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Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor who was knighted in 1998 for his contributions to theatre and film. Beginning his career on the British stage as a standout member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he later transitioned into a successful and prolific screen career. On film he portrayed a variety of both supporting and leading characters, earning critical acclaim and many accolades in the process.[1][2]

Sir Ian Holm CBE
Holm in Edinburgh in 2004
Born	Ian Holm Cuthbert (1931-09-12)12 September 1931 Goodmayes, Essex, England
Died	19 June 2020(2020-06-19) (aged 88) London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–2014
Spouses	Lynn Mary Shaw ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1965)​ Sophie Baker ​ ​ (m. 1982; div. 1986)​ Penelope Wilton ​ ​ (m. 1991; div. 2001)​ Sophie de Stempel ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	5
Awards	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role: 1969 The Bofors Gun 1981 Chariots of Fire Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play: 1967 The Homecoming Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor: 1998 King Lear

Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, winning Best Actor in a Supporting Role twice for The Bofors Gun (his film debut) and Chariots of Fire (as a running coach). His latter performance as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini was also nominated for an Academy Award.

His other well-known film roles include Ash in Alien, Mr Kurtzmann in Brazil, Francis Willis in The Madness of King George, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter, the voice of Chef Skinner in Ratatouille, and elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989.

Early life and education

Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents, James Harvey Cuthbert and his wife Jean Wilson (née Holm).[3] His father was a psychiatrist who worked as the superintendent of the West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital and was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy; his mother was a nurse.[4][5][6][7] He had an older brother, who died when Ian was 12 years old.[8] Holm was educated at the independent Chigwell School in Essex.[8][9] His parents retired to Mortehoe in Devon and then to Worthing, where he joined an amateur dramatic society.[10]

A chance encounter with Henry Baynton, a well-known provincial Shakespearean actor, helped Holm train for admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he secured a place from 1950.[9][11] His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for National Service in the British Army,[11] during which he was posted to Klagenfurt, Austria, and attained the rank of Lance Corporal. They were interrupted a second time when he volunteered to go on an acting tour of the United States in 1952.[10] Holm graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953.[9]

He made his stage debut in 1954, at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing a spear-carrier in a staging of Othello.[12] Two years later, he made his London stage debut in Love Affair.[12]

Career

Holm was an established star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before gaining notice in television and film. In 1965, he played Richard III in the BBC serialisation of The Wars of The Roses, based on the RSC production of the plays. In 1969, he appeared in Moonlight on the Highway.[13] He appeared in minor roles in films such as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969),[14] Nicholas and Alexandra (1971),[15] Mary, Queen of Scots (1972)[16] and Young Winston (1972).[17]

In 1967 Holm won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Lenny in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. In 1977, Holm appeared in the television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth as the Sadducee Zerah, and a villainous Moroccan in March or Die. The following year he played J. M. Barrie in the award-winning BBC mini-series The Lost Boys,[18] In 1981, he played Frodo Baggins in the BBC radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[19]

Holm's first film role to gain much notice was that of Ash, the "calm, technocratic" science officer in Ridley Scott's science-fiction film Alien (1979).[20] His portrayal of the running coach Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981) earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival, a BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[20][21][22] In the 1980s, Holm had memorable roles in Time Bandits (1981), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and Brazil (1985). He played Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, in Dreamchild (1985).[23][24]

In 1989, Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television series Game, Set and Match. Based on the novels by Len Deighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who learns that his own wife is an enemy spy. He also continued to perform Shakespeare in films. He appeared with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989) and as Polonius to Mel Gibson's Hamlet (1990). Holm was reunited with Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), playing the father of Branagh's Victor Frankenstein.[25]

Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the priest Vito Cornelius in Luc Besson's sci-fi The Fifth Element and lawyer Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter. In 2001 he starred in From Hell as the physician Sir William Withey Gull. The same year, he appeared as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, having previously played Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. He returned for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), for which he shared a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He later reprised his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.[11] Martin Freeman portrayed the young Bilbo Baggins in those films.[26]

