
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for his leading role as Lord Longford in the television film Longford (2006). Broadbent received four BAFTA Film Award nominations and won for his performance in Moulin Rouge! (2001). He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, Broadbent first came to prominence in the 1980s, chiefly appearing in television comedy including playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He appeared in the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet (1990). His notable film roles since include The Borrowers (1997), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Gathering Storm (2002), Hot Fuzz (2007), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Brooklyn (2015). He played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the television series Game of Thrones and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series. escription above from the Wikipedia article Jim Broadbent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Colin Jones
- 2024 · Paddington in Peru as Samuel Gruber
- 2024 · My Lady Jane as Duke of Leicester
- 2023 · The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as Harold Fry
- 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Snaggleroot (voice)
- 2022 · Ten Percent as Richard Nightingale
- 2022 · Charlotte as Grosspapa (voice)
- 2022 · Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Lord Marcham
- 2021 · A Boy Called Christmas as King
- 2021 · The Duke as Kempton Bunton
- 2020 · Black Narcissus as Father Roberts
- 2020 · Six Minutes to Midnight as Charlie
- 2020 · Staged as Jim
- 2020 · Trying as George
- 2020 · Dolittle as Lord Thomas Badgley
- 2018 · Black '47 as Lord Kilmichael
- 2018 · King of Thieves as Terry Perkins
- 2018 · King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
- 2017 · Paddington 2 as Samuel Gruber
- 2017 · The Sense of an Ending as Tony Webster
- 2016 · Ethel & Ernest as Ernest Briggs (voice)
- 2016 · Bridget Jones's Baby as Dad
- 2016 · The Legend of Tarzan as Prime Minister
- 2016 · Eddie the Eagle as BBC Commentator
- 2016 · War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky
- 2015 · London Spy as Scottie
- 2015 · The Lady in the Van as Underwood
- 2015 · Brooklyn as Father Flood
- 2015 · The Weather Inside as Britischer Botschafter
- 2015 · The Go-Between as Old Leo
- 2015 · Big Game as Herbert
- 2014 · Get Santa as Santa Claus
- 2014 · Paddington as Samuel Gruber
- 2014 · Postman Pat: The Movie as CEO (voice)
- 2013 · The Harry Hill Movie as Cleaner
- 2013 · The Great Train Robbery as DCS Tommy Butler
- 2013 · The Phone Call as Stan (voice)
- 2013 · Le Week-End as Nick Burrows
- 2013 · Filth as Dr Rossi
- 2013 · Closed Circuit as Attorney General
- 2013 · The Frame as Professor Horace Slughorn
- 2012 · Cloud Atlas as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
- 2011 · The Iron Lady as Denis Thatcher
- 2011 · Arthur Christmas as Santa (voice)
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Horace Slughorn
- 2011 · Exile as
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Archmaester Ebrose
- 2010 · Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart
- 2010 · Another Year as Tom
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Jim Broadbent
- 2009 · Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Professor Horace Slughorn'
- 2009 · Perrier's Bounty as Jim McCrea
- 2009 · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Horace Slughorn
- 2009 · The Damned United as Sam Longson
- 2009 · The Young Victoria as King William IV
- 2008 · Lost and Found as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Inkheart as Fenoglio
- 2008 · Einstein and Eddington as Sir Oliver Lodge
- 2008 · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Dean Charles Stanforth
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as G.P. (voice)
- 2007 · When Did You Last See Your Father? as Arthur Morrison
- 2007 · Would I Lie to You? as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Hot Fuzz as Inspector Frank Butterman
- 2006 · Longford as Lord Longford
- 2006 · Art School Confidential as Jimmy
- 2006 · The Street as Stan McDermott
- 2005 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Prof. Digory Kirke
- 2005 · Valiant as Sergeant (voice)
- 2005 · Robots as Madame Gasket (voice)
- 2004 · Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Dad
- 2004 · The Magic Roundabout as Brian (voice)
- 2004 · Vera Drake as Judge
- 2004 · Vanity Fair as Mr. Osborne
- 2004 · Around the World in 80 Days as Lord Kelvin
- 2004 · Tooth as The Rabbit (voice)
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as The Drunken Major
- 2003 · And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Harry Aitken
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Wackford Squeers
- 2002 · Gangs of New York as Boss Tweed
- 2002 · The King's Beard as The Wizard (voice)
