F.R. Leavis
– The Last Romantics (1992) … F.R. Leavis
 
1991 Naked Lunch
Tom Frost
 
1991 Kafka
Doctor Murnau
 
1991 A Season of Giants (TV movie)
Lorenzo De Medici
 
1990 Hamlet
Polonius
 
1990 The Endless Game (TV movie)
Control
 
1989 Henry V
Captain Fluellen
 
1989 The Tailor of Gloucester (TV movie)
The Tailor
 
1989 Chillers (TV series)
– The Stuff of Madness
 
1988 Game, Set, and Match (TV series)
Bernard Samson
– London Match: Part 3 (1988) … Bernard Samson
– London Match: Part 2 (1988) … Bernard Samson
– London Match: Part 1 (1988) … Bernard Samson
– Mexico Set: Part 5 (1988) … Bernard Samson
– Mexico Set: Part 4 (1988) … Bernard Samson
See all 13 episodes »
 
1988 Another Woman
Dr. Ken Post
 
1986 Murder by the Book (TV movie)
Hercule Poirot
 
1985 Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV movie)
Eustace Edgehill
 
1985 Dreamchild
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
 
1985 Singleton's Pluck
Ben Singleton
 
1985 Dance with a Stranger
Desmond Cussen
 
1985 Wetherby
Stanley Pilborough
 
1985 Brazil
Mr. Kurtzmann
 
1985 The Browning Version (TV movie)
Andrew Crocker-Harris
 
1985 Television (TV series)
Narrator
 
1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
 
1982 Play for Today (TV series)
Alexei
– Soft Targets (1982) … Alexei
 
1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
Alan Corwin
– Death Can Add (1982) … Alan Corwin
 
1982 The Return of the Soldier
Doctor Anderson
 
1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV movie)
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
 
1982 The Bell (TV series)
Michael Meade
– Episode #1.4 (1982) … Michael Meade
– Episode #1.3 (1982) … Michael Meade
– Episode #1.2 (1982) … Michael Meade
– Episode #1.1 (1982) … Michael Meade
 
1981 Time Bandits
Napoleon
 
1981 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Reader
– Landseer: A Victorian Comedy (1981) … Reader
 
1981 Chariots of Fire
Sam Mussabini
 
1981 Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (TV movie)
Lech Walesa
 
1980 We, the Accused (TV mini-series)
Paul Pressett
 
1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV movie)
Himmelstoss
 
1979 S.O.S. Titanic (TV movie)
J. Bruce Ismay
 
1979 Alien
Ash
 
1978 Les Miserables (TV movie)
Thenardier
 
1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV movie)
The Gatekeeper
 
1978 The Lost Boys (TV mini-series)
J.M. Barrie
– An Awfully Big Adventure (1978) … J.M. Barrie
– Dark and Sinister Man (1978) … J.M. Barrie
– We Set Out to Be Wrecked (1978) … J.M. Barrie
 
1978 Do You Remember? (TV series)
Walter
– Night School (1978) … Walter
 
1978 Holocaust (TV mini-series)
Heinrich Himmler
– Part 4 (1978) … Heinrich Himmler
– Part 3 (1978) … Heinrich Himmler
 
1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV series)
– Flayed (1978)
 
1977 March or Die
El Krim
 
1977 Jubilee (TV series)
Bill Ramsey
– Ramsey (1977) … Bill Ramsey
 
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV mini-series)
Zerah
– Part 2 (1977) … Zerah
– Part 1 (1977) … Zerah
 
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV movie)
Duval
 
1976 Shout at the Devil
Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant
 
1976 Robin and Marian
King John
 
1975 Benjamin Franklin (TV mini-series)
Wedderburn
– The Rebel (1975) … Wedderburn
 
1972-1974 BBC Play of the Month (TV series)
Khrushchov / Oedipus
– The Wood Demon (1974) … Khrushchov
– King Oedipus (1972) … Oedipus
 
1974 Juggernaut
Nicholas Porter
 
1974 Napoleon and Love (TV mini-series)
Napoleon
– The End of Love (1974) … Napoleon
– Louise (1974) … Napoleon
– Maria Luisa (1974) … Napoleon
– Maria Walewska (1974) … Napoleon
– Eleonore (1974) … Napoleon
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1974 Masquerade (TV series)
Blake
– May We Come In? (1974) … Blake
 
1974 Great Mysteries (TV series)
Charles Stubbs
– Trial for Murder (1974) … Charles Stubbs
 
1973 The Homecoming
Lenny
 
1973 Conjugal Rights (TV mini-series)
Michael
– Michael and Jenny (1973) … Michael
– Charles and Paula (1973) … Michael
– Alan and Rosamund (1973) … Michael
 
1972 The Man from Haven (TV series)
Jack Byron Lever
– Episode #1.1 (1972) … Jack Byron Lever
 
1972 Young Winston
George E. Buckle
 
1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
David Riccio
 
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra
Yakovlev
 
1969-1971 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
Huw
– Funny (1971) … Huw
– Omri's Burning (1969)
 
1970 A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
 
1963-1970 Armchair Theatre (TV series)
Edward Gobey / Jamie Norton / Reverend P. Bagley
– The End of the Line (1970) … Reverend P. Bagley
– Edward the Confessor (1969) … Edward Gobey
– The Paradise Suite (1963) … Jamie Norton
 
