Actor
Jim Broadbent
Biography

Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 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 Award ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Colin Jones
2024 -- Paddington in Peru | Samuel Gruber
2024 -- An A to Z of Paddington | Narrator (voice)
2023 -- Call Me Back | George
2023 -- Wimbledon 2022 Review | Narrator
2023 -- Blackadder: A Cunning Story | Self – Contributor
2023 -- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Harold Fry
2022 -- Birds Like Us | Horozovich (voice)
2021 -- A Boy Called Christmas | King
2021 -- Charlotte | Grosspapa (voice)
2021 -- The Duke | Kempton Bunton
2021 -- Rhythm of Life | Self
2021 -- (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story | Self
2020 -- Six Minutes to Midnight | Charlie
2020 -- Dolittle | Lord Thomas Badgley
2019 -- Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered | Self
2018 -- Black '47 | Lord Kilmichael
2018 -- King of Thieves | Terry Perkins
2018 -- King Lear | Earl of Gloucester
2018 -- New Town Utopia | Lewis Silkin MP
2017 -- Paddington 2 | Samuel Gruber
2017 -- The Sense of an Ending | Tony Webster
2016 -- Ethel & Ernest | Ernest Briggs (voice)
2016 -- Bridget Jones's Baby | Mr. Colin Jones
2016 -- The Legend of Tarzan | Prime Minister
2016 -- Eddie the Eagle | BBC Commentator
2015 -- The Lady in the Van | Underwood
2015 -- Brooklyn | Father Flood
2015 -- The Weather Inside | Britischer Botschafter
2015 -- The Go-Between | Old Leo
2015 -- Big Game | Herbert
2014 -- Get Santa | Santa Claus
2014 -- The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self
2014 -- Paddington | Samuel Gruber
2014 -- Postman Pat: The Movie | CEO (voice)
2013 -- The Harry Hill Movie | Cleaner
2013 -- The Phone Call | Stan (voice)
2013 -- Chance Meeting |
2013 -- Le Week-End | Nick Burrows
2013 -- Filth | Dr Rossi
2013 -- Closed Circuit | Attorney General
2012 -- Cloud Atlas | Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
2012 -- Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice | Self
2011 -- The Iron Lady | Denis Thatcher
2011 -- Arthur Christmas | Santa (voice)
2011 -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Horace Slughorn
2010 -- Another Year | Tom
2009 -- Perrier's Bounty | Jim McCrea
2009 -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Horace Slughorn
2009 -- The Damned United | Sam Longson
2009 -- The Young Victoria | King William IV
2008 -- Lost and Found | Narrator (voice)
2008 -- Inkheart | Fenoglio
2008 -- Einstein and Eddington | Sir Oliver Lodge
2008 -- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | Self
2008 -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Dean Charles Stanforth
2008 -- Tales of the Riverbank | G.P. (voice)
2007 -- When Did You Last See Your Father? | Arthur Morrison
2007 -- Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz | Self
2007 -- Hot Fuzz | Inspector Frank Butterman
2006 -- Longford | Lord Longford
2006 -- Art School Confidential | Jimmy
2006 -- Free Jimmy | Stomowskij (voice)
2005 -- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Prof. Digory Kirke
2005 -- Valiant | Sergeant (voice)
2005 -- Spider-Plant Man | Batman
2005 -- Robots | Madame Gasket (voice)
2005 -- The Magic Roundabout | Brian (voice)
2004 -- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Bridget's Dad
2004 -- Vera Drake | Judge
2004 -- Vanity Fair | Mr. Osborne
2004 -- Pride | Eddie (voice)
2004 -- Around the World in 80 Days | Lord Kelvin
2004 -- Tooth | The Rabbit (voice)
2004 -- Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection | Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
2003 -- The Young Visiters | Alfred Salteena
2003 -- Bright Young Things | The Drunken Major
2003 -- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Harry Aitken
2003 -- Anna Spud | Dad
2002 -- Nicholas Nickleby | Mr. Wackford Squeers
2002 -- Gangs of New York | Boss Tweed
2002 -- The King's Beard | The Wizard (voice)
2002 -- The Gathering Storm | Desmond Morton
2001 -- Iris | John Bayley
2001 -- Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler
2001 -- The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' | Self
2001 -- Bridget Jones's Diary | Bridget's Dad
1999 -- Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert
1999 -- Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death | The Shy Doctor
1998 -- Little Voice | Mr. Boo
1998 -- The Avengers | Mother
1997 -- The Borrowers | Pod Clock
1997 -- Smilla's Sense of Snow | Dr. Lagermann
1996 -- Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night | Basil
1996 -- The Secret Agent | Chief Inspector Heat
1995 -- Richard III | The Duke of Buckingham
1995 -- Rough Magic | Doc Ansell
1994 -- Bullets Over Broadway | Warner Purcell
1994 -- Princess Caraboo | Mr. Worrall
1994 -- Widows' Peak | Con Clancy
1993 -- Prince Cinders | Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
1993 -- Wide-Eyed and Legless | Deric Longden
1993 -- Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown | George
1993 -- Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright | The Earl of Leete
1992 -- A Sense of History | 23rd Earl of Leete
1992 -- The Crying Game | Col
1991 -- Enchanted April | Frederick Arbuthnot
1991 -- Nona | Carmelo
1991 -- Happy Feet | Grocer
1990 -- Life Is Sweet | Andy
1989 -- Erik the Viking | Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
1989 -- 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting | Standford Hartley
1989 -- The Hangover | (voice)
1988 -- Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Prince Albert
1988 -- Vroom | Donald
1987 -- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Jean Pierre Dubois
1987 -- Running Out of Luck |
1986 -- The Insurance Man | Gutling
1985 -- Silas Marner | Jem Rodney
1985 -- The Good Father | Roger Miles
1985 -- Brazil | Dr. Jaffe
1984 -- The Hit | Barrister
1983 -- Birth of a Nation | Geoff Figg
1983 -- Walter and June | Orderly
1983 -- Dead on Time | Priest
1982 -- Our Winnie | Second Attendant
1982 -- Intensive Care | Mr Horsfall
1982 -- Walter | Joseph - Orderly
1982 -- Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Self (archive footage)
1982 -- Uliisses |
1981 -- Time Bandits | Compere
1980 -- The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice | Mr. Champing
1980 -- Breaking Glass | Station Porter
1980 -- Games Without Frontiers | Stewart
1979 -- Long Distance Information | Mackaness
1979 -- Phoelix |
1979 -- The Passage | German Soldier
1978 -- The Shout | Fielder in Cowpat
1971 -- The Go-Between | Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
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