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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 24, 1949
Place of Birth
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- James "Jim" Broadbent
Jim Broadbent
3.1 Popularity
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
0.0
Self - Interviewee
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
6.0
Peter Schneider
Jay Kelly
2025
6.5
Colin Jones
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
6.8
Samuel Gruber
Paddington in Peru
2024
0.0
Narrator (voice)
An A to Z of Paddington
2024
7.4
Duke of Leicester
My Lady Jane
2024
0.0
George
Call Me Back
2023
0.0
Narrator
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023
7.5
Self - Contributor
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
6.6
Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023
Credits
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
as Self - Interviewee
2025
0.0
Jay Kelly
as Peter Schneider
2025
6.0
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Colin Jones
2025
6.5
Paddington in Peru
as Samuel Gruber
2024
6.8
An A to Z of Paddington
as Narrator (voice)
2024
0.0
My Lady Jane
as Duke of Leicester
2024
7.4
Call Me Back
as George
2023
0.0
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
as Narrator
2023
0.0
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Contributor
2023
7.5
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Harold Fry
2023
6.6
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Snaggleroot (voice)
2022
7.3
Ten Percent
as Richard Nightingale
2022
5.5
Charlotte
as Grosspapa (voice)
2022
6.3
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Lord Marcham
2022
6.6
A Boy Called Christmas
as King
2021
7.3
The Duke
as Kempton Bunton
2021
7.0
Rhythm of Life
as Self
2021
6.5
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
as Self
2021
6.0
Black Narcissus
as Father Roberts
2020
6.6
Six Minutes to Midnight
as Charlie
2020
6.1
Staged
as Jim
2020
7.9
Trying
as George
2020
7.7
Dolittle
as Lord Thomas Badgley
2020
6.6
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
as Self
2019
9.0
Love, Death & Robots
as Christopher the Poet (voice)
2019
8.2
Black '47
as Lord Kilmichael
2018
6.6
King of Thieves
as Terry Perkins
2018
5.5
King Lear
as Earl of Gloucester
2018
6.1
New Town Utopia
as Lewis Silkin MP
2018
9.0
Paddington 2
as Samuel Gruber
2017
7.5
Birds Like Us
as Horozovich (voice)
2017
4.1
The Sense of an Ending
as Tony Webster
2017
6.4
Ethel & Ernest
as Ernest Briggs (voice)
2016
7.4
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Dad
2016
6.4
The Legend of Tarzan
as Prime Minister
2016
5.9
Eddie the Eagle
as BBC Commentator
2016
7.2
War and Peace
as Prince Bolkonsky
2016
7.6
London Spy
as Scottie
2015
7.0
The Lady in the Van
as Underwood
2015
6.4
Brooklyn
as Father Flood
2015
7.3
The Weather Inside
as Britischer Botschafter
2015
4.3
The Go-Between
as Old Leo
2015
6.8
Get Santa
as Santa Claus
2014
6.0
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
as Julius Caesar (voice UK Dub)
2014
6.8
Paddington
as Samuel Gruber
2014
7.1
🎬
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
2014
9.0
Big Game
as Herbert
2014
5.5
Postman Pat: The Movie
as CEO (voice)
2014
5.1
The Harry Hill Movie
as Cleaner
2013
4.7
The Great Train Robbery
as DCS Tommy Butler
2013
6.6
The Phone Call
as Stan (voice)
2013
7.3
Chance Meeting
2013
0.0
Le Week-End
as Nick Burrows
2013
6.2
Filth
as Dr Rossi
2013
6.8
Closed Circuit
as Attorney General
2013
5.9
The Frame
as Professor Horace Slughorn
2013
10.0
Cloud Atlas
as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
2012
6.9
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
as Self
2012
7.4
The Iron Lady
as Denis Thatcher
2011
6.4
🎬
Comedy Blaps
as DCI Ponk
2011
0.0
Arthur Christmas
as Santa (voice)
2011
6.8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Horace Slughorn
2011
8.1
Exile
as Sam Ronstadt
2011
7.2
Game of Thrones
as Archmaester Ebrose
2011
8.5
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart
2010
6.0
Another Year
as Tom
2010
7.0
Perrier's Bounty
as Jim McCrea
2009
5.8
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Horace Slughorn
2009
7.7
The Damned United
as Sam Longson
2009
7.2
The Young Victoria
as King William IV
2009
7.2
Lost and Found
as Narrator (voice)
2008
7.8
Inkheart
as Fenoglio
2008
6.3
Einstein and Eddington
as Sir Oliver Lodge
2008
6.9
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
2008
4.5
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self
2008
7.8
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Dean Charles Stanforth
2008
6.0
Tales of the Riverbank
as G.P. (voice)
2008
4.6
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
as Arthur Morrison
2007
6.5
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
as Self
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Hot Fuzz
as Inspector Frank Butterman
2007
7.6
Longford
as Lord Longford
2006
6.5
Art School Confidential
as Jimmy
2006
6.1
The Street
as Stan McDermott
2006
7.7
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Prof. Digory Kirke
2005
7.1
Valiant
as Sergeant (voice)
2005
5.6
Spider-Plant Man
as Batman
2005
6.1
Robots
as Madame Gasket (voice)
2005
6.5
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Dad
2004
6.2
The Magic Roundabout
as Brian (voice)
2004
5.4
Vera Drake
as Judge
2004
7.2
Vanity Fair
as Mr. Osborne
2004
5.8
Pride
as Eddie (voice)
2004
6.2
Around the World in 80 Days
as Lord Kelvin
2004
5.9
Tooth
as The Rabbit (voice)
2004
3.4
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
2004
10.0
The Young Visiters
as Alfred Salteena
2003
5.4
Bright Young Things
as The Drunken Major
2003
6.2
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
as Harry Aitken
2003
6.7
Anna Spud
as Dad
2003
0.0
Nicholas Nickleby
as Mr. Wackford Squeers
2002
6.9
Gangs of New York
as Boss Tweed
2002
7.3
The King's Beard
as The Wizard (voice)
2002
6.0
The Gathering Storm
as Desmond Morton
2002
6.6
Iris
as John Bayley
2001
6.4
Moulin Rouge!
