Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on television. He was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on September 12, 1931, in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents who worked at the Essex mental asylum. His mother, Jean Wilson (née Holm), was a nurse, and his father, Doctor James Harvey Cuthbert, was a psychiatrist. Young Holm was brought up in London. At the age of seven he was inspired by the seeing 'Les Miserables' and became fond of acting. Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1950 to the Royal Shakespeare Company. There he emerged as an actor whose range and effortless style allowed him to play almost entire Shakespeare's repertoire. In 1959 his stage partner Laurence Olivier scored a hit on Ian Holm in a sword fight in a production of 'Coriolanus'. Holm still had a scar on his finger. In 1965 Holm made his debut on television as Richard III on the BBC's The Wars of the Roses (1965), which was a filmed theatrical production of four of Shakespeare's plays condensed down into a trilogy. In 1969 Holm won his first BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor for The Bofors Gun (1968), then followed a flow of awards and nominations for his numerous works in film and on television. In 1981, he played one of his best known roles, Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981), for which he was nominated for Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In the late 1990s, he gave a highly-acclaimed turn as the lawyer, Mitchell, in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and was subsequently cast in a number of high-profile Hollywood films of the next decade, playing Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element (1997), Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Professor Fitz in The Aviator (2004), as well as Zach Braff's character's father Gideon in Garden State (2004). His last non-Hobbit film role was a voice part as Skinner in Ratatouille (2007). Ian Holm had five children, three daughters and two sons from the first two of his four wives and from an additional relationship. In 1989 Holm was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), and in 1998 he was knighted for his services to drama. He died in London in June 2020.
Ian Holt

Ian Holt

A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Ian studied creative writing, dramatic arts and acting with intensive character development and script theory under the late great Stella Adler. Ian is the co-author with Dacre Stoker of the international best seller "Dracula The Un-Dead", the official sequel to Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" as approved by the Stoker family. Over 2 million copies sold worldwide to date, #19 NYT Bestseller List and #5 Paperback, #1 in France, Germany and Spain, nominated for Best First Horror Novel by The Thriller Awards. For Ian's next project, he returned to his first love, motion pictures. Ian is the screenwriter and producer of the hit supernatural thriller, "Episode 50", where two teams of competing reality TV ghost hunting crews go from the hunters to the hunted when they encounter an evil spirit of tremendous power. "Episode 50" is co-produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Compound B -- a division of Bleiberg Entertainment. "Episode 50" played theatrically in the UK, throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia East, and hit the US in March of 2012. Most recently, Ian penned and will produce the horror feature "Shut In" for The Readmond Company and "Unhinged" for his new production company Alt House (with partners Michael Alden & Michael Kuciak) and Archstone Pictures. Recognized as an international authority on the history of all things that go bump in the night, Ian has appeared on numerous radio, news and TV shows. Ian has also lectured around the world with the authors of the best-selling non-fiction book, "In Search Of Dracula", Fulbright Scholars Prof. Raymond McNally and Prof. Radu Florescu (Prince Dracula's descendant) who's scholarly works Francis Ford Coppola used to research his 1992 film, "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Based on his travels with McNally and Florescu, Ian was asked to join The Transylvanian Society Of Dracula and attend their First World Dracula Congress in 1995 in Romania-a gathering of the top history and literature scholars from around the world to discuss horror's influence on the arts, specifically novels and films. While in Romania Ian spent the night in the ruins of Dracula's Castle in Poenari and traveled to his palace in Tirgoviste where he stood on the balcony of Dracula's Chindia tower. It was from this balcony that Dracula, the great Impaler himself, looked out upon his Forest Of The Impaled-forty-thousand impaled Turkish prisoners. Ian even visited Dracula's birthplace in Sighisoara and his "empty grave" at Snagov Island Monastery. Ian's first film "Dr. Chopper", a slasher film from York Entertainment, garnered huge ratings when it premiered on Starz and has a large cult following on DVD. In addition to contributing to renowned Fulbright scholar, Professor Radu Florescu's book, "In Search Of Frankenstein", Ian has written comedic bits for Doctor Dre and Ed Lover's hit show, "Yo! MTV Raps", and for their top rated New York radio morning shows on HOT 97, LA's KKBT "The Beat" and NY's Power 105.1. Ian also was an on air contributor as the recurring character of "The Renaissance Man."

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