IAN HOLM – The british actor Ian Holm has died at the age of 88 years at the hospital this Friday. He was known for his roles in the Lord of The Rings, Alien, or even Chariots of fire.
Summary Biography of Ian Holm’s Youth and early days Ian Holm in Alien Chariots of fire the Lord of The Rings Women of his life Cause of his death, His films
[updated June 19, 2020 at 17h22] is a great actor of british cinema, who died on Friday 19 June 2020. Sir Ian Holm is dead at London. It is his agent who announced the sad news in a statement sent to the Guardian. The british comedian died “peacefully” in a hospital bed, in the English capital, surrounded by his family and loved ones. In the press release transmitted by his agent, it is stated that his death is linked to Parkinson’s disease, which he had been suffering for a few years already. Ian Holm leaves behind him a career made up of a hundred roles, both in cinema and in theatre and television, where he made his first weapons. Among its roles, the most well-known, it retains the one of Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, Sam Mussabini in Chariots of fire, or Ash in Alien.
Born January 19, 1932, Ian Holm has had a busy career since he started on stage in 1954. After a successful career in the theatre, he launches into the tv and then the cinema in 1968. We could see the british actor in many hollywood films. But it is especially his performance in Chariots of fire in 1982, which earned him public recognition, but above all of Oscar nominations and a prize at the Cannes film Festival. It has also been seen in Henry V, Frankenstein, Beautiful tomorrow, or The Fifth Element. But the younger audience will recognize it especially for her role in the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson : it is he who embodies Bilbo Baggins, the cousin of Frodo, who transmits to him the one Ring of Sauron.
Biography of Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert, or Ian Holm, is a british actor of theatre, television and film. It is mainly known for his roles in Alien, Chariots of fire, or even the Lord of The Rings. A prolific actor (over a hundred roles to his credit), he has been awarded several times, including an Award for best male actor in a supporting role at the Cannes film Festival.
His youth and his beginnings
Ian Holm was born on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, England. At the age of 23, he began his career in theatre at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. His career on the stage is a great success, and opened to him the doors of the tv. In 1966, he appears in the series ” the Body Snatchers, before starting her film career two years later with a role in The man from Kiev John Frankenheimer. It follow then with several roles in the historic murals, like Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, The Rose and the Arrow, or Jesus of Nazareth. It is at the end of the 1970s they get these great roles in movies and became known on the international level.
Ian Holm in Alien
Ian Holm was part of the cast of Alien : the eighth passenger by Ridley Scott. The film was released in 1979. The british actor is embodied by Ash, one of the antagonists of the film. In detail, Ian Holm embodied this officer android of Nostromo, who breaks quarantine imposed by letting Kane into the ship, so that it is infected by an Alien. The film having become a cult, his character and the interpretation given by the actor was the subject of different analyses.
Ian Holm in Alien. © RONALDGRANT/MARY EVANS/SIPA Oscar-Nominated for his role in Chariots of fire
Before Chariots of fire, Ian Holm was already a figure of accomplished actor on british soil, in particular on the boards. He had played in a dozen films previously. But his portrayal of Sam Mussabini, the coach of runners the English at the olympic Games in 1924, has earned him the recognition by both the public and his peers. Following this role, he is appointed in 1982 for the academy award for best actor in a supporting role. It will be mostly a Award for best male actor in a supporting role at the Cannes film Festival in 1981, but also a BAFTA for best supporting role the following year.
What is the role played by Ian Holm in Brazil ?
In the long filmography of Ian Holm, it also found Brazil. This drama science fiction signed Terry Gilliam tells the story of how a bureaucrat becomes an enemy of a State in a futuristic and totalitarian in wanting to simply correct an administrative error. If Jonathan Pryce played the lead role, it also goes back to Ian Holm in the role of Mr Kurtzmann, the boss of the protagonist.
Unforgettable Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of The Rings
Ian Holm is a british actor recognized who had nothing more to prove. It acquires, however, a new notoriety in 2001 when it assumes the role of Bilbo Baggins in the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson. The actor is know for a new audience in the world. The actor appears in the first film, the third, and in the first and third part of the trilogy prequel, The Hobbit. He plays the cousin of Frodo, bearer of the one Ring, but corrupted by his power.
The women in his life
Ian Holm has had four wives during his life. He married Lynn Mary Shaw, 1955 to 1965, Sophie Baker from 1982 to 1986, and then Penelpe Wilton from 1991 to 2001. From 2003 until his death in June 2020, the british actor &comte;was married to artist Sophie de Stempel. She was at his side at the time of his death, said his agent. He had five children : three girls and two boys, born of the suites of three of his relationships (including his first two women).
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