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 hands.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Martin Freeman | Ian McKellen | Richard Armitage | Benedict Cumberbatch | Cate Blanchett
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: Martin Freeman | Ian McKellen | Richard Armitage | Andy Serkis | Cate Blanchett
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 kitchen of a fine ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Brad Bird
Stars: Patton Oswalt | Ian Holm | Lou Romano | Brian Dennehy | 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: J. J. Feild | Saïd Taghmaoui | Maria Papas | Patrick Bruel | Ian Holm
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 | Stephen Colbert | Paul Dinello | Greg Hollimon | Philip Seymour Hoffman
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: Chris Eigeman | Stephanie March | Ian Holm | Famke Janssen | 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: Daniel Craig | Catherine McCormack | Romola Garai | Jonathan Pryce | 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: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Ethan Hawke | Eamonn Walker
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 | Charles Chauvel | Patrice Wymore | Vincent Sherman
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: Ben Chaplin | Penélope Cruz | Ralph Fiennes | Ian Holm | Rhys Ifans
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 | Kate Beckinsale | John C. Reilly | 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 dramatic and astounding ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Richard Dale
Stars: Ian Holm | Lacy Moore | Graham McTavish | Albert Welling | Tim Bentinck
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: Dennis Quaid | Jake Gyllenhaal | Emmy Rossum | Dash Mihok | Jay O. Sanders
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: Zach Braff | Natalie Portman | Ian Holm | 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: Ridley Scott | Sigourney Weaver | Harry Dean Stanton | John Hurt | Tom Skerritt
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: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Liv Tyler
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: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Liv Tyler
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: Allen Hughes | Albert Hughes
Stars: Johnny Depp | Heather Graham | Ian Holm | Robbie Coltrane | Ian Richardson
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 life of a ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Alan Taylor
Stars: Ian Holm | Iben Hjejle | Tim McInnerny | Nigel Terry | Eddie Marsan
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 members, the roses on the ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Judi Dench | Ian Holm | Joan Sims | June Whitfield | Olympia Dukakis
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 same birth date ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Stars: Kim Basinger | Angela Bettis | Holliston Coleman | Rufus Sewell | Christina Ricci
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 | Michael Bryant | Julie Christie | Rebecca Callard | James Frain
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 invitation to ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
Stars: Ian Holm | Stanley Tucci | Hope Davis | Sarah Hyland | Hallee Hirsh
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: Kelsey Grammer | Ian Holm | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Julia Ormond | Pete Postlethwaite
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 from the 1890s and married a selection of these ...
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: Max Beesley | Isla Blair | James Cosmo | Richard E. Grant | Laura Fraser
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: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jude Law | Ian Holm | Willem Dafoe | Don McKellar
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: Kate Beckinsale | Geoffrey Palmer | Ian Holm | Steve Coogan | 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 to unite the prospective lovers.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Cameron Diaz | Holly Hunter | Delroy Lindo | Dan Hedaya
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: Andy García | Ian Holm | James Gandolfini | Lena Olin | Shiek Mahmud-Bey
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 by a different kind of damage.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Ian Holm | Caerthan Banks | Sarah Polley | Tom McCamus | Gabrielle Rose
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: Bruce Willis | Gary Oldman | Ian Holm | 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 | Tony Shalhoub | Marc Anthony | Minnie Driver | Isabella Rossellini
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 and his local ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Ted Danson | Joely Richardson | Ian Holm | Kirsty Graham | James Frain
Landscape (1995)
As: Duff
A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblance of conversation. Doollee.com
Directed by: Harold Pinter
Stars: Ian Holm | Penelope Wilton
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: Nigel Hawthorne | Helen Mirren | Ian Holm | Rupert Graves | Amanda Donohoe
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: Robert De Niro | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hulce | Helena Bonham Carter | Aidan Quinn
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 power ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Leslie Megahey
Stars: Colin Firth | Ian Holm | Donald Pleasence | Amina Annabi | 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 | Sean Young | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | 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: Peter Weller | Judy Davis | Ian Holm | Julian Sands | 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: Jeremy Irons | Theresa Russell | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Joel Grey | Ian Holm
Uncle Vanya (1991)
Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.
