Jim Broadbent

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.

Known For

Game of Thrones

The Graham Norton Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Play for Today

Play for Today

Love, Death & Robots

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

All Movies (152)

• What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas2025 · as Self - Interviewee
• Jay Kelly2025 · as Peter Schneider
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy2025 · as Colin Jones
• Paddington in Peru2024 · as Samuel Gruber
• An A to Z of Paddington2024 · as Narrator (voice)
• Call Me Back2023 · as George
• 2022 Wimbledon Official Film2023 · as Narrator
• Blackadder: A Cunning Story2023 · as Self - Contributor
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry2023 · as Harold Fry
• Charlotte2022 · as Grosspapa (voice)
• A Boy Called Christmas2021 · as King
• The Duke2021 · as Kempton Bunton
• (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story2021 · as Self
• Six Minutes to Midnight2020 · as Charlie
• Dolittle2020 · as Lord Thomas Badgley
• Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered2019 · as Self
• Black '472018 · as Lord Kilmichael
• King of Thieves2018 · as Terry Perkins
• King Lear2018 · as Earl of Gloucester
• New Town Utopia2018 · as Lewis Silkin MP
• Paddington 22017 · as Samuel Gruber
• Birds Like Us2017 · as Horozovich (voice)
• The Sense of an Ending2017 · as Tony Webster
• Ethel & Ernest2016 · as Ernest Briggs (voice)
• Bridget Jones's Baby2016 · as Dad
• The Legend of Tarzan2016 · as Prime Minister
• Eddie the Eagle2016 · as BBC Commentator
• The Lady in the Van2015 · as Underwood
• Brooklyn2015 · as Father Flood
• The Weather Inside2015 · as Britischer Botschafter
• The Go-Between2015 · as Old Leo
• Get Santa2014 · as Santa Claus
• Paddington2014 · as Samuel Gruber
• The One and Only Mike Leigh2014 · as Self
• Big Game2014 · as Herbert
• Postman Pat: The Movie2014 · as CEO (voice)
• The Harry Hill Movie2013 · as Cleaner
• The Phone Call2013 · as Stan (voice)
• Chance Meeting2013
• Le Week-End2013 · as Nick Burrows
• Filth2013 · as Dr Rossi
• Closed Circuit2013 · as Attorney General
• Cloud Atlas2012 · as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
• Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice2012 · as Self
• The Iron Lady2011 · as Denis Thatcher
• Arthur Christmas2011 · as Santa (voice)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011 · as Horace Slughorn
• Another Year2010 · as Tom
• Perrier's Bounty2009 · as Jim McCrea
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince2009 · as Horace Slughorn
• The Damned United2009 · as Sam Longson
• The Young Victoria2009 · as King William IV
• Lost and Found2008 · as Narrator (voice)
• Inkheart2008 · as Fenoglio
• Einstein and Eddington2008 · as Sir Oliver Lodge
• Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments2008 · as Self
• Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga2008 · as Self
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull2008 · as Dean Charles Stanforth
• Tales of the Riverbank2008 · as G.P. (voice)
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?2007 · as Arthur Morrison
• Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz2007 · as Self
• Hot Fuzz2007 · as Inspector Frank Butterman
• Longford2006 · as Lord Longford
• Art School Confidential2006 · as Jimmy
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe2005 · as Prof. Digory Kirke
• Valiant2005 · as Sergeant (voice)
• Robots2005 · as Madame Gasket (voice)
• The Magic Roundabout2005 · as Brian (voice)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason2004 · as Dad
• Vera Drake2004 · as Judge
• Vanity Fair2004 · as Mr. Osborne
• Pride2004 · as Eddie (voice)
• Around the World in 80 Days2004 · as Lord Kelvin
• Tooth2004 · as The Rabbit (voice)
• Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection2004 · as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
• The Young Visiters2003 · as Alfred Salteena
• Bright Young Things2003 · as The Drunken Major
• And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself2003 · as Harry Aitken
• Anna Spud2003 · as Dad
• Nicholas Nickleby2002 · as Mr. Wackford Squeers
• Gangs of New York2002 · as Boss Tweed
• The King's Beard2002 · as The Wizard (voice)
• The Gathering Storm2002 · as Desmond Morton
• Iris2001 · as John Bayley
• Moulin Rouge!2001 · as Harold Zidler
• The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'2001 · as Self
• Bridget Jones's Diary2001 · as Bridget's Dad
• Topsy-Turvy1999 · as W. S. Gilbert
• Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death1999 · as The Shy Doctor
• Little Voice1998 · as Mr. Boo
• The Avengers1998 · as Mother
• Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm1998 · as Percy
• Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party1997 · as Percy
• The Borrowers1997 · as Pod Clock
• Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path1997 · as Jim
• Smilla's Sense of Snow1997 · as Dr. Lagermann
• Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night1996 · as Basil
• Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night1996 · as Percy
• The Secret Agent1996 · as Chief Inspector Heat
• Richard III1995 · as The Duke of Buckingham
• Rough Magic1995 · as Doc Ansell
• The Last Englishman1995 · as Col. Alfred D. Wintle
• Bullets Over Broadway1994 · as Warner Purcell
• Princess Caraboo1994 · as Mr. Worrall
• Widows' Peak1994 · as Con Clancy
• Prince Cinders1993 · as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
• Wide-Eyed and Legless1993 · as Deric Longden
• Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown1993 · as George
• Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright1993 · as The Earl of Leete
• A Sense of History1992 · as 23rd Earl of Leete
• The Crying Game1992 · as Col
• Enchanted April1991 · as Frederick Arbuthnot
• Nona1991 · as Carmelo
• Life Is Sweet1991 · as Andy
• Happy Feet1991 · as Grocer
• Van Gogh1990 · as Roulin
• Erik the Viking1989 · as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
• 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting1989 · as Standford Hartley
• The Hangover1989 · as (voice)
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol1988 · as Prince Albert
• Vroom1988 · as Donald
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace1987 · as Jean Pierre Dubois
• Running Out of Luck1987
• The Insurance Man1986 · as Gutling
• Silas Marner1985 · as Jem Rodney
• The Good Father1985 · as Roger Miles
• Happy Families1985 · as Dalcroix
• Picture Friend1985 · as Tes Goodwin
• Brazil1985 · as Dr. Jaffe
• The Man Who Shot Christmas1984 · as Nick/Father Christmas
• The Hit1984 · as Barrister
• Birth of a Nation1983 · as Geoff Figg
• Walter and June1983 · as Orderly
• Dead on Time1983 · as Vicar
• Our Winnie1982 · as Second Attendant
• Intensive Care1982 · as Mr Horsfall
• Walter1982 · as Joseph - Orderly
• Mike Leigh: Making Plays1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• Uliisses1982
• Time Bandits1981 · as Compere
• The Dogs of War1980 · as Film Crew
• The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice1980 · as Mr. Champing
• Breaking Glass1980 · as Station Porter
• Games Without Frontiers1980 · as Stewart
• Long Distance Information1979 · as Mackaness
• Phoelix1979
• The Passage1979 · as German Soldier (uncredited)
• The Life Story of Baal1978 · as Woodcutter
• The Shout1978 · as Fielder in Cowpat
• The Go-Between1971 · as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
• Fools— · as Cardinal Pole
• Dennis—

