Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on television. He was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on September 12, 1931, in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents who worked at the Essex mental asylum. His mother, Jean Wilson (née Holm), was a nurse, and his father, Doctor James Harvey Cuthbert, was a psychiatrist. Young Holm was brought up in London. At the age of seven he was inspired by the seeing 'Les Miserables' and became fond of acting. Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1950 to the Royal Shakespeare Company. There he emerged as an actor whose range and effortless style allowed him to play almost entire Shakespeare's repertoire. In 1959 his stage partner Laurence Olivier scored a hit on Ian Holm in a sword fight in a production of 'Coriolanus'. Holm still had a scar on his finger. In 1965 Holm made his debut on television as Richard III on the BBC's The Wars of the Roses (1965), which was a filmed theatrical production of four of Shakespeare's plays condensed down into a trilogy. In 1969 Holm won his first BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor for The Bofors Gun (1968), then followed a flow of awards and nominations for his numerous works in film and on television. In 1981, he played one of his best known roles, Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981), for which he was nominated for Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In the late 1990s, he gave a highly-acclaimed turn as the lawyer, Mitchell, in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and was subsequently cast in a number of high-profile Hollywood films of the next decade, playing Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element (1997), Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Professor Fitz in The Aviator (2004), as well as Zach Braff's character's father Gideon in Garden State (2004). His last non-Hobbit film role was a voice part as Skinner in Ratatouille (2007). Ian Holm had five children, three daughters and two sons from the first two of his four wives and from an additional relationship. In 1989 Holm was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), and in 1998 he was knighted for his services to drama. He died in London in June 2020.
Ian Holt
Ian Holt is an actor, known for Krampus: Origins (2018), Hello, Are You There? (2019) and The Dark Side Of Opulent III (2021).
Ian Holt
A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Ian studied creative writing, dramatic arts and acting with intensive character development and script theory under the late great Stella Adler. Ian is the co-author with Dacre Stoker of the international best seller "Dracula The Un-Dead", the official sequel to Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" as approved by the Stoker family. Over 2 million copies sold worldwide to date, #19 NYT Bestseller List and #5 Paperback, #1 in France, Germany and Spain, nominated for Best First Horror Novel by The Thriller Awards. For Ian's next project, he returned to his first love, motion pictures. Ian is the screenwriter and producer of the hit supernatural thriller, "Episode 50", where two teams of competing reality TV ghost hunting crews go from the hunters to the hunted when they encounter an evil spirit of tremendous power. "Episode 50" is co-produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Compound B -- a division of Bleiberg Entertainment. "Episode 50" played theatrically in the UK, throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia East, and hit the US in March of 2012. Most recently, Ian penned and will produce the horror feature "Shut In" for The Readmond Company and "Unhinged" for his new production company Alt House (with partners Michael Alden & Michael Kuciak) and Archstone Pictures. Recognized as an international authority on the history of all things that go bump in the night, Ian has appeared on numerous radio, news and TV shows. Ian has also lectured around the world with the authors of the best-selling non-fiction book, "In Search Of Dracula", Fulbright Scholars Prof. Raymond McNally and Prof. Radu Florescu (Prince Dracula's descendant) who's scholarly works Francis Ford Coppola used to research his 1992 film, "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Based on his travels with McNally and Florescu, Ian was asked to join The Transylvanian Society Of Dracula and attend their First World Dracula Congress in 1995 in Romania-a gathering of the top history and literature scholars from around the world to discuss horror's influence on the arts, specifically novels and films. While in Romania Ian spent the night in the ruins of Dracula's Castle in Poenari and traveled to his palace in Tirgoviste where he stood on the balcony of Dracula's Chindia tower. It was from this balcony that Dracula, the great Impaler himself, looked out upon his Forest Of The Impaled-forty-thousand impaled Turkish prisoners. Ian even visited Dracula's birthplace in Sighisoara and his "empty grave" at Snagov Island Monastery. Ian's first film "Dr. Chopper", a slasher film from York Entertainment, garnered huge ratings when it premiered on Starz and has a large cult following on DVD. In addition to contributing to renowned Fulbright scholar, Professor Radu Florescu's book, "In Search Of Frankenstein", Ian has written comedic bits for Doctor Dre and Ed Lover's hit show, "Yo! MTV Raps", and for their top rated New York radio morning shows on HOT 97, LA's KKBT "The Beat" and NY's Power 105.1. Ian also was an on air contributor as the recurring character of "The Renaissance Man."
