Jim Broadbent is an English actor who has had multiple appearances in both television and film. For his film career, Broadbent won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award (both for Iris (2001)) [1] and a BAFTA for Moulin Rouge! For his television career Broadbent has won both a Golden Globe and a BAFTA TV Award (both for Longford (2006)) [2] and an Emmy for The Street . [3]
Broadbent's roles are varied from his roles as Malcom "Santa" Claus in Arthur Christmas and Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 to his roles as King William IV in The Young Victoria and Col. Alfred Wintle in The Last Englishman.
Broadbent's acting career spans over 50 years with his debut being in 1971's The Go-Between as a spectator at a cricket match.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | Union negotiator | Sketch: "Final Demands" |
1980 | BBC2 Playhouse | Stewart | Episode: "Games Without Frontiers" |
1982 | Objects of Affection | Cemetery Attendant | Episode: "Our Winnie" |
Bird of Prey | DI Stanley Richardson | Episode: "Input Classified" | |
Walter | Joseph (Orderly) | Television film | |
1983 | The Black Adder | Don Speekingleesh | Episode: "The Queen of Spain's Beard" |
Walter and June | Joseph (Orderly) | Television film | |
1983, 1985, 1990 | Only Fools and Horses | Det. Chief Insp. Roy Slater | 3 episodes |
1984 | Crown Court | Robert MacBride | Episode: "Whisper Who Dares: Part 1" |
1985 | Happy Families | Dalcroix | 3 episodes |
Silas Marner | Jem Rodney | Television film | |
1986 | Screen Two | Gutling | Episode: "The Insurance Man" |
1987 | Victoria Wood as Seen on TV | The Doctor | Television special |
1988 | Tales of the Unexpected | Mr. Lovejoy | Episode: "The Facts of Life" |
Theatre Night | Maitre Jacques | Episode: "The Miser" | |
Dramarama | Uncle Keith | Episode: "Making Waves" | |
Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Prince Albert | Television special | |
1989 | Revolution!! | Wallace | Television film; also writer |
Victoria Wood | Alan Hammond | Episode: "Staying In" | |
1990 | Omnibus | Postman Roulin | Episode: "Van Gogh" |
1991 | Gone to the Dogs | Jim Morley | 6 episodes |
Murder Most Horrid | Selwyn Proops | Episode: "A Determined Woman" | |
Performance | Carmello | Episode: "Nona" | |
1991–93 | Screen One | Deric Longden / Grocer | 2 episodes |
1992 | A Sense of History | The 23rd Earl of Leete | Television film; also writer |
Inspector Morse | Charlie Bennett | Episode: "Absolute Conviction" | |
1993 | Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown | George | Short film for BBC's The Comic Strip Presents |
1994 | Perpetual Motion - The Ford Transit | Narrator | Voice |
1995–2000 | The Peter Principle | Peter Duffley | 13 episodes |
1996–99 | Percy the Park Keeper | Percy | Voice; 18 episodes |
1996–2000 | Brambly Hedge | Basil Brightberry, Old Vole | Voice |
1999 | The Curse of Fatal Death | The Shy Doctor | Television special |
Big Day [10] | Robert | Television short; also writer | |
2002 | The Gathering Storm | Desmond Morton | Television film |
2003 | The Young Visiters | Alfred Salteena | |
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Harry Aitken | ||
2004 | Pride | Eddie | Voice; Television film |
2005 | Spider-Plant Man | Batman | Television short |
2006 | The Street | Stan McDermott | 3 episodes |
Longford | Lord Longford | Television film | |
2008 | Einstein and Eddington | Sir Oliver Lodge | |
Lost and Found | Narrator | Voice; Television film | |
2010 | Any Human Heart | Logan Mountstuart (older) | 4 episodes |
2011 | Exile | Sam Ronstadt | 3 episodes |
2013 | The Great Train Robbery | DCS Tommy Butler | Television film |
2015 | London Spy | Scottie | 5 episodes |
The Go-Between | Old Leo Colston | Television film | |
2015–18 | Teletubbies | Trumpets | Voice; 120 episodes |
2016 | War & Peace | Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky | 5 episodes |
2017 | Game of Thrones | Archmaester Ebrose | 4 episodes |
2018 | Diana | Older Charles / Narrator | Television film |
King Lear | Earl of Gloucester | Television film | |
2020 | Black Narcissus | Father Roberts | 2 episodes |
2022 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Lord Marcham | Episode #1.1 |
Ten Percent | Richard Nightingale | Episode #1.1 | |
Staged | Himself | 2 episodes |
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