RIP Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm)

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So sad to read that Ian Holm who played Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings has died.

I remember him as Pod in The Borrowers and then in the Fifth Element as the priest.

He was perfect as Bilbo.

RIP

RIP and GNU, Ian.

He'll always be Frodo to me, not Bilbo.
The radio adaptation was pretty much perfection.

I remember him as Napoleon in Time Bandits! "I want to see leetle theengs, heeting each ozzer!"

But gosh, what a career - looking down his films on IMDB he seems hardly to ever have been in a dud, it's like a roll call of some of the best films since the late 1950s.

@PhilODox, yes! That Radio 4 adaptation was absolute perfection. Sad to hear that Ian Holm has died, but 88 is a great age to reach. I don't think I knew he was married to Penelope Wilton at one point.