Bill Nighy

StarDog and TurboCat (2019)

As: Sinclair (voice)

When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they discover not only the power of friendship, but their inner superpowers along the way.

Directed by: Ben Smith

Stars: Gemma Arterton | