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Jim Broadbent

Born 1949-05-24

📍 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 187

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

as Self - Interviewee

as Peter Schneider

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Paddington in Peru

as Samuel Gruber

An A to Z of Paddington

as Narrator (voice)

as Duke of Leicester

2022 Wimbledon Official Film

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self - Contributor

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

as Snaggleroot (voice)

as Richard Nightingale

as Grosspapa (voice)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

as Lord Marcham

A Boy Called Christmas

as Kempton Bunton

(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story

Black Narcissus

as Father Roberts

Six Minutes to Midnight

as Lord Thomas Badgley

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Love, Death & Robots

as Christopher the Poet (voice)

as Lord Kilmichael

King of Thieves

as Terry Perkins

as Earl of Gloucester

New Town Utopia

as Lewis Silkin MP

as Samuel Gruber

as Horozovich (voice)

The Sense of an Ending

as Tony Webster

as Ernest Briggs (voice)

Bridget Jones's Baby

The Legend of Tarzan

as Prime Minister

Eddie the Eagle

as BBC Commentator

as Prince Bolkonsky

The Lady in the Van

as Father Flood

The Weather Inside

as Britischer Botschafter

as Samuel Gruber

Postman Pat: The Movie

The Harry Hill Movie

The Great Train Robbery

as DCS Tommy Butler

as Stan (voice)

as Nick Burrows

as Attorney General

as Professor Horace Slughorn

as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice

as Denis Thatcher

Arthur Christmas

as Santa (voice)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

as Horace Slughorn

as Sam Ronstadt

Game of Thrones

as Archmaester Ebrose

Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart (Older)

Perrier's Bounty

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

as Horace Slughorn

The Damned United

The Young Victoria

as King William IV

as Narrator (voice)

Einstein and Eddington

as Sir Oliver Lodge

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

as Dean Charles Stanforth

Tales of the Riverbank

as G.P. (voice)

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

as Arthur Morrison

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

The Graham Norton Show

as Inspector Frank Butterman

as Lord Longford

Art School Confidential

as Stan McDermott

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

as Prof. Digory Kirke

as Sergeant (voice)

as Madame Gasket (voice)

The Magic Roundabout

as Brian (voice)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

as Eddie (voice)

Around the World in 80 Days

as The Rabbit (voice)

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)

The Young Visiters

as Alfred Salteena

Bright Young Things

as The Drunken Major

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

as Harry Aitken

Nicholas Nickleby

as Mr. Wackford Squeers

Gangs of New York

The King's Beard

as The Wizard (voice)

The Gathering Storm

as Desmond Morton

as Harold Zidler

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'

Bridget Jones's Diary

as Bridget's Dad

as W. S. Gilbert

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

as The Shy Doctor

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Lagermann

Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night

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

as The Duke of Buckingham

Bullets Over Broadway

as Warner Purcell

Princess Caraboo

as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)

Wide-Eyed and Legless

as Deric Longden

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

as The Earl of Leete

A Sense of History

as 23rd Earl of Leete

The Crying Game

Perpetual Motion

as Self - Narrator

Gone to the Dogs

Enchanted April

as Frederick Arbuthnot

Murder Most Horrid

as Selwyn Proops

The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos

as Alan Hammond

Erik the Viking

as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

as Standford Hartley

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

as Prince Albert

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

as Jean Pierre Dubois

Running Out of Luck

Inspector Morse

as Charlie Bennett

The Insurance Man

The Good Father

as Maitre Jacques

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Birth of a Nation

Tales Out of School

as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter

Walter and June

as Second Attendant

Objects of Affection

as Second Attendant

as Joseph - Orderly

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self (archive footage)

as DI Stanley Richardson

Only Fools and Horses

The Dogs of War

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

as Mr. Champing

as Station Porter

Games Without Frontiers

Long Distance Information

Tales of the Unexpected

as German Soldier (uncredited)

The Life Story of Baal

as Fielder in Cowpat

as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

as Mr. Horsfall

as Mr. Champing

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

as The Prison Director