S ir Ian Holm
"Bilbo Baggins"

 

Birth name: Ian Holm Cuthbert
Birthday: 12 September 1931
Birthplace: Goodmayes, England, UK

 

 

Ian Holm has had a long and illustrious career and the English can be proud of one of their finest actors. Born in 1931, Ian Holm attended the Chigwell Grammar school in Chigwell. After joining the Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts in 1950, Ian then went on to do Natioanal Service between 1953 and 1954. After joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid 50's he made his first broadway debut in 1967 and won his first BAFTA in 1968. Since then he has stared alongside many famous actors and actresses including Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis. He has married three times, has five children and was knighted in June 1998.

 

Filmography:

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
From Hell (2001)...Sir William Gull/Jack the Ripper
Emperor's New Clothes, The (2001)Napoleon 
                Bonaparte/Eugene Lenormand
Bless the Child (2000)...Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe (2000)...George The Geek
Esther Kahn (2000)...Nathan Quellen
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)...Joe Gould
Shergar (1999)...Joseph Maguire
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)...Narrator
Match, The (1999)...Big Tam
Simon Magus (1999/I)...Sirius/Boris/The Devil
eXistenZ (1999)...Kiri Vinokur
Less Ordinary, A (1997)...Naville
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)...Mitchell 'Mitch' Stephens
Fifth Element, The (1997)...Priest Vito Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)...Liam Casey
Big Night (1996)...Pascal
Loch Ness (1995)...Water Bailiff
Madness of King George, The (1994)...Dr. Willis
Frankenstein (1994)...Baron Frankenstein
Hour of the Pig, The (1993)...Albertus [Advocate, The (1993)]
Blue Ice (1992)...Sir Hector
Fever, The (1991) (voice)...Narrator
Naked Lunch (1991)...Tom Frost
Kafka (1991)...Doctor Murnau
Hamlet (1990)...Polonius
Henry V (1989)...Fluellen
Another Woman (1988)...Ken
Dance with a Stranger (1985)...Desmond Cussen
Dreamchild (1985)...Reverend Charles L. Dodgson [Lewis                     Carroll]
Wetherby (1985)...Stanley Pilborough
Brazil (1985)...Mr. M. Kurtzmann
Laughterhouse (1984)...Ben Singleton [Singleton's Pluck]
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)...     
                Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
Return of the Soldier, The (1982)...Doctor Anderson
Time Bandits (1981)...Napoleon
Chariots of Fire (1981)...Sam Mussabini
Alien (1979)...Ash
March or Die (1977)...El Krim
Robin and Marian (1976)...King John
Shout at the Devil (1976)...Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant
Juggernaut (1974)...Nicholas Porter
Homecoming, The (1973)...Lenny
Young Winston (1972)...George E. Buckle
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)...David Riccio
Severed Head, A (1971)...Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)...Yakovslev
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)...President Poincare
Bofors Gun, The (1968)...Flynn
Fixer, The (1968)...Grubeshov

Television:
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV)...Patrick
Miracle Maker, The (2000) (TV) (voice)...Pontius Pilate
51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The (1999) (TV)...King                     Lear
Animal Farm (1999) (TV) (voice)...Squealer
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV)...White Knight
King Lear (1997) (TV)...Lear Life
"Churchills, The" (1995) (mini) TV Series (voice)...Narrator
Deep Blue Sea, The (1994) (TV)...Sir William Collyer
Borrowers, The (1993) (TV)...Pod
Return of the Borrowers, The (1993) (TV)...Pod
Last Romantics, The (1991) (TV)
Season of Giants, A (1991) (TV)...[Michelangelo: The Last                     Giant]
Uncle Vanya (1991) (TV)...Astrov
Stalin (1990) (mini) TV Series...Narrator
Stuff of Madness, The (1990) (TV)
Endless Game, The (1990) (TV)...Control
Game, Set, and Match (1988) TV Series...Bernard Samson
Murder by The Book (1986) (TV)...Hercule Poirot
Television (1985) TV Series...Narrator
Browning Version, The (1985) (TV)...Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985) (TV)...Eustace Edgehill
Bell, The (1982) TV Series
Soft Targets (1982) (TV)...Alexei
Inside the Third Reich (1982) (TV)...Dr. Joseph Goebbels
We, the Accused (1981) (mini) TV Series...Paul Pressett
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981) (TV)
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)...Joseph Bruce Ismay (survived)
Lost Boys, The (1978) (mini) TV Series...J.M. Barrie
Miserables, Les (1978) (TV)...Thenardier
Thief of Baghdad, The (1978) (TV)...The Gatekeeper
Holocaust (1978) (mini) TV Series...Heinrich Himmler [Flayed] Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (mini) TV Series...Zerah
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1976) (TV)...Duval
Napoleon and Love (1974) (mini) TV Series...Napoleon
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) (TV)...Himmelstoss
Wood Demon, The (1974) (TV)
May We Come In? (1974) (TV)
Man from Haven, The (1972) TV Series
King Oedipus (1972) (TV)
Emma's Time (1970) (TV)
Moonlight on the Highway (1969) (TV)...David Peters
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1968) (TV)...Puck
War of the Roses (1966) (mini) TV Series...Richard III
Body Snatcher, The (1966) (TV)

 

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