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,
Patricia Holm other film and TV adaptations of stories in which Holm originally appeared, the character name has been changed, until December 2012, when American actress Eliza Dushku stepped into the role for a backdoor pilot produced by Roger Moore and shot under the direction of Simon West. The subsequent pilot, which recast Holm as a high-tech and deadly thief, was not picked up as a series and was eventually released in 2017 (digitally and direct-to-video). Kim Thomson played Holm in a series of adaptations broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s. The character also appeared in the "Saint" comic strip