
Ian Holm
Highest Rated: 100% All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Lowest Rated: 3% 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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Filmography
Movies
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59% | 74% | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo (Character) | $255.1M | 2014 |
64% | 83% | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo (Character) | $303M | 2012 |
96% | 87% | Ratatouille | Skinner (Voice) | $206.4M | 2007 |
49% | 59% | Renaissance | Jonas Muller (Voice) | $63.3K | 2006 |
68% | 33% | The Treatment | Dr. Morales (Character) | $82.7K | 2006 |
35% | 60% | O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion (Character) | $233.5K | 2006 |
61% | 84% | Lord of War | Simeon Weisz (Character) | $24.1M | 2005 |
31% | 53% | Chromophobia | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
51% | 55% | Strangers With Candy | Dr. Putney (Character) | $2.1M | 2005 |
45% | 50% | The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson (Character) | $186.7M | 2004 |
86% | 88% | Garden State | Gideon Largeman (Character) | $26.8M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator | - | 2004 |
86% | 79% | The Aviator | Professor Fitz (Character) | $102.6M | 2004 |
93% | 86% | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo (Character) | $377.8M | 2003 |
82% | 76% | Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator | - | 2002 |
91% | 95% | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo Baggins (Character) | $315.5M | 2001 |
73% | 63% | The Emperor's New Clothes |
Napoleon Bonaparte/ |
$569.4K | 2001 |
57% | 66% | From Hell | Sir William Gull (Character) | $31.6M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 79% | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 86% | The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (Voice) | - | 2000 |
60% | 38% | Beautiful Joe | George The Geek (Character) | - | 2000 |
3% | 43% | Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom (Character) | $29.4M | 2000 |
52% | 63% | Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen (Character) | $9.3K | 2000 |
65% | 63% | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould (Character) | $641.1K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Shergar | Joseph Maguire (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 52% | The Match | Big Tam (Character) | - | 1999 |
40% | 38% | Animal Farm | Squealer (Voice) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight (Character) | - | 1999 |
63% | 68% | Simon Magus | Sirius (Character) | $38.2K | 1999 |
74% | 69% | eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur (Character) | $2.8M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King Lear | Lear (Character) | - | 1998 |
98% | 86% | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell (Character) | $4.4M | 1997 |
33% | 60% | Incognito | John (Character) | - | 1997 |
41% | 59% | A Life Less Ordinary | Naville (Character) | $4.3M | 1997 |
71% | 86% | The Fifth Element | Father Vito Cornelius (Character) | $63.7M | 1997 |
96% | 84% | Big Night | Pascal (Character) | $12M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod (Character) | - | 1996 |
69% | 66% | Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey (Character) | $9.9M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Loch Ness | Water Bailiff (Character) | - | 1996 |
38% | 49% | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein (Character) | $22M | 1994 |
93% | 80% | The Madness of King George | Dr. Willis (Character) | $15.2M | 1994 |
75% | 53% | The Advocate | Albertus (Character) | $231K | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Borrowers | Pod (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 32% | Blue Ice | Sir Hector (Character) | - | 1992 |
52% | 72% | Kafka | Doctor Murnau (Character) | $57.6K | 1991 |
69% | 77% | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost (Character) | $2.2M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo De Medici (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Endless Game | Control (Character) | - | 1990 |
76% | 59% | Hamlet | Polonius (Character) | $18.2M | 1990 |
100% | 89% | Henry V | Fluellen (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
64% | 75% | Another Woman | Dr. Ken Post (Character) | $499.5K | 1988 |
91% | 70% | Dance With a Stranger | Desmond Cussen (Character) | $2.3M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill (Character) | - | 1985 |
67% | 45% | Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough (Character) | $1.1M | 1985 |
98% | 90% | Brazil | Mr. M. Kurtzmann (Character) | $3.7M | 1985 |
100% | 80% | Dreamchild |
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / |
$38.5K | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Singleton's Pluck | Ben Singleton (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laughter House | Ben Singleton (Character) | - | 1984 |
73% | 60% | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot (Character) | - | 1984 |
90% | 77% | Time Bandits | Napoleon (Character) | - | 1981 |
82% | 80% | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini (Character) | - | 1981 |
98% | 94% | Alien | Science Officer Ash (Character) | $81.1M | 1979 |
100% | 69% | All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | 65% | The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 48% | March or Die | El Krim (Character) | - | 1977 |
73% | 53% | Robin and Marian | King John (Character) | - | 1976 |
50% | 33% | Shout at the Devil | Mohammed (Character) | - | 1976 |
83% | 56% | Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter (Character) | - | 1974 |
100% | 82% | The Homecoming | Lenny (Character) | - | 1973 |
50% | 52% | Young Winston | George E. Buckle (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon (Character) | - | 1971 |
80% | 56% | Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio (Character) | - | 1971 |
79% | 72% | Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bofors Gun | Flynn (Character) | - | 1968 |
56% | 62% | The Fixer | Grubeshov (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 53% | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Opus | Lenny (Character) | - | 1967 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chillers | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown (Character) | 1982 |
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