Jim Broadbent

ActorWriter May 24 (age 76) Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK 1953–2025 (72 year career)

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Biography

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 Awar…

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Horace Slughorn

Film

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Horace Slughorn

Film

Hot Fuzz

Inspector Frank Butterman

Film

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prof. Digory Kirke

Film

Gangs of New York

Boss Tweed

Film

Moulin Rouge!

Harold Zidler

Film

Brazil

Dr. Jaffe

Film

Cloud Atlas

Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

Filmography

Acting (204)

Movies (157)

Jay Kelly

2025

as Peter Schneider

6.1

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

as Colin Jones

6.4

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

2025

as Self - Interviewee

Paddington in Peru

2024

as Samuel Gruber

6.8

An A to Z of Paddington

2024

as Narrator (voice)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

2023

as Harold Fry

6.6

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

as Self - Contributor

7.5

Call Me Back

2023

as George

2022 Wimbledon Official Film

2023

as Narrator

Charlotte

2022

as Grosspapa (voice)

6.3

A Boy Called Christmas

as King

The Duke

as Kempton Bunton

(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story

as Self

Rhythm of Life

as Self

Dolittle

as Lord Thomas Badgley

6.6

Six Minutes to Midnight

2020

as Charlie

6.1

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

as Self

King of Thieves

as Terry Perkins

Black '47

as Lord Kilmichael

King Lear

as Earl of Gloucester

New Town Utopia

as Lewis Silkin MP

Paddington 2

as Samuel Gruber

Birds Like Us

as Horozovich (voice)

4.1

The Sense of an Ending

as Tony Webster

The Legend of Tarzan

as Prime Minister

Eddie the Eagle

as BBC Commentator

Bridget Jones's Baby

as Dad

Ethel & Ernest

as Ernest Briggs (voice)

Brooklyn

as Father Flood

The Lady in the Van

as Underwood

The Weather Inside

as Britischer Botschafter

The Go-Between

as Old Leo

Paddington

as Samuel Gruber

Postman Pat: The Movie

as CEO (voice)

Big Game

as Herbert

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

2014

as Julius Caesar (voice UK Dub)

6.8

The One and Only Mike Leigh

as Self

Get Santa

as Santa Claus

Filth

as Dr Rossi

Chance Meeting

Closed Circuit

as Attorney General

The Phone Call

as Stan (voice)

The Harry Hill Movie

as Cleaner

Le Week-End

as Nick Burrows

Cloud Atlas

as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

6.9

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice

2012

as Self

7.4

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

as Horace Slughorn

Arthur Christmas

as Santa (voice)

The Iron Lady

as Denis Thatcher

Another Year

as Tom

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

as Horace Slughorn

The Damned United

as Sam Longson

The Young Victoria

as King William IV

Perrier's Bounty

as Jim McCrea

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2008

as Dean Charles Stanforth

6.0

Inkheart

2008

as Fenoglio

6.3

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Self

4.5

Einstein and Eddington

as Sir Oliver Lodge

Lost and Found

as Narrator (voice)

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

2008

as Self

7.8

Tales of the Riverbank

2008

as G.P. (voice)

4.6

Hot Fuzz

2007

as Inspector Frank Butterman

7.6

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

2007

as Arthur Morrison

6.5

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

2007

as Self

Longford

2006

as Lord Longford

6.5

Art School Confidential

2006

as Jimmy

6.1

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

as Prof. Digory Kirke

7.1

Robots

2005

as Madame Gasket (voice)

Spider-Plant Man

as Batman

Valiant

as Sergeant (voice)

The Magic Roundabout

as Brian (voice)

Around the World in 80 Days

2004

as Lord Kelvin

6.0

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2004

as Dad

6.2

Tooth

2004

as The Rabbit (voice)

Vera Drake

as Judge

Vanity Fair

as Mr. Osborne

Pride

as Eddie (voice)

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

2004

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)

Bright Young Things

as The Drunken Major

Anna Spud

as Dad

The Young Visiters

2003

as Alfred Salteena

5.4

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

as Harry Aitken

Gangs of New York

as Boss Tweed

Nicholas Nickleby

as Mr. Wackford Squeers

The Gathering Storm

as Desmond Morton

The King's Beard

as The Wizard (voice)

6.0

Moulin Rouge!

2001

as Harold Zidler

7.5

Bridget Jones's Diary

as Bridget's Dad

Iris

as John Bayley

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'

as Self

Topsy-Turvy

as W. S. Gilbert

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

1999

as The Shy Doctor

7.4

Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm

1998

as Percy

The Avengers

as Mother

Little Voice

as Mr. Boo

Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party

1997

as Percy

The Borrowers

1997

as Pod Clock

6.0

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

as Dr. Lagermann

6.3

Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path

1997

as Jim

Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night

1996

as Percy

The Secret Agent

1996

as Chief Inspector Heat

5.5

Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night

1996

as Basil

Richard III

1995

as The Duke of Buckingham

Rough Magic

as Doc Ansell

The Last Englishman

as Col. Alfred D. Wintle

Bullets Over Broadway

as Warner Purcell

Widows' Peak

as Con Clancy

Princess Caraboo

as Mr. Worrall

Prince Cinders

as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)

Wide-Eyed and Legless

1993

as Deric Longden

6.0

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

1993

as The Earl of Leete

4.0

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

1993

as George

The Crying Game

1992

as Col

6.8

A Sense of History

1992

as 23rd Earl of Leete

7.3

Nona

1991

as Carmelo

Enchanted April

1991

as Frederick Arbuthnot

6.7

Happy Feet

1991

as Grocer

Life Is Sweet

as Andy

Van Gogh

as Roulin

Erik the Viking

as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

5.9

The Hangover

1989

as (voice)

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

1989

as Standford Hartley

Vroom

1988

as Donald

6.1

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

as Prince Albert

7.6

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1987

as Jean Pierre Dubois

Running Out of Luck

The Insurance Man

as Gutling

Brazil

as Dr. Jaffe

Silas Marner

as Jem Rodney

The Good Father

as Roger Miles

Picture Friend

as Tes Goodwin

Happy Families

1985

as Dalcroix

The Hit

1984

as Barrister

6.5

The Man Who Shot Christmas

1984

as Nick/Father Christmas

Walter and June

as Orderly

Dead on Time

as Vicar

Birth of a Nation

as Geoff Figg

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

1982

as Self (archive footage)

Walter

as Joseph - Orderly

Our Winnie

as Second Attendant

Uliisses

1982

3.8

Intensive Care

1982

as Mr Horsfall

Time Bandits

1981

as Compere

6.6

Games Without Frontiers

1980

as Stewart

The Dogs of War

as Film Crew

Breaking Glass

as Station Porter

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

1980

as Mr. Champing

The Passage

1979

as German Soldier (uncredited)

6.1

Long Distance Information

1979

as Mackaness

Phoelix

1979

The Shout

1978

as Fielder in Cowpat

6.0

The Life Story of Baal

1978

as Woodcutter

The Go-Between

1971

as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

6.8

Dennis

Fools

as Cardinal Pole

Asylum

as The Prison Director

Superman Redeemed

as Jean Pierre Dubois

Television (47)

My Lady Jane

2024

as Duke of Leicester

7.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022

as Snaggleroot (voice)

7.2

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

2022

as Lord Marcham

6.6

Ten Percent

2022

as Richard Nightingale

Trying

as George

Staged

as Jim

Black Narcissus

as Father Roberts

Love, Death & Robots

as Christopher the Poet (voice)

War and Peace

as Prince Bolkonsky

London Spy

as Scottie

The Frame

as Professor Horace Slughorn

10.0

The Great Train Robbery

2013

as DCS Tommy Butler

6.6

Game of Thrones

2011

as Archmaester Ebrose

8.5

Comedy Blaps

2011

as DCI Ponk

Exile

as Sam Ronstadt

Downton Abbey

as Jim Broadbent

Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

The Street

as Stan McDermott

The Peter Principle

as Peter Duffley

Percy the Park Keeper

1996

as Percy (voice)

5.0

The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge

1996

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)

Gone to Seed

as Monty Plant

Perpetual Motion

as Self - Narrator

Performance

as Carmello

Murder Most Horrid

as Selwyn Proops

Gone to the Dogs

as Jim Morley

The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos

Victoria Wood

as Alan Hammond

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Ossipon

Inspector Morse

1987

as Charlie Bennett

7.9

Theatre Night

1985

as Maitre Jacques

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Happy Families

as Dalcroix

Blackadder

as Prince Albert

Dramarama

Tales Out of School

as Geoff Figg

Bird of Prey

1982

as DI Stanley Richardson

6.7

Objects of Affection

1982

as Second Attendant

7.0

Only Fools and Horses

1981

as Roy Slater

8.1

Tales of the Unexpected

as Mr Lovejoy

Playhouse

as Stewart

Play for Today

as Mr. Champing

Omnibus

as Roulin

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

Writer

A Sense of History

Writer

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

1989

Writer