Ian Holm dies an Academy Award-nominated actor

The Guardian newspaper quoted his agent as saying that Holm had died "safely in hospital" due to complications from Parkinson's disease.

Ian Holm dies an Academy Award-nominated actor

About Chariots of Fire

The movie "The Kingdom of the Rings" was 88 years old

Ian Holm

Bilbo Baggins played in four films, went head-to-head in the movie "Alien" and overcame an acute fit of stage.

Ian Holm, the diverse British actor who received an Academy Award nomination, died for his role as athletics coach in Chariots of Fire and portrayed the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in four films. He was 88.

The Guardian newspaper quoted his agent as saying that Holm had died "safely in hospital" due to complications from Parkinson's disease.

Holm gained many admirers of science fiction for his performance as Ash, the beheaded robot that continues to work, at Ridley's Scott's Alien (1979) and office manager Mr. Kurtzmann in another classic, Brazil's fictional Terry Gilliam (1985).

Holm was at his finer finances as Gina Rowlands's emotionally unavailable husband in Woody Allen's Woman Woman (1988) and a senior attorney in the big city in the tragedy The Sweet Hereafter (1997), written and directed by Atom Egoyan.

At 5 feet - 6, Holm has always been an excellent candidate for the role of a half-liter French Emperor, and he did so three times, in the nine-part mini series of Napoleon and Love in 1974, in Gilliam's Time Bandits (1981) and in Emperor's New Clothes ( 2001).

In one of his rare shows as a leading man, he was excellent as the author of Peter Pan-GM Barry in the BBC series 1978 The Lost Boys.

As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company beginning in the 1950s, Holm collected the awards for Tony and Olivier before stage horror blinded him during previews of The Iceman Cometh, which made him anxious about working in front of a live audience for more than a decade.

Holm cemented his place in British cinema history by playing the role of eccentric track coach Sam Musabini in the historical sports drama Chariots of Fire (1981). The movie, one of England's most beloved, was awarded an Academy Award for Best Picture, and Holm was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (lost to his countryman John Geldjad of Arthur).

Holm later filmed Bilbo, all for Peter Jackson, in the films of Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003) and in The Hobbit Unexpected Journey Premiums (2012) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

Chameleon actor King John in Robin and Marianne (1976), the father of the scientist in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a disgusting restaurant owner in Big Night (1996), also played New York City policeman at Sidney Lumet's Night Falls over Manhattan (1996), a holy man In the fifth component (1997) and the father of psychiatrist Zach Braff in Garden State (2004).

He told the Los Angeles Times in 2000: 
I've never been in my condition twice, and not a movie star, so people don't demand that I'm always the same.

Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on September 12, 1931 in Goodmess, England. His Scots parents worked in a psychiatric hospital. His mother was a nurse and his father was a psychiatrist and an early innovator in electric shock therapy technology.

In a 2004 interview with The Independent, Holm said he spent a lot of time around asylum when he was young.

He pointed out, I was not allowed near any of the dangerous patients, but I do remember a person called Mr. Anderson. He was always dressed in pure clothes, and on most days he would fill a wheelbarrow with soil and then spend the rest of the day picking up every grain of soil from a cart The hand puts it on the ground.

My childhood was a somewhat poetic presence. I wouldn't go as far as saying I was happy, but it passed without a lot of trauma.

Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then spent more than a decade at the Royal Shakespeare Company beginning in 1954. In 1959 production from Coriolanus, Lawrence Olivier cut Holm's finger during a battle with a sword, and he ended up with a scar he was very proud of.

He made several appearances on British television in the early 1960s, including an important period like King Richard III in the BBC series "Wars of the Roses".

In London in 1965, Holm starred as Lenny, a retired butcher, in the first stage of Harold Pinter's eerie The Homecoming. He accompanied the play to Broadway two years later and won the Tony Award, then repeated the role of adaptation of the 1973 movie. (All three editions directed by Peter Hall).

He wears my shoe and fits it! Pinter once said about Holm. It is really fun.

Things did not go smoothly for Holm in 1976 when stage fear erupted while working on Eugene O'Neil's The Iceman Cometh.

He remembers in 1998: I entered my first preview, which I managed to pass. Then on the second preview, the next night, I just walked out of the podium into the dressing room and said, I'm not going back. I can't go back. ”And they had to get dressed, my doctor said,
 The Snowman went.