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
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