Directed by: Gregory Mosher
Stars: Ian Holm | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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 | Glenn Close | Alan Bates | Paul Scofield | Ian Holm
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: Kenneth Branagh | Derek Jacobi | Brian Blessed | James Larkin | Paul Scofield
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 events she comes to ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Mia Farrow | Gena Rowlands | Ian Holm | Blythe Danner | Gene Hackman
Murder by the Book (1986)
As: Hercule Poirot
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Runtime: 45 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Stars: Peggy Ashcroft | Ian Holm | Richard Wilson | Michael Aldridge | John Atkinson
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: Judi Dench | Ian Holm | Rachel Gurney | Alan MacNaughton | John Horsley
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: Coral Browne | Ian Holm | Peter Gallagher | 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 | Richard Hope | Stephen Moore | Rosemary Martin
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: Vanessa Redgrave | Ian Holm | Judi Dench | Stuart Wilson | 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: Miranda Richardson | Rupert Everett | Ian Holm | Stratford Johns | Joanne Whalley
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 mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Jonathan Pryce | Robert De Niro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins
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: Christopher Lambert | Andie MacDowell | Ralph Richardson | Ian Holm | James Fox
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. Poor Bates deals with all ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Alan Bridges
Stars: Alan Bates | Glenda Jackson | Ann-Margret | Julie Christie | Ian Holm
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: Rutger Hauer | John Gielgud | Maria Schell | Blythe Danner | Trevor Howard
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 with them.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Craig Warnock | David Rappaport | Kenny Baker | Mike Edmonds | Malcolm Dixon
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: Ben Cross | Ian Charleson | Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Nigel Havers
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: Richard Thomas | Ernest Borgnine | Donald Pleasence | Ian Holm | Patricia Neal
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: David Janssen | Cloris Leachman | Susan Saint James | David Warner | Ian Holm
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 host is birthed.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright | Harry Dean Stanton | John Hurt
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: Richard Jordan | Anthony Perkins | Caroline Langrishe | Ian Holm | Christopher Guard
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
As: The Gatekeeper
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Clive Donner
Stars: Roddy McDowall | Kabir Bedi | 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: Gene Hackman | Terence Hill | Catherine Deneuve | Ian Holm | Jack O'Halloran
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: Richard Chamberlain | Jenny Agutter | Patrick McGoohan | Louis Jourdan | Ian Holm
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 1915.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Peter R. Hunt
Stars: Lee Marvin | Roger Moore | Barbara Parkins | Ian Holm | Reinhard Kolldehoff
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 in this high-spirited ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Sean Connery | Audrey Hepburn | Robert Shaw | Richard Harris | Nicol Williamson
The Wood Demon (1974)
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at ...
Directed by: Donald McWhinnie
Stars: Ian Holm
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 | Omar Sharif | David Hemmings | Anthony Hopkins | Shirley Knight
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: Paul Rogers | Ian Holm | Cyril Cusack | Terence Rigby | Michael Jayston
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: Robert Shaw | Anne Bancroft | Simon Ward | Jack Hawkins | Ian Holm
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 contrasting personalities ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Glenda Jackson | Patrick McGoohan | Timothy Dalton | 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 Oxford, tells ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Dick Clement
Stars: Lee Remick | Richard Attenborough | Ian Holm | Claire Bloom | Jennie Linden
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: Laurence Olivier | Vanessa Redgrave | Maggie Smith | John Mills | Corin Redgrave
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: Alan Bates | Dirk Bogarde | Georgia Brown | Ian Holm | David Warner
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: Derek Godfrey | Barbara Jefford | Helen Mirren | David Warner | Michael Jayston
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 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 beloved ...
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Michael Elliott
Stars: Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Judi Dench | Peggy Ashcroft | Dorothy Tutin