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,
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