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
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film) sad, because Napoleon was interpreted to perfection by an actor (Ian Holm) whose performance made me dream of what could have been achieved had the producer and director bothered to read the book." The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film) The Emperor's New Clothes is a 2001 film that was adapted from Simon Leys's novel "The Death of Napoleon". Directed by Alan Taylor, the film stars Ian Holm as Napoleon (his third performance as that person, after "Napoleon and Love" and "Time Bandits") and Eugene Lenormand, a Napoleon look-alike, Iben Hjejle as Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut and Tim McInnerny as Dr. Lambert.