Bill Nighy is an English actor of the stage and screen.
Bill Nighy is an English actor of the stage and screen.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Softly, Softly: Taskforce | Albert Blake | Episode: "Say it with Flowers" |
| 1978–1982 | Play for Today | Dave/William/Bill | 3 episodes |
| 1979 | Premier | Deasey | Episode: "Deasey" |
| 1980 | Agony | Vincent Fish | Season 2 |
| Fox | Colin Street | 2 episodes | |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Bruno | Episode: "Standing in for Henry" | |
| 1982 | Minder | Oates | Episode: "Looking for Micky" |
| Play for Tomorrow | Connor Mullen | Episode: "Easter 2016" | |
| 1983 | Reilly, Ace of Spies | Goschen | Episode: "1905: The Visiting Fireman" |
| Jemima Shore Investigates | David Cullen | Episode: "A Model for Murder" | |
| 1984 | Crown Court | Lee Sinclair | Episode: "The Son of His Father: Part 1" |
| 1985 | The Last Place on Earth | Cecil Meares | Miniseries: 7 episodes |
| 1989 | Storyboard | Sam | Episode: "Making News" |
| 1990 | Making News | Sam Courtney | 6 episodes |
| ScreenPlay | Howard Nash | Episode: "Antonia and Jane" | |
| TECX | Brill | Episode: "Writing on the Wall" | |
| 1991 | The Men's Room | Mark Carleton | BBC serial |
| Bergerac | Barry | Episode: "All For Love" | |
| Boon | Steve Reeves | Episode: "Pillow Talk" | |
| 1991–1993 | Performance | Roger Maitland/Hugh Marriner | 2 episodes |
| 1992 | Chiller | Tom Dickenson | Episode: "The Cat Brought It In" |
| A Masculine Ending | John Tracey | Television film | |
| 1993 | Eye of the Storm | Tom Frewen | 6 episodes |
| Peak Practice | Alan Sinclair | Episode: "Growing Pains" | |
| Don't Leave Me This Way | John Tracey | Television film | |
| The Maitlands | Roger Maitland | BBC TV production | |
| 1994 | Wycliffe | David Cleeve | Episode: "The Four Jacks" |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Belshazzar (voice) | Episode: "Daniel" |
| 1997 | Insiders | Mark Gordon | Episode: "The Vat Man" |
| Kavanagh QC | Giles Culpepper QC | Episode: "Ancient History" | |
| 1999–2000 | Kiss Me Kate | Ian | 5 episodes |
| 1998–2000 | The Canterbury Tales | The Merchant | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | People Like Us | Will Rushmore | Episode: "The Photographer" |
| 2000 | Longitude | Lord Sandwich | Television film |
| Animated Tales of the World | Tiger (Voice) | Episode: "A Story of Taiwan: Aunt Tiger" | |
| 2002 | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Jeffrey Grainger | Season 3 |
| The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Alan Lockwood | Episode: "Well Schooled in Murder" | |
| 2003 | State of Play | Cameron Foster | 6 episodes |
| Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill | Phil Parish | Television film | |
| The Lost Prince | Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham | Television film | |
| The Canterbury Tales | James | Episode: "The Wife of Bath" | |
| The Young Visiters | Earl of Clincham | Television film | |
| Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher | Narrator (voice) | Television film | |
| 2004 | He Knew He Was Right | Colonel Osborne | 3 parts |
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café | Lawrence | Television film |
| Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | Television film | |
| 2006 | Horizon | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "The Great Robot Race" |
| 2009 | 10 Minute Tales | Mr Jellaby | Episode: "Statuesque" |
| 2010 | Doctor Who | Dr Black | Uncredited; episode: "Vincent and the Doctor" |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | BBC TV series: The Worricker Trilogy |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos | Johnny Worricker | BBC TV series: The Worricker Trilogy |
| Salting the Battlefield | Johnny Worricker | BBC TV series: The Worricker Trilogy | |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Billy Mack | Television short film |
| 2018 | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyll | 3 episodes [4] |
| 2019–present | The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys | Narrator (voice) | Television series |
| 2020–2021 | Castlevania | Saint Germain (voice) | 14 episodes |
| 2021–present | World’s Most Scenic River Journeys | Narrator (voice) | Television series |
| 2022 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton | Television series |
| TBA | Lazarus † | Dr. Lazarus | Filming [5] |
| Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Plaza Suite | Asst. Stage Manager | Neil Simon | Watermill Theatre, Newbury | [6] |
| 1969 | The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore | Performer | Tennessee Williams | Watermill Theatre, Newbury | [7] |
| 1971 | Landscape and Silence | Performer | Harold Pinter | Gateway Theatre, Chester | [7] |
| 1971 | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Mr. Sloane | Joe Orton | Gateway Theatre, Chester | [7] |
| 1971 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Performer | Tom Stoppard | Arts Theatre, Cambridge | [8] |
| 1971 | The Immoralist | Performer | André Gide | Hampstead Theatre | [8] |
| 1971 | Speak Now | Timmy | Olwen Wymark | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | [8] |
| 1971 | Under New Management | Harold | Chris Bond | Everyman Theatre, Liverpool | [7] |
| 1972 | Freedom of the City | Skinnwe | Brian Friel | Everyman Theatre, Liverpool | [9] |
| 1976 | Occupy! | Player | Everyman Theatre, Liverpool | [10] | |
| 1977 | Illuminatus! | Performer | Ken Campbell/Chris Langham | National Theatre, London | [11] |
| 1978 | Comings and Goings | Vernon | Mike Stott | Hampstead Theatre Club | [12] |
| 1979 | The Warp | Performer | Neil Oram/ Ken Campbell | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London | [10] |
| 1980 | Illuminations | Gorman | Arthur Rimbaud | Lyric Hammersmith | [13] |
| 1983 | A Map of the World | Stephen Andrews | David Hare | National Theatre, London | |
| 1985 | Pravda | Eaton Sylvester | David Hare/ Howard Brenton | National Theatre, London | [14] |
| 1986 | King Lear | Edgar | William Shakespeare | National Theatre, London | [15] |
| 1987 | Mean Tears | Julian | Peter Gill | National Theatre, Cottesloe | [16] |
| 1991 | Betrayal | Jerry | Harold Pinter | Almeida Theatre, London | |
| 1993 | Arcadia | Bernard Nightingale | Tom Stoppard | National Theatre, London | [17] |
| 1994 | The Seagull | Trigorin | Anton Chekhov | National Theatre, London | [18] |
| 1995–97 | Skylight | Tom Sergeant | David Hare | National Theatre, Vaudeville Theatre | UK tour |
| 1998 | A Kind of Alaska | Hornby | Harold Pinter | Donmar Warehouse | [19] |
| 2000–01 | Blue/Orange | Robert | Joe Penhall | National Theatre, Cottesloe Duchess Theatre, London | [10] |
| 2006 | The Vertical Hour | Oliver Lucas | David Hare | Music Box Theater, Broadway | [10] |
| 2014 | Skylight | Tom Sergeant | David Hare | Wyndham's Theatre, West End | [20] |
| 2015 | John Golden Theatre, Broadway | [20] | |||
| Year | Title | Voice |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | G-Force | Leonard Saber |
| 2013 | Disney Infinity | Davy Jones |
| 2014 | The Elder Scrolls Online | High King Emeric |
| Destiny | The Speaker [37] | |
| 2015 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited | High King Emeric |
| Disney Infinity 3.0 | Davy Jones [38] | |
| 2017 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind | High King Emeric |
| Destiny 2 | The Speaker | |
| 2018 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset | High King Emeric |
| 2019 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr | High King Emeric |
| 2020 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor | High King Emeric |
| 2020 | Kosmokrats | Narrator |
| 2021 | The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood | High King Emeric |
| Year | Title | Role | Author | Production company | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Sandman: Act II | Odin | Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs | Audible | [39] |
| Year | Song | Artist | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Free [40] | Florence + The Machine | Florence Welch's anxiety |
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