Ian Holm Moroccan in "March or Die". The following year he played J. M. Barrie in the award-winning BBC TV series "The Lost Boys", in which his son Barnaby played the young George Llewelyn Davies. In 1981, he played Frodo Baggins in BBC radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Holm's first film role to have a major impact was that of the treacherous android, Ash, in Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979). His portrayal of Sam Mussabini in "Chariots of Fire" (1981), earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best
Eleanor Holm to the "New York Times". This sensational divorce trial was called "the war of the Roses" and is the subject of a chapter in Louis Nizer's book "My Life in Court." Several months later, she married Thomas Whalen, an oil-drilling executive. In 1966, Holm was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She died of renal disease in Miami, Florida, on January 31, 2004 at the age of 90. Holm is portrayed by Heidi O'Rourke in the 1975 film "Funny Lady". A protagonist based on Eleanor Holm, with the fictionalized name Eleanor Emerson, appears in the 2012 novel "Flight