Jim Broadbent on screen and stage

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Jim Broadbent in 2007.

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]

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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.

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1971 The Go-Between Spectator at Cricket MatchUncredited [4]
1978The Life Story of BaalWoodcutter
The Shout Asylum Fielder
1979Long Distance InformationMackaness
The Passage German SoldierUncredited
1980 Breaking Glass Station Porter
1981 The Dogs of War Film crew
Time Bandits Compere
1982 Birth of a Nation Geoff Fig
Dead on Time PriestShort film
1984 The Hit Barrister
1985 Brazil Dr. Jaffe
The Good Father Roger Miles
1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Jean Pierre Dubois
Running Out of Luck Reporter
1988VroomDonald
1989 Erik the Viking Ernest the Viking
1990 Life Is Sweet Andy
1991 Enchanted April Frederick Arbuthnot
1992 The Crying Game Col
1993 Wide-Eyed and Legless Deric Longden
Prince CindersUgly BrotherVoice
1994 Bullets Over Broadway Warner Purcell
Princess Caraboo Mr. Worrall
Widows' Peak Con Clancy
1995 Richard III The Duke of Buckingham
The Last Englishman Col. Alfred D. Wintle
Rough Magic Doc Ansell
1996 The Secret Agent Chief Inspector Heat
1997 The Borrowers Pod Clock
Smilla's Sense of Snow Dr. Lagermann
1998 The Avengers Mother
Little Voice Mr. Boo
1999 Topsy-Turvy W. S. Gilbert
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary Colin Jones
Moulin Rouge! Harold Zidler
Iris John Bayley
2002 Gangs of New York Boss Tweed
Nicholas Nickleby Mr. Wackford Squeers
2003 Bright Young Things Drunk Major
Anna SpudDadShort film
2004 Around the World in 80 Days Lord Kelvin
Vanity Fair Mr. Osborne
ToothThe RabbitVoice
Vera Drake Judge
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Colin Jones
2005 Robots Madame GasketVoice
Valiant Sergeant
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Professor Kirke
The Magic Roundabout BrianVoice
2006 Art School Confidential Jimmy
2007 Hot Fuzz Inspector Frank Butterman
And When Did You Last See Your Father? Arthur Morrison
2008 Free Jimmy Igor StromowskijVoice (English dub)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Dean Charles Stanforth
Inkheart Fenoglio
Tales of the Riverbank G.P.Voice
2009 The Young Victoria King William IV
The Damned United Sam Longson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Horace Slughorn
Perrier's Bounty Jim McCrea
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva CarolVoice (English dub)
2010 Another Year Tom
Animals United WinstonVoice (English dub)
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Horace Slughorn
Arthur Christmas Malcolm "Santa" ClausVoice
The Iron Lady Denis Thatcher
2012 Cloud Atlas Captain Molyneux
Vyvyan Ayrs
Timothy Cavendish
Korean Musician
Prescient 2
2013 Closed Circuit Attorney General
Filth Dr. Rossi
Le Week-End Nick Burrows
The Harry Hill Movie Bill the Cleaner
The Phone Call StanleyVoice
Short film
2014 Postman Pat: The Movie Mr. Brown [5] [6] Voice
Paddington Samuel Gruber
Get Santa Santa Claus
Big Game Herbert
2015 Brooklyn Father Flood
The Lady in the Van Underwood
The Weather InsideBritischer Botschafter
2016 Eddie the Eagle BBC Commentator
The Legend of Tarzan British Prime Minister
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods [7] Julius Caesar Voice (English dub)
Bridget Jones's Baby Colin Jones
Ethel & Ernest Ernest BriggsVoice
2017 The Sense of an Ending Tony Webster
Paddington 2 [8] Samuel Gruber
Mary and the Witch's Flower Doctor DeeVoice (English dub)
2018 Black '47 Lord Kilmichael
King of Thieves Terry Perkins
2020 Dolittle Lord Thomas Badgley
The Duke Kempton Bunton
Six Minutes to Midnight Charlie
2021 Charlotte GrosspapaVoice
A Boy Called Christmas Father Vodell
2023 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Harold Fry
2024 Paddington in Peru Samuel GruberPost-production
2025 Untitled Noah Baumbach film Filming [9]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1979 Not the Nine O'Clock News Union negotiatorSketch: "Final Demands"
1980 BBC2 Playhouse StewartEpisode: "Games Without Frontiers"
1982Objects of AffectionCemetery AttendantEpisode: "Our Winnie"
Bird of Prey DI Stanley RichardsonEpisode: "Input Classified"
Walter Joseph (Orderly)Television film
1983 The Black Adder Don SpeekingleeshEpisode: "The Queen of Spain's Beard"
Walter and June Joseph (Orderly)Television film
1983, 1985, 1990 Only Fools and Horses Det. Chief Insp. Roy Slater3 episodes
1984 Crown Court Robert MacBrideEpisode: "Whisper Who Dares: Part 1"
1985 Happy Families Dalcroix3 episodes
Silas Marner Jem RodneyTelevision film
1986 Screen Two GutlingEpisode: "The Insurance Man"
1987 Victoria Wood as Seen on TV The Doctor Television special
1988 Tales of the Unexpected Mr. LovejoyEpisode: "The Facts of Life"
Theatre Night Maitre JacquesEpisode: "The Miser"
Dramarama Uncle KeithEpisode: "Making Waves"
Blackadder's Christmas Carol Prince Albert Television special
1989 Revolution!! WallaceTelevision film; also writer
Victoria Wood Alan HammondEpisode: "Staying In"
1990 Omnibus Postman RoulinEpisode: "Van Gogh"
1991 Gone to the Dogs Jim Morley6 episodes
Murder Most Horrid Selwyn ProopsEpisode: "A Determined Woman"
Performance CarmelloEpisode: "Nona"
1991–93 Screen One Deric Longden / Grocer2 episodes
1992A Sense of HistoryThe 23rd Earl of LeeteTelevision film; also writer
Inspector Morse Charlie BennettEpisode: "Absolute Conviction"
1993 Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown GeorgeShort film for BBC's The Comic Strip Presents
1994Perpetual Motion - The Ford Transit NarratorVoice
1995–2000 The Peter Principle Peter Duffley13 episodes
1996–99 Percy the Park Keeper PercyVoice; 18 episodes
1996–2000 Brambly Hedge Basil Brightberry, Old VoleVoice
1999 The Curse of Fatal Death The Shy DoctorTelevision special
Big Day [10] RobertTelevision 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 EddieVoice; Television film
2005 Spider-Plant Man Batman Television short
2006 The Street Stan McDermott3 episodes
Longford Lord Longford Television film
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Oliver Lodge
Lost and Found NarratorVoice; Television film
2010 Any Human Heart Logan Mountstuart (older)4 episodes
2011 Exile Sam Ronstadt3 episodes
2013 The Great Train Robbery DCS Tommy Butler Television film
2015 London Spy Scottie5 episodes
The Go-Between Old Leo ColstonTelevision film
2015–18 Teletubbies TrumpetsVoice; 120 episodes
2016 War & Peace Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky5 episodes
2017 Game of Thrones Archmaester Ebrose4 episodes
2018DianaOlder Charles / NarratorTelevision film
King Lear Earl of Gloucester Television film
2020 Black Narcissus Father Roberts2 episodes
2022 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Lord MarchamEpisode #1.1
Ten Percent Richard NightingaleEpisode #1.1
Staged Himself2 episodes