Holm was nominated for an Emmy Award twice, for a PBS broadcast of a National Theatre production of King Lear, in 1999; and for a supporting role in the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells opposite Judi Dench, in 2001.[27] He appeared in two David Cronenberg films: Naked Lunch (1991) and eXistenZ (1999).[20] He was Harold Pinter's favourite actor: the playwright once said: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!"[28] Holm played Lenny in both the London and New York City premieres of Pinter's The Homecoming.[22] He played Napoleon Bonaparte three times: in the television mini-series Napoleon and Love (1974), Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits (1981), and The Emperor's New Clothes.[18]

Holm also received royal recognition for his contributions: He was made CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.[9]

Personal life

Holm was married four times:[29] to Lynn Mary Shaw in 1955 (divorced 1965); to Sophie Baker in 1982 (divorced 1986); to actress Penelope Wilton, in Wiltshire,[30] in 1991 (divorced 2002); and to the artist Sophie de Stempel in 2003. He had two daughters from his first marriage, a son from his second marriage, and a son and daughter from his 15-year relationship with photographer Bee Gilbert.[31]

Holm and Wilton appeared together in the BBC miniseries The Borrowers (1993). His last wife, Sophie de Stempel, is a protégée and was a life model of Lucian Freud,[32] as well as an artist in her own right.