as Harold Zidler
2001
7.5
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
as Self
2001
6.5
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Bridget's Dad
2001
6.7
Topsy-Turvy
as W. S. Gilbert
1999
6.6
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as The Shy Doctor
1999
7.3
Little Voice
as Mr. Boo
1998
6.5
The Avengers
as Mother
1998
4.4
🎬
Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
as Percy
1998
0.0
🎬
Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
as Percy
1997
0.0
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
1997
6.0
🎬
The Peter Principle
as Peter Duffley
1997
7.3
🎬
Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path
as Jim
1997
0.0
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Lagermann
1997
6.3
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
1996
7.0
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
as Basil
1996
0.0
🎬
Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
as Percy
1996
0.0
Percy the Park Keeper
as Percy (voice)
1996
5.0
The Secret Agent
as Chief Inspector Heat
1996
5.5
Richard III
as The Duke of Buckingham
1995
6.7
Rough Magic
as Doc Ansell
1995
5.5
🎬
The Last Englishman
as Col. Alfred D. Wintle
1995
0.0
Bullets Over Broadway
as Warner Purcell
1994
7.1
Princess Caraboo
as Mr. Worrall
1994
5.4
Widows' Peak
as Con Clancy
1994
6.3
Prince Cinders
as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
1993
0.0
Wide-Eyed and Legless
as Deric Longden
1993
6.0
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
as George
1993
0.0
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
as The Earl of Leete
1993
4.0
Gone to Seed
as Monty Plant
1992
2.6
A Sense of History
as 23rd Earl of Leete
1992
7.3
The Crying Game
as Col
1992
6.8
Perpetual Motion
as Self - Narrator
1992
0.0
Gone to the Dogs
as Jim Morley
1991
6.0
Enchanted April
as Frederick Arbuthnot
1991
6.7
Murder Most Horrid
as Selwyn Proops
1991
6.8
🎬
Nona
as Carmelo
1991
0.0
Performance
as Carmello
1991
6.0
Happy Feet
as Grocer
1991
0.0
Life Is Sweet
as Andy
1990
7.0
Victoria Wood
as Alan Hammond
1989
7.5
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
1989
6.0
Erik the Viking
as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
1989
5.9
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
as Standford Hartley
1989
0.0
The Hangover
as (voice)
1989
0.0
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Prince Albert
1988
7.6
Vroom
as Donald
1988
6.1
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Ossipon
1988
0.0
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Jean Pierre Dubois
1987
4.6
Running Out of Luck
1987
5.8
Inspector Morse
as Charlie Bennett
1987
7.8
The Insurance Man
as Gutling
1986
5.3
Silas Marner
as Jem Rodney
1985
5.6
The Good Father
as Roger Miles
1985
5.4
Happy Families
as Dalcroix
1985
6.7
🎬
Theatre Night
as Maitre Jacques
1985
0.0
Picture Friend
as Tes Goodwin
1985
0.0
Brazil
as Dr. Jaffe
1985
7.7
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985
7.6
🎬
The Man Who Shot Christmas
as Nick/Father Christmas
1984
0.0
The Hit
as Barrister
1984
6.4
Dramarama
1983
6.7
Tales Out of School
as Geoff Figg
1983
0.0
Birth of a Nation
as Geoff Figg
1983
7.5
Blackadder
as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
1983
8.0
Walter and June
as Orderly
1983
7.0
Dead on Time
as Vicar
1983
6.5
Our Winnie
as Second Attendant
1982
0.0
Objects of Affection
as Second Attendant
1982
7.0
Intensive Care
as Mr Horsfall
1982
0.0
Walter
as Joseph - Orderly
1982
5.2
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
1982
8.0
Uliisses
1982
3.8
Bird of Prey
as DI Stanley Richardson
1982
6.7
Only Fools and Horses
as Roy Slater
1981
8.0
Time Bandits
as Compere
1981
6.6
The Dogs of War
as Film Crew
1980
5.8
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
as Mr. Champing
1980
0.0
Breaking Glass
as Station Porter
1980
6.8
Games Without Frontiers
as Stewart
1980
0.0
Long Distance Information
as Mackaness
1979
0.0
Phoelix
1979
0.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mr Lovejoy
1979
6.7
The Passage
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1979
6.1
The Life Story of Baal
as Woodcutter
1978
0.0
The Shout
as Fielder in Cowpat
1978
6.0
Playhouse
as Stewart
1974
7.0
The Go-Between
as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1971
6.8
Play for Today
as Mr. Horsfall
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Mr. Champing
1970
6.3
Omnibus
as Roulin
1967
7.2
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Fools
as Cardinal Pole
N/A
0.0
Asylum
as The Prison Director
N/A
0.0
Superman Redeemed
as Jean Pierre Dubois
N/A
0.0