- 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Desmond Morton
- 2001 · Iris as John Bayley
- 2001 · Moulin Rouge! as Harold Zidler
- 2001 · The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' as Self
- 2001 · Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget's Dad
- 1999 · Topsy-Turvy as W. S. Gilbert
- 1998 · Little Voice as Mr. Boo
- 1998 · The Avengers as Mother
- 1997 · The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- 1997 · The Peter Principle as Peter Duffley
- 1997 · Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Lagermann
- 1996 · Percy the Park Keeper as Percy (voice)
- 1996 · The Secret Agent as Chief Inspector Heat
- 1995 · Richard III as The Duke of Buckingham
- 1995 · Rough Magic as Doc Ansell
- 1994 · Bullets Over Broadway as Warner Purcell
- 1994 · Princess Caraboo as Mr. Worrall
- 1994 · Widows' Peak as Con Clancy
- 1992 · Gone to Seed as Monty Plant
- 1992 · The Crying Game as Col
- 1991 · Gone to the Dogs as Jim Morley
- 1991 · Enchanted April as Frederick Arbuthnot
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Selwyn Proops
- 1991 · Performance as Carmello
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Andy
- 1989 · The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos as
- 1989 · Erik the Viking as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Ossipon
- 1987 · Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Jean Pierre Dubois
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Charlie Bennett
- 1985 · Brazil as Dr. Jaffe
- 1984 · The Hit as Barrister
- 1983 · Dramarama as
- 1983 · Tales Out of School as Geoff Figg
- 1983 · Blackadder as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
- 1983 · Blackadder as Prince Albert
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as George
- 1982 · Bird of Prey as
- 1981 · Time Bandits as Compere
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Mr Lovejoy
- 1978 · The Shout as Fielder in Cowpat
- 1971 · The Go-Between as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
- 1970 · Play for Today as Mr. Horsfall
- 1970 · Play for Today as Mr. Champing
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Jay Kelly as Jimbo
- 1999 · Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Shy Doctor
- 1996 · The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
- 1992 · Perpetual Motion as Self - Narrator
- 1989 · Victoria Wood as Alan Hammond
- 1985 · The Good Father as Roger Miles
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dalcroix
- 1985 · Victoria Wood As Seen On TV as
- 1983 · Birth of a Nation as Geoff Figg
- 1982 · Objects of Affection as Second Attendant
- 1980 · Breaking Glass as Station Porter
- 1979 · The Passage as German Soldier
- Future · Fools as Cardinal Pole
- Future · Magik as Garret
- 2024 · An A to Z of Paddington as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Call Me Back as George
- 2023 · Wimbledon 2022 Review as Narrator
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Contributor
- 2022 · Birds Like Us as Horozovich (voice)
- 2021 · Rhythm of Life as Self
- 2021 · (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story as Self
- 2019 · Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- 2018 · New Town Utopia as Lewis Silkin MP
- 2013 · Chance Meeting as
- 2012 · Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz as Self
- 2005 · Spider-Plant Man as Batman
- 2004 · Pride as Eddie (voice)
- Future · The Choral as
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2004 · Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
- 2003 · The Young Visiters as Alfred Salteena
- 2003 · Anna Spud as Dad
- 1996 · Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night as Basil
- 1993 · Prince Cinders as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
- 1993 · Wide-Eyed and Legless as Deric Longden
- 1993 · Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown as George
- 1993 · Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright as The Earl of Leete
- 1992 · A Sense of History as 23rd Earl of Leete
- 1991 · Nona as Carmelo
- 1991 · Happy Feet as Grocer
- 1989 · 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting as Standford Hartley
- 1989 · The Hangover as (voice)
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Prince Albert
- 1988 · Vroom as Donald
- 1987 · Running Out of Luck as
- 1986 · The Insurance Man as Gutling
- 1985 · Silas Marner as Jem Rodney
- 1983 · Walter and June as Orderly
- 1983 · Dead on Time as Vicar
- 1982 · Our Winnie as Second Attendant
- 1982 · Intensive Care as Mr Horsfall
- 1982 · Walter as Joseph - Orderly
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · Uliisses as
- 1980 · The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice as Mr. Champing
- 1980 · Games Without Frontiers as Stewart
- 1979 · Long Distance Information as Mackaness
- 1979 · Phoelix as