Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with a nomination for an Academy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 for services to drama.^[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	Full list

Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear, and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003).

Holm gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968), winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won a second BAFTA Award for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Dreamchild (1985), Henry V (1989), Naked Lunch (1991), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He played Napoleon in three different films. He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy.

Early life and education

Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents, James Cuthbert and his wife Jean (née Holm). 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.^{[3][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.^[3][8] His parents retired to Mortehoe in Devon and then to Worthing, where he joined an amateur dramatic society.^[9]

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.^[3][10] His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for National Service in the British Army,^[10] 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.^[9] Holm graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953.^[3]

He made his stage debut in 1954, at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing a spear carrier in a staging of Othello.^[11] Two years later, he made his London stage debut in Love Affair.^[11]

Career

Holm was an established actor in the Royal Shakespeare Company before he gained notice in television and film. He began in 1954 with minor roles, progressing to Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the fool in King Lear.^[10] In 1965, he played Richard III in the BBC serialisation of The Wars of The Roses, based on the RSC production of the plays. He gained acclaim for his role in the 1968 film The Bofors Gun, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.^[12] In 1969, he appeared in Moonlight on the Highway.^[13] He took on 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. Holm appeared in the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth as the Sadducee Zerah, and as the villain 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 – later revealed to be an android – 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 played 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.^[25] Based on the novels by Len Deighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who finds a security leak at the heart of his network.^[26] He continued to perform Shakespeare in films. He appeared with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)^[27] and as Polonius to Mel Gibson's Hamlet (1990).^[28] Holm was reunited with Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), playing the father of Branagh's Victor Frankenstein.^[29]

Holm as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The role brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.^[1]

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 the lawyer Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter. In 2001 he starred in From Hell as the physician Sir William Withey Gull.^[1] The same year, he followed up his radio role as Frodo by appearing as Frodo's older cousin Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. This brought him wider fame, somewhat overshadowing the rest of his acting career.^[1] 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 films The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.^[10] Martin Freeman portrayed the young Bilbo in those films.^[30]

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.^[31] He voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007).^[32] He appeared in two David Cronenberg films: Naked Lunch (1991) and eXistenZ (1999).^[20] His acting was admired by Harold Pinter: the playwright once said: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!"^[33] Holm played Lenny in both the London and New York City premieres of Pinter's The Homecoming; the BBC wrote that he "electrified audiences" in the play.^[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 received royal recognition for his contributions: he was made CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.^[3]

Personal life

Holm was married four times:^[34] to Lynn Mary Shaw in 1955 (divorced 1965); to Sophie Baker in 1982 (divorced 1986); to the actress Penelope Wilton, in Wiltshire, in 1991 (divorced 2002); and to the artist Sophie de Stempel in 2003. He had five children.^[3][35]

Holm and Wilton appeared together in the BBC miniseries The Borrowers (1993). His last wife, Sophie de Stempel, was a protégée and a life model of Lucian Freud,^[36] as well as an artist in her own right.^[37]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II.^[1][2]

Holm was treated for prostate cancer in 2001.^[34] He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2007.^[38][39][40]

Death

Holm's grave in Highgate Cemetery

Holm died in hospital in London on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88.^[41] According to Alex Irwin, Holm's agent, his death was related to Parkinson's disease.^[21] His remains are interred on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.^[42]

