Bill Nighy

ActorProducer Dec 12 (age 76) Caterham, Surrey, England, UK 1970–2026 (56 year career)

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Biography

William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal …

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Rufus Scrimgeour

Film

About Time

Dad

Film

The Wild Robot

Longneck (voice)

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Davy Jones

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Davy Jones

Film

Hot Fuzz

Met Chief Inspector

Film

Shaun of the Dead

Phillip

Film

Love Actually

Billy Mack

Filmography

Acting (186)

Movies (137)

Shelter

2026

as Manafort

6.7

500 Miles

2026 Upcoming

May 15

Bulk

2026

as The Voice

& Sons

2026 Upcoming

as Andrew

Jun 19

This Is the Beginning

The Wild Robot

as Longneck (voice)

The First Omen

as Cardinal Lawrence

That Christmas

as Lighthouse Bill (voice)

7.2

10 Lives

2024

as Professor Craven (voice)

7.6

Joy

2024

as Patrick Steptoe

6.8

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

as Conrad (voice)

The Beautiful Game

as Mal

Role Play

as Bob

Bloody Fury

as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)

Spectre of the Bear

2023

as Bennett (voice)

Darkling

2023

Living

2022

as Williams

7.0

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

2022

as Self

4.0

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Buckley's Chance

2021

as Spencer

6.2

Lotus: A New Dawn

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Emma.

as Mr. Woodhouse

Minamata

as Robert "Bob" Hayes

6.9

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

2020

as Self

8.5

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as Howard Clifford

Hope Gap

as Edward

StarDog and TurboCat

as Sinclair (voice)

The Kindness of Strangers

2019

as Timofey

6.3

Sometimes Always Never

2019

as Alan

6.4

Red Nose Day Actually

as Billy Mack

The Bookshop

as Mr. Brundish

Their Finest

as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank

Norm of the North

as Socrates (voice)

The Limehouse Golem

as John Kildare

Dad's Army

as Sergeant Wilson

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

as Douglas Ainslie

6.4

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

2015

as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'

Pride

as Cliff

I, Frankenstein

as Naberius

Salting the Battlefield

as Johnny Worricker

Turks & Caicos

as Johnny Worricker

National Theatre Live: Skylight

as Tom Sergeant

About Time

as Dad

Jack the Giant Slayer

2013

as General Fallon

5.9

The World's End

2013

as The Network (voice)

6.8

Great White Shark

2013

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.2

The Hungry Corpse

2013

as The Hungry Corpse

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

2013

as Graham Greene (voice)

1.0

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

as Douglas Ainslie

Total Recall

as Matthias

Wrath of the Titans

as Hephaestus

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

as Spoken Quotations (voice)

6.3

Rango

2011

as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)

6.9

Arthur Christmas

2011

as Grandsanta (voice)

6.8

Chalet Girl

2011

as Richard Madsen

6.4

Real Creatures of Dirt

2011

as Self / Rattlesnake Jake

Page Eight

as Johnny Worricker

Astonish Me

as The Professor

The Man with the Stolen Heart

2011

as Narrator

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Rufus Scrimgeour

Wild Target

as Victor Maynard

Astro Boy

as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)

6.3

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

as Viktor

G-Force

as Leonard Saber

The Boat That Rocked

as Quentin

Glorious 39

as Alexander Keyes

Valkyrie

as Friedrich Olbricht

7.0

Slapper

2008

as Arnold Percy

3.5

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007

as Davy Jones

7.3

Hot Fuzz

2007

as Met Chief Inspector

7.6

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

2007

as Self

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

as Davy Jones

Flushed Away

as Whitey (voice)

Underworld: Evolution

as Viktor

Notes on a Scandal

as Richard Hart

Stormbreaker

as Alan Blunt

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

2006

as Self

4.0

We Love Cigarettes

2006

as Narrator

The Constant Gardener

2005

as Sir Bernard Pellegrin

7.0

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

as Slartibartfast

The Magic Roundabout

as Dylan (voice)

