Bruce Forsyth

ActorWriter Feb 22 (died age 89) Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK 1959–2025 (66 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Biography

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE was an English presenter and entertainer whose career spanned more than 70 years. Forsyth came to national attention from the mid-1950s through the ITV series Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Known For

Film

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Swinburne

Film

Star!

Arthur Lawrence

Film

Strictly Come Dancing

Self - Presenter

Film

Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark

Self

Film

Downton Abbey

Sir Bruce Forsyth

Film

House!

Himself

Film

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

Clayton (segment "Avarice")

Film

The Muppet Show

Self - Special Guest Star

Filmography

Acting (69)

Movies (29)

Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire

2025

as Self (archive footage)

Strictly Come Dancing: 20 Fabulous Years

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Parkinson at 50

2021

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Strictly Len Goodman

2016

as Self (archive footage)

Bruce's Hall of Fame with Alexander Armstrong

2016

as Self - Presenter

8.5

Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark

2014

as Self

7.0

The Fight for Saturday Night

2014

as Self

7.0

A Concert for Heroes

2010

as Self

Kathy Kirby: My Story By The Golden Girl of Pop

2009

as Self

Happy Birthday Brucie!

2008

as Self - Performer

Best Ever Muppet Moments

2006

as Self

6.0

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters

2003

House!

2000

as Himself

6.7

An Audience with Bruce Forsyth

1997

An Audience with Ronnie Corbett

1997

6.5

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck

1994

as Self - Audience Member

An Evening with Lee Evans

1993

as Himself

Alma Cogan: The Girl With The Giggle In Her Voice

1991

as Self

An Audience with Jackie Mason

Bruce and Ronnie

as Self

An Audience with Joan Rivers

Anna Pavlova

as impresario Butt

Sammy and Bruce

as Self

The Mating Season

1976

as Bruce Gillespie

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

as Swinburne

7.0

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

1971

as Clayton (segment "Avarice")

4.8

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

as Uncle Limelight

Star!

as Arthur Lawrence

Good Game, Good Game!

Television (40)

The Interviews

2015

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show

as Self - Guest

Perspectives

Downton Abbey

as Sir Bruce Forsyth

A Comedy Roast

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

2009

5.9

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

2009

as Self

5.2

Bruce's Generation Game - Now And Then

2007

Legends

2006

as Self

5.0

The Story of Light Entertainment

2006

as Self

5.0

Strictly Come Dancing

2004

as Self - Presenter

5.9

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

6.9

Didn't They Do Well

2004

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self

Loose Women

as Self

Parkinson

as Self

The Frank Skinner Show

as Self

Room 101

as Self

GMTV

as Self

Fiddley Foodle Bird

as Narrator (voice)

Bruce's Guest Night

1992

Have I Got News for You

as Self - Host

Takeover Bid

You Bet!

Going Live!

as Self

Wedden, dat..?

as Self

Slinger's Day

as Cecil Slinger

Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak

The Price Is Right

Wogan

as Self

Magnum, P.I.

as Lottery Host

Play Your Cards Right

1980

7.3

The Cannon & Ball Show

1979

as Self

An Audience with...

1978

as Self

5.3

Bruce Forsyth's Big Night

1978

The Muppet Show

1976

as Self - Special Guest Star

8.0

The Generation Game

1971

9.0

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Sir Simon de Canterville

5.5

The Bruce Forsyth Show

1959

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Self - Presenter

7.1

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Strictly Come Dancing

2004

Writer

5.9