Jim Broadbent

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1949-05-24 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Jim Broadbent

Biography

Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 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. escription above from the Wikipedia article Jim Broadbent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Fools

as Cardinal Pole

Magik

as Garret

2024
Paddington in Peru

as Samuel Gruber

2024
An A to Z of Paddington

as Narrator (voice)

2024
My Lady Jane

as Duke of Leicester

2023
Call Me Back

as George

2023
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self – Contributor

2022
Birds Like Us

as Horozovich (voice)

2022
Ten Percent

as Richard Nightingale

2022
2021
Charlotte

as Grosspapa (voice)

2021
The Duke

as Kempton Bunton

2021
2020
Dolittle

as Lord Thomas Badgley

2020
Black Narcissus

as Father Roberts

2020
Staged

as Jim

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

2017
The Sense of an Ending

as Tony Webster

2016
Ethel & Ernest

as Ernest Briggs (voice)

2016
Bridget Jones's Baby

as Mr. Colin Jones

2016
The Legend of Tarzan

as Prime Minister

2016
Eddie the Eagle

as BBC Commentator

2016
War and Peace

as Prince Bolkonsky

2015
The Lady in the Van

as Underwood

2015
Brooklyn

as Father Flood

2015
The Weather Inside

as Britischer Botschafter

2015
The Go-Between

as Old Leo

2015
Big Game

as Herbert

2015
London Spy

as Scottie

2014
Get Santa

as Santa Claus

2014
Paddington

as Samuel Gruber

2014
Postman Pat: The Movie

as CEO (voice)

2013
2013
The Phone Call

as Stan (voice)

2013
Le Week-End

as Nick Burrows

2013
Filth

as Dr Rossi

2013
Closed Circuit

as Attorney General

2013
The Great Train Robbery

as DCS Tommy Butler

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
Arthur Christmas

as Santa (voice)

2011
2011
Game of Thrones

as Archmaester Ebrose

2010
2010
Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart

2010
Downton Abbey

as Jim Broadbent

2009
Perrier's Bounty

as Jim McCrea

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
Tales of the Riverbank

as G.P. (voice)

2007
2007
Hot Fuzz

as Inspector Frank Butterman

2006
Longford

as Lord Longford

2006
Free Jimmy

as Stomowskij (voice)

2006
The Street

as Stan McDermott

2005
Valiant

as Sergeant (voice)

2005
2005
Robots

as Madame Gasket (voice)

2005
The Magic Roundabout

as Brian (voice)

2004
Vera Drake

as Judge

2004
Vanity Fair

as Mr. Osborne

2004
Pride

as Eddie (voice)

2004
2004
Tooth

as The Rabbit (voice)

2004
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)

2003
The Young Visiters

as Alfred Salteena

2003
Bright Young Things

as The Drunken Major

2003
Anna Spud

as Dad

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
Bridget Jones's Diary

as Bridget's Dad

1999
Topsy-Turvy

as W. S. Gilbert

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

1997
The Peter Principle

as Peter Duffley

1996
The Secret Agent

as Chief Inspector Heat

1996
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)

1995
Richard III

as The Duke of Buckingham

1995
Rough Magic

as Doc Ansell

1994
Bullets Over Broadway

as Warner Purcell

1994
Princess Caraboo

as Mr. Worrall

1994
Widows' Peak

as Con Clancy

1993
Prince Cinders

as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)

1993
Wide-Eyed and Legless

as Deric Longden

1993
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

as The Earl of Leete

1992
A Sense of History

as 23rd Earl of Leete

1992
1992
Gone to Seed

as Monty Plant

1992
Perpetual Motion

as Self - Narrator

1991
Enchanted April

as Frederick Arbuthnot

1991
Nona

as Carmelo

1991
Happy Feet

as Grocer

1991
Gone to the Dogs

as Jim Morley

1991
Murder Most Horrid

as Selwyn Proops

1991
Performance

as Carmello

1990
1989
Erik the Viking

as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

1989
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

as Standford Hartley

1989
The Hangover

as (voice)

1989
Victoria Wood

as Alan Hammond

1988
1988
Vroom

as Donald

1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

as Jean Pierre Dubois

1987
Inspector Morse

as Charlie Bennett

1986
1985
Silas Marner

as Jem Rodney

1985
The Good Father

as Roger Miles

1985
Brazil

as Dr. Jaffe

1984
The Hit

as Barrister

1983
Birth of a Nation

as Geoff Figg

1983
Walter and June

as Orderly

1983
Dead on Time

as Priest

1983
Tales Out of School

as Geoff Figg

1983
Blackadder

as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter

1983
Blackadder

as Prince Albert

1982
Our Winnie

as Second Attendant

1982
Intensive Care

as Mr Horsfall

1982
Walter

as Joseph - Orderly

1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self (archive footage)

1982
Objects of Affection

as Second Attendant

1981
Time Bandits

as Compere

1980
Breaking Glass

as Station Porter

1979
1979
The Passage

as German Soldier

1979
1978
The Shout

as Fielder in Cowpat

1971
The Go-Between

as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

1970
Play for Today

as Mr. Horsfall

1970
Play for Today

as Mr. Champing

1953
The Oscars

as Self