Ian Holm
Actor
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is a British actor known for his stage work and for many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
As: Old Bilbo
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's ...
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Ian McKellen | Benedict Cumberbatch | Martin Freeman | Richard Armitage
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
As: Older Bilbo
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Runtime: 169 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Ian McKellen | Andy Serkis | Martin Freeman | Richard Armitage
Ratatouille (2007)
As: Skinner (voice)
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Brad Bird
Stars: Ian Holm | Brian Dennehy | Patton Oswalt | Lou Romano | Peter Sohn
O Jerusalem (2006)
As: Ben Gurion
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Élie Chouraqui
Stars: Ian Holm | Saïd Taghmaoui | Patrick Bruel | Maria Papas | J. J. Feild
Strangers with Candy (2006)
As: Dr. Putney
A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Paul Dinello
Stars: Amy Sedaris | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Stephen Colbert | Greg Hollimon | Paul Dinello
The Treatment (2006)
As: Dr. Ernesto Morales
Jake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful widow Allegra Marshall.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Oren Rudavsky
Stars: Ian Holm | Famke Janssen | Chris Eigeman | Stephanie March | Peter Vack
Renaissance (2006)
As: Jonas Muller
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Christian Volckman
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Ian Holm | Jonathan Pryce | Romola Garai | Daniel Craig
The Queen of Trees (2005)
As: Narrator
In Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a marvel of co-evolution, a marriage which has lasted for millennia. It forms the basis of a complex web of dependency that supports entire ecosystems, providing food for thousands of creatures, from elephants, giraffes, and fruit bats, to ...
Runtime: 57 min.
Directed by: Victoria Stone | Mark Deeble
Stars: Ian Holm
Lord of War (2005)
As: Simeon Weisz
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Jared Leto | Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Eamonn Walker | Ethan Hawke
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
As: Narrator
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: David Heeley
Stars: Ian Holm | Errol Flynn | Patrice Wymore | Vincent Sherman | Charles Chauvel
Chromophobia (2005)
As: Edward Aylesbury
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Martha Fiennes
Stars: Ian Holm | Ben Chaplin | Rhys Ifans | Ralph Fiennes | Penélope Cruz
The Aviator (2004)
As: Professor Fitz
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Runtime: 170 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Cate Blanchett | John C. Reilly | Kate Beckinsale | Alec Baldwin
D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004)
As: Narrator (voice)
On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred. D-Day tells the epic story of the preparation and execution of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It tells the story of the defence of the Western Front by the forces of the German Empire, and of the complex and deadly secret war fought by the men and women of France and mainland Europe. D-Day brings to life the ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Richard Dale
Stars: Ian Holm | Graham McTavish | Tim Bentinck | Lacy Moore | Albert Welling
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
As: Terry Rapson
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jay O. Sanders | Emmy Rossum | Dennis Quaid | Dash Mihok
Garden State (2004)
As: Gideon Largeman
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Zach Braff
Stars: Ian Holm | Natalie Portman | Zach Braff | Peter Sarsgaard | Jean Smart
The Beast Within: Making 'Alien' (2003)
As: Ash / Himself (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
Runtime: 178 min.
Directed by: Charles de Lauzirika
Stars: John Hurt | Harry Dean Stanton | Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Ridley Scott
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
As: Bilbo Baggins
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.
Runtime: 201 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Sean Astin | Ian McKellen | Viggo Mortensen | Liv Tyler | Elijah Wood
Prisoner of Paradise (2002)
As: Narrator (voice)
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Stuart Sender | Malcolm Clarke
Stars: Ian Holm | Renée Saint-Cyr | Lone Koppel | Eleonore Hertzberg | Robert Lantz
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
As: Bilbo Baggins
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Runtime: 178 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Sean Astin | Ian McKellen | Viggo Mortensen | Liv Tyler | Elijah Wood
From Hell (2001)
As: Sir William Gull
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Albert Hughes | Allen Hughes
Stars: Ian Holm | Johnny Depp | Heather Graham | Ian Richardson | Robbie Coltrane
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
As: Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Alan Taylor
Stars: Ian Holm | Eddie Marsan | Iben Hjejle | Nigel Terry | Tim McInnerny
Esther Kahn (2000)
As: Nathan Quellen
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Ian Holm | Summer Phoenix
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Ian Holm | Olympia Dukakis | Joan Sims | Judi Dench | June Whitfield
Bless the Child (2000)
As: Reverend Grissom
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Stars: Rufus Sewell | Christina Ricci | Kim Basinger | Angela Bettis | Holliston Coleman
The Miracle Maker (2000)
As: Pontius Pilate
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Derek W. Hayes | Stanislav M. Sokolov
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | James Frain | Julie Christie | Michael Bryant | Rebecca Callard
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
As: Joe Gould
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
Stars: Ian Holm | Stanley Tucci | Hallee Hirsh | Hope Davis | Sarah Hyland
Animal Farm (1999)
As: Squealer (voice)
An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: John Stephenson
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Ian Holm | Julia Ormond | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Kelsey Grammer
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
As: Narrator (voice)
Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name which was first published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating ...
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: James Marsh
Stars: Ian Holm
The Match (1999)
As: Big Tam
The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mick Davis
Stars: James Cosmo | Laura Fraser | Richard E. Grant | Isla Blair | Max Beesley
eXistenZ (1999)
As: Kiri Vinokur
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Ian Holm | Willem Dafoe | Jude Law | Don McKellar | Jennifer Jason Leigh
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
As: White Knight
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Ian Holm | Steve Coogan | Kate Beckinsale | Geoffrey Palmer | Penelope Wilton
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
As: Mr. Naville
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Cameron Diaz | Dan Hedaya | Delroy Lindo | Holly Hunter
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
As: Liam Casey
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Ian Holm | Lena Olin | James Gandolfini | Shiek Mahmud-Bey | Andy García
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
As: Mitchell Stephens
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Ian Holm | Gabrielle Rose | Sarah Polley | Tom McCamus | Caerthan Banks
The Fifth Element (1997)
As: Father Vito Cornelius
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Gary Oldman | Ian Holm | Bruce Willis | Milla Jovovich | Chris Tucker
Big Night (1996)
As: Pascal
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Campbell Scott | Stanley Tucci
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Isabella Rossellini | Tony Shalhoub | Marc Anthony | Minnie Driver
Loch Ness (1996)
As: Water Bailiff
Dr. Dempsey is an American scientist who has become a skeptic. He isn't enthusiastic to be sent by his employer to Scotland to (dis)prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster. He finds the locals stubborn, 'primitive' and all but hospitable, not in the least because the Nessie legend is the only tourist attraction. He still gets romantically attracted by his independent inn-keeper Laura, and both her kid ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Ian Holm | Ted Danson | James Frain | Joely Richardson | Kirsty Graham
The Madness of King George (1994)
As: Dr. Willis
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Nigel Hawthorne | Amanda Donohoe
The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
As: Sir William Collyer
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Ian Holm | Colin Firth | Wojciech Pszoniak | Geraldine Somerville | Carmel McSharry
Frankenstein (1994)
As: Baron Frankenstein
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Robert De Niro | Aidan Quinn | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hulce
The Advocate (1993)
As: Albertus
Bizarre black comedy about 15th-century Paris lawyer Richard Courtois (Firth) who decides to ply his trade in the country, only to find things stranger than he can imagine. His first case turns out to be defending a pig that's accused of murdering a child. And the pig is owned by beautiful gypsy Samira (Annabi), so the idealistic lawyer can fall in love (or lust). There's religion and superstition, there's ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Leslie Megahey
Stars: Ian Holm | Colin Firth | Amina Annabi | Donald Pleasence | Nicol Williamson
Blue Ice (1992)
As: Sir Hector
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Stars: Michael Caine | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | Sean Young | Todd Boyce
Naked Lunch (1991)
As: Tom Frost
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Ian Holm | Peter Weller | Julian Sands | Judy Davis | Roy Scheider
Kafka (1991)
As: Dr. Murnau
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Ian Holm | Theresa Russell | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Jeremy Irons | Joel Grey
Hamlet (1990)
As: Polonius
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Mel Gibson | Ian Holm | Paul Scofield | Glenn Close | Alan Bates
Henry V (1989)
As: Captain Fluellen
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Paul Scofield | Kenneth Branagh | Brian Blessed | James Larkin
Another Woman (1988)
As: Ken
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Ian Holm | Blythe Danner | Mia Farrow | Gene Hackman | Gena Rowlands
Murder by the Book (1986)
As: Hercule Poirot
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Runtime: 45 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Stars: Ian Holm | Richard Wilson | Peggy Ashcroft | Michael Aldridge | John Atkinson
The Browning Version (1985)
As: Andrew Crocker-Harris
Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Michael A. Simpson
Stars: Ian Holm | Steven Mackintosh | John Woodvine | Judi Dench | Michael Kitchen
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
As: Eustace Edgehill
Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Stars: Ian Holm | Judi Dench | Alan MacNaughton | John Horsley | Rachel Gurney
Dreamchild (1985)
As: Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Stars: Ian Holm | Peter Gallagher | Coral Browne | Caris Corfman | Nicola Cowper
Laughterhouse (1985)
As: Ben Singleton
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Stars: Ian Holm | Bill Owen | Rosemary Martin | Richard Hope | Stephen Moore
Wetherby (1985)
As: Stanley Pilborough
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: David Hare
Stars: Ian Holm | Stuart Wilson | Vanessa Redgrave | Judi Dench | Tim McInnerny
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
As: Desmond Cussen
Based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985) concentrates on Ellis's (Richardson) short-lived relationship with motor-racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett).
