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Ian Holm has died. A great character actor, someone you were always glad to see. The obits are mentioning his work in Alien and The Lord Of The Rings series, and even his one Oscar nomination for Chariots Of Fire, but those are not my favorite performances.
So what did I like best? It's hard to chose, as he was in well over a hundred movies and TV shows, and rarely gave a bad performance. But here's a top ten of sorts, in chronological order, which also demonstrates the variety of work he did:
Mr. Kurtzmann in Brazil
Lewis Caroll in Dreamchild
Ken in Another Woman
Polonius in the Mel Gibson Hamlet
Willis in The Madness Of King George
Cornelius in The Fifth Element
Mitchell in The Sweet Hereafter
Kiri Vinokur in eXistenZ
Joe Gould in Joe Gould's Secret
posted by LAGuy @ 9:13 AM
2 Comments:
As Fluellen (the Welshman) in Branagh's Henry V.
As usual, I have seen almost none of these films.
But I saw Alien several times, and he was really, really creepy in it.
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