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
Alien (creature in Alien franchise) O'Bannon said in an interview, "when suddenly, that word "alien" just came out of the typewriter at me. "Alien". It's a noun and it's an adjective." The word "alien" subsequently became the title of the film and, by extension, the name of the creature itself. Prior to writing the script to "Alien", O'Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel "Dune". Also hired for the project was Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger. Giger showed O'Bannon his nightmarish, monochromatic artwork, which left O'Bannon deeply disturbed. "I had never