Ian Hopps
Ian grew up in the San Fernando Valley and started acting at the age of 9 in various school productions. After living in the Bay Area for four years and recently graduating from San Francisco State University's Theatre Arts Department with an emphasis in performance, he's now living back in Los Angeles. Ian worked on several theatre and independent film projects while living in the Bay Area, but his most notable role was the lead in Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness, produced by 99 Stock Productions. Their team went to New York in August of 2012 for the NYC Fringe Festival and left with the award for Best Overall Production.
Ian Hoyle
Ian Hoyle is an actor, known for Granny of the Dead (2017), One and Miller's Hollow (2015).
Ian Huang
Ian Huang is an actor, known for Find Me (2018).
Ian Hume
Ian Hume is an actor, known for Nitram (2021).
Ian Hunt-Duffy
Ian Hunt-Duffy is an award-winning filmmaker from Ireland. Having graduated from the National Film School Ian established Failsafe Films in Dublin. His IFTA Nominated and Oscar long-listed short 'Gridlock' won 60 awards at over 150 film festivals worldwide, including Best Director at the Savannah International Film Festival, Best International Short Film at DC Shorts, and a Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lions. In 2018, Ian was selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talents in Germany as a director, before winning the Discovery Award In 2019 at the Dublin International Film Festival. In 2022, Ian directed his debut feature film 'Double Blind', a psychological horror/thriller for Screen Ireland and Epic Pictures. In 2023, Ian was nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter was born in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town, South Africa where he spent his childhood. In his teen years he and his parents returned to the family origins in England to live. Sometime between that arrival and the early years of World War I, Hunter began exploring acting. But in 1917 - and being only 17 - he joined the army to serve in France for the year of war still remaining. Within two years he did indeed make his stage-acting debut. Hunter would never forget that the stage was the thing when the lure of moving making called - he would always return through his career. With a jovial face perpetually on the verge of smiling and a friendly and mildly English accent, Hunter had good guy lead written all over him. He decided to sample the relatively young British silent film industry by taking a part in Not for Sale (1924) for British director W.P. Kellino who had started out writing and acting for the theater. Hunter then made his first trip to the U.S. - Broadway, not Hollywood - because Basil Dean, well known British actor, director, and producer, was producing Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" at the Knickerbocker Theater - unfortunately folding after one performance. It was a more concerted effort with film the next year back in Britain, again with Kellino. He then met up-and-coming mystery and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. He did Hitch's The Ring (1927) - about the boxing game, not suspense - and stayed for the director's Downhill (1927). And with a few more films into the next year he was back with Hitchcock once more for Easy Virtue (1927), the Noël Coward play. By late 1928 he returned to Broadway for only a months run in the original comedy "Olympia" but stayed on in the United States via his first connection with Hollywood. The film was Syncopation (1929), his first sound film and that for RKO, that is, one of the early mono efforts, sound mix with the usual silent acting. As if restless to keep ever cycling back and forth across the Atlantic - fairly typical of Hunter's career - he returned to London for Dean's mono thriller Escape! (1930). There was an interval of fifteen films in all before Hunter returned to Hollywood and by then he was well established as a leading man. With The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) with Bette Davis, Hunter made his connection with Warner Bros. But before settling in with them through much of the 1930s, he did three pictures in succession with another gifted and promising British director, Michael Powell. He then began the films he is most remembered from Hollywood's Golden Era. Although a small part, he is completely engaging and in command as the Duke in the Shakespearean extravaganza of Austrian theater master Max Reinhardt, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) for Warner Bros. It marked the start of a string of nearly thirty films for WB. Among the best remembered was his jovial King Richard in the rollicking The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Hunter was playing the field as well - he was at Twentieth Century as everybody's favorite father-hero - including Shirley Temple - in the The Little Princess (1939). And he was the unforgettable benign guardian angel-like Cambreau in Loew's Strange Cargo (1940) with Clark Gable. He was staying regularly busy in Hollywood until into 1942 when he returned to Britain to serve in the war effort. After the war Hunter stayed on in London, making films and doing stage work. He appeared once more on Broadway in 1948 and made Edward, My Son (1949) for George Cukor. Although there was some American playhouse theater in the mid-1950s, Hunter was bound to England, working once more for Powell in 1961 before retiring in the middle of that decade after nearly a hundred outings before the camera.
Ian Hurley
