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	JS Online: Acting the manic 'Joe Gould' stretched Holm beyond his Shakespearean roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Holm said that Tucci, who also directed the comedy "The Impostors," similarly invites input from his cast and crew members, many of whom he worked with before.
		Holm's character is seen as shrill and obstreperous, "and that wasn't easy for me," he admitted.
		Holm's interpretation of Gould, who died in 1957, was invented by both him and Tucci.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/movies/dudek/apr00/holm25042400.asp (811 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Ian Holm
		Holm earned particularl plaudits for his work in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997), in which he played an emotionally broken lawyer who comes to a small town that has been devastated by a recent school bus crash.
		Holm began the '80s surrounded by a halo of acclaim garnered for his supporting role as Harold Abrahams' coach in Chariots of Fire (1981).
		On the screen, Holm was shown to great effect in The Madness of King George (1994), which cast him as the king's unorthodox physician, Atom Egoyan's aforementioned The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and Joe Gould's Secret (1999), in which he starred in the title role of a Greenwich Village eccentric with a surprising secret.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?userid=BL6bcIMC6p&CTR=92269 (759 words)

	8 August 2000
		When the other Sir Ian (Holm that is) arrived from London in March, he was of course jet-lagged but that didn't stop his schedule of costume fittings and make-up tests from taking over straightaway.
		Ian's twinkle and pierce you through — he is so observant and yet he looks at you as the character.
		Ian Holm brings the advantages of live theatre to the cinema, so that resting in the spool cans is a "complete Bilbo" until Peter Jackson makes his selection.
	www.mckellen.com /cinema/lotr/000808.htm (1645 words)

	Acting My Life by Ian Holm
		The winner of many awards, Ian Holm was appointed a CBE in 1990 and knighted in 1997.
		It is a compelling mix of anecdote and observation, and he writes with insight about his childhood growing up next to the mental asylum, the women in his life, his on-stage breakdown, and his battle with cancer.
		Ian Holm's story is both honest and touching.
	www.booksattransworld.co.uk /minisites/acting_my_life (243 words)

	How Ian Holm bagged new fans - www.theage.com.au
		Ian Holm has come to view himself as a character actor, as in The Lord of the Rings, despite a lead role in The Emperor's New Clothes, inset.
		Ian Holm is one of the most familiar of great British actors.
		Holm is really famous, though, for two things in particular: his King Lear at the National in London seven years ago, for which he got breathtaking reviews - he was hailed as probably the best Lear of the century - and his stage fright, which was horrendous.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/28/1075088082044.html (753 words)

	NewStandard: 10/4/98
		And it was a personal triumph for the actor, because 14 years ago Holm had "lost his nerve" on stage and, from that night on, avoided performing before a live audience.
		The twinkle in Holm's merry blue eyes began to fade as he continued, "On the stage, the great storm was mostly sound effects, with the cast only feeling a fine mist from backstage.
		Eyre knew that Holm was concerned that he'd have to bellow some of his greatest speeches against all the special effects, wind machines and rain.
	www.s-t.com /daily/10-98/10-04-98/e08ae159.htm (1114 words)

	Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: Ian Holm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After all, Holm was born in a mental institution at which his father worked as psychiatrist and superintendent.
		If the rest of Holm's life had followed such an outré path, it might now be the subject of endless gossip and cautionary tales -- one way, however unwanted, he might now be very famous.
		One can't help wondering if Holm's bizarre childhood contributed to his ability to play unsettling roles so well, but however dark his muse might be, Holm was knighted in 1998 "for services to drama." Yet he isn't as well known as he deserves to be, considering how much more recognition many other knighted actors enjoy.
	www.fametracker.com /fame_audit/holm_ian.shtml (795 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Holm Sir Ian
		Holm, Sir Ian (1931- ), British actor, one of the most significant contributors to the reputation of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
		Eyre switched from studying sciences to English at Cambridge University, then, after a brief period of acting, began directing, first as a freelance...
		McKellen, Sir Ian Murray (1939- ), leading English actor with a gift for conveying inner turmoil.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Holm_Sir_Ian.html (117 words)

	Rog review
		Holm only recently caught up with Luc Besson's sci-fi fantasy The Fifth Element although he was hardly mobbed by adoring fans.
		Holm finally got his free ticket and an apology from the red-faced ticket man. "So I saw it with eight people and four of them walked out.
		Holm has never done another job but he's also never gone hungry.
	www.fortunecity.com /lavendar/sydenham/306/holm.html (914 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| King Lear \| A Talk with Ian Holm
		That actor was Ian Holm, whose moment of total exposure in the Royal National Theatre production (tastefully handled in the ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre version) seemed just the thing that an insane old monarch would do.
		Reviewing it in The New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann captured Holm's essence: "He knows all that it is possible to know about a character he plays, and he manifests it through the personality of that character.
		Holm has been acting professionally since joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier in 1954.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/kinglear/holm.html (2405 words)

	Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins: Lord of the Rings Pictures, Biography, Pics, Interview, Photos, Gallery
		Ian Holm has earned respect and praise from theatre, television and film critics alike.
		Holm also starred with Dame Judi Dench, Leslie Caron and Olympia Dukakis in the television movie "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells." He will next be seen in the Hughes Brothers’ horror-thriller From Hell with Johnny Depp.
		Holm has also appeared in dozens of prestigious films for television.
	www.lordoftherings.net /film/cast/ca_iholm.html (297 words)

	Biography for Ian Holm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Children - with Lynn Mary Shaw: daughters Jessica Holm and Sarah-Jane Holm; with Sophie Baker: son Harry; also had son Barnaby Holm and daughter Melissa with professional photographer Bee Gilbert, with whom Holm had a relationship after his first marriage (1965-1976) but never married.
		Bean was the voice of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit (1977) (TV), while Holm played in the Peter Jackson trilogy.
		Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and spent 14 seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company (touring with Laurence Olivier in the 1957 production of "Titus Andronicus") before coming to the New York stage.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000453/bio (765 words)

	IAN HOLM at THESPIAN NET
		Ian Holm Cuthbert was born to Jean Wilson (Holm) in a mental asylum in Goodmayes, Ilford, where his father, Dr James Harvey Cuthbert was a psychiatrist and superintendent.
		In 1989, Holm was awarded the prestigious Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in June of 1998, he was knighted by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.
		Sir Ian Holm is married to his fourth wife, Sophie de Stempel, and has five children from previous relationships.
	www.thespiannet.com /actors/H/holm_ian/index.shtml (244 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sweet Hereafter (New Line Platinum Series): DVD: Ian Holm,Caerthan Banks,Sarah Polley,Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A metropolitan attorney (Ian Holm) travels to a small British Columbian town where 14 children have been killed in a school bus accident to prepare a class-action suit.
		Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, and this cast of mostly unknowns, give wonderful performances worthy of note, compelling and moving.
		Holm is a man tortured by a manipulative and drug addled daughter who knows how to exploit his emotions to her own ends.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780622251?v=glance (2361 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- Egoyan's `Sweet' Take on Suffering / Ian Holm stands out as embittered lawyer
		A beautiful elegy about family and community, death and healing, ``The Sweet Hereafter'' stars Ian Holm as a troubled ambulance- chasing attorney who visits an isolated British Columbia town after a mass tragedy.
		Holm, armed with smooth city talk, offers to represent their parents in a class-action suit.
		Holm is masterful as the slowly imploding attorney, and Sarah Polley, best remembered as the little girl in ``The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,'' is especially touching as a teenage musician who survived the crash.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1997/12/25/DD1646.DTL&type=printable (621 words)

	Ian Holm @ Filmbug
		Ian Holm, one of Britain's most respected and talented actors, starred as Bilbo Baggins in the epic trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
		Holm appeared in the religious thriller Bless the Child, starring Kim Basinger.
		Holm enhanced the story of a good boy falling for a bad girl in Stephen Metcalfe's Beautiful Joe with Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly.
	www.filmbug.com /db/764 (471 words)

	The One Ring \| For Online Tolkien Fans \| The Lord of the Rings Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Holm harks back to the set of "Alien,'' in which he played the malfunctioning robot Ash, to explain his creative process.
		The 68-year-old Holm has gotten to do more than he expected at this stage in his career, when he figured he would be playing mostly smaller parts for elderly actors.
		Holm starred in Egoyan's somber "The Sweet Hereafter" as an attorney crusading for the parents of children killed and injured in a schoolbus crash, a man haunted by his own grim family history.
	www.theonering.com /comments.cfm?Item_ID=882&Item_Type=articles (1002 words)

	One day it happened that Ian Holm has found interesting to read MBA Style . Ian Holm considered MBA Style to be ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One day it happened that Ian Holm has found interesting to read MBA Style.
		Ian Holm considered MBA Style to be something very interesting.
		In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of MBA Style with the essence of Ian Holm.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy13480.htm (329 words)

	TheOneRing.net™ \| Movies \| Cast \| Ian Holm as Bilbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Life was interesting for Holm from the start, being born at a mental asylum where his father was both a doctor and superintendent.
		A notable experience for Holm was seeing "Les Miserables" at the age of eight.
		Another profound experience for Holm and his family was the untimely loss of his brother Eric in 1944.
	www.theonering.net /movie/cast/holm.html (464 words)

