Ian Holm Highlights

  • 2007: Played an eccentric analyst in "The Treatment"
  • 2007: Cast in the Pixar animated feature, "Ratatouille"
  • 2005: Cast in Andrew Niccol's "Lord of War" with Nicolas Cage and Ethan Hawke
  • 2004: Cast as Andrew Largeman's (Zach Braff) father in "Garden State"; writting and directorial debut for Zach Braff
  • 2004: Starred with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Day After Tomorrow"
  • 2004: Cast opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in "Aviator" directed by Martin Scorsese
  • 2003: Reprised his role as Bilbo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
  • 2001: Headlined London stage revival of Pinter's "The Homecoming", portraying the patriarch; also briefly played NYC as part of a tribute to the author
  • 2001: Cast as Napoleon in "The Emperor's New Clothes"
  • 2001: Had featured role in the Jack the Ripper drama "From Hell"
  • 2000: Acted with Judi Dench, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron in the HBO drama "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells"; played a drummer who had dressed in drag to play with an all-female orchestra; received Emmy nomination
  • 2000: Starred opposite Summer Phoenix in the Cannes-screened "Esther Kahn"
  • 2000: Provided the voice of Pontius Pilate in the animated movie "The Miracle Maker"; aired on ABC in the USA
  • 2000: Reteamed with Tucci (who directed, co-wrote and co-starred as Mitchell) for "Joe Gould's Secret", based on the character immortalized by New Yorker writer Joe Mitchell
  • 1999: Provided voice of Squeeler in TNT's adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", a mixture of animation and live-action
  • 1999: Reteamed with Cronenberg for "eXistenZ"; cast as an eccentric scientist
  • 1998: Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
  • 1998: Reprised his acclaimed turn as "King Lear" (again directed by Eyre) for TV; aired in the USA on PBS; earned Emmy nomination but lost award to Stanley Tucci (for his performance as gossip columnist Walter Winchell)
  • 1997: Cast as Cameron Diaz's father in "A Life Less Ordinary"
  • 1997: Earned plaudits for his work as a seedy lawyer in Atom Egoyan's film version of "The Sweet Hereafter"
  • 1997: Perfected a "Noo Yawk" accent for his role as a cop in Sidney Lumet's "Night Falls on Manhattan"
  • 1996: Delivered a scene-stealing turn as a rival restaurateur in "Big Night", co-written, co-directed and co-starring Stanley Tucci
  • 1994: Reteamed with Branagh for "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"; cast as the father of Victor Frankenstein (Branagh)
  • 1994: Cast as Dr Willis, one of the physicians who helped cure the monarch in "The Madness of King George"
  • 1993: Returned to the stage after more than a decade in Pinter's "Moonlight"; the playwright had written the role of the embittered, dying patriarch expressly for him
  • 1992: Played Pod in "The Borrowers", two six-part BBC series based on the novels my Brit author Mary Norton; later aired on TNT as "The Borrowers" (1993) and "The Return of the Borrowers" (1996)
  • 1991: First film with David Cronenberg, "Naked Lunch"
  • 1990: Portrayed Polonius in Franco Zeffirelli's "Hamlet", starring Mel Gibson
  • 1989: Played Captain Fluellen in Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V"; Branagh in his autobiography said that Holm is "very much of the anything you can do I can do less of school of acting", a statement regarded as a compliment by Holm
  • 1985: Won praise for his performance as a venal bureaucrat in Gilliam's "Brazil"
  • 1985: Portrayed Reverend Charles L Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) in "Dreamchild"
  • 1984: Had supporting role in Hudson's "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes", playing the Belgian explorer who discovered the half-savage Tarzan
  • 1982: Portrayed Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in ABC miniseries "Inside the Third Reich"
  • 1981: Received Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for portrayal of track coach Sam Mussabini in "Chariots of Fire", directed by Hugh Hudson
  • 1981: First film with director Terry Gilliam, "Time Bandits", playing Napoleon
  • 1979: Essayed Ash, the android member of the doomed crew, in Ridley Scott's "Alien"
  • 1979: Briefly returned to the stage in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"; still overcome with stage fright was last theatrical role for 14 years
  • 1978: Played Nazi S.S. Chief Heinrich Himmler in acclaimed NBC miniseries "Holocaust"
  • 1978: Portrayed author J.M. Barrie in the British TV drama "The Lost Boys"
  • 1977: Debut in a US TV miniseries, "Jesus of Nazareth" (NBC)
  • 1976: Overcome with debilitating stage fright during a London preview of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh", walked off and out of show; has referred to this as "my breakdown"
  • 1976: Reteamed with Lester for "Robin and Marian"
  • 1975: American TV debut, "The Rebel" (CBS)
  • 1974: First film with director Richard Lester, "Juggernaut"
  • 1974: Starred as the French general in Thames Television production "Napoleon and Josephine"
  • 1973: Reprised his role as Lenny in the film version of "The Homecoming", directed by Hall
  • 1972: Acted in Attenborough's "Young Winston"
  • 1970: Reteamed with Attenborough as actors in Dick Clement's "A Severed Head", adapted from the Iris Murdoch novel by Frederic Raphael
  • 1969: First film with Hall, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (as Puck); also acted in Richard Attenborough's feature directing debut, "Oh! What a Lovely War"
  • 1968: Film acting debut, "The Bofors Gun"; earned a British Film Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor
  • 1968: First American-produced film, John Frankenheimer's "The Fixer"
  • 1967: Broadway debut, reprising Lenny in "The Homecoming" (again directed by Hall); earned Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award
  • 1966: Acted in Thames TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher"
  • 1965: Created the role of Lenny in RSC production of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming", directed by Peter Hall
  • 1959: Portrayed the Fool to Charles Laughton's "King Lear"
  • 1954: Spent 14 seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in the classic Shakespearean repertory
  • 1954: Made professional stage debut as spear carrier in Royal Shakespeare Company's (then Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon) "Othello"
  • Starred in London stage production of "King Lear", directed by Richard Eyre
  • Toured Europe with Laurence Olivier in Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus", playing Mutius
  • Played Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's filming of J R R Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy; all three films were shot simultaneously from 1999 to 2000 for release over a three year period: "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001); "The Two Towers" (2002); "The Return of the King" (2003)

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