Posthumous image use

With the consent of his heirs, the role of android Rook was generated from Holm's archive data and computer-generated imagery for the 2024 film Alien: Romulus, the identical model to Ash, the character of the first Alien film, he played in 1979.^[43][44]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1968	The Bofors Gun	Flynn		[12]
	The Fixer	Grubeshov		[32]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck		[45]
1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Raymond Poincaré		[32]
1970	A Severed Head	Martin Lynch-Gibbon		[32]
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Vasily Yakovlev		[32]
	Mary, Queen of Scots	David Rizzio		[32]
1972	Young Winston	George E. Buckle		[32]
1973	The Homecoming	Lenny		[32]
1974	Juggernaut	Nicholas Porter		[32]
1976	Robin and Marian	King John		[32]
	Shout at the Devil	Mohammed		[32]
1977	March or Die	El Krim		[46]
1979	Alien	Ash		[32]
	S.O.S. Titanic	J. Bruce Ismay		[32]
1981	Chariots of Fire	Sam Mussabini		[32]
	Time Bandits	Napoleon		[32]
1982	The Return of the Soldier	Doctor Anderson		[32]
	Inside the Third Reich	Joseph Goebbels		[47]
1984	Laughterhouse	Ben Singleton		[32]
	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Capitain Philippe D'Arnot		[32]
	Terror in the Aisles	Ash		[48]
1985	Dreamchild	Charles L. Dodgson		[32]
	Wetherby	Stanley Pilborough		[32]
	Brazil	Mr Kurtzmann		[32]
	Dance with a Stranger	Desmond Cussen		[32]
	Mr and Mrs Edgehill	Eustace Edgehill		[49]
1988	Another Woman	Ken Post		[32]
1989	Henry V	Fluellen		[27]
1990	Hamlet	Polonius		[28]
1991	Naked Lunch	Tom Frost		[50]
	Kafka	Doctor Murnau		[32]
1992	Blue Ice	Sir Hector		[32]
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Albertus		[51]
1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Baron Alphonse Frankenstein		[32]
	The Madness of King George	Francis Willis		[32]
1996	Big Night	Pascal		[32]
	Loch Ness	Water Bailiff		[32]
1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Liam Casey		[32]
	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens		[32]
	The Fifth Element	Father Vito Cornelius		[32]
	A Life Less Ordinary	Naville		[32]
	Incognito	John	Uncredited cameo	[52]
1998	Alice through the Looking Glass	White Knight		[32]
	King Lear	Lear		[53]
1999	Shergar	Joseph Maguire		[32]
	eXistenZ	Kiri Vinokur		[32]
	Simon Magus	Sirius/Boris/The Devil		[32]
	Wisconsin Death Trip	Frank Cooper (voice)		[54]
	The Match	Big Tam		[32]
2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Gould		[55]
	The Miracle Maker	Pontius Pilate (voice)		[32]
	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Patrick		[32]
	Esther Kahn	Nathan Quellen		[32]
	Beautiful Joe	George The Geek		[32]
	Bless the Child	Reverend Grissom		[32]
2001	From Hell	Sir William Gull		[32]
	The Emperor's New Clothes	Napoleon / Eugene Lenormand		[56]
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Bilbo Baggins		[32]
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King			[32]
2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Professor Terry Rapson		[32]
	Garden State	Gideon Largeman		[32]
	The Aviator	Professor Fitz		[32]
2005	Strangers with Candy	Dr Putney		[32]
	Chromophobia	Edward Aylesbury		[32]
	Lord of War	Simeon Weisz		[32]
2006	Renaissance	Jonas Muller (voice)		[57]
	O Jerusalem	Ben Gurion		[32]
	The Treatment	Ernesto Morales		[32]
2007	Ratatouille	Chef Skinner (voice)		[32]
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Older Bilbo Baggins		[32]
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies		Final film role	[32]
2024	Alien: Romulus	Rook	Computer-generated imagery	[58][44]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1972–74	BBC Play of the Month	Khrushchov/Oedipus	2 episodes	[59][60]
1974	Napoleon and Love	Napoleon I	9 episodes	[61]
1974–75	The Lives of Benjamin Franklin	Wedderburn	3 episodes	[62]
1975	Private Affairs	David Garrick	Episode: Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington	[63]
1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Duval	Television film	[32]
	Jesus of Nazareth	Zerah	Parts 1 & 2	[3]
	Jubilee	Bill Ramsey	Episode: Ramsey	[64]
1978	Do You Remember?	Walter Street	Episode: Night School	[65]
	The Lost Boys	J. M. Barrie	3 episodes	[66]
	Holocaust	Heinrich Himmler	2 episodes	[32]
	Les Misérables	Thénardier	Television film	[32]
	The Thief of Baghdad	The Gatekeeper		[67]
1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Himmelstoss		[32]
	S.O.S. Titanic	Bruce Ismay		[68]
1980	We, the Accused	Paul Pressett	Miniseries; 5 episodes	[32]
	The Misanthrope	Alceste	Television film	[69]
1981–2008	Horizon	Narrator	Television documentary	[70][71]
1982	The Bell	Michael Meade	Television drama	[72]
	Play for Today	Alexie	Television play (episode: Soft Targets)	[73]
	Tales of the Unexpected	Alan Corwin	Television play (episode: Death Can Add)	[74]
1985	Television	Narrator	Television documentary series	[75]
1986	Murder by the Book	Hercule Poirot	Television film	[76]
1988	Game, Set and Match	Bernard Samson	13 episodes	[77]
1989	The Tailor of Gloucester	The Tailor	Television film	[78]
	The Endless Game	Control	2 episodes	[79]
1991	Uncle Vanya	Astrov	BBC TV	[80]
1992	The Borrowers	Pod Clock	6 episodes	[32]
1993	The Return of the Borrowers			[32]
1999	Animal Farm	Squealer (voice)	Television film	[81]
2003	Monsters We Met	Narrator	Television documentary	[82]
2004	The Last Dragon		Television film	[83]
2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn		Television documentary	[84]
2009	1066: The Battle for Middle Earth		2 episodes	[85][86]
2020	Scary Stories Around the Fire	Teller (voice)	2 episodes; podcast

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1954–	Shakespeare plays	multiple roles	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[10]
1959	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[87]
	King Lear	The Fool	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[10]
1962	Troilus and Cressida	Troilus	Aldwych Theatre, London	[87]
1965	Henry V	Henry V	Aldwych Theatre, London	[87]
1966	Twelfth Night	Malvolio	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[87]
1967	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[10]
	The Homecoming	Lenny	Music Box Theatre, Broadway	[10]
1997	King Lear	Lear	Cottesloe Theatre, London	[10]

Honours and accolades

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Ian Holm

• 1989: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1989 Birthday Honours.^[88]
• 1998: Knight Bachelor in the 1998 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[89]

Bibliography

• Holm, Ian; Jacobi, Steven (2004). Acting My Life. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-05214-3. OCLC 56647423.

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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.