The Lord of the Rings Star Was 88


Actor Ian Holm has died at the age of 88. Holm, a classically trained Shakespearean actor, is best known among wider audiences for playing Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies, and for roles in Chariots of Fire and Alien.

Holm, born Ian Holm Cuthbert in Goodmayes, England, began his career as a stage actor in the 1950s. In 1954, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-on-Avon, and five years later, he broke out following star turns in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear.

The actor remained with the RSC until 1967, when he made the transition to film with a feature adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the years following, Holm appeared in dozens of film and television projects, including mini-series The Lost Boys and Holocaust, Alien, and The Homecoming. In 1981, Holm played Olympic trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor (he lost to Arthur‘s John Gielgud).

In the 1980s and 1990s, Holm continued his work in Hollywood productions, while also returning to the stage for high-profile roles. The period saw Holm come into his own as a leading man, with roles as Napoleon in Time Bandits, Captain Fluellen in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry VBrazilDance With a Stranger, and Woody Allen’s Another Woman.

Holm’s best known role came in 2001 epic The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, in which he played hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Holm would go on to reprise the role in the second Lord of the Rings Film, as well as two follow-up films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

On the television side, Holm received critical acclaim for his performance in Lear (1999), which earned him his first Emmy Award. Just two years later, the actor won another Emmy for his performance opposite Judi Dench in HBO’s The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.

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