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Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent

Jim Broadbent

ActingBorn May 24, 1949 (age 77)Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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 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.

Filmography

2025
Jay Kelly

as Peter Schneider

Movie
2025Movie
2024
Paddington in Peru

as Samuel Gruber

Movie
2024
An A to Z of Paddington

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2024
My Lady Jane

as Duke of Leicester

TV
2023
Call Me Back

as George

Movie
2023Movie
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self - Contributor

Movie
2022TV
2022
Ten Percent

as Richard Nightingale

TV
2022
Charlotte

as Grosspapa (voice)

Movie
2022TV
2021Movie
2021
The Duke

as Kempton Bunton

Movie
2020
Black Narcissus

as Father Roberts

TV
2020Movie
2020
Staged

as Jim

TV
2020
Trying

as George

TV
2020
Dolittle

as Lord Thomas Badgley

Movie
2019
Love, Death & Robots

as Christopher the Poet (voice)

TV
2018
Black '47

as Lord Kilmichael

Movie
2018
King of Thieves

as Terry Perkins

Movie
2018
King Lear

as Earl of Gloucester

Movie
2018
New Town Utopia

as Lewis Silkin MP

Movie
2017
Paddington 2

as Samuel Gruber

Movie
2017
Birds Like Us

as Horozovich (voice)

Movie
2017
The Sense of an Ending

as Tony Webster

Movie
2016
Ethel & Ernest

as Ernest Briggs (voice)

Movie
2016Movie
2016
The Legend of Tarzan

as Prime Minister

Movie
2016
Eddie the Eagle

as BBC Commentator

Movie
2016
War and Peace

as Prince Bolkonsky

TV
2015
London Spy

as Scottie

TV
2015Movie
2015
Brooklyn

as Father Flood

Movie
2015
The Weather Inside

as Britischer Botschafter

Movie
2015
The Go-Between

as Old Leo

Movie
2014
Get Santa

as Santa Claus

Movie
2014
Paddington

as Samuel Gruber

Movie
2014
Big Game

as Herbert

Movie
2014Movie
2013Movie
2013
The Great Train Robbery

as DCS Tommy Butler

TV
2013
The Phone Call

as Stan (voice)

Movie
2013
Le Week-End

as Nick Burrows

Movie
2013
Filth

as Dr Rossi

Movie
2013
Closed Circuit

as Attorney General

Movie
2013
The Frame

as Professor Horace Slughorn

TV
2012
Cloud Atlas

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

Movie
2011
The Iron Lady

as Denis Thatcher

Movie
2011
Comedy Blaps

as DCI Ponk

TV
2011
Arthur Christmas

as Santa (voice)

Movie
2011
Exile

as Sam Ronstadt

TV
2011
Game of Thrones

as Archmaester Ebrose

TV
2010
Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart (Older)

TV
2010Movie
2009
Perrier's Bounty

as Jim McCrea

Movie
2009Movie
2009
The Damned United

as Sam Longson

Movie
2009
The Young Victoria

as King William IV

Movie
2008
Lost and Found

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2008
Inkheart

as Fenoglio

Movie
2008
Einstein and Eddington

as Sir Oliver Lodge

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Tales of the Riverbank

as G.P. (voice)

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Hot Fuzz

as Inspector Frank Butterman

Movie
2006
Longford

as Lord Longford

Movie
2006Movie
2006
The Street

as Stan McDermott

TV
2005
Valiant

as Sergeant (voice)

Movie
2005
Robots

as Madame Gasket (voice)

Movie
2005
The Magic Roundabout

as Brian (voice)

Movie
2004
Vera Drake

as Judge

Movie
2004
Vanity Fair

as Mr. Osborne

Movie
2004
Pride

as Eddie (voice)

Movie
2004Movie
2004
Tooth

as The Rabbit (voice)

Movie
2004
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)

Movie
2003
The Young Visiters

as Alfred Salteena

Movie
2003
Bright Young Things

as The Drunken Major

Movie
2003Movie
2003
Anna Spud

as Dad

Movie
2002
Nicholas Nickleby

as Mr. Wackford Squeers

Movie
2002
Gangs of New York

as Boss Tweed

Movie
2002
The King's Beard

as The Wizard (voice)

