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 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