Gary Oldman filmography

Last updated April 12, 2024

English actor and filmmaker Gary Oldman made his film debut in the 1982 British ensemble drama Remembrance . He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), while also gaining attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the made-for-television drama film The Firm (1989). Regarded as a member of the "Brit Pack",^[1] he is also known for portraying a New York gangster in the American neo-noir crime film State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

Oldman is known for his portrayal of villains, like in the films True Romance with Christian Slater (1993), as Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional with Jean Reno (1994), The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis (1997), Air Force One with Harrison Ford (1997) and The Contender again with Christian Slater (2000). In 2004, he was cast as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , the third film in the Harry Potter film series. He went on to reprise the role in Goblet of Fire , Order of the Phoenix and a cameo in Deathly Hallows – Part 2 . He also played James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Dreyfus in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).

Oldman's portrayal of Winston Churchill in the 2017 war drama film Darkest Hour earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.^[2]

Oldman has executive produced films like The Contender, Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and Nil by Mouth (1997), the latter of which he also wrote and directed. He's been featured in television shows such as Fallen Angels (1993), Tracey Takes On... (1999) and Friends (2001). He has voiced the characters Ignitius and Viktor Reznov in the video games The Legend of Spyro and Call of Duty , respectively.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1982	Remembrance	Daniel
1983	Meantime	Coxy
1986	Sid and Nancy	Sid Vicious
1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Joe Orton
1988	Track 29	Martin
	Criminal Law	Ben Chase
	We Think the World of You	Johnny
1989	Chattahoochee	Emmett Foley
1990	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Rosencrantz
	State of Grace	Jackie Flannery
	Henry & June	Pop	Credited as Maurice Escargot
1991	JFK	Lee Harvey Oswald
1992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Count Dracula
1993	True Romance	Drexl Spivey
1993	Romeo Is Bleeding	Jack Grimaldi
1994	Léon: The Professional	Norman Stansfield
1994	Immortal Beloved	Ludwig van Beethoven
1995	Murder in the First	Milton Glenn
1995	The Scarlet Letter	Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
1996	Basquiat	Albert Milo
1997	The Fifth Element	Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
	Air Force One	Egor Korshunov
	Nil by Mouth	—	Director, writer, and producer only
1998	Lost in Space	Dr. Zachary Smith
1998	Quest for Camelot	Lord Ruber	Voice
1999	Plunkett & Macleane	—	Executive producer only
2000	The Contender	Representative Sheldon Runyon	Also executive producer
2001	Nobody's Baby	Buford Hill	Also producer
2001	Hannibal	Mason Verger	Uncredited
2002	Interstate 60	O.W. Grant
2002	The Hire: Beat the Devil	The Devil	Short film
2003	Tiptoes	Rolfe Bedalia
2003	Sin	Charlie Kraken / Charlie Strom
2004	Who's Kyle?	Scouse	Short film
2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Sirius Black
2005	Batman Begins	James Gordon
2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Sirius Black	Cameo
2006	The Backwoods	Paul
2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Sirius Black
2008	Dead Fish	Lynch
2008	The Dark Knight	James Gordon
2009	The Unborn	Rabbi Joseph Sendak
	Rain Fall	William Holtzer
	A Christmas Carol	Tiny Tim / Bob Cratchit / Jacob Marley	Motion capture
	Planet 51	General Grawl	Voice
2010	The Book of Eli	Bill Carnegie
	Countdown to Zero	Narrator	Documentary
	One Night in Turin	Narrator	Documentary
2011	Red Riding Hood	Father Solomon
	Kung Fu Panda 2	Lord Shen	Voice
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Sirius Black	Cameo	^[3]
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	George Smiley
	Guns, Girls and Gambling	Elvis Elvis
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	James Gordon
2012	Lawless	Floyd Banner
2013	Paranoia	Nicolas Wyatt
2014	RoboCop	Dr. Dennett Norton
2014	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Dreyfus
2015	Child 44	General Timur Nestorov
2016	Man Down	Captain Peyton
2016	Criminal	CIA Senior Agent Quaker Wells
2017	The Space Between Us	Nathaniel Shepherd
	The Hitman's Bodyguard	Vladislav Dukhovich
	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill	Best Actor Academy Award
2018	Tau	Tau	Voice
2018	Hunter Killer	Admiral Charles Donnegan
2019	Killers Anonymous	The Man
	Mary	David
	The Laundromat	Jürgen Mossack
	The Courier	Ezekiel Mannings
2020	Mank	Herman J. Mankiewicz
2021	Crisis	Dr. Tyrone Brower
2021	The Woman in the Window	Alistair Russell
2023	Oppenheimer	Harry S. Truman
2024	Parthenope		Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1983	Meantime	Coxy	Television film
1984	Dramarama	Ben	Episode: "On Your Tod"
1984	Morgan's Boy	Colin	4 episodes
1985	Summer Season	Gary	Episode: "Rachel and the Roarettes"
1986	Honest, Decent and True	Derek Bates	Television film
1989	The Firm	Clive "Bex" Bissell	Television film
1989	Knots Landing	Don Ross	Episode: "Close Call"
1991	Heading Home	Ian Tyson	Television film
1993	Fallen Angels	Pat Keiley	Episode: "Dead End for Delia"
1999	Tracey Takes On...	Hairdresser	Episode: "Hair"
1999	Jesus	Pontius Pilate	Television film
2001	Friends	Richard Crosby	Episode: "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding"
2002	Greg the Bunny	Himself	Episode: "Piddler on the Roof"
2022	Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts	Himself	HBO Max special
2022–present	Slow Horses	Jackson Lamb	Main role	^[4]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes	Ref.
1993	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Count Dracula
1998	The Fifth Element	Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
2003	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead	Sergeant Jack Barnes
2003	True Crime: Streets of LA	Rasputin "Rocky" Kuznetskov / FBI Agent Paul Masterson		^[5]
2006	The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning	Ignitus
2007	The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night	Ignitus
2008	The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon	Ignitus
2008	Call of Duty: World at War	Sergeant Viktor Reznov		^[6]
2010	Call of Duty: Black Ops	Viktor Reznov / Dr. Daniel Clarke
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Viktor Reznov	Archive voice clips (uncredited)
2015	Lego Dimensions	Lord Vortech

