Actor Ian Holm, who has played everything from androids to hobbits to King Lear, has died at the age of 88.
Holm was a leading figure at the Royal Shakespeare Company, winning an Evening Standard best
Actor award for Henry V in 1965, before gravitating to screen roles.
In 1969 he won a Bafta for his role in The Bofors Gun and earned an Oscar nomination for his part in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Holm also found a new generation of admirers after being cast as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbusting Lord of the Rings trilogy. Here's a look back at some of his most memorable on-screen roles Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of
fire, dies aged 88