Ian Holm: movies and TV shows
Ian Holm has 198 credits in the archive: 135 films and 63 TV series, from 1951 to 2024. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2024 · busiest year: 1985 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | Rook (Facial and Vocal Reference) | Film | 7.2 | 92 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Old Bilbo Baggins | Film | 7.3 | 82 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins | Film | 7.4 | 80 |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Polonius (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 79 |
| 2009 | 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth | Geschichtenerzähler | TV | 7.1 | 77 |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Skinner (voice) | Film | 7.8 | 75 |
| 2007 | The Real Middle Earth | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2007 | The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | Film | 5.9 | 75 |
| 2006 | Legends | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 5.0 | 74 |
| 2006 | Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | Film | 5.7 | 74 |
| 2006 | Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | Film | 5.2 | 74 |
| 2006 | O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | Film | 6.1 | 74 |
| 2005 | Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | Film | 7.3 | 73 |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 73 |
| 2005 | The Queen of Trees | Narrator | Film | 7.3 | 73 |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Terry Rapson | Film | 6.6 | 72 |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Professor Fitz | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 2004 | Garden State | Gideon Largeman | Film | 7.1 | 72 |
| 2004 | Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real | Narrator | Film | 7.9 | 72 |
| 2004 | A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self | Film | 6.5 | 72 |
| 2004 | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 72 |
| 2004 | The Making of 'The Return of the King' | Self | Film | 8.8 | 72 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo | Film | 8.5 | 71 |
| 2003 | Prisoner of Paradise | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 71 |
| 2003 | Monsters We Met | Narrator | TV | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2002 | The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo | Film | 8.4 | 69 |
| 2001 | From Hell | Sir William Gull | Film | 6.7 | 69 |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 2001 | Secret Agent | Narrator | TV | — | 69 |
| 2000 | Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | Film | 5.4 | 68 |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Pontius Pilate (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2000 | Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | Film | 6.9 | 68 |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | Squealer (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 67 |
| 1999 | The Match | Big Tam | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 1999 | Shanghai Vice | Himself - Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 67 |
| 1999 | Wisconsin Death Trip | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 67 |
| 1999 | Simon Magus | Sirius / Boris / The Devil | Film | 7.4 | 67 |
| 1999 | Shergar | Joseph Maguire | Film | 6.4 | 67 |
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | Film | 5.2 | 66 |
| 1998 | King Lear | King Lear | Film | 8.5 | 66 |
| 1998 | Tale of the Tides | Narrator | Film | — | 66 |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Cornelius | Film | 7.6 | 65 |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Mr. Naville | Film | 6.2 | 65 |
| 1997 | Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | Film | 6.3 | 65 |
| 1997 | Incognito | John (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 65 |
| 1996 | Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | Film | 5.7 | 64 |
| 1996 | Big Night | Pascal | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1996 | A Little Fish in Deep Water | Narrator | Film | — | 64 |
| 1995 | Little Red Riding Hood | Don Mini | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 1995 | Landscape | Duff | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 1995 | There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | Film | 6.4 | 62 |
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | Willis | Film | 6.8 | 62 |
| 1994 | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 1994 | Chappaquiddick | Narrator | Film | — | 62 |
| 1994 | Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom | (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1993 | The Return of the Borrowers | Pod | TV | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1993 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor (voice) | Film | — | 61 |
| 1993 | The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald) | Film | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1992 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | The Tailor (voice) | TV | 6.2 | 60 |
| 1992 | Blue Ice | Sir Hector | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1992 | The Borrowers | Pod | TV | 6.7 | 60 |
| 1992 | The Last Romantics | F.R. Leavis | Film | — | 60 |
| 1992 | Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 60 |
| 1991 | Performance | Duff | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1991 | Performance | King Lear | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1991 | Performance | Sir William Collyer | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1991 | Performance | Astrov | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1991 | Uncle Vanya | Astrov | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1991 | Secret History | Narrator | TV | 8.5 | 59 |
| 1991 | Bloody Sunday | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 1991 | Kafka | Dr. Murnau | Film | 6.4 | 59 |
| 1990 | Chillers | Christopher Waggoner | TV | 6.7 | 58 |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Polonius | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | Lorenzo de' Medici | Film | 7.7 | 58 |
| 1990 | Stalin | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 9.0 | 58 |
| 1989 | Henry V | Captain Fluellen | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1989 | The Endless Game | Control | TV | — | 57 |
| 1989 | The Endless Game | Control | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1989 | The Kingdom of Fun | Narrator | Film | — | 57 |
| 1989 | The Tailor of Gloucester | The Tailor | Film | — | 57 |
| 1988 | Game, Set, and Match | Bernard Samson | TV | 7.8 | 56 |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Ken | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 1988 | Korea: The Unknown War | Narrator (voice) | TV | — | 56 |
| 1986 | The Fishing Party | Narrator | Film | — | 54 |
| 1986 | Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot | Film | 5.3 | 54 |