Gideon's Daughter

as Gideon Warner

The Girl in the Café

as Lawrence

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

as Self

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

as Self

Shaun of the Dead

2004

as Phillip

7.5

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

2004

as Self - Narrator

Enduring Love

2004

as Robin

5.7

Burst

2004

as Maxwell's Fan 22

Bottom Mindless Violence

2004

as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.5

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

as Phil Parish

Love Actually

as Billy Mack

Underworld

as Viktor

I Capture the Castle

as James Mortmain

The Young Visiters

as Earl of Clincham

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

2003

as Self - Narrator

6.0

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

Lawless Heart

as Dan

AKA

as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn

Blow Dry

as Ray Robertson

Lucky Break

as Roger

Longitude

as Lord Sandwich

Guest House Paradiso

as Mr. Johnson

The Bass Player

Still Crazy

as Ray Simms

FairyTale: A True Story

as Edward Gardner

Alive and Kicking

as Tristan

True Blue

as Jeremy Saville

Being Human

as Julian

The Maitlands

as Roger Maitland

Unnatural Causes

1993

as Oliver Latham

6.5

Don't Leave Me This Way

1993

as John Tracey

7.0

A Masculine Ending

1992

as John Tracey

Absolute Hell

as Hugh Marriner

Antonia and Jane

as Howard Nash

The Phantom of the Opera

as Martin Barton

Mack the Knife

as Tiger Brown

Thirteen at Dinner

as Ronald Marsh

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

as Helmut Hoffmann

4.5

The Little Drummer Girl

1984

as Al

5.4

Curse of the Pink Panther

1983

as ENT Doctor

4.6

Under the Skin

1982

as Dave

Easter 2016

1982

as Connor Mullan

Eye of the Needle

1981

as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop

6.6

Standing in for Henry

1980

as Bruno

Fox

1980

as Colin Street

1.0

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

as Officer

7.4

Death Watch

1980

as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)

Dreams of Leaving

as William

Deasey (Desperate)

as Deasy

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

as Bill

Occupy!

1976

as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool

Welcome to Paradise

as Hooker Duck Host (voice)

Heart of Darkness

as (voice)

The Turning Door

as (voice)

A Town in Nova Scotia

as Leon

Pink Sky at Night

as Man

Television (49)

Harlan Coben's Lazarus

2025

as Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'

6.4

Kent: Garden of England

2024

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country

2023

as Self - Narrator (voice)

LIGHT & MAGIC

2022

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

The Man Who Fell to Earth

2022

as Thomas Jerome Newton

7.4

Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0

World's Most Scenic River Journeys

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0

Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

10.0

World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

as Narrator (voice)

Ordeal by Innocence

as Leo Argyll

Castlevania

as Saint Germain (voice)

8.3

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

Live from Studio Five

as Self

10 Minute Tales

as Mr Jellaby

The Big Art Project

as Narrator

Doctor Who

as Dr Black

Meerkat Manor

as Narrator

He Knew He Was Right

as Colonel Osborne

The Lost Prince

as Stamfordham

State of Play

as Cameron Foster

Canterbury Tales

as James

Grumpy Old Men

as Self

Timeshift

as self (voice)

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Lockwood

Richard & Judy

as Self

Black Books

as Man at bar

Longitude

as Lord Sandwich

People Like Us

as Will Rushmore

Parkinson

as Self

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996

as Belshazzar (voice)

6.4

Kavanagh Q.C.

1995

as Giles Culpepper QC

Wycliffe

as David Cleeve

Peak Practice

as Alan Sinclair

Eye of the Storm

as Tom Frewen

Chillers

as Tom Dickenson

Performance

as Hugh Marriner

Making News

as Sam Courtney

This Morning

as Self

South Of The Border

as Tony Freason

The Last Place on Earth

as Cecil Meares

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Goschen

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Jeffrey Grainger

Bergerac

as Barry

Fox

as Colin Street

Minder

as Oates

Agony

as Vincent Fish

Playhouse

as Bruno

Play for Today

as Dave

California Avenue

as Jerry

Crew (3)

Movies (2)

Sometimes Always Never

Executive Producer

Page Eight

Executive Producer

Television (1)

California Avenue

Executive Producer