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,
Eleanor Holm to the "New York Times". This sensational divorce trial was called "the war of the Roses" and is the subject of a chapter in Louis Nizer's book "My Life in Court." Several months later, she married Thomas Whalen, an oil-drilling executive. In 1966, Holm was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She died of renal disease in Miami, Florida, on January 31, 2004 at the age of 90. Holm is portrayed by Heidi O'Rourke in the 1975 film "Funny Lady". A protagonist based on Eleanor Holm, with the fictionalized name Eleanor Emerson, appears in the 2012 novel "Flight