	King Lear
		King Lear is of particular note for preserving Ian Holm’s celebrated stage performance in the title role.
		A controversial aspect of Holm’s performance was the decision to strip naked during the storm scene.
		As he has shown in his movie roles, Ian Holm is the purest of conduits for the behaviors and motivations of the characters he plays.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/KingLear.htm (979 words)

	Ian Holm - Biography
		Egoyan, obsessed with Holm's compelling performance in "The Homecoming", cast him as the attorney, even though he was nearly the physical opposite of the character described in Russell Banks' heartbreaking novel.
		Holm experienced stage fright so debilitating during previews for a 1976 production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" that, with the exception of a 1979 revival of "The Cherry Orchard", he did not return to the theater until Harold Pinter wrote "Moonlight" especially for him.
		Holm was the sensation of the London season in what he regards as his greatest achievement.
	www.biggeststars.com /StarBiography.do?id=474 (1320 words)

	Ian Holm
		Holm attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Actors, followed by a stint in the National Service.
		In 1954 he was hired on by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-On-Avon where he made his first stage appearance as a spear carrier in the play, Othello.
		Throughout the '50s and '60s Holm continued working onstage in England as well as the United States.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2880 (365 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Rings star Holm to play late Pope
		British actor Sir Ian Holm is to play Pope John Paul II in a television mini-series.
		While Sir Ian will portray him from the time he was elected to the papacy in 1978 until his death, a younger actor will play his earlier years.
		Sir Ian's other notable film roles include his Bafta-winning performance in Chariots Of Fire and parts in The Madness Of King George, The Fifth Element and The Aviator.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4637765.stm (228 words)

	All Things Considered (NPR): Interview: Ian Holm discusses his new film, "The Emperor's New Clothes"@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		IAN HOLM: All my life I have striven to be master of my own destiny.
		HOLM: Pumpkin, I know it's difficult, but you have to stop calling me Eugene.
		Actor Ian Holm in "The Emperor's New Clothes." A veteran of the British
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:53939401&refid=holomed_1 (201 words)

	Ian Holm to Play Pope John Paul II - ComingSoon.net
		Ian Holm will play Pope John Paul II in the upcoming CBS biopic about the late pontiff, reports Variety.
		The four-hour miniseries is on track for a debut as early as November.
		Holm ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) will portray the elder Karol Wojtyla, starting with his election to the papacy; a younger Wojtyla has yet to be cast.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=10216 (175 words)

	E! Online - Features - Specials - LotR - On Location: May 2001 - Page 1 of 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like Bilbo Baggins, his furry-footed Hobbit alter ego, Ian Holm is quite at home in Middle Earth.
		By playing Bilbo, who falls under the evil influence of the Ring before giving it to Frodo, Holm adds to his film gallery of quirky outsiders--a treacherous android in Ridley Scott's Alien, a conflicted lawyer in The Sweet Hereafter and a nervous monk in The Fifth Element.
		We caught up with Holm during a break from his Hobbit hole duties.
	www.eonline.com /Features/Specials/Lordrings/Location/010501.html (407 words)

	TheOneRing.net™ \| Movies \| Cast \| Ian McKellen as Gandalf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Biography: Ian McKellen is among the most acclaimed actors of his generation, honored with more than forty international awards for his performances on stage and screen.
		He was born in the industrial north of England on May 25th 1939, the son of a civil engineer.
		Sir Ian was knighted in 1991 for his services to the performing arts.
	theonering.net /movie/cast/mckellen.html (748 words)

	Ian Holm - CinemaReview.com....Cast/Crew
		IAN HOLM won a BAFTA Award, Cannes Film Festival award and an Oscar nomination for his performance in CHARIOTS OF FIRE.
		Holm has appeared in dozens of prestigious films for television.
		He was nominated for an Emmy award (Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie) for his role in the television movie “The Last of the Blonde Bombshells” alongside Dame Judi Dench, Leslie Caron and Olympia Dukakis.
	www.cinemareview.com /castcrew.asp?id=173 (334 words)

	Ian Holm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One shining morning you will realize that our inner spirit has become nothing and the only think that can redeem it is art through all its expressions, whether we talk about music or poetry.
		It is an uplifting situation that those who smarten up the spirits are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their endless masterpieces.
		So, if you don't find your place try something else and change your perspective about life with Ian Holm.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Actors/Actors_H/index5/Hellyos20329.htm (194 words)

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