Ian Holm movies

Holm was educated at Chigwell School and then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Holm was an established star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before making an impact on television and film. In 1965, Holm played Richard III in the BBCs serialisation of the Wars of the Roses plays, based on the RSC production of the plays, and gradually made a name for himself with minor roles in films such as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) and Young Winston (1972).

In 1967, he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, for playing the role of Lenny in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter.His first film role to have a major impact was that of the evil android in Ridley Scotts Alien (1979). His work in Chariots of Fire (1981), earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Back home in England, he won a BAFTA award, for Best Supporting Actor, for Chariots. In the 1980s, he had memorable roles in Time Bandits (1981), Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and Terry Gilliams Brazil (1985). He played Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland in the Dennis Potter-scripted fantasy Dreamchild (1985).In 1989 he was nominated for a BAFTA award for the TV series Game, Set, and Match. Based on the novels by Len Deighton this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who discovers that his own wife in an enemy spy.

Ian Holm Movies

All movies starring Ian Holm.

• A Life Less Ordinary
• Alien
• Brazil
• Chariots of Fire
• eXistenZ
• Frankenstein
• From Hell
• Garden State
• Henry V
• Lord of War
• Naked Lunch
• Ratatouille
• Renaissance
• The Treatment
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Fifth Element