Ian Holm

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Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert , CBE (born September 12, 1931 in Goodmayes , Essex , England - † June 19, 2020 in London ), was a British actor who initially won great acclaim as a theater actor. He was later also known for character roles in such films as Alien , The Hour of the Victory , Brazil and The Sweet Beyond . He played the role of Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies .

Career

Beginnings and stage roles

The Essex-raised son of a psychiatrist and a nurse, Ian Holm began studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London in 1949. The course was interrupted by a one-year military service in Klagenfurt, Austria . After graduating from RADA in 1953, Holm worked for the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company for over 15 years and played with them both in London and in Shakespeare's native Stratford-upon-Avon . After initially small roles, he was increasingly able to establish himself as a theater actor. He played a large number of roles from Shakespeare's plays (including Romeo , Henry V , Puck and Troilus ). In 1965 he played Richard III for the BBC film adaptation of the Rosenkrieg plays (Heinrich VI. Parts 1–3 and Richard III.) .

In the United States , too , he achieved increasing notoriety through his performances - especially in Shakespeare plays. On Broadway he played Lenny in Harold Pinters The Homecoming and was awarded the Tony Award in 1967. In 1976, during a production of Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh, he had a fit of stage fright that led to a panic attack , which resulted in his largely retiring from acting and only occasionally returning to the stage. In Great Britain he received the Laurence Olivier Award in 1998 for his portrayal of King Lear , which he immortalized in a 1998 television film directed by Richard Eyre .

Movie and TV

1957 Holm was first seen in a British television production, the ITV Play of the Week . From the late 1960s, he took on regular roles in films. Holm was considered a versatile character actor who often embodied eccentric characters who could be both good-hearted and malicious in nature.

When Holm starred in the Hollywood film Alien in 1979 and in the 1981 Oscar winner The Winner's Hour , which made him known to an international cinema audience, he was already a star in Great Britain. For his portrayal of the ambitious athletic trainer Sam Mussabini in The Hour of the Winner , he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and an Acting Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1981 . He also worked in many television productions, including as Napoleon Bonaparte , Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels . In 1981 and 1985 he starred in Terry Gilliam's cult films Time Bandits and Brazil . He also played the lead role in the children's film version The Borrowers as a television series. Together with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson he stood in 1989 in Branagh's directorial debut Henry V in front of the camera. In the same year Holm was named Commander of the British Empire . He had a great success in 1997 with Luc Besson's science fiction film The Fifth Element . That same year he starred in Atom Egoyan's two-time Oscar-nominated drama The Sweet Beyond in the lead role of attorney Mitchell Stephens .

In 1998 he became Queen Elizabeth II. The basis of merit to the Knights defeated. Since then he has been allowed to call himself Sir . In 2001 he was seen on the side of Johnny Depp in From Hell ; In the same year he also played the role of Bilbo Baggins for the first time in the J. R. R. Tolkien film adaptation The Lord of the Rings: The Companions . He subsequently embodied this character in the films The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , all directed by Peter Jackson . In 1981 he had already spoken the role of Frodo Baggins in a Lord of the Rings radio play .

In 2004 he could be seen in Roland Emmerich's disaster film The Day After Tomorrow , in the same year he took on a role in Martin Scorsese's film Aviator . In 2006 he portrayed the Israeli state founder and Prime Minister Ben Gurion in Oh Jerusalem . In 2007, he spoke the nasty cook Skinner in the English version of the animated film Ratatouille . Most recently, Holm appeared in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , published in 2014 , after which he retired from the acting business.

Ian Holm's distinctive voice is particularly well known in the UK as he has often been used as a narrator, commentator and speaker for documentaries. Since 1979, Holm has been dubbed eight times by Mogens von Gadow , including in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies. In addition, Friedrich Georg Beckhaus between 1988 and 2006 and Hermann Ebeling between 1991 and 1998 also took over Holms' German dubbing in the past . He was voiced by Peter Matić in Brazil (1985), an important film for Holm's career .

Private

From 1955 to 1965 he was married to Lynn Mary Shaw, with whom he has daughters Jessica and Sarah-Jane. Son Barnaby Holm (born February 20, 1967), who is also an actor, and daughter Melissa come from the relationship with photographer Bee Gilbert . From 1982 to 1986 he was married to the actress Sophie Baker, with whom he has son Harry (* 1981). From 1991 to 2001 Ian Holm was married to the actress Penelope Wilton in third marriage . His fourth wife was Sophie de Stempel since 2003.

Holm, who had had Parkinson's for a number of years , died in London in June 2020 at the age of 88.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Honors

Theater awards

Film and television awards

Web links

Commons : Ian Holm  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 . Article by Andrew Pulver on June 19, 2020 in The Guardian
  2. ↑ Obituary: Ian Holm . In: BBC News . June 19, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  3. ^ Ian Holm: You Ask The Questions. September 2, 2004, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Ian Holm - information and films (Prisma). Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ Ian Holm: You Ask The Questions. September 2, 2004, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ King Lear at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Andrew Pulver: Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 . In: The Guardian . June 19, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  8. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Bilbo from "Lord of the Rings": actor Ian Holm is dead - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Obituary: Ian Holm . In: BBC News . June 19, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  10. ^ Ian Holm in the German dubbing index
  11. ^ True Crime Stories: Baroness de Stempel (and family). In: The Steeple Times. Retrieved June 20, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Andrew Pulver: Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 . In: The Guardian . June 19, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 19, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm Cuthbert, Ian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Goodmayes , Essex , England
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2020
Place of death London