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References

↑ Kistler, Alan (2013). Doctor Who: A History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 198. ISBN 9781493000166 . Retrieved 20 November 2021.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
↑ "Darkest Hour: Nominations and awards - The Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2 March 2022.
↑ Ditzian, Eric (16 July 2009). "'Harry Potter' Director, Daniel Radcliffe Reveal 'Deathly Hallows' Secrets — Movie News Story | MTV Movie News". MTV. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
↑ Otterson, Joe (15 November 2019). "Gary Oldman to Star in Drama Series 'Slow Horses' at Apple". Variety. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
↑ "Gary Oldman (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 28 April 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
↑ "Treyarch > Blog > Leipzig Games Convention '08 Recap!". Treyarch. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.

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[1] Kistler, Alan (2013). Doctor Who: A History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 198. ISBN 9781493000166 . Retrieved 20 November 2021.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[2] "Darkest Hour: Nominations and awards - The Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2 March 2022.

[3] Ditzian, Eric (16 July 2009). "'Harry Potter' Director, Daniel Radcliffe Reveal 'Deathly Hallows' Secrets — Movie News Story | MTV Movie News". MTV. Retrieved 11 January 2010.

[4] Otterson, Joe (15 November 2019). "Gary Oldman to Star in Drama Series 'Slow Horses' at Apple". Variety. Retrieved 19 November 2019.

[btva-5] "Gary Oldman (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 28 April 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

[6] "Treyarch > Blog > Leipzig Games Convention '08 Recap!". Treyarch. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.

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