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.
RIP Sir Ian
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