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Birthdate: September 12, 1931
Ian Holm
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
1.5076
4
1970s
2.1492
10
1980s
2.8618
10
1990s
2.5979
17
2000s
2.7101
21
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8493
2.8493
Ian Holm Movie Rankings
1
3.6919A small Hobbit named Frodo is entrusted with sealing Middle Earth's fate by destroying the 'One Ring.' Accompanying him is a fellowship of eight, all sworn to protect Frodo and his mission. ...more about Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Actor Awards
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $2.70
(20 sellers)
2
3.6601Space vehicle Nostromo discovers a strange pod. The creature in the pod infects a member of the crew and a strange alien-being bursts from her stomach. The alien hides in the belly of the ship and continues to grow, terrorize and kill the remaining crew. ...more about Alien
DVD from $7.50
(14 sellers)
3
3.6351The final chapter in the Lord of the Rings epic. Frodo is on a mission to destroy the 'One Ring' and struggling to resist its power. Meanwhile, the rest of the fellowship is preparing for a war against the evil wizard Sauron. ...more about Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
DVD from $1.99
(25 sellers)
4
3.5164
A young boy joins a group of dwarfs on an adventure through time. He follows them through Antiquity, the French Revolution, the early 1900s and to the time of legends, fairytales and fortresses. ...more about Time Bandits
DVD from $9.10
(11 sellers)
5
3.4632
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. ...more about Ratatouille
DVD from $9.99
(17 sellers)
6
3.2167
A lawyer, pursued by the demons of losing a daughter to drugs, comes to a Canadian town where 20 children have died in a school bus accident. ...more about Sweet Hereafter
Actor Awards
- Genie Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $15.99
(9 sellers)
7
3.0674
Sam lives in a world of technology, where the government takes extreme anti-terrorism measures. When he meets the girl of his fantasies, he finds her neighbor has been falsely fingered as a terrorist. ...more about Brazil
Actor Awards
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $8.89
(13 sellers)
8
3.0638
A Scotsman and Jew each sprinting in the 1924 Olympics for Great Britain. One runs for God the other for Glory. ...more about Chariots of Fire
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $11.49
(14 sellers)
9
3.0522
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. ...more about Big Night
DVD from $9.32
(9 sellers)
10
3.0415
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in this biopic directed by Martin Scorsese. ...more about Aviator
DVD from $3.25
(22 sellers)
11
3.0254
Andrew Largeman is dreading to return home for his mother's funeral, forcing him to confront the past he abandoned years ago. When he meets a quirky, light-hearted, free-sprit he realizes live isn't as miserable as he's made it. ...more about Garden State
DVD from $6.49
(14 sellers)
12
2.9970
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. ...more about Madness of King George
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
13
2.8617
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. ...more about eXistenZ
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
14
2.8161
This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where ...more about Lord of War
DVD from $5.99
(16 sellers)
15
2.8043
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. ...more about Fifth Element
DVD from $9.22
(13 sellers)
16
2.7966
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. ...more about Emperor's New Clothes
DVD from $12.79
(5 sellers)
17
2.7814
It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. ...more about From Hell
DVD from $4.12
(11 sellers)
18
2.7630
Sean Casey is the newest member of the district attorneys office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the NYPD. ...more about Night Falls on Manhattan
DVD from $14.99
(7 sellers)
19
2.7448
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. ...more about Naked Lunch
DVD from $25.57
(11 sellers)
20
2.7326
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. ...more about Another Woman
DVD from $4.12
(13 sellers)
21
2.7156
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations ...more about Joe Gould's Secret
DVD from $10.99
(1 sellers)
22
2.6724
This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, ...more about Day After Tomorrow
DVD from $6.59
(16 sellers)
23
2.6614
Dr. Frankenstein creates a simple creature from various body parts. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. ...more about Frankenstein
DVD from $2.12
(17 sellers)
24
2.6593
Zefferelli does yet another Shakespeare, with less success than he had with Taming of the Shrew or Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet's uncle Claudius, the new King. ...more about Hamlet
DVD from $3.68
(11 sellers)
25
2.6256
The tragic story of Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. ...more about Nicholas and Alexandra
DVD from $15.69
(11 sellers)
26
2.6102
Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background it is impossible to uphold the relationship. ...more about Dance with a Stranger
Actor Awards
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $6.55
(9 sellers)
27
2.5563
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a middle-aged former runaway and junkie, goes back to high school. With Stephen Colbert. ...more about Strangers With Candy
DVD from $6.03
(10 sellers)
28
2.5140
Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. ...more about Life Less Ordinary
DVD from $6.33
(12 sellers)
29
2.4721
Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. ...more about Wisconsin Death Trip
DVD from $19.17
(8 sellers)
30
2.4236
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. ...more about Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $7.71
(10 sellers)
31
2.4223
A successful philosophy professor named Teddy (Jayston) braces himself to return to his North London home for the first time in nine years to introduce his wife Ruth (Merchant) to his family. ...more about Homecoming
DVD from $19.17
(9 sellers)
33
2.3374
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...more about Kafka
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.2409
Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. ...more about Robin and Marian
DVD from $16.96
(10 sellers)
36
2.2177
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. ...more about Dreamchild
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Fantasporto - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.2026
Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. ...more about Bless The Child
DVD from $4.59
(8 sellers)
38
2.1889
In this historical drama, Mary must battle Queen Elizabeth I, her brother James, the Scottish Lords, the Scottish protestants, her husband and herself to secure the crown for her son and heir, the future James I of England. ...more about Mary
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.0972
Actor Awards
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $12.77
(8 sellers)
40
2.0261
Set in a small 19th century European village on the verge of modernization, Simon Magus stars Noah Taylor as the visionary outcast who is the key to a struggle against the building a railway station. ...more about Simon Magus
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.9327
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. ...more about Oh! What a Lovely War
DVD from $9.59
(11 sellers)
43
1.8551
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.8364
Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a £500,000 ransom, otherwise the 7 bombs aboard will explode. ...more about Juggernaut
DVD from $6.83
(9 sellers)
46
1.7662
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created. ...more about O Jerusalem
- Not Available on DVD
48
1.7112
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. ...more about Hour of the Pig
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
49
1.7062
Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. ...more about March or Die
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
50
1.6255
Harry Anders is a former MI6 agent who now owns a bar. When a beautiful woman literally runs into him, they fall in love (lust perhaps). When she finds out about his history, she asks him to help with a problem she has. ...more about Blue Ice
DVD from $1.96
(8 sellers)
52
1.4155
In the Bronx, Joe, an Irish good guy, gets bad news twice the same day: he has a brain tumor and his wife wants a divorce, saying he's dull and lacks adventure. With her father's blessing, Joe takes off for adventures in the weeks before risky surgery. ...more about Beautiful Joe
DVD from $4.61
(8 sellers)
53
1.3140
Set in London at the close of the 19th century, the film tells the story of Esther Kahn (Phoenix), an introverted working class Jewish girl who has trouble fitting in with the rest of her East End family. ...more about Esther Kahn
- Not Available on DVD
56
1.0921
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ...more about Young Winston
- Not Available on DVD
57
1.0456
The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy, set in the idyllic Highland village of Inverdoune. Wullie Smith, still carrying the physical and emotional scars of the childhood death of his younger brother, is the village milkman. ...more about Match
- Not Available on DVD
61
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. ...more about Severed Head
- Not Available on DVD
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