Ian Holm other well-known film roles include Ash in "Alien", Sir William Gull in "From Hell", Father Vito Cornelius in "The Fifth Element", and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" film series. Holm was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, in Essex, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson (née Holm) and James Harvey Cuthbert. His mother was a nurse, and his father was a psychiatrist who worked as the superintendent of the West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital and was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy. He had an older brother,
The Alien (unproduced film) don't know. What its form basically conveys is a kind of ethereal innocence, and it is difficult to associate either great evil or great power with it; yet a feeling of eeriness is there because of the resemblance to a sickly human child." The 2003 Bollywood film "Koi... Mil Gaya", directed by Rakesh Roshan, appears to be based on Satyajit Ray's "The Alien". In particular, the film appears to parallel "The Alien" more closely than "E.T." in that it revolves around an intellectually challenged person coming in contact with a friendly alien. In 2003, Satyajit Ray's son Sandip Ray began