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BILBO BAGGINS
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Bilbo Baggins
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Actor Name:
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Ian Holm
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Date of Birth:
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September 12, 1931
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Place of Birth:
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Goodmayes, Ilford, UK
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Character Bio:
| He was born in 2890 to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna
Took. He is the wealthy 'uncle' that took in an orphaned Frodo. He
raised him telling him the stories of his exotic adventures. The other
hobbits of the shire felt Bibbo was crazy since it's against hobbit
nature to travel. When Frodo reached the age of manhood Bilbo decides
to go on to new adventures among the Elves and leaves all his possessions
including his home Bag End & a 'ring' he had won from a creature
named Gollum ,during one of his previous adventures, to Frodo. Bilbo
had never actually worn the ring nor knew about it's dark powers. |
Actor Bio:
| He was born Sept 12
1931 in Goodmayes, Ilford, UK. Ian Holm has earned respect and praise
from theater, television and film critics alike. He won a BAFTA Award,
Cannes Film Festival award and an Oscar nomination for his performance
in Chariots of Fire. His memorable film performances include Another
Woman, Hamlet, Frankenstein, Henry V, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, and The
Madness of King George. More recent films include Big Night, Joe Gould’s
Secret, Night Falls on Manhattan, The Fifth Element, A Life Less Ordinary,
Bless The Child, Beautiful Joe and the acclaimed lead in Atom Egoyan’s
The Sweet Hereafter. He will next be seen in the Hughes Brothers’
horror-thriller From Hell with Johnny Depp. Appearing in numerous
productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Holm has earned the
Evening Standard Award (Best Actor) for "Henry V" and "The
Homecoming," the latter for which he also won a Tony Award (Best
Supporting Actor) for the Broadway production. He won rave reviews
and an Evening Standard Award for Harold Pinters, "Moonlight."
His recent performance as King Lear at the National Theater won him
an Evening Standard Award, and Olivier Award, and the Critics Circle
Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award (Best Actor) for the televised
version. Holm has also appeared in dozens of prestigious films for
television. In 1998 he was awarded his Knighthood. |
Actor Commentary:
| "I think there's
no question that good and evil collide and combine in his character.
He's like all of us in that sense. His obsession makes him turn into
a sort of Gollum at one point, which was again heightened in ADR [additional
dialogue replacement, or looping]. Then he retracts and says, "I'm
sorry, I'm so sorry!" |
Filmography:
Cromwell & Fairfax
(2002)
From Hell (2001) .... Sir William Gull
Emperor's New Clothes, The (2001)
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV) .... Patrick
Bless the Child (2000) .... Reverend Grissom
Beautiful Joe (2000) .... George The Geek
Esther Kahn (2000) .... Nathan Quellen
Miracle Maker, The (2000) (TV) (voice) .... Pontius Pilate
Joe Gould's Secret (2000) .... Joe Gould
Shergar (1999) .... Joseph Maguire
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) .... Narrator
Animal Farm (1999) (TV) (voice) .... Squealer
Match, The (1999) .... Big Tam
Simon Magus (1999/I) .... Sirius/Boris/The Devil
eXistenZ (1999) .... Kiri Vinokur
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV) .... White Knight
King Lear (1997) (TV) .... Lear
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) .... Naville
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) .... Mitchell 'Mitch' Stephens
Fifth Element, The (1997) .... Priest Vito Cornelius
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) .... Liam Casey
Big Night (1996) .... Pascal
"Churchills, The" (1995) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... Narrator
Loch Ness (1995) .... Water Bailiff
Deep Blue Sea, The (1994) (TV) .... Sir William Collyer
Madness of King George, The (1994) .... Dr. Willis
Frankenstein (1994) .... Baron Frankenstein
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