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Jimbuna
06-19-20, 08:58 AM
Veteran stage and film actor Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings films, has died at the age of 88.

Sir Ian, Oscar-nominated as the coach in Chariots of Fire, also played the android Ash in 1979's Alien.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53110391

A fine actor leaves us.

RIP
Cybermat47
06-19-20, 09:27 AM
An acting legend. His structural perfection was matched only by his talent. May he rest in peace.
Eichhörnchen
06-19-20, 02:42 PM
A distinctive and kindly presence... irreplaceable
Skybird
06-19-20, 02:49 PM
Alien...! Finally I get it, I always thought about Bilbo that I had seen the face before and that he looked familiar, but I could never make the link to his appearance as the android - Ash was the name, I think? - in that movie. It always makes a pleasurable sound inside the head when this coin finally drops.
u crank
06-19-20, 03:20 PM
That's interesting. I never made the connection (until I read his bio) between Bilbo Baggins and Father Vito Cornelius of the Fifth Element. Great character actor.

RIP Sir Ian.
Dowly
06-19-20, 03:22 PM
His structural perfection was matched only by his talent.:)


RIP :salute:
mapuc
06-19-20, 03:33 PM
R.I.P Sir Ian Holm.

Markus
Bilge_Rat
06-19-20, 07:42 PM
Ian Holm has been an actor I really liked ever since his role as Ash in Alien so many years ago.

He usually played minor characters, but one of my favourite movies with him was one where he actually had a starring role, the "The Sweet Hereafter" where he played an unscrupulous lawyer trying to take advantage of a tragedy. With a lesser actor, it could have been a caricature, but he managed to play the character with all its nuances.

https://youtu.be/owZW8Ik0gvQ



RIP Sir Ian
ET2SN
06-19-20, 08:01 PM
He took a lot of chances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhNeniXCM4

:up:
Aktungbby
06-19-20, 10:50 PM
He was particularly good as Napoleon Bonaparte in 2001'sThe Emperor's New Clothes https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Emperors_new_clothes_%282001%29.jpg/220px-Emperors_new_clothes_%282001%29.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emperors_new_clothes_(2001).jpg)a retake on the post-Waterloo fate of the Emperor. Holms plays both the escaped Napoleon and Napoleon's imposter imprisoned on St Helena.