Ian Holm
Gender: Male
Born: 12th September 1931 (currently 80 years old)
Nationality: England, United Kingdom
TV programs: Game, Set, and Match, We, the Accused, Napoleon and Love, Jesus of Nazareth, Moonlight on the Highway, The Borrowers, The Return of the Borrowers, Holocaust
Movies: Alien, Big Night, Brazil, From Hell, Garden State, Inside The Third Reich, Juggernaut, Naked Lunch, Night Falls on Manhattan, Oh! What a Lovely War, Ratatouille, The Day After Tomorrow, The Madness of King George, Time Bandits, The Fifth Element, Chariots of Fire, The Emperor's New Clothes, Joe Gould's Secret, Another Woman, Henry V, The Miracle Maker, Wetherby, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, A Life Less Ordinary, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Advocate, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Animal Farm, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The Sweet Hereafter, Strangers with Candy, Robin and Marian, Lord of War, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Dance with a Stranger, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Fixer, Jesus of Nazareth, Kafka, Beautiful Joe, The Aviator, Mary, Queen of Scots, Chromophobia, Young Winston, Loch Ness, March or Die, Dreamchild, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, S.O.S. Titanic, O Jerusalem, The Lost Boys, The Treatment, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Shergar: Discover the Heart of a Champion, Hamlet, The Treatment, The Borrowers, King Lear, Esther Kahn, Terror in the Aisles, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Return of the Soldier, Wisconsin Death Trip, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Return of the Borrowers, The Bofors Gun, Les Misérables, Bless the Child, The Homecoming, All Quiet on the Western Front, Shout at the Devil, Renaissance, Blue Ice, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, A Severed Head, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Roald Dahl: The Making of Modern Children's Literature, Prisoner of Paradise, The History Channel Presents: Enola Gay, EXistenZ
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles. He received 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 the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Holm was born Ian Holm Cuthbert in Goodmayes, then in Essex (now in London), to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson (née Holm) and James Harvey Cuthbert. His mother was a nurse, and 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. He had an older brother, Eric, who died in 1943. Holm was educated at the independent Chigwell School in Essex. His parents retired to Mortehoe, Devon and then Worthing where he joined an amateur dramatic
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