Jim Broadbent Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Jim Broadbent filmography covers 91 movie titles and 17 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.

Jim Broadbent movies by release year

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

• The Go-Between (1971) as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
• The Shout (1978) as Fielder in Cowpat
• The Passage (1979) as German Soldier (uncredited)
• Breaking Glass (1980) as Station Porter
• The Dogs of War (1980) as Film Crew
• Time Bandits (1981) as Compere
• The Hit (1984) as Barrister
• Brazil (1985) as Dr. Jaffe
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Jean Pierre Dubois
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) as Prince Albert
• Erik the Viking (1989) as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
• Enchanted April (1991) as Frederick Arbuthnot
• Life Is Sweet (1991) as Andy
• A Sense of History (1992) as 23rd Earl of Leete
• The Crying Game (1992) as Col
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) as Warner Purcell
• Princess Caraboo (1994) as Mr. Worrall
• Widows' Peak (1994) as Con Clancy
• Richard III (1995) as The Duke of Buckingham
• Rough Magic (1995) as Doc Ansell
• The Secret Agent (1996) as Chief Inspector Heat
• Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) as Dr. Lagermann
• The Borrowers (1997) as Pod Clock
• Little Voice (1998) as Mr. Boo
• The Avengers (1998) as Mother
• Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) as The Shy Doctor
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) as W. S. Gilbert
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) as Bridget's Dad
• Iris (2001) as John Bayley
• Moulin Rouge! (2001) as Harold Zidler
• Gangs of New York (2002) as Boss Tweed
• Nicholas Nickleby (2002) as Mr. Wackford Squeers
• The Gathering Storm (2002) as Desmond Morton
• And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) as Harry Aitken
• Bright Young Things (2003) as The Drunken Major
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004) as Lord Kelvin
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) as Dad
• Pride (2004) as Eddie (voice)
• Vanity Fair (2004) as Mr. Osborne
• Vera Drake (2004) as Judge
• Robots (2005) as Madame Gasket (voice)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) as Prof. Digory Kirke
• The Magic Roundabout (2005) as Brian (voice)
• Valiant (2005) as Sergeant (voice)
• Art School Confidential (2006) as Jimmy
• Longford (2006) as Lord Longford
• And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) as Arthur Morrison
• Hot Fuzz (2007) as Inspector Frank Butterman
• Einstein and Eddington (2008) as Sir Oliver Lodge
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as Dean Charles Stanforth
• Inkheart (2008) as Fenoglio
• Lost and Found (2008) as Narrator (voice)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) as Horace Slughorn
• The Damned United (2009) as Sam Longson
• The Young Victoria (2009) as King William IV
• Another Year (2010) as Tom
• Perrier's Bounty (2010) as Jim McCrea
• Arthur Christmas (2011) as Santa (voice)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Horace Slughorn
• The Iron Lady (2011) as Denis Thatcher
• Cloud Atlas (2012) as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
• Closed Circuit (2013) as Attorney General
• Filth (2013) as Dr Rossi
• Le Week-End (2013) as Nick Burrows
• The Harry Hill Movie (2013) as Cleaner
• The Phone Call (2013) as Stan (voice)
• Big Game (2014) as Herbert
• Get Santa (2014) as Santa Claus
• Paddington (2014) as Samuel Gruber
• Postman Pat: The Movie (2014) as CEO (voice)
• Brooklyn (2015) as Father Flood
• The Go-Between (2015) as Old Leo
• The Lady in the Van (2015) as Underwood
• Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) as Dad
• Eddie the Eagle (2016) as BBC Commentator
• Ethel & Ernest (2016) as Ernest Briggs (voice)
• The Legend of Tarzan (2016) as Prime Minister
• Paddington 2 (2017) as Samuel Gruber
• The Sense of an Ending (2017) as Tony Webster
• Black '47 (2018) as Lord Kilmichael
• King Lear (2018) as Earl of Gloucester
• King of Thieves (2018) as Terry Perkins
• Dolittle (2020) as Lord Thomas Badgley
• Six Minutes to Midnight (2020) as Charlie
• A Boy Called Christmas (2021) as King
• The Duke (2021) as Kempton Bunton
• Charlotte (2022) as Grosspapa (voice)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) as Harold Fry
• Paddington in Peru (2024) as Samuel Gruber
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) as Colin Jones
• Jay Kelly (2025) as Peter Schneider

Jim Broadbent television roles and appearances

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

• Black Narcissus as Father Roberts
• Blackadder as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
• Exile as Sam Ronstadt
• Game of Thrones as Archmaester Ebrose
• Inspector Morse as Charlie Bennett
• London Spy as Scottie
• Love, Death & Robots as Christopher the Poet (voice)
• My Lady Jane as Duke of Leicester
• Only Fools and Horses as Roy Slater
• Staged as Jim
• Tales of the Unexpected as Mr Lovejoy
• The Great Train Robbery as DCS Tommy Butler
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Snaggleroot (voice)
• The Oscars as Self
• Trying as George
• War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Lord Marcham

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