Ian Holm
Born September 12, 1931 (Age: 94)
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Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Biography
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II.
Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003).
He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007).
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Filmography
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
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as Old Bilbo Baggins
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Age: 83
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
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as Old Bilbo Baggins
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Age: 81
Discovering Hamlet
2011
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as Polonius (archive footage)
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Age: 80
Ratatouille
2007
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as Skinner (voice)
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Age: 75
The Real Middle Earth
2007
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as Narrator
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Age: 75
The Treatment
2007
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as Dr. Ernesto Morales
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Age: 75
O Jerusalem
2006
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as Ben Gurion
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Age: 75
Strangers with Candy
2006
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as Dr. Putney
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Age: 74
Lord of War
2005
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as Simeon Weisz
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Age: 74
The Aviator
2004
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as Professor Fitz
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Age: 73
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 73
Garden State
2004
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as Gideon Largeman
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Age: 72
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
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as Terry Rapson
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Age: 72
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 72
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
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as Bilbo
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Age: 72
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
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as Bilbo
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Age: 70
From Hell
2001
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as Sir William Gull
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Age: 69
Esther Kahn
2000
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as Nathan Quellen
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Age: 69
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
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as Patrick
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Age: 68
Bless the Child
2000
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as Reverend Grissom
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Age: 68
Beautiful Joe
2000
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as George The Geek
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Age: 68
The Miracle Maker
2000
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as Pontius Pilate (voice)
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Age: 68
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
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as Joe Gould
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Age: 68
eXistenZ
1999
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as Kiri Vinokur
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Age: 67
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
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as White Knight
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Age: 67
Tale of the Tides
1998
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as Narrator
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Age: 67
King Lear
1998
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as King Lear
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Age: 66
Incognito
1997
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as John (uncredited)
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Age: 66
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
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as Mr. Naville
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Age: 66
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
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as Mitchell Stephens
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Age: 66
The Fifth Element
1997
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as Cornelius
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Age: 65
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
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as Liam Casey
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Age: 65
Big Night
1996
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as Pascal
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Age: 65
Loch Ness
1996
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as Water Bailiff
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Age: 64
No Image
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
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as Narrator
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Age: 64
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 64
The Madness of King George
1994
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as Willis
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Age: 63
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
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as Baron Frankenstein
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Age: 63
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994
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as (voice)
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Age: 62
No Image
Chappaquiddick
1994
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as Narrator
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Age: 62
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
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as The Tailor (voice)
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Age: 62
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
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as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)
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Age: 62
The Hour of the Pig
1993
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as Albertus
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Age: 62
Blue Ice
1992
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as Sir Hector
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Age: 61
The Last Romantics
1992
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as F.R. Leavis
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Age: 60
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
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as Self - Narrator (voice)
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Age: 60
Naked Lunch
1991
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as Tom Frost
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Age: 60
No Image
Bloody Sunday
1991
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
Kafka
1991
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as Dr. Murnau
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Age: 60
Uncle Vanya
1991
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as Astrov
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Age: 60
Hamlet
1990
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as Polonius
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Age: 59
A Season of Giants
1990
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as Lorenzo de' Medici
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Age: 59
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
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as The Tailor
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Age: 58
Henry V
1989
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as Captain Fluellen
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Age: 58
The Endless Game
1989
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as Control
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Age: 57
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
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as Narrator
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Age: 57
Another Woman
1988
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as Ken
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Age: 57
The Fishing Party
1986
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as Narrator
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Age: 54
Cry From Home
1986
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as Narrator
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Age: 54
The Browning Version
1985
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as Andrew Crocker-Harris
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Age: 54
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
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as Eustace Edgehill
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Age: 54
Dreamchild
1985
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as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
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Age: 54
Wetherby
1985
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as Stanley Pilborough
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Age: 53
Dance with a Stranger
1985
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as Desmond Cussen
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Age: 53
Brazil
1985
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as Mr. Kurtzmann
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Age: 53
Visions of Power
1985
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as Narrator
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Age: 53
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
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as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
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Age: 52
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
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as Lech Walesa
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Age: 50
Time Bandits
1981
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as Napoleon
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Age: 49
Chariots of Fire
1981
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as Sam Mussabini
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Age: 49
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
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as J. Bruce Ismay
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Age: 48
The Misanthrope
1980
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as Alceste
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Age: 48
Alien
1979
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as Ash
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Age: 47
Les Misérables
1978
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as Thénardier
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Age: 47
The Lost Boys
1978
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as J.M. Barrie
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Age: 47
Flayed
1978
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as The Man
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Age: 46
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
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as The Gatekeeper
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Age: 46
March or Die
1977
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as El Krim
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Age: 45
No Image
Ramsey
1977
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as Bill Ramsey
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Age: 45
No Image
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975
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as Mr. Garrick
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Age: 43
The Wood Demon
1974
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as Khrushchov
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Age: 43
Juggernaut
1974
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as Nicholas Porter
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Age: 43
Children in Crossfire
1974
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as Narrator
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Age: 42
The Homecoming
1973
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as Lenny
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Age: 42
The Treat
1972
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as Gordon
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Age: 40
Young Winston
1972
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as George E. Buckle
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Age: 40
No Image
Funny
1971
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as Huw
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Age: 40
No Image
The End of the Line
1970
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as Reverend P. Bagley
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Age: 38
No Image
The Salesman
1970
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as Salesman
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Age: 38
Emma's Time
1970
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as Mark Lang
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Age: 38
No Image
Omri's Burning
1969
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as Omri
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Age: 38
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
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as
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Age: 37
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
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as President Poincare
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Age: 37
Edward the Confessor
1969
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as Edward Gobey
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Age: 37
Frankenstein
1968
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as Frankenstein / The Monster
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Age: 37
The Wars of the Roses
1965
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as King Richard III
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Age: 33
No Image
The Paradise Suite
1963
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as Jamie Norton
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Age: 31
The Cherry Orchard
1962
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as Trofimov
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Age: 30
Girls at Sea
1958
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as Marine (uncredited)
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Age: 27