Lord Of The Rings actor passed away in hospital today (June 19), his agent confirmed.“It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,” his agent told the Guardian.They added: “He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer,” adding that his illness was Parkinson’s related.
They described him as “charming, kind and ferociously talented” and that they would “will miss him hugely.”Holm began his career on stage, becoming a star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before starring in the BBC adaptation of War Of The Roses in 1965.In 1967, he was awarded a Tony for playing Lenny in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, but quit the stage in the mid-70s after a severe case of stage fright,.
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