1969-1970 ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV series)
David Peters / Salesman / Walter Bardell
– The Salesman (1970) … Salesman
– You See, the Thing Is... (1970) … Walter Bardell
– Moonlight on the Highway (1969) … David Peters
 
1970 The Wednesday Play (TV series)
Mark Lang
– Emma's Time (1970) … Mark Lang
 
1969 Oh! What a Lovely War
President Poincare
 
1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
 
1968 The Fixer
Grubeshov
 
1966-1968 Mystery and Imagination (TV series)
Frankenstein / MacFarlane / the monster
– Frankenstein (1968) … Frankenstein / the monster
– The Body Snatcher (1966) … MacFarlane
 
1968 The Bofors Gun
Flynn
 
1966 The Power Game (TV series)
Sefton Kemp
– 'Confound Their Politics' (1966) … Sefton Kemp
– Trade Secret (1966) … Sefton Kemp
– Persons and Papers (1966) … Sefton Kemp
– Late Via Rome (1966) … Sefton Kemp
 
1965 The Wars of the Roses (TV mini-series)
King Richard III / Richard Duke of Gloucester
– Richard III (1965) … King Richard III
– Edward IV (1965) … Richard Duke of Gloucester
 
1962 The Cherry Orchard (TV movie)
Trofimov
 
1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV movie)
Puck
 
1958 Girls at Sea (uncredited)
 
1957 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
Granillo
– Rope (1957) … Granillo
– The Wooden Dish (1957) … Granillo
 
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2000 Joe Gould's Secret (performer: "Nobody Knows When You're Down")
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1995 Treasures in Trust (TV documentary) (narrator)
 
Show ShowSelf (33 titles)
2012 The Last Art Film (documentary)
Various
 
1974-2008 Horizon (TV series documentary)
Himself - Narrator / Himself - Commentator
– Are We Alone in the Universe? (2008) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
– My Pet Dinosaur (2007) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
– We Are the Aliens (2006) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
– Bye Bye Planet Pluto (2006) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
– Most of Our Universe Is Missing (2006) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
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2007 Legends (TV series documentary)
Himself - Narrator
– Al Bowlly: The Very Thought of You (2007) … Himself - Narrator (voice) (as Sir Ian Holm)
 
2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn (TV documentary)
Narrator
 
2004 Breakfast (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 3 September 2004 (2004) … Himself
 
2004 Fragile Lives: Immunization at Risk (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
2002 Prisoner of Paradise (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
2002 A Day in the Life of a Hobbit (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' (video documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Quest for the Ring (TV documentary short)
Bilbo Baggins
 
2000 Nova (TV series documentary)
Himself / Narrator
– Holocaust on Trial (2000) … Himself/Narrator
 
1999 The Directors (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Films of Atom Egoyan … Himself
 
1999 Expedition Journal (TV series documentary)
Voice
– Leading the Way (1999) … Voice
 
1999 The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1998 Tale of the Tides: The Hyaena and the Mudskipper (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1997 Gomorron (TV series)
Himself
– Om filmen 'Det femte elementet' (1997) … Himself
 
1996 The Churchills (TV mini-series documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1995 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (TV documentary)
Narrator
 
1995 Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1995 The Seas of Zanzibar (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1994 Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom (TV documentary) (voice)
 
1993 Surprise Surprise! (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #10.1 (1993) … Himself
 
1992 Elizabeth R (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator
 
1991 Untitled 'Naked Lunch' Featurette (short)
Himself
 
1991 The Fever (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1990 Stalin (TV mini-series)
Narrator
 
1986-1989 Forty Minutes (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– The Kingdom of Fun (1989) … Narrator
– Dancing in the Rain (1986) … Narrator
– The Fishing Party (1986) … Narrator
– Cry for Home (1986) … Narrator
 
1988 Korea: The Unknown War (TV mini-series documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1979-1983 Chronicle (TV series documentary)
Himself - Narrator
– Life and Death in Ancient Egypt (1983) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
– The Incas (1979) … Himself - Narrator (voice)
 
1983 Arena (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) … Narrator (voice)
 
1983 Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (TV documentary)
Narrator
 
1980 Strike! (TV documentary)
 
1967 The 21st Annual Tony Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Winner: Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (11 titles)
2012 The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator (archive sound) (uncredited)
 
2011 Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator (archive sound) (uncredited)
 
2006-2010 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
 
2005 80s (TV series documentary)
 
2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Video Game)
Bilbo Baggins
 
2003 The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (video documentary)
Ash/Himself
 
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Video Game)
Bilbo Baggins
 
2002 The Unforgettable Joan Sims (TV special documentary)
 
2000 Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (TV documentary)
Ash
 
1999 The Alien Legacy (video documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Clay Pigeons
Ash - 'Alien' (uncredited)
 

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(1973) He starred in Bond's play, "The Sea," with Coral Browne, directed by Gaskill at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England. See more »

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Alternate Names:

Sir Ian Holm

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Personal Quote:

While shooting in Mexico, all conversation was dominated by bowels. During filming, if you'll pardon the expression, you're frightened to fart. See more »

Trivia:

Shares two roles with Christian Clavier. They have both played Thenardier from Les Miserables. Thenardier calls himself "The Sergreant of Napoleon," and even gives his tavern that name. Appropriately, Holm and Clavier have both played Napoleon himself. See more »

Trademark:

Rich , Affirmative Voice See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo