Bill Nighy Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Bill Nighy filmography covers 79 movie titles and 12 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Bill Nighy movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Death Watch (1980) as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) as Officer
• Eye of the Needle (1981) as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
• Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) as ENT Doctor
• The Little Drummer Girl (1984) as Al
• Thirteen at Dinner (1985) as Ronald Marsh
• The Phantom of the Opera (1989) as Martin Barton
• Being Human (1994) as Julian
• FairyTale: A True Story (1997) as Edward Gardner
• Still Crazy (1998) as Ray Simms
• Guest House Paradiso (1999) as Mr. Johnson
• Longitude (2000) as Lord Sandwich
• Blow Dry (2001) as Ray Robertson
• Lucky Break (2001) as Roger
• I Capture the Castle (2003) as James Mortmain
• Love Actually (2003) as Billy Mack
• Underworld (2003) as Viktor
• Enduring Love (2004) as Robin
• Shaun of the Dead (2004) as Phillip
• Gideon's Daughter (2005) as Gideon Warner
• The Constant Gardener (2005) as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
• The Girl in the Café (2005) as Lawrence
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) as Slartibartfast
• The Magic Roundabout (2005) as Dylan (voice)
• Flushed Away (2006) as Whitey (voice)
• Notes on a Scandal (2006) as Richard Hart
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) as Davy Jones
• Stormbreaker (2006) as Alan Blunt
• Underworld: Evolution (2006) as Viktor
• Hot Fuzz (2007) as Met Chief Inspector
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Davy Jones
• Valkyrie (2008) as Friedrich Olbricht
• Astro Boy (2009) as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
• G-Force (2009) as Leonard Saber
• Glorious 39 (2009) as Alexander Keyes
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) as Quentin
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) as Viktor
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) as Rufus Scrimgeour
• Wild Target (2010) as Victor Maynard
• Arthur Christmas (2011) as Grandsanta (voice)
• Chalet Girl (2011) as Richard Madsen
• Page Eight (2011) as Johnny Worricker
• Rango (2011) as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
• London: The Modern Babylon (2012) as Spoken Quotations (voice)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) as Douglas Ainslie
• Total Recall (2012) as Matthias
• Wrath of the Titans (2012) as Hephaestus
• About Time (2013) as Dad
• Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) as General Fallon
• The World's End (2013) as The Network (voice)
• I, Frankenstein (2014) as Naberius
• Pride (2014) as Cliff
• Salting the Battlefield (2014) as Johnny Worricker
• Turks & Caicos (2014) as Johnny Worricker
• A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015) as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) as Douglas Ainslie
• Dad's Army (2016) as Sergeant Wilson
• Norm of the North (2016) as Socrates (voice)
• The Limehouse Golem (2016) as John Kildare
• Red Nose Day Actually (2017) as Billy Mack
• The Bookshop (2017) as Mr. Brundish
• Their Finest (2017) as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
• Hope Gap (2019) as Edward
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) as Howard Clifford
• Sometimes Always Never (2019) as Alan
• StarDog and TurboCat (2019) as Sinclair (voice)
• The Kindness of Strangers (2019) as Timofey
• Emma. (2020) as Mr. Woodhouse
• Minamata (2020) as Robert "Bob" Hayes
• Living (2022) as Williams
• Role Play (2023) as Bob
• 10 Lives (2024) as Professor Craven (voice)
• Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue (2024) as Conrad (voice)
• Joy (2024) as Patrick Steptoe
• That Christmas (2024) as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
• The Beautiful Game (2024) as Mal
• The First Omen (2024) as Cardinal Lawrence
• The Wild Robot (2024) as Longneck (voice)
• Shelter (2026) as Manafort

Bill Nighy television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Bill Nighy; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Jeffrey Grainger
• Black Books as Man at bar
• Castlevania as Saint Germain (voice)
• Doctor Who as Dr Black
• Harlan Coben's Lazarus as Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
• LIGHT & MAGIC as Self (archive footage)
• Minder as Oates
• Ordeal by Innocence as Leo Argyll
• Reilly: Ace of Spies as Goschen
• State of Play as Cameron Foster
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Lockwood
• The Man Who Fell to Earth as Thomas Jerome Newton

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Bill Nighy's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.