Theatre

YearTitleRolePlaywrightVenue
1974Lord Nelson Lives in Liverpool 8 Philip Martin Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs), London
1975-7The Bed Before YesterdayTaxi Driver (replacement) Ben Travers Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London
1976Illuminatus!Patrolman James Patrick Hennessy et al. Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Peter Osborne-Ho’ Halligan’s Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun, Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam, and other locations.
1979The Warp Ken Campbell and Neil Oram ICA Theatre, London
Ecstasy Len Mike Leigh Hampstead Theatre, London (world premiere)
1981Goose PimplesVernonHampstead Theatre and Garrick Theatre, London
1981-2 Our Friends in the North Austin Donohue/Weir Peter Flannery Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pit, London
1982 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Colonel Tom Stoppard Barbican Centre, Royal Shakespeare Company
1982-3ClayPat Peter Whelan Barbican Centre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, London
1983Other WorldsJohn Wheatley / Richard Wheatley Robert Holman English Stage Company
1985 The Government Inspector Anton Svoznik-Dmuchanovsky Nikolai Gogol National Theatre
1986-7 Kafka’s Dick Hermann K Alan Bennett Royal Court Theatre (world premiere)
1987The Greatest Story Ever ToldWallace National Theatre of Brent, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh,
1988 The Recruiting Officer Sergeant Kite George Farquhar Royal Court Theatre, West End
A Place with the PigsPavel Athol Fugard
Our Country's Good Harry Brewer Timberlake Wertenbaker
1988-9 Man of the Moment Alan Ayckbourn Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
A Flea in Her Ear Victor Emmanuel Chandebise/Poche Georges Feydeau The Old Vic, London
1996 Habeas Corpus Arthur Wicksteed Alan Bennett Donmar Warehouse, London
2003–04 The Pillowman Tupolski Martin McDonagh Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre
2005 Theatre of Blood Edward Lionheart Lee Simpson & Phelim McDermott Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre
2013The Chapel of UnrestOlder Man Stephen Volk Bush Theatre
2015 A Christmas Carol Scrooge Charles Dickens Noël Coward Theatre, West End
2018 A Very Very Very Dark Matter Hans Christian Andersen Martin McDonagh Bridge Theatre, London

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