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Ian Holm | Miranda Richardson | Joanne Whalley | Rupert Everett | Stratford Johns
Brazil (1985)
As: Mr. M. Kurtzmann
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Ian Holm | Robert De Niro | Bob Hoskins | Jonathan Pryce | Katherine Helmond
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
As: Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Hugh Hudson
Stars: Ian Holm | Andie MacDowell | James Fox | Christopher Lambert | Ralph Richardson
Soft Targets (1982)
As: Alexei
A Russian in London finds himself targeted by British Intelligence.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Thorley Walters | Celia Gregory | Nigel Havers
The Return of the Soldier (1982)
As: Doctor Anderson
The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to take advantage of his memory loss. But both Christie and Ann-Margret are challenged by a third woman, Bates' childhood sweetheart Glenda Jackson. ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Alan Bridges
Stars: Ian Holm | Ann-Margret | Alan Bates | Julie Christie | Glenda Jackson
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
As: Dr. Joseph Goebbels
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Blythe Danner | Rutger Hauer | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud | Maria Schell
Time Bandits (1981)
As: Napoleon
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Kenny Baker | David Rappaport | Malcolm Dixon | Mike Edmonds | Craig Warnock
Chariots of Fire (1981)
As: Sam Mussabini
The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Hugh Hudson
Stars: Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Ben Cross | Nigel Havers | Ian Charleson
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
As: Himmelstoss
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Ian Holm | Ernest Borgnine | Donald Pleasence | Patricia Neal | Richard Thomas
S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
As: J. Bruce Ismay
The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: William Hale
Stars: Ian Holm | Cloris Leachman | David Warner | David Janssen | Susan Saint James
Alien (1979)
As: Ash
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: John Hurt | Harry Dean Stanton | Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright
Les Misérables (1978)
As: Thénardier
Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan
Stars: Ian Holm | Richard Jordan | Anthony Perkins | Caroline Langrishe | Christopher Guard
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
As: The Gatekeeper
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Clive Donner
Stars: Kabir Bedi | Roddy McDowall | Frank Finlay | Marina Vlady | Pavla Ustinov
March or Die (1977)
As: El Krim
The French Foreign Legion, in the early 20s, is tasked to protect a group of Archaeologists in the middle east. After scenes depicting the hardship of day-to-day Foreign Legion life, and the ragtag collection of people who join, the local Arabs take offence at the Archaeologists and declare Jihad. A large battle takes place, with the inevitable last stand.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Dick Richards
Stars: Ian Holm | Catherine Deneuve | Jack O'Halloran | Terence Hill | Gene Hackman
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
As: Duval
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Ian Holm | Richard Chamberlain | Louis Jourdan | Jenny Agutter
Shout at the Devil (1976)
As: Mohammed
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Peter R. Hunt
Stars: Ian Holm | Reinhard Kolldehoff | Roger Moore | Lee Marvin | Barbara Parkins
Robin and Marian (1976)
As: King John
Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian has entered a nunnery, King Richard is a raving lunatic, his Brother John a moron, and the age of great adventure has seemed to have passed Robin by. But when The Sheriff of Nottingham once again threatens Sherwood, Robin gathers his faithful men, and band of peasants to fight oppression ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Richard Harris | Sean Connery | Nicol Williamson | Robert Shaw | Audrey Hepburn
Juggernaut (1974)
As: Nicholas Porter
A bomber has planted 7 bombs on a transatlantic cruise ship. While a crack bomb squad team try to defuse the bombs the police attempt to track down the mad bomber.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Richard Harris | David Hemmings | Anthony Hopkins | Shirley Knight | Omar Sharif
The Homecoming (1973)
As: Lenny
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Peter Hall
Stars: Ian Holm | Michael Jayston | Cyril Cusack | Paul Rogers | Terence Rigby
Young Winston (1972)
As: George E. Buckle
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Runtime: 157 min.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Ian Holm | Anne Bancroft | Simon Ward | Robert Shaw | Jack Hawkins
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
As: David Riccio
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at he age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Vanessa Redgrave | Timothy Dalton | Glenda Jackson | Nigel Davenport
A Severed Head (1970)
As: Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Dick Clement
Stars: Ian Holm | Claire Bloom | Richard Attenborough | Jennie Linden | Lee Remick
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
As: President Poincare
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke ...
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Maggie Smith | Corin Redgrave | John Mills | Laurence Olivier
Edward the Confessor (1969)
As: Edward Gobey
Edward Gobey has a strange compulsion.
Runtime: 52 min.
Directed by: Henry Kaplan
Stars: Ian Holm | Beryl Reid | Alfred Burke
The Fixer (1968)
As: Grubeshov
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Ian Holm | David Warner | Alan Bates | Dirk Bogarde | Georgia Brown
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
As: Puck
Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Peter Hall
Stars: Helen Mirren | Michael Jayston | David Warner | Barbara Jefford | Derek Godfrey
The Bofors Gun (1968)
As: Flynn
A national service NCO (David Warner) who comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Jack Gold
Stars: Ian Holm | David Warner | Nicol Williamson
The Paradise Suite (1963)
As: Jamie Norton
A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Philip Saville
Stars: Ian Holm | Sam Wanamaker | Carroll Baker | Jess Conrad | Derek Smith
The Cherry Orchard (1962)
As: Trofimov
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their ...
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Michael Elliott
Stars: Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Judi Dench | Peggy Ashcroft | Dorothy Tutin