RIP Actor Ian Holm

[Bowie]

Bummer. 88 years old. He played Bilbo Baggins in LoTR, and was also in Alien, Chariots of Fire, and Henry V.

Ian Holm, Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins, Dies at 88

The classically trained Shakespearean actor best known for performances in “Lord of the Rings" and "Chariots of Fire" has died.

variety.com

 

[Tommy Boy]

He did a fantastic job in the movies. What a sad loss indeed.

 

[renfield]

I cant think of a movie he was in where he didn’t turn in a solid performance. RIP.

 

[verporchting]

Back in the 1970s he played Frodo in a BBC dramatized radio broadcast in many parts of The Lord of the Rings. It was a stunning cast of voice actors and I remember waiting in anticipation of the next weekly episode with my favorite uncle by a transistor radio, his cutting edge Radio Shack cassette recorder and a stack of TDK cassettes at hand. It was a great time to be alive. Today it seems unbelievable but at the time we were living in a small rural town on the dusty plains of Wyoming listening to some of the greatest actors playing out this fantastic story on the BBC and it didn’t matter one bit that the open air recording off a AM broadcast had us coughing and rustling about or picked up my grandmother working in the kitchen. We each had a copy of a dozen or fifteen cassettes and listened to them until they finally perished many years later from age and use. That’s my first memory of encountering Ian Holm and I am forever in his debt for the joy he brought us. RIP friend.

 

[radrick96]

I’m smoking this bowl for him. I’m very sad.

 

[radrick96]

 

[mso489]

If you can make your reputation doing Shakespeare, you can carry any role, even a poorly written one, and make something out of it. Shakespeare wrings the full range of possible emotions out of you. You end up with the whole damn keyboard and crazy stuff you never knew was there ... I think, not being an actor, but an appreciative audience. RIP.

 

[kcghost]

He was a very fine actor! R.I.P.

 

[Bowie]

One of my favorite scenes of his, as Captain Fluellen, in one of my favorite movies:

 

[dcon]

I first encountered his acting in Napoleon and Me. He did the best Napoleon I have seen in any medium. He was great in everything I have seen him. RIP

 

[saltedplug]

I've watched the LOTR so much I can't watch it anymore. Unstoppable characters in a fabulous story!

 

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