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 Judi Dench, in 2001. Holm has provided voice-overs for many British TV documentaries and commercials. Holm has appeared in two David Cronenberg films: "Naked Lunch" (1991) and "eXistenZ" (1999). He was Harold Pinter's favourite actor, the playwright once stating: "He puts on my shoe, and it fits!" Holm played Lenny in the first performance of Pinter's masterpiece "The Homecoming". He has played Napoleon Bonaparte three times: first, in the 1972 television series "Napoleon and Love"; next, in a cameo comic rendition, in Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits" from 1981; third, in 2001 he played the fallen and exiled leader in the