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,
Holm of Noss Holm of Noss The Holm of Noss or Cradle Holm is an uninhabited islet of the Shetland Islands. It is about 48m at its highest point. It is a tabular islet with vertical faces about high, and is adjacent to Noss, from which it is separated by a . gap Both the Holm of Noss, and the adjacent Faedda Ness on Noss are riddled with caves. The island's other name, "Cradle Holm", comes from a small hoist, or cradle, which used to run between the island and Noss, for around 200 years from the 17th century, to 1864. It was