All TV Shows (47)

• My Lady Jane2024 · as Duke of Leicester
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power2022 · as Snaggleroot (voice)
• Ten Percent2022 · as Richard Nightingale
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans?2022 · as Lord Marcham
• Black Narcissus2020 · as Father Roberts
• Staged2020 · as Jim
• Trying2020 · as George
• Love, Death & Robots2019 · as Christopher the Poet (voice)
• War and Peace2016 · as Prince Bolkonsky
• London Spy2015 · as Scottie
• The Great Train Robbery2013 · as DCS Tommy Butler
• The Frame2013 · as Professor Horace Slughorn
• Comedy Blaps2011 · as DCI Ponk
• Exile2011 · as Sam Ronstadt
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Archmaester Ebrose
• Any Human Heart2010 · as Logan Mountstuart (Older)
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Street2006 · as Stan McDermott
• The Peter Principle1997 · as Peter Duffley
• The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge1996 · as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
• Percy the Park Keeper1996 · as Percy (voice)
• Gone to Seed1992 · as Monty Plant
• Perpetual Motion1992 · as Self - Narrator
• Gone to the Dogs1991 · as Jim Morley
• Murder Most Horrid1991 · as Selwyn Proops
• Performance1991 · as Carmello
• The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos1989
• Victoria Wood1989 · as Alan Hammond
• Screen One1989 · as Deric Longden
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers1988 · as Ossipon
• Inspector Morse1987 · as Charlie Bennett
• Happy Families1985 · as Dalcroix
• Theatre Night1985 · as Maitre Jacques
• Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV1985
• Dramarama1983 · as Uncle Keith
• Tales Out of School1983 · as Geoff Figg
• Blackadder1983 · as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
• Objects of Affection1982 · as Second Attendant
• Bird of Prey1982 · as DI Stanley Richardson
• Only Fools and Horses1981 · as Roy Slater
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Mr Lovejoy
• Playhouse1974 · as Stewart
• Play for Today1970 · as Mr. Horsfall
• Play for Today1970 · as Mr. Champing
• Omnibus1967 · as Roulin
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee