Also with Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Michael Zelniker, Nicholas Campbell, and Roy Scheider.

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With Ian Holm as the icy father and songs by Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Shins.

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As with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit opens with a scene not present in the original story: re-meeting older Bilbo (Ian Holm) and a heartbreakingly innocent Frodo (Elijah Wood).

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With Ian Holm, stranded in every sense.

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Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman seemed to grow a little more slowly into his character, but only because we are used to seeing Ian Holm for so long in the The Lord of the Rings film credits.

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More stagey, less technically sophisticated than their contemporary counterparts, these period pieces feature names like Ian McKellen, Clive Swift, Diana Rigg and Prunella Scales in minor roles, and commanding performances from Richard Johnson as Antony and Othello (to a chilling Iago from the young Ian Holm).

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And "Dreamchild" (1985), with Ian Holm as Lewis Carroll and Coral Browne as an aged Alice Liddell, jumps from reality to memory to fantasy and back again as it charts the odd and unsettling, yet somehow life-affirming, relationship between a repressed but brilliant fabulist and his juvenile muse.

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Nominees for best actor in a miniseries or made-for-TV movie were Sam Shepard for his role as author Dashiell Hammett in "Dash and Lilly, " Jack Lemmon for "Inherit the Wind" (Showtime), Ian Holm for "King Lear" on PBS, Don Cheadle for "A Lesson Before Dying" (HBO) and Stanley Tucci for "Winchell" (HBO).

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When Mitchell Stephens (a litigation attorney played, in The Performance of his hugely impressive career, by Ian Holm) appears on the scene, you hope that he's going to be a source of healing, but Stephens is dealing with ghosts of his own that make him pursue a questionable lawsuit against the bus company with something approaching Biblical fury.

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