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Acting

Ian Holm

Career: Active from 1957 to 2009, busiest in 1985 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 91
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 89 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ian Holm Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.5, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.7, average 2.4
Adrenaline
4.2, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 11
Political Intrigue 10
Character-Driven 10
Social Commentary 9
Character Study 9
Psychological Drama 5
Period Drama 4
Melancholic Tone 4
Psychological Study 3
Psychological 3
Tragedy 3
Legal Drama 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

179

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 67

Alien: Romulus

67

as Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference)

2010s

3 titles · average score 67

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

65

as Old Bilbo Baggins

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

69

as Old Bilbo Baggins

Discovering Hamlet

as Polonius (archive footage)

2000s

28 titles · average score 65

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

67

TV show · as Geschichtenerzähler

Ratatouille

89

as Skinner (voice)

Lord of War

69

as Simeon Weisz

The Day After Tomorrow

53

as Terry Rapson

Garden State

76

as Gideon Largeman

The Aviator

78

as Professor Fitz

From Hell

60

as Sir William Gull

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

90

as Bilbo

The Emperor's New Clothes

67

as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

70

as Patrick

Joe Gould's Secret

58

as Joe Gould

Esther Kahn

48

as Nathan Quellen

1990s

43 titles · average score 64

eXistenZ

71

as Kiri Vinokur

Alice Through the Looking Glass

51

as White Knight

The Fifth Element

70

as Cornelius

The Sweet Hereafter

85

as Mitchell Stephens

Night Falls on Manhattan

64

as Liam Casey

Big Night

82

as Pascal

Loch Ness

49

as Water Bailiff

The Madness of King George

82

as Willis

The Hour of the Pig

71

as Albertus

The Borrowers

68

TV show · as Pod

Blue Ice

48

as Sir Hector

Naked Lunch

70

as Tom Frost

1980s

36 titles · average score 71

Another Woman

65

as Ken

Game, Set, and Match

80

TV show · as Bernard Samson

Korea: The Unknown War

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Dreamchild

84

as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

Brazil

86

as Mr. Kurtzmann

Dance with a Stranger

78

as Desmond Cussen

Wetherby

61

as Stanley Pilborough

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

as Eustace Edgehill

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

65

as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

80

as Narrator (voice)

TV show · as Michael Meade

Chariots of Fire

76

as Sam Mussabini

1970s

42 titles · average score 67

Alien

86

as Ash

All Quiet on the Western Front

85

as Himmelstoss

The Lost Boys

TV show · as J.M. Barrie

The Man in the Iron Mask

65

as Duval

March or Die

56

as El Krim

Shout at the Devil

55

as Mohammed

Napoleon and Love

TV show · as Napoleon Bonaparte

Juggernaut

73

as Nicholas Porter

The Homecoming

65

as Lenny

The Treat

as Gordon

Young Winston

57

as George E. Buckle

A Severed Head

53

as Martin Lynch-Gibbon

1960s

22 titles · average score 68

Oh! What a Lovely War

72

as President Poincare

Moonlight on the Highway

as David Peters

Edward the Confessor

as Edward Gobey

Frankenstein

as Frankenstein / The Monster

The Bofors Gun

65

as Gunner Flynn

The Fixer

59

as Grubeshov

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Huw

The Wars of the Roses

as King Richard III

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Khrushchov / Alceste

Horizon

80

TV show · as Narrator

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Mark Lang

The Paradise Suite

as Jamie Norton

1950s

4 titles · average score 76

Girls at Sea

as Marine (uncredited)

as Granillo

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Edward Gobey / Jamie Norton

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Himmelstoss