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
- Call Me Back as George
- 2022 Wimbledon Official Film as Narrator
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
- A Boy Called Christmas as King
- The Duke as Kempton Bunton
- (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story as Self
2020
- Dolittle as Lord Thomas Badgley
- Trying as George
- 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
- Black '47 as Lord Kilmichael
- King of Thieves as Terry Perkins
- King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
- 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
- War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky
- The Legend of Tarzan as Prime Minister
- Bridget Jones's Baby as Dad
- Eddie the Eagle as BBC Commentator
- Ethel & Ernest as Ernest Briggs (voice)
2015
- Brooklyn as Father Flood
- London Spy as Scottie
- The Lady in the Van as Underwood
- The Go-Between as Old Leo
- The Weather Inside as Britischer Botschafter
2014
- Paddington as Samuel Gruber
- Big Game as Herbert
- Get Santa as Santa Claus
- Postman Pat: The Movie as CEO (voice)
- The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2013
- Filth as Dr Rossi
- The Frame as Professor Horace Slughorn
- The Great Train Robbery as DCS Tommy Butler
- 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
- Arthur Christmas as Santa (voice)
- The Iron Lady as Denis Thatcher
- Comedy Blaps as DCI Ponk
- Exile as Sam Ronstadt
2010
- Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart (Older)
- Another Year as Tom
2009
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Horace Slughorn
- The Young Victoria as King William IV
- The Damned United as Sam Longson
- Perrier's Bounty as Jim McCrea
2008
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Dean Charles Stanforth
- Inkheart as Fenoglio
- 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)
- Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga 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
- The Young Visiters as Alfred Salteena
- Bright Young Things as The Drunken Major
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Harry Aitken
- Anna Spud as Dad
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
- The Peter Principle as Peter Duffley
- Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Lagermann
- Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path as Jim
- Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party as Percy
1996
- Percy the Park Keeper as Percy (voice)
- The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
- The Secret Agent as Chief Inspector Heat
- Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night as Percy
- Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night as Basil
1995
- Richard III as The Duke of Buckingham
- Rough Magic as Doc Ansell
- The Last Englishman as Col. Alfred D. Wintle
1994
- Bullets Over Broadway as Warner Purcell
- Princess Caraboo as Mr. Worrall
- Widows' Peak as Con Clancy
1993
- Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright as The Earl of Leete
- Wide-Eyed and Legless as Deric Longden
- Prince Cinders as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
- Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown as George
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
- Enchanted April as Frederick Arbuthnot
- Gone to the Dogs as Jim Morley
- Life Is Sweet as Andy
- Nona as Carmelo
- Happy Feet as Grocer
1990
- Van Gogh as Roulin
1989
- The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
- Erik the Viking as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
- Victoria Wood as Alan Hammond
- The Hangover as (voice)
- 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting as Standford Hartley
1988
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Ossipon
- Vroom as Donald
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Prince Albert
1987
- Inspector Morse as Charlie Bennett
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Jean Pierre Dubois
- Running Out of Luck
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
- Happy Families as Dalcroix
- 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
- Tales Out of School as Geoff Figg
- Dead on Time as Vicar
- Walter and June as Orderly
- Birth of a Nation as Geoff Figg
1982
- Objects of Affection as Second Attendant
- Bird of Prey as DI Stanley Richardson
- Walter as Joseph - Orderly
- Intensive Care as Mr Horsfall
- Uliisses
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- Our Winnie as Second Attendant
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)
- Phoelix
- Long Distance Information as Mackaness
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