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