Martin Jarvis

Actor Aug 4 (age 84) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK 1955–2025 (70 year career)

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Biography

Martin Jarvis OBE is one of Britain's most versatile leading actors. His distinguished career continues to encompass just about every aspect of the entertainment industry: film, television, theatre, radio and audio recording. He is also the author of two bestselling books: a hilarious autobiography Acting Strangely and a compelling account of his award-winning time on Broadway in 2001: Broadway, Jeeves - The Diary of a Theatrical Adventure, both published by Methuen. In 2010 he starred as Vincen…

Known For

Film

Titanic

Sir Duff Gordon

Film

Wreck-It Ralph

Saitine (voice)

Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Birger

Film

Batman: Assault on Arkham

Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

Film

Max Steel

John Dread (voice)

Film

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Jeremy Secker

Film

Phil Spector

British TV Interviewer

Film

Buster

Inspector Jack Mitchell

Filmography

Acting (116)

Movies (49)

Brave the Dark

2025

as Henry V (voice)

6.4

New Chilling Tales: The Anthology

as Self - Narrator

Hallelujah!

as Self

Batman: Assault on Arkham

2014

as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

United Passions

as Sir Stanley Rous

Phil Spector

as British TV Interviewer

5.7

Dead Man's Folly

2013

as Captain Jim Warburton

Wreck-It Ralph

2012

as Saitine (voice)

7.4

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

as Birger

7.4

Inside the Actor's Workshop

2010

as Interviewer

6.0

Beware of What You Wish For

2010

as hinself

Neander Jin - Die Rückkehr des Neandertalers

2009

as Peter Blodnik

9.0

Underfist: Halloween Bash

2008

as Nergal / Police Officer / Tarvis (voice)

7.4

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007

as Johannes Hentschel (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0

The Ruby in the Smoke

2006

as Voice of Capt. Lockhart (voice)

6.4

Much Ado About Nothing

2005

as Leonard

8.0

Tales of Isop

2005

as Self

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

2003

as JB

7.4

Lorna Doone

2001

as Baron de Whichehalse

By Jeeves

as Jeeves

Sex 'n' Death

as Neil Biddle

Titanic

as Sir Duff Gordon

Moses

as Moses / God (voice)

6.0

The Absence of War

1995

as Linus Frank

Calliope

1994

as O'Brien

7.0

An Audience with Ken Dodd

as Self

The Tempest

as Narrator

Emily's Ghost

as Papa

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

1990

as Sharp Shooter / Lightening (voice)

8.1

Buster

1988

as Inspector Jack Mitchell

5.6

Make and Break

1987

as Frank

The Reluctant Dragon

1987

as Narrator / Boy / Father (voice)

6.0

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

1985

as The Governor

7.4

Hamlet

1984

as Self - Presenter

The Bunker

1981

as Johannes Hentschel

6.1

Charades

1977

as Sir Fergus / Sir James

True Patriot

1977

as Klaus

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

as Butler

The Moonstone

as Godfrey Ablewhite

The Last Escape

as Lt. Donald Wilcox

Taste the Blood of Dracula

1970

as Jeremy Secker

6.0

Look at Life: Look at Man

1969

as Self - Commentator

Look at Life: The Sinking City

1968

as Self - Commentator

Look at Life: On the Meter

1968

as Self

Look at Life: Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?

1968

as Self - Commentator

Look at Life: High Living

1968

as Self - Commentator

Look at Life: Hopping Along

1967

as Commentator

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

1966

2.5

Doctor Who: The Web Planet

1965

as Hillo

5.6

Television (67)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as Governor

5.4

Cosmos

2014

as Humphry Davy (voice)

Father Brown

as Graham Snow

Endeavour

as Henry Broom

By Any Means

as Paul Hollander

Just William

as Narrator (voice)

Taking the Flak

Numb3rs

as Taylor Ashby

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee

2005

as William / Bartok (voice)

ShakespeaRe-Told

as Leonard

Stargate Atlantis

as Davos

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Vincent Hogg

7.8

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Cowfrey Pitt

Bootleg

as Mr. Blades

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

2001

as Nergal

8.1

Jackie Chan Adventures

2000

as (voice)

8.2

Max Steel

2000

as John Dread (voice)

8.2

Lorna Doone

2000

as Baron de Whichehalse

Space Island One

Extreme Ghostbusters

Richie Rich

as Cadbury, Bascomb

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996

as Moses / God (voice)

6.4

Space: Above and Beyond

as Cyril MacKendrick

Queen's Nose

as Frank

The Tick

as Breadmaster (voice)

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Colin Draper

Scarlet and Black

as Monsieur de Renal

A Touch of Frost

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Narrator (voice)

Murder Most Horrid

as Maurice Howling

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Captain Warburton

Huxley Pig

Inspector Morse

as Randall Rees

Dispatches

Casualty

as Bart

Lovejoy

as Adam Bailey

Artists and Models

as Commentary (voice)

Screen Two

as Linus Frank

The Black Tower

as Wilfred Anstey

Murder, She Wrote

as Cyril Ruddy

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

as Armitage

Natural World

as Narrator

Countdown

Breakaway

as Det. Insp. Sam Harvey

Ike

as King George VI

An Audience with...

as Self

Enemy at the Door

as Nils Borg

Rings on Their Fingers

1978

4.2

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Klaus

7.0

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

as Canon Timothy Donkin

NOVA

as Narrator (voice)

The Pallisers

as Frank Greystock

David Copperfield

as Uriah Heep

European Heritage

as Narrator (voice)

The Moonstone

1972

as Godfrey Ablewhite

8.0

Arthur of the Britons

1972

7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971

as Philip Marsden

7.4

Play for Today

1970

as Sir Fergus / Sir James

Little Women

as John Brooke

Paul Temple

Nicholas Nickleby

as Nicholas Nickleby

The Forsyte Saga

1967

as Jolyon 'Jon' Forsyte

8.2

ITV Playhouse

1967

as David Bryant

6.5

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Aircraftman Dickinson

Detective

Doctor Who

as Hilio

Dixon of Dock Green

as Vic Hallan