Death

Holm was treated for prostate cancer in 2001[29] and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.[33][34][35] He died in hospital in London on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88.[36] His ashes are interred on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1968	The Bofors Gun	Flynn		[37]
	The Fixer	Grubeshov		[37]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck		[37]
1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Raymond Poincaré		[37]
1970	A Severed Head	Martin Lynch-Gibbon		[37]
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Vasily Yakovlev		[37]
	Mary, Queen of Scots	David Rizzio		[37]
1972	Young Winston	George E. Buckle		[37]
1973	The Homecoming	Lenny		[37]
1974	Juggernaut	Nicholas Porter		[37]
1976	Robin and Marian	King John		[37]
	Shout at the Devil	Mohammed		[37]
1977	March or Die	El Krim		[37]
1979	Alien	Ash		[37]
	S.O.S. Titanic	J. Bruce Ismay		[37]
1981	Chariots of Fire	Sam Mussabini		[37]
	Time Bandits	Napoleon		[37]
1982	The Return of the Soldier	Doctor Anderson		[37]
	Inside the Third Reich	Joseph Goebbels		[37]
1984	Laughterhouse	Ben Singleton		[37]
	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Capitain Philippe D'Arnot		[37]
	Terror in the Aisles	Ash		[38]
1985	The Browning Version	Andrew Crocker-Harris		[37]
	Dreamchild	Charles L. Dodgson		[37]
	Wetherby	Stanley Pilborough		[37]
	Brazil	Mr Kurtzmann		[37]
	Dance with a Stranger	Desmond Cussen		[37]
	Mr and Mrs Edgehill	Eustace Edgehill		[37]
1988	Another Woman	Ken Post		[37]
1989	Henry V	Fluellen		[37]
1990	Hamlet	Polonius		[39]
1991	Naked Lunch	Tom Frost		[37]
	Kafka	Doctor Murnau		[37]
1992	Blue Ice	Sir Hector		[37]
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Albertus		[37]
1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Baron Alphonse Frankenstein		[37]
	The Madness of King George	Dr. Francis Willis		[37]
1996	Big Night	Pascal		[37]
	Loch Ness	Water Bailiff		[37]
1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Liam Casey		[37]
	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens		[37]
	The Fifth Element	Father Vito Cornelius		[37]
	A Life Less Ordinary	Naville		[37]
	Incognito	John	Uncredited cameo	[40]
1998	Alice through the Looking Glass	White Knight		[37]
	King Lear	Lear		[37]
1999	Shergar	Joseph Maguire		[37]
	eXistenZ	Kiri Vinokur		[37]
	Simon Magus	Sirius/Boris/The Devil		[37]
	Wisconsin Death Trip	Frank Cooper (voice)		[37]
	The Match	Big Tam		[37]
2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Gould		[37]
	The Miracle Maker	Pontius Pilate (voice)		[37]
	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Patrick		[37]
	Esther Kahn	Nathan Quellen		[37]
	Beautiful Joe	George The Geek		[37]
	Bless the Child	Reverend Grissom		[37]
2001	From Hell	Sir William Gull		[37]
	The Emperor's New Clothes	Napoleon / Eugene Lenormand		[41]
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Bilbo Baggins		[37]
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King			[37]
2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Professor Terry Rapson		[37]
	Garden State	Gideon Largeman		[37]
	The Aviator	Professor Fitz		[37]
2005	Strangers with Candy	Dr. Putney		[42]
	Chromophobia	Edward Aylesbury		[37]
	Lord of War	Simeon Weisz		[37]
2006	Renaissance	Jonas Muller (voice)		[37]
	O Jerusalem	Ben Gurion		[37]
	The Treatment	Dr. Ernesto Morales		[37]
2007	Ratatouille	Chef Skinner (voice)		[37]
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Older Bilbo Baggins		[37]
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies		Final acting role	[37]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1972–74	BBC Play of the Month	Khrushchov/Oedipus	2 episodes	[43][44]
1974	Napoleon and Love	Napoleon I	9 episodes	[45]
1974–75	The Lives of Benjamin Franklin	Wedderburn	3 episodes	[46]
1975	Private Affairs	David Garrick	Episode: Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington	[47]
1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Duval	Television film	[37]
	Jesus of Nazareth	Zerah	Parts 1 & 2	[9]
	Jubilee	Bill Ramsey	Episode: Ramsey	[37]
1978	Do You Remember?	Walter Street	Episode: Night School	[48]
	The Lost Boys	J. M. Barrie	3 episodes	[37]
	Holocaust	Heinrich Himmler	2 episodes	[37]
	Les Misérables	Thénardier	Television film	[37]
	The Thief of Baghdad	The Gatekeeper	Television film	[49]
1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Himmelstoss	Television film	[37]
	S.O.S. Titanic	Bruce Ismay	Television film	[50]
1980	We, the Accused	Paul Pressett	Miniseries; 5 episodes	[37]
	The Misanthrope	Alceste	Television film	[37]
1981–2008	Horizon	Narrator	Television documentary	[51][52]
1982	The Bell	Michael Meade	TV	[37]
	Play for Today	Alexie	Television play (episode: Soft Targets)	[37]
1982	Tales of the Unexpected	Alan Corwin	Television play (episode: Death Can Add)	[37]
1986	Murder by the Book	Hercule Poirot	Television film	[37]
1988	Game, Set and Match	Bernard Samson	13 episodes	[37]
1989	TheTailor of Gloucester	The Tailor	Television film
1989	The Endless Game	Control	2 episodes	[37]
1991	Uncle Vanya	Astrov	BBC TV	[37]
1992	The Borrowers	Pod Clock	6 episodes	[37]
1993	The Return of the Borrowers	Pod Clock	6 episodes	[37]
1999	Animal Farm	Squealer (voice)	Television film
2003	Monsters We Met	Narrator	Television documentary	[53]
2004	The Last Dragon	Narrator	Television film	[37]
2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn	Narrator	Television documentary	[37]
2009	1066: The Battle for Middle Earth	Narrator	2 episodes[54][55]	[37]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1960	Troilus and Cressida	Troilus	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
1962	Measure for Measure	Claudio
1963	The Tempest	Ariel
1967	The Homecoming[11]	Lenny	Music Box Theatre, Broadway
1967	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
1997	King Lear[11]	Lear	Cottesloe Theatre, London

Honours, awards and nominations

• 1989: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1989 Birthday Honours.[56]
• 1998: Knight Bachelor in the 1998 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[57]

