Barrie in the award-winning BBC mini-series The Lost Boys, In 1981, he played Frodo Baggins in the BBC radio adaptation of J. In 1977, Holm appeared in the television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth as the Sadducee Zerah, and a villainous Moroccan in March or Die. In 1967 Holm won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Lenny in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. He appeared in minor roles in films such as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1972) and Young Winston (1972). In 1969, he appeared in Moonlight on the Highway.
In 1965, he played Richard III in the BBC serialisation of The Wars of The Roses, based on the RSC production of the plays. Holm was an established star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before gaining notice in television and film. Two years later, he made his London stage debut in Love Affair. He made his stage debut in 1954, at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing a spear-carrier in a staging of Othello. Holm graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953. They were interrupted a second time when he volunteered to go on an acting tour of the United States in 1952. His studies were interrupted a year later when he was called up for National Service in the British Army, during which he was posted to Klagenfurt, Austria, and attained the rank of Lance Corporal. Ī 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. His parents retired to Mortehoe in Devon and then to Worthing, where he joined an amateur dramatic society. Holm was educated at the independent Chigwell School in Essex. He had an older brother, who died when Ian was 12 years old. 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. 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). He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004).
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). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). 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. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor.
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