Jim Broadbent
Born: 1949-05-24 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Colin Jones
- Jay Kelly as Peter Schneider
- What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas as Self - Interviewee
2024
- Paddington in Peru as Samuel Gruber
- My Lady Jane as Duke of Leicester
- An A to Z of Paddington as Narrator (voice)
2023
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as Harold Fry
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
- 2022 Wimbledon Official Film as Narrator
- Call Me Back as George
2022
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Snaggleroot (voice)
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Lord Marcham
- Ten Percent as Richard Nightingale
- Charlotte as Grosspapa (voice)
2021
- Only Murders in the Building
- The Duke as Kempton Bunton
- A Boy Called Christmas as King
- (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story as Self
2020
- Trying as George
- Dolittle as Lord Thomas Badgley
- Staged as Jim
- Black Narcissus as Father Roberts
- Six Minutes to Midnight as Charlie
2019
- Love, Death & Robots as Christopher the Poet (voice)
- Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
2018
- King of Thieves as Terry Perkins
- King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
- Black '47 as Lord Kilmichael
- New Town Utopia as Lewis Silkin MP
2017
- Paddington 2 as Samuel Gruber
- The Sense of an Ending as Tony Webster
- Birds Like Us as Horozovich (voice)
2016
- The Legend of Tarzan as Prime Minister
- War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky
- Bridget Jones's Baby as Dad
- Eddie the Eagle as BBC Commentator
- Ethel & Ernest as Ernest Briggs (voice)
2015
- London Spy as Scottie
- Brooklyn as Father Flood
- The Lady in the Van as Underwood
- The Weather Inside as Britischer Botschafter
- The Go-Between as Old Leo
2014
- Paddington as Samuel Gruber
- Big Game as Herbert
- Postman Pat: The Movie as CEO (voice)
- Get Santa as Santa Claus
- The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2013
- The Great Train Robbery as DCS Tommy Butler
- The Frame as Professor Horace Slughorn
- Filth as Dr Rossi
- Closed Circuit as Attorney General
- The Harry Hill Movie as Cleaner
- Le Week-End as Nick Burrows
- The Phone Call as Stan (voice)
- Chance Meeting
2012
- Cloud Atlas as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
- Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice as Self
2011
- Game of Thrones as Archmaester Ebrose
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Horace Slughorn
- Comedy Blaps as DCI Ponk
- Arthur Christmas as Santa (voice)
- The Iron Lady as Denis Thatcher
- Exile as Sam Ronstadt
2010
- Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart (Older)
- Another Year as Tom
- Perrier's Bounty as Jim McCrea
2009
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Horace Slughorn
- The Young Victoria as King William IV
- The Damned United as Sam Longson
2008
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Dean Charles Stanforth
- Inkheart as Fenoglio
- Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- Einstein and Eddington as Sir Oliver Lodge
- Tales of the Riverbank as G.P. (voice)
- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- Lost and Found as Narrator (voice)
- Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Hot Fuzz as Inspector Frank Butterman
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? as Arthur Morrison
- Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz as Self
2006
- The Street as Stan McDermott
- Art School Confidential as Jimmy
- Longford as Lord Longford
2005
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Prof. Digory Kirke
- Robots as Madame Gasket (voice)
- Valiant as Sergeant (voice)
- The Magic Roundabout as Brian (voice)
2004
- Around the World in 80 Days as Lord Kelvin
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Dad
- Vanity Fair as Mr. Osborne
- Vera Drake as Judge
- Pride as Eddie (voice)
- Tooth as The Rabbit (voice)
- Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
2003
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Harry Aitken
- Bright Young Things as The Drunken Major
- Anna Spud as Dad
- The Young Visiters as Alfred Salteena
2002
- 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)
2001
- Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget's Dad
- Moulin Rouge! as Harold Zidler
- Iris as John Bayley
- The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' as Self
1999
- Topsy-Turvy as W. S. Gilbert
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Shy Doctor
1998
- The Avengers as Mother
- Little Voice as Mr. Boo
- Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm as Percy
1997
- The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Lagermann
- The Peter Principle as Peter Duffley
- Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path as Jim
- Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party as Percy
1996
- The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
- Percy the Park Keeper as Percy (voice)
- The Secret Agent as Chief Inspector Heat
- Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night as Basil
- Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night as Percy
1995
- Richard III as The Duke of Buckingham
- Rough Magic as Doc Ansell
- The Last Englishman as Col. Alfred D. Wintle
1994
- Princess Caraboo as Mr. Worrall
- Bullets Over Broadway as Warner Purcell
- Widows' Peak as Con Clancy
1993
- Wide-Eyed and Legless as Deric Longden
- Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown as George
- Prince Cinders as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
- Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright as The Earl of Leete
1992
- The Crying Game as Col
- Gone to Seed as Monty Plant
- Perpetual Motion as Self - Narrator
- A Sense of History as 23rd Earl of Leete
1991
- Performance as Carmello
- Murder Most Horrid as Selwyn Proops
- Gone to the Dogs as Jim Morley
- Life Is Sweet as Andy
- Enchanted April as Frederick Arbuthnot
- Nona as Carmelo
- Happy Feet as Grocer
1990
- Van Gogh as Roulin
1989
- Screen One as Deric Longden
- Victoria Wood as Alan Hammond
- 4 Play as Steven Parrish
- Erik the Viking as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
- The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
- 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting as Standford Hartley
- The Hangover as (voice)
1988
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Ossipon
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Prince Albert
- Vroom as Donald
1987
- Inspector Morse as Charlie Bennett
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Jean Pierre Dubois
- Running Out of Luck as Jimmy
1986
- The Insurance Man as Gutling
1985
- Brazil as Dr. Jaffe
- Theatre Night as Maitre Jacques
- Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
- Happy Families as Dalcroix
- The Good Father as Roger Miles
- Silas Marner as Jem Rodney
- Picture Friend as Tes Goodwin
1984
- The Hit as Barrister
- The Man Who Shot Christmas as Nick/Father Christmas
1983
- Blackadder as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
- Dramarama as Uncle Keith
- Tales Out of School as Geoff Figg
- Birth of a Nation as Geoff Figg
- Dead on Time as Vicar
- Walter and June as Orderly
1982
- Objects of Affection as Second Attendant
- Bird of Prey as DI Stanley Richardson
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- Our Winnie as Second Attendant
- Walter as Joseph - Orderly
- Intensive Care as Mr Horsfall
- Uliisses
1981
- Only Fools and Horses as Roy Slater
- Time Bandits as Compere
1980
- The Dogs of War as Film Crew
- Breaking Glass as Station Porter
- The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice as Mr. Champing
- Games Without Frontiers as Stewart
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Mr Lovejoy
- The Passage as German Soldier (uncredited)
- Long Distance Information as Mackaness
- Phoelix
1978
- The Shout as Fielder in Cowpat
- The Life Story of Baal as Woodcutter
1974
- Playhouse as Stewart
1971
- The Go-Between as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1970
- Play for Today as Mr. Horsfall
1967
- Omnibus as Roulin
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee