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https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ian-holm-dead-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-1234642549/Ian Holm, the classically trained Shakespearean actor best known to film audiences for his performances in films including the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, Chariots of Fire and Alien, has died. He was 88.
A rep for the actor has said Holm died in hospital on Friday morning. The actor had been battling Parkinsons Disease for a number of years. However, as recently as January, Holm appeared in person to collect the Newport Beach Film Festivals Icon Award in London.
Holm, who was celebrated for interpretations of most of the Shakespeare canon, including a towering King Lear, also excelled onstage in the original production of Harold Pinters The Homecoming, which he also brought to Broadway. He began working in films only midway through his career, debuting with an adaptation of his stage performance in A Midsummer Nights Dream in 1968.
In later years, however, he worked increasingly in movies and more selectively onstage, appearing in high-profile films such as Alien, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings pics The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King and Hobbit movies An Unexpected Journey and The Battle of the Five Armies.
A rep for the actor has said Holm died in hospital on Friday morning. The actor had been battling Parkinsons Disease for a number of years. However, as recently as January, Holm appeared in person to collect the Newport Beach Film Festivals Icon Award in London.
Holm, who was celebrated for interpretations of most of the Shakespeare canon, including a towering King Lear, also excelled onstage in the original production of Harold Pinters The Homecoming, which he also brought to Broadway. He began working in films only midway through his career, debuting with an adaptation of his stage performance in A Midsummer Nights Dream in 1968.
In later years, however, he worked increasingly in movies and more selectively onstage, appearing in high-profile films such as Alien, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings pics The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King and Hobbit movies An Unexpected Journey and The Battle of the Five Armies.
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Damn. RIP Ian Holm (Original Post)
blogslut
Jun 2020
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spanone
(135,838 posts)1. K&R...
Aristus
(66,379 posts)2. Oh no.
What a wonderful, wonderful actor.
It's been said that the actors creating the screen characters from Tolkien's writing had an easy job of it, because they had a built-in audience. But they really had a difficult job, and Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins, especially. For people who came to the movies with no prior knowledge of the story, Holm had to create a character that they would not only love, but understand why the other characters in the tale loved him. He did that beautifully.
Zoonart
(11,866 posts)3. RIP Ian... great actor.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)4. RIP Ian, I pray he died in peace and it wasn't CV19
2naSalit
(86,630 posts)5. ...
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)6. "The most famous of Hobbits"
R.I.P. Sir Ian Holm
oasis
(49,387 posts)7. Superb actor. Throroughly engaged in his roles. Rest in peace.
Ian Holm.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)8. Very sad.
RIP Mr. Holm
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)9. RIP
Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)10. RIP
That's sad, another great one has gone.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)11. RIP Bilbo...
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)12. A na marie, Ring Bearer.
ancianita
(36,058 posts)13. A great human.
His films are his timeless memorial.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)14. I need pics of these actors, can't remember names, only faces
RIP
Who can forget this one?
REST IN PEACE mr. Bilbo Baggins