
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Jay Kelly as Peter Schneider
- 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 · 2022 Wimbledon Official Film as Narrator
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Contributor
- 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
- 2021 · Rhythm of Life as Self
- 2021 · (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story as Self
- 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
- 2019 · Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- 2019 · Love, Death & Robots as Christopher the Poet (voice)
- 2018 · Black '47 as Lord Kilmichael
- 2018 · King of Thieves as Terry Perkins
- 2018 · King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
- 2018 · New Town Utopia as Lewis Silkin MP
- 2017 · Paddington 2 as Samuel Gruber
- 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 · Big Game as Herbert
- 2014 · Get Santa as Santa Claus
- 2014 · Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods as Julius Caesar (voice UK Dub)
- 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 · 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 · Comedy Blaps as DCI Ponk
- 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
- 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
- 2007 · When Did You Last See Your Father? as Arthur Morrison
- 2007 · Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz 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 · Pride as Eddie (voice)
- 2004 · Around the World in 80 Days as Lord Kelvin
- 2004 · Tooth as The Rabbit (voice)
- 2003 · The Young Visiters as Alfred Salteena
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as The Drunken Major
- 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
- 1999 · Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Shy Doctor
- 1998 · Little Voice as Mr. Boo
- 1998 · The Avengers as Mother
- 1997 · The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- 1997 · Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Lagermann
- 1995 · Richard III as The Duke of Buckingham
- 1995 · Rough Magic as Doc Ansell
- 1994 · Bullets Over Broadway as Warner Purcell
- 1993 · Prince Cinders as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
- 1992 · A Sense of History as 23rd Earl of Leete
- 1992 · The Crying Game as Col
- 1991 · Enchanted April as Frederick Arbuthnot
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Selwyn Proops
- 1991 · Performance as Carmello
- 1991 · Happy Feet as Grocer
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Andy
- 1989 · Victoria Wood as Alan Hammond
- 1989 · The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos as
- 1989 · Erik the Viking as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
- 1989 · 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting as Standford Hartley
- 1989 · The Hangover as (voice)
- 1988 · Vroom as Donald
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Ossipon
- 1987 · Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Jean Pierre Dubois
- 1987 · Running Out of Luck as
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Charlie Bennett
- 1986 · The Insurance Man as Gutling
- 1985 · Silas Marner as Jem Rodney
- 1985 · The Good Father as Roger Miles
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dalcroix
- 1985 · Brazil as Dr. Jaffe
- 1985 · Victoria Wood As Seen On TV as
- 1984 · The Hit as Barrister
- 1983 · Dramarama as
- 1983 · Birth of a Nation as Geoff Figg
- 1983 · Blackadder as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
- 1983 · Walter and June as Orderly
- 1983 · Dead on Time as Vicar
- 1982 · Intensive Care as Mr Horsfall
- 1982 · Walter as Joseph - Orderly
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · Uliisses as
- 1981 · Time Bandits as Compere
- 1980 · The Dogs of War as Film Crew
- 1980 · Breaking Glass as Station Porter
- 1979 · Long Distance Information as Mackaness
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Mr Lovejoy
- 1979 · The Passage as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1974 · Playhouse as Stewart
- 1970 · Play for Today as Mr. Horsfall
- 1970 · Play for Today as Mr. Champing
- 1967 · Omnibus as Roulin
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Fools as Cardinal Pole
- 2024 · An A to Z of Paddington as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Call Me Back as George
- 2022 · Birds Like Us as Horozovich (voice)
- 2017 · The Sense of an Ending as Tony Webster
- 2015 · The Weather Inside as Britischer Botschafter
- 2015 · The Go-Between as Old Leo
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
- 2013 · The Phone Call as Stan (voice)
- 2013 · Chance Meeting as
- 2013 · Le Week-End as Nick Burrows
- 2012 · Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as G.P. (voice)
- 2005 · Spider-Plant Man as Batman
- 2004 · Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
- 2003 · And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Harry Aitken
- 2003 · Anna Spud as Dad
- 1998 · Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm as Percy
- 1997 · Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party as Percy
- 1997 · The Peter Principle as Peter Duffley
- 1997 · Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path as Jim
- 1996 · The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
- 1996 · Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night as Basil
- 1996 · Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night as Percy
- 1996 · Percy the Park Keeper as Percy (voice)
- 1996 · The Secret Agent as Chief Inspector Heat
- 1994 · Princess Caraboo as Mr. Worrall
- 1994 · Widows' Peak as Con Clancy
- 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 · Gone to Seed as Monty Plant
- 1992 · Perpetual Motion as Self - Narrator
- 1991 · Gone to the Dogs as Jim Morley
- 1991 · Nona as Carmelo
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Prince Albert
- 1985 · Theatre Night as Maitre Jacques
- 1985 · Picture Friend as Tes Goodwin
- 1983 · Tales Out of School as Geoff Figg
- 1982 · Objects of Affection as Second Attendant
- 1982 · Our Winnie as Second Attendant
- 1982 · Bird of Prey as
- 1980 · The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice as Mr. Champing
- 1980 · Games Without Frontiers as Stewart
- 1979 · Phoelix as
- 1978 · The Shout as Fielder in Cowpat
- 1971 · The Go-Between as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Asylum as The Prison Director