'Chariots of Fire,' 'Lord of the Rings' Actor Ian Holm Dies

'Chariots of Fire,' 'Lord of the Rings' Actor Ian Holm Dies

London (AP) - Ian Holm, an adaptable British entertainer whose long profession remembered jobs for "Chariots of Fire" and "The Lord of the Rings" has passed on. He was 88. 

Holm passed on calmly Friday morning in an emergency clinic, encompassed by his family and carer, his specialist Alex Irwin said in an announcement. His ailment was Parkinson's-connected. 

"His shining mind consistently went with an underhanded gleam in his demeanor," Irwin said. "Beguiling, kind, and brutally capable, we will miss him gigantically.'' 

Holm showed up in scores of films of all shapes and sizes, from outfit dramatizations to dream stories. An age of moviegoers knows him as Bilbo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" sets of three. 

He won a British Academy Film Award and increased a supporting-entertainer Oscar designation for depicting spearheading sports mentor Sam Mussabini in the hit 1982 film "Chariots of Fire." 

His other film jobs included Father Cornelius in "The Fifth Element," android Ash in "Outsider,'' a smooth-talking attorney in "The Sweet Hereafter,'' Napoleon Bonaparte in "Time Bandits,'' author Lewis Carroll in "Dreamchild" and a regal doctor in "The Madness of King George.''