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1965	Evening Standard Award	Best Actor	Henry V	Won	[58]
1967	Tony Award	Best Featured Actor in a Play	The Homecoming	Won	[59]
1968	BAFTA Award	Supporting Actor	The Bofors Gun	Won	[60]
1978	BAFTA TV Award	Best Actor	Do You Remember?	Nominated	[61]
	Royal Television Society Award	Best Performance	The Lost Boys	Won	[22]
	BAFTA TV Award	Best Actor		Nominated	[61]
1981	Cannes Film Festival	Best Supporting Actor	Chariots of Fire	Won	[62]
	Academy Award	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated	[59]
	BAFTA Award	Best Supporting Actor		Won	[62]
1984			Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Nominated	[63]
1985	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actor	Dreamchild	Nominated
	Boston Society of Film Critics			Won	[64]
			Wetherby	Won	[64]
	National Society of Film Critics Award	Supporting Actor		3rd Place
	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor	Brazil	Won	[64]
	National Society of Film Critics Award	Best Supporting Actor		3rd place
	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor	Dance with a Stranger	Won	[64]
	National Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Supporting Actor		3rd place
1993	Critics' Circle Theatre Award	Best Actor	Moonlight	Won	[65]
	Evening Standard Award	Best Actor		Won	[58]
1988	BAFTA TV Award	Best Actor	Game, Set and Match	Nominated	[66]
1995	BAFTA Award	Best Supporting Actor	The Madness of King George	Nominated	[67]
1997	Genie Award	Best Actor	The Sweet Hereafter	Won	[68]
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Won	[69]
	National Board of Review	Best Cast		Won	[70]
	Toronto Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Won	[71]
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	National Society of Film Critics Award	Best Actor		3rd Place
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		2nd Place
1998	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Actor - Miniseries or Movie	King Lear	Nominated	[72]
	Olivier Award	Best Actor		Won	[59]
	Critics' Circle Theatre Award	Best Actor		Won	[73]
	Evening Standard Award	Best Actor		Won	[58]
2000	Primetime Emmy Award	Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Movie	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Nominated	[74]
2001	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[75]
	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Cast		Won
	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
2003	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[76]
	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Cast		Won	[77]
	National Board of Review	Best Cast		Won	[78]
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Cast		Nominated
2004	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	The Aviator	Nominated	[79]
2007	Annie Award	Voice Acting in a Feature Production	Ratatouille	Won	[80]

Bibliography

• Holm, Ian; Jacobi, Steven (2004). Acting my Life. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-05214-3.

References

External links

• Ian Holm at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ian Holm at IMDb
• Ian Holm at the BFI's Screenonline
• Ian Holm at the TCM Movie Database
• Obituary: Ian Holm by BBC News. Published 19 June 2020.
• Sir Ian Holm obituary by The Guardian. Authors - Michael Billington and Ryan Gilbey. Published 19 June 2020.

На других языках

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[de] Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert, CBE (* 12. September 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, England; † 19. Juni 2020 in London, England[1]), war ein britischer Schauspieler, der zunächst als Theaterdarsteller große Anerkennung gewann. Später wurde er auch durch Charakterrollen in Filmen wie Alien, Die Stunde des Siegers, Brazil und Das süße Jenseits bekannt. In den Herr-der-Ringe- und Hobbit-Filmtrilogien übernahm er jeweils die Rolle des Bilbo Beutlin.

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- [en] Ian Holm

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[es] Ian Holm

Ian Holm Cuthbert (Goodmayes, Ilford, Inglaterra; 12 de septiembre de 1931-Londres, 19 de junio de 2020)[1] fue un actor británico con una trayectoria de más de cincuenta años de carrera en cine, televisión y teatro. Fue nombrado Comendador de la Orden del Imperio Británico (CBE) por la reina Isabel II.

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[ru] Холм, Иэн

Сэр Иэ́н Холм (англ. Ian Holm; 12 сентября 1931 (1931-09-12), Гудмэйз, Эссекс, Великобритания — 19 июня 2020[10], Лондон, Великобритания) — английский актёр, лауреат премии BAFTA и театральной премии «Тони». Известен по фильмам «Пятый элемент», «Из ада» и «Чужой», а также по кинотрилогиям Питера Джексона «Властелин колец» и «Хоббит».

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