Jim Broadbent

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-05-24 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Jim Broadbent

Biography

Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 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 televisi...

Acting

1985

Brazil

as Dr. Jaffe

2001

Bridget Jones's Diary

as Bridget's Dad

2004

2001

Moulin Rouge!

as Harold Zidler

1993

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

as The Earl of Leete

2008

Inkheart

as Fenoglio

2002

Gangs of New York

as Boss Tweed

2007

Hot Fuzz

as Inspector Frank Butterman

2004

Vera Drake

as Judge

2005

1992

2009

The Damned United

as Sam Longson

1995

Richard III

as The Duke of Buckingham

2004

Vanity Fair

as Mr. Osborne

1998

Little Voice

as Mr. Boo

2001

Iris

as John Bayley

1994

Widows' Peak

as Con Clancy

1997

The Borrowers

as Pod Clock

2008

Lost and Found

as Narrator (voice)

1991

Enchanted April

as Frederick Arbuthnot

2005

Robots

as Madame Gasket (voice)

1998

The Avengers

as Mother

2009

Perrier's Bounty

as Jim McCrea

2005

Valiant

as Sergeant (voice)

2002

Nicholas Nickleby

as Mr. Wackford Squeers

2006

Longford

as Lord Longford

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Desmond Morton

1990

1994

Princess Caraboo

as Mr. Worrall

2008

Einstein and Eddington

as Sir Oliver Lodge

1992

A Sense of History

as 23rd Earl of Leete

2003

Bright Young Things

as The Drunken Major

2010

2004

The Magic Roundabout

as Brian (voice)

1995

Rough Magic

as Doc Ansell

1999

Topsy-Turvy

as W. S. Gilbert

1985

The Good Father

as Roger Miles

2009

The Young Victoria

as King William IV

2011

Arthur Christmas

as Santa (voice)

1984

The Hit

as Barrister

2011

The Iron Lady

as Denis Thatcher

1993

Wide-Eyed and Legless

as Deric Longden

2003

The Young Visiters

as Alfred Salteena

2012

Cloud Atlas

as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

2013

Filth

as Dr Rossi

1982

Walter

as Joseph - Orderly

2024

Paddington in Peru

as Samuel Gruber

1985

Silas Marner

as Jem Rodney

1988

2023

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self – Contributor

2013

Closed Circuit

as Attorney General

2014

Paddington

as Samuel Gruber

2013

Le Week-End

as Nick Burrows

1983

Walter and June

as Orderly

2013

The Phone Call

as Stan (voice)

2014

Get Santa

as Santa Claus

1991

Nona

as Carmelo

2013

2014

1983

Birth of a Nation

as Geoff Figg

2023

Call Me Back

as George

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

as Warner Purcell

1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Lagermann

2003

Anna Spud

as Dad

1989

Erik the Viking

as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

1996

The Secret Agent

as Chief Inspector Heat

1989

The Hangover

as (voice)

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Fools

as Cardinal Pole

-

Magik

as Garret

1987

1982

Intensive Care

as Mr Horsfall

1986

2015

Big Game

as Herbert

2025

Jay Kelly

as Jimbo

2017

The Sense of an Ending

as Tony Webster

2015

Brooklyn

as Father Flood

2015

The Go-Between

as Old Leo

2021

2015

2015

The Weather Inside

as Britischer Botschafter

2016

Eddie the Eagle

as BBC Commentator

2016

The Legend of Tarzan

as Prime Minister

2016

Ethel & Ernest

as Ernest Briggs (voice)

2008

Tales of the Riverbank

as G.P. (voice)

2017

Paddington 2

as Samuel Gruber

2004

Pride

as Eddie (voice)

2004

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)

1982

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Black '47

as Lord Kilmichael

2004

Tooth

as The Rabbit (voice)

1981

Time Bandits

as Compere

2022

Birds Like Us

as Horozovich (voice)

1980

Breaking Glass

as Station Porter

1988

Vroom

as Donald

2018

King Lear

as Earl of Gloucester

2018

New Town Utopia

as Lewis Silkin MP

2018

King of Thieves

as Terry Perkins

2002

The King's Beard

as The Wizard (voice)

1979

The Passage

as German Soldier

2021

The Duke

as Kempton Bunton

2020

Dolittle

as Lord Thomas Badgley

1978

The Shout

as Fielder in Cowpat

1983

Dead on Time

as Vicar

1971

The Go-Between

as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)

1993

Prince Cinders

as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)

2022

Charlotte

as Grosspapa (voice)

1991

Happy Feet

as Grocer

1989

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

as Standford Hartley

1982

Our Winnie

as Second Attendant

2024

An A to Z of Paddington

as Narrator (voice)

Production

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