
Jim Broadbent
Known for Acting · 198 credits
- Born
- 1949-05-24 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- James "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
TV Shows (46)

Game of Thrones
2011
as Archmaester Ebrose

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Play for Today
1970
as Mr. Horsfall / Mr. Champing

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Snaggleroot (voice)

Omnibus
1967
as Roulin

Love, Death & Robots
2019
as Christopher the Poet (voice)

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Mr Lovejoy

Inspector Morse
1987
as Charlie Bennett

Playhouse
1974
as Stewart

Blackadder
1983
as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Only Fools and Horses
1981
as Roy Slater

Performance
1991
as Carmello

Trying
2020
as George

Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Selwyn Proops

War and Peace
2016
as Prince Bolkonsky

Staged
2020
as Jim

My Lady Jane
2024
as Duke of Leicester

Screen One
1989
as Deric Longden

The Street
2006
as Stan McDermott

Dramarama
1983
as Uncle Keith

The Frame
2013
as Professor Horace Slughorn

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2022
as Lord Marcham

London Spy
2015
as Scottie

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Ossipon
Comedy Blaps
2011
as DCI Ponk

Black Narcissus
2020
as Father Roberts

Any Human Heart
2010
as Logan Mountstuart (Older)

Ten Percent
2022
as Richard Nightingale

Victoria Wood
1989
as Alan Hammond

Theatre Night
1985
as Maitre Jacques

The Great Train Robbery
2013
as DCS Tommy Butler

Happy Families
1985
as Dalcroix

Gone to Seed
1992
as Monty Plant

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985

Tales Out of School
1983
as Geoff Figg

The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
1996
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)

Exile
2011
as Sam Ronstadt

The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
1989

Percy the Park Keeper
1996
as Percy (voice)

Gone to the Dogs
1991
as Jim Morley

Objects of Affection
1982
as Second Attendant
The Peter Principle
1997
as Peter Duffley

Bird of Prey
1982
as DI Stanley Richardson

Perpetual Motion
1992
as Self - Narrator
Movies (152)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Horace Slughorn

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Horace Slughorn

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
as Prof. Digory Kirke

Robots
2005
as Madame Gasket (voice)

Paddington
2014
as Samuel Gruber

Dolittle
2020
as Lord Thomas Badgley

The Legend of Tarzan
2016
as Prime Minister

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Dean Charles Stanforth

Hot Fuzz
2007
as Inspector Frank Butterman

Cloud Atlas
2012
as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

Paddington 2
2017
as Samuel Gruber

Paddington in Peru
2024
as Samuel Gruber

Moulin Rouge!
2001
as Harold Zidler

Gangs of New York
2002
as Boss Tweed

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Bridget's Dad

Big Game
2014
as Herbert

Arthur Christmas
2011
as Santa (voice)

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
as Colin Jones

Filth
2013
as Dr Rossi

Around the World in 80 Days
2004
as Lord Kelvin

Jay Kelly
2025
as Peter Schneider

Brazil
1985
as Dr. Jaffe

Valiant
2005
as Sergeant (voice)

The Borrowers
1997
as Pod Clock

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Dad

Inkheart
2008
as Fenoglio

Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
as Dad

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Jean Pierre Dubois

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as W. S. Gilbert

Iris
2001
as John Bayley

Brooklyn
2015
as Father Flood

Black '47
2018
as Lord Kilmichael

King of Thieves
2018
as Terry Perkins

Enchanted April
1991
as Frederick Arbuthnot

Time Bandits
1981
as Compere

The Iron Lady
2011
as Denis Thatcher

Eddie the Eagle
2016
as BBC Commentator

The Crying Game
1992
as Col

Vanity Fair
2004
as Mr. Osborne

The Lady in the Van
2015
as Underwood

Art School Confidential
2006
as Jimmy

Closed Circuit
2013
as Attorney General

Pride
2004
as Eddie (voice)

The Avengers
1998
as Mother

The Young Victoria
2009
as King William IV

Life Is Sweet
1991
as Andy

Vera Drake
2004
as Judge

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Mr. Wackford Squeers

The Duke
2021
as Kempton Bunton

The Shout
1978
as Fielder in Cowpat

Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Warner Purcell

Tooth
2004
as The Rabbit (voice)

The Dogs of War
1980
as Film Crew

Erik the Viking
1989
as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

Bright Young Things
2003
as The Drunken Major

Little Voice
1998
as Mr. Boo

A Boy Called Christmas
2021
as King

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023
as Harold Fry

King Lear
2018
as Earl of Gloucester

Einstein and Eddington
2008
as Sir Oliver Lodge

The Hit
1984
as Barrister

The Magic Roundabout
2005
as Brian (voice)

The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Tony Webster

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Dr. Lagermann

The Damned United
2009
as Sam Longson

Another Year
2010
as Tom

Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
as Charlie

Princess Caraboo
1994
as Mr. Worrall

Widows' Peak
1994
as Con Clancy

Richard III
1995
as The Duke of Buckingham

Ethel & Ernest
2016
as Ernest Briggs (voice)

The Go-Between
1971
as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

Postman Pat: The Movie
2014
as CEO (voice)

Rough Magic
1995
as Doc Ansell

The Passage
1979
as German Soldier (uncredited)

The Secret Agent
1996
as Chief Inspector Heat

Get Santa
2014
as Santa Claus

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Desmond Morton

Le Week-End
2013
as Nick Burrows

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
as Self - Interviewee

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
as Self

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003
as Harry Aitken

Charlotte
2022
as Grosspapa (voice)

Birds Like Us
2017
as Horozovich (voice)

The Harry Hill Movie
2013
as Cleaner

Breaking Glass
1980
as Station Porter

Running Out of Luck
1987
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Contributor

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
as The Shy Doctor

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1993
as George

Perrier's Bounty
2009
as Jim McCrea

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
as Self

Tales of the Riverbank
2008
as G.P. (voice)

Longford
2006
as Lord Longford

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Prince Albert

The Young Visiters
2003
as Alfred Salteena

Vroom
1988
as Donald

And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007
as Arthur Morrison

The King's Beard
2002
as The Wizard (voice)

Intensive Care
1982
as Mr Horsfall

The Good Father
1985
as Roger Miles

Silas Marner
1985
as Jem Rodney
Dennis

Games Without Frontiers
1980
as Stewart

Walter
1982
as Joseph - Orderly

Uliisses
1982

Dead on Time
1983
as Vicar

Happy Families
1985
as Dalcroix

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
as Standford Hartley

Lost and Found
2008
as Narrator (voice)
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self

(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
2021
as Self
Fools
as Cardinal Pole

Birth of a Nation
1983
as Geoff Figg

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self

The Insurance Man
1986
as Gutling

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
as Self

The Weather Inside
2015
as Britischer Botschafter

The Go-Between
2015
as Old Leo

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007
as Self
About Jim Broadbent
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… With 198 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Jim Broadbent has appeared in 152 films and 46 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jim Broadbent Movies
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Horace Slughorn
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) — as Horace Slughorn
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) — as Prof. Digory Kirke
- Robots (2005) — as Madame Gasket (voice)
- Paddington (2014) — as Samuel Gruber
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