Ian Holm Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins Dies at 88

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Ian Holm as Bernard Samson
‘Game Set and Match’ TV Programme. – 1988
A twelve-part series based on Len Deighton’s trilogy of spy novels, Berlin (Game), Mexico (Set), and London (Match) The story follows the adventures of the laconic Bernard Samson and his cool, enigmatic wife Fiona, members of the British intelligence community whose marriage and careers are filled with conflict, drama, and betrayal. After plodding away at his desk job for five years, Samson learns that a security leak threatens the Brahms Network, the spy cell that he had established in East Berlin years earlier. As the man most familiar with the operation, he must return to active service, risking new dangers to penetrate the Iron Curtain once more to find and plug the leak.