Jim Broadbent
Acting Born 1949 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 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 television comedy including playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He appeared in the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet (1990). His notable film roles since include The Borrowers (1997), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Gathering Storm (2002), Hot Fuzz (2007), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Brooklyn (2015). He played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the television series Game of Thrones and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series. Read the full biography
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Paddington in Peru
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An A to Z of Paddington
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Series My Lady Jane
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Call Me Back
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2022 Wimbledon Official Film
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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197 credits
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
as Colin Jones
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Jay Kelly
2025
as Peter Schneider
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What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
as Self - Interviewee
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An A to Z of Paddington
2024
as Narrator (voice)
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My Lady Jane
2024
as Duke of Leicester
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Paddington in Peru
2024
as Samuel Gruber
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2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023
as Narrator
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Contributor
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Call Me Back
2023
as George
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023
as Harold Fry
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Charlotte
2022
as Grosspapa (voice)
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Ten Percent
2022
as Richard Nightingale
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Snaggleroot (voice)
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Series Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2022
as Lord Marcham
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A Boy Called Christmas
2021
as King
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(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
2021
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The Duke
2021
as Kempton Bunton
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Series Black Narcissus
2020
as Father Roberts
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Dolittle
2020
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Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
as Charlie
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Series Staged
2020
as Jim
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Series Trying
2020
as George
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Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
as Self
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Series Love, Death & Robots
2019
as Christopher the Poet (voice)
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Black '47
2018
as Lord Kilmichael
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King Lear
2018
as Earl of Gloucester
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King of Thieves
2018
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New Town Utopia
2018
as Lewis Silkin MP
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Birds Like Us
2017
as Horozovich (voice)
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Paddington 2
2017
as Samuel Gruber
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The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Tony Webster
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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
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Eddie the Eagle
2016
as BBC Commentator
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Ethel & Ernest
2016
as Ernest Briggs (voice)
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The Legend of Tarzan
2016
as Prime Minister
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Series War and Peace
2016
as Prince Bolkonsky
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Brooklyn
2015
as Father Flood
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Series London Spy
2015
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The Go-Between
2015
as Old Leo
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The Lady in the Van
2015
as Underwood
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The Weather Inside
2015
as Britischer Botschafter
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Big Game
2014
as Herbert
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Get Santa
2014
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Paddington
2014
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Postman Pat: The Movie
2014
as CEO (voice)
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
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Chance Meeting
2013
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Closed Circuit
2013
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Filth
2013
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Le Week-End
2013
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Series The Frame
2013
as Professor Horace Slughorn
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Series The Great Train Robbery
2013
as DCS Tommy Butler
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The Harry Hill Movie
2013
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The Phone Call
2013
as Stan (voice)
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Cloud Atlas
2012
as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
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Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012
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Arthur Christmas
2011
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Comedy Blaps
2011
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Series Exile
2011
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Series Game of Thrones
2011
as Archmaester Ebrose
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Horace Slughorn
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The Iron Lady
2011
as Denis Thatcher
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Another Year
2010
as Tom
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Series Any Human Heart
2010
as Logan Mountstuart (Older)
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Perrier's Bounty
2010
as Jim McCrea
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Horace Slughorn
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The Damned United
2009
as Sam Longson
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The Young Victoria
2009
as King William IV
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Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
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Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
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Einstein and Eddington
2008
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
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Inkheart
2008
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Lost and Found
2008
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Tales of the Riverbank
2008
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007
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Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007
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Hot Fuzz
2007
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Series The Graham Norton Show
2007
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Art School Confidential
2006
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Longford
2006
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Series The Street
2006
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Robots
2005
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
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The Magic Roundabout
2005
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Valiant
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Around the World in 80 Days
2004
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Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
2004
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
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Pride
2004
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Tooth
2004
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Vanity Fair
2004
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Vera Drake
2004
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003
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Anna Spud
2003
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Bright Young Things
2003
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The Young Visiters
2003
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Gangs of New York
2002
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002
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The Gathering Storm
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The King's Beard
2002
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Bridget Jones's Diary
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Iris
2001
as John Bayley
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Moulin Rouge!
2001
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The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
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Topsy-Turvy
1999
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Little Voice
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Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
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The Avengers
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Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
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Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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The Borrowers
1997
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The Peter Principle
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Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
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Series Percy the Park Keeper
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Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
1996
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Series The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
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The Secret Agent
1996
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Richard III
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Rough Magic
1995
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The Last Englishman
1995
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Bullets Over Broadway
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Princess Caraboo
1994
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Widows' Peak
1994
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Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1993
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Prince Cinders
1993
as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
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Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993
as The Earl of Leete
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
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A Sense of History
1992
as 23rd Earl of Leete
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Series Gone to Seed
1992
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Series Perpetual Motion
1992
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The Crying Game
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Enchanted April
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Series Gone to the Dogs
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Happy Feet
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Life Is Sweet
1991
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Series Murder Most Horrid
1991
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Nona
1991
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Series Performance
1991
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Van Gogh
1990
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4 Play
1989
as Steven Parrish
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7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
as Standford Hartley
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Erik the Viking
1989
as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
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Series Screen One
1989
as Deric Longden
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The Hangover
1989
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Series The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
1989
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Series Victoria Wood
1989
as Alan Hammond
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Prince Albert
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Series The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
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as Ossipon
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Vroom
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as Donald
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Series Inspector Morse
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as Charlie Bennett
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Running Out of Luck
1987
as Jimmy
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Jean Pierre Dubois
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The Insurance Man
1986
as Gutling
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Brazil
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as Dr. Jaffe
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Series Happy Families
1985
as Dalcroix
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Picture Friend
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as Tes Goodwin
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Silas Marner
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Series Theatre Night
1985
as Maitre Jacques
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The Good Father
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as Roger Miles
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Series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985
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The Hit
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The Man Who Shot Christmas
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Birth of a Nation
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Series Blackadder
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as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
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Dead on Time
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Series Dramarama
1983
as Uncle Keith
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Series Tales Out of School
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as Geoff Figg
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Walter and June
1983
as Orderly
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Series Bird of Prey
1982
as DI Stanley Richardson
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Intensive Care
1982
as Mr Horsfall
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self (archive footage)
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Series Objects of Affection
1982
as Second Attendant
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Our Winnie
1982
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Uliisses
1982
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Walter
1982
as Joseph - Orderly
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Series Only Fools and Horses
1981
as Roy Slater
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Time Bandits
1981
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Breaking Glass
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as Station Porter
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Games Without Frontiers
1980
as Stewart
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The Dogs of War
1980
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Long Distance Information
1979
as Mackaness
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Series Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Mr Lovejoy
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The Passage
1979
as German Soldier (uncredited)
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The Life Story of Baal
1978
as Woodcutter
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The Shout
1978
as Fielder in Cowpat
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Series Playhouse
1974
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The Go-Between
1971
as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
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Series Play for Today
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Play for Today
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Series Omnibus
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Series The Oscars
1953
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Series Golden Globe Awards
1944
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Dennis
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Fools
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Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993
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A Sense of History
1992
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7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
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