Alien (film) caused an usher to faint. In the following scene, Ash's head is placed on a table and re-activated; for portions of this scene, an animatronic head was made using a face cast of the actor, Ian Holm. However, the latex of the head shrank while curing and the result was not entirely convincing. For the bulk of the scene, Holm knelt under the table with his head coming up through a hole. Milk, caviar, pasta, fiber optics, and glass marbles were combined to form the android's innards. Giger made several conceptual paintings of the adult Alien before settling on the
Ian Holm Supporting Actor. Back home in England, he won a BAFTA award, for Best Supporting Actor, for "Chariots". In the 1980s, he had memorable roles in "Time Bandits" (1981), "" (1984) and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" (1985). He played Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland" in the Dennis Potter-scripted fantasy "Dreamchild" (1985). In 1989, Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for the TV series "Game, Set and Match". Based on the novels by Len Deighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who discovers that his own wife is an enemy spy. He continued to perform Shakespeare, and