| 1986 | Cry From Home | Narrator | Film | — | 54 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | F.R. Leavis | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Albertus | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1985 | Brazil | Mr. Kurtzmann | Film | 7.7 | 53 |
| 1985 | Television | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1985 | Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 1985 | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | Film | 7.3 | 53 |
| 1985 | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 1985 | Visions of Power | Narrator | Film | — | 53 |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1984 | The Cost of Treachery | Narrator | Film | 1.0 | 52 |
| 1984 | Laughterhouse | Ben Singleton | Film | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 51 |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1983 | Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.8 | 51 |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Joseph Goebbels | TV | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1982 | Soft Targets | Alexei | Film | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1982 | The Bell | Michael Meade | TV | 3.0 | 50 |
| 1981 | 40 Minutes | Narrator | TV | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Napoleon | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1981 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Lech Walesa | Film | — | 49 |
| 1980 | S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1980 | The Misanthrope | Alceste | Film | — | 48 |
| 1980 | We, the Accused | Paul Presset | TV | — | 48 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Alan Corwin | TV | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1979 | Alien | Ash | Film | 8.2 | 47 |
| 1979 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler | TV | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1978 | Les Misérables | Thénardier | Film | 7.2 | 46 |
| 1978 | Flayed | The Man | Film | — | 46 |
| 1978 | The Thief of Baghdad | The Gatekeeper | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 1978 | Do You Remember? | Walter Street | TV | — | 46 |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | TV | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1978 | The Lost Boys | J.M. Barrie | Film | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | The Man | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | J.M. Barrie | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Zerah | TV | 7.8 | 45 |
| 1977 | Jubilee 1977 | Bill Ramsey | TV | — | 45 |
| 1977 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | Film | 6.4 | 45 |
| 1977 | March or Die | El Krim | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 1977 | Ramsey | Bill Ramsey | Film | — | 45 |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | King John | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1976 | Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1975 | Private Affairs | David Garrick | TV | — | 43 |
| 1975 | Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington | Mr. Garrick | Film | — | 43 |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | Film | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love | Napoleon Bonaparte | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Wedderburn | TV | 9.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | Masquerade | Blake | TV | — | 42 |
| 1974 | The Wood Demon | Khrushchov | Film | 9.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | Children in Crossfire | Narrator | Film | — | 42 |
| 1974 | Only a Game | Narrator | Film | — | 42 |
| 1973 | Orson Welles' Great Mysteries | Charles Stubbs | TV | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1973 | The Homecoming | Lenny | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1972 | The Frighteners | Gordon | TV | 8.5 | 40 |
| 1972 | Young Winston | George E. Buckle | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Treat | Gordon | Film | — | 40 |
| 1972 | The Man from Haven | Jack Byron Lever | TV | — | 40 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 39 |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Yakovlev | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | David Riccio | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1971 | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | Film | 5.2 | 39 |
| 1971 | Funny | Huw | Film | — | 39 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Alexei | TV | 6.6 | 38 |
| 1970 | The End of the Line | Reverend P. Bagley | Film | — | 38 |
| 1970 | The Salesman | Salesman | Film | — | 38 |
| 1970 | Emma's Time | Mark Lang | Film | — | 38 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | David Peters | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | President Poincare | Film | 6.6 | 37 |
| 1969 | Omri's Burning | Omri | Film | — | 37 |
| 1969 | Edward the Confessor | Edward Gobey | Film | — | 37 |
| 1969 | Moonlight on the Highway | Film | 6.0 | 37 | |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Grubeshov | Film | 6.2 | 36 |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Gunner Flynn | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1968 | Frankenstein | Frankenstein / The Monster | Film | 9.5 | 36 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Huw | TV | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1967 | Opus | Lenny (The Homecoming) | Film | 7.5 | 35 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Wolfe MacFarlane | TV | 5.8 | 34 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Dr Frankenstein / The Being | TV | 5.8 | 34 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Oedipus | TV | 5.3 | 33 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Khrushchov | TV | 5.3 | 33 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Alceste | TV | 5.3 | 33 |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1965 | The Power Game | Sefton Kemp | TV | 10.0 | 33 |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses | Richard III | TV | 9.0 | 33 |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses | King Richard III | Film | 8.7 | 33 |
| 1964 | Horizon | Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 32 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Mark Lang | TV | 5.2 | 32 |
| 1963 | The Paradise Suite | Jamie Norton | Film | — | 31 |
| 1962 | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | Film | 8.0 | 30 |
| 1961 | Survival | TV | 8.0 | 29 | |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea | Marine (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 26 |
| 1957 | Rope | Granillo | Film | — | 25 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Edward Gobey | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Jamie Norton | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Reverend P. Bagley | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Himmelstoss | TV | 8.8 | 19 |