Movie
2002
The Gathering Storm

as Desmond Morton

Movie
2001
Iris

as John Bayley

Movie
2001
Moulin Rouge!

as Harold Zidler

Movie
2001
Bridget Jones's Diary

as Bridget's Dad

Movie
1999
Topsy-Turvy

as W. S. Gilbert

Movie
1999Movie
1998
Little Voice

as Mr. Boo

Movie
1998
The Avengers

as Mother

Movie
1997
The Borrowers

as Pod Clock

Movie
1997
The Peter Principle

as Peter Duffley

TV
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Lagermann

Movie
1996
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)

TV
1996
Percy the Park Keeper

as Percy (voice)

TV
1996
The Secret Agent

as Chief Inspector Heat

Movie
1995
Richard III

as The Duke of Buckingham

Movie
1995
Rough Magic

as Doc Ansell

Movie
1995
The Last Englishman

as Col. Alfred D. Wintle

Movie
1994
Bullets Over Broadway

as Warner Purcell

Movie
1994
Princess Caraboo

as Mr. Worrall

Movie
1994
Widows' Peak

as Con Clancy

Movie
1993
Prince Cinders

as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)

Movie
1993
Wide-Eyed and Legless

as Deric Longden

Movie
1993
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

as The Earl of Leete

Movie
1992
Gone to Seed

as Monty Plant

TV
1992
A Sense of History

as 23rd Earl of Leete

Movie
1992Movie
1992
Perpetual Motion

as Self - Narrator

TV
1991
Gone to the Dogs

as Jim Morley

TV
1991
Enchanted April

as Frederick Arbuthnot

Movie
1991
Murder Most Horrid

as Selwyn Proops

TV
1991
Nona

as Carmelo

Movie
1991
Performance

as Carmello

TV
1991Movie
1991
Happy Feet

as Grocer

Movie
1990
Van Gogh

as Roulin

Movie
1989
Victoria Wood

as Alan Hammond

TV
1989
Screen One

as Deric Longden

TV
1989
Erik the Viking

as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

Movie
1989
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

as Standford Hartley

Movie
1989
The Hangover

as (voice)

Movie
1988Movie
1988
Vroom

as Donald

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Inspector Morse

as Charlie Bennett

TV
1986Movie
1985
Silas Marner

as Jem Rodney

Movie
1985
The Good Father

as Roger Miles

Movie
1985
Happy Families

as Dalcroix

Movie
1985
Happy Families

as Dalcroix

TV
1985
Theatre Night

as Maitre Jacques

TV
1985
Picture Friend

as Tes Goodwin

Movie
1985
Brazil

as Dr. Jaffe

Movie
1984
The Man Who Shot Christmas

as Nick/Father Christmas

Movie
1984
The Hit

as Barrister

Movie
1983
Dramarama

as Uncle Keith

TV
1983
Birth of a Nation

as Geoff Figg

Movie
1983
Tales Out of School

as Geoff Figg

TV
1983
Blackadder

as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter

TV
1983
Walter and June

as Orderly

Movie
1983
Dead on Time

as Vicar

Movie
1982
Our Winnie

as Second Attendant

Movie
1982
Objects of Affection

as Second Attendant

TV
1982
Intensive Care

as Mr Horsfall

Movie
1982
Walter

as Joseph - Orderly

Movie
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1982Movie
1982
Bird of Prey

as DI Stanley Richardson

TV
1981TV
1981
Time Bandits

as Compere

Movie
1980
The Dogs of War

as Film Crew

Movie
1980
Breaking Glass

as Station Porter

Movie
1980Movie
1979Movie
1979Movie
1979TV
1979
The Passage

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Movie
1978Movie
1978
The Shout

as Fielder in Cowpat

Movie
1974
Playhouse

as Stewart

TV
1971
The Go-Between

as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

Movie
1970
Play for Today

as Mr. Horsfall

TV
1970
Play for Today

as Mr. Champing

TV
1967
Omnibus

as Roulin

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
Fools

as Cardinal Pole

Movie
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMay 24, 1949
Place of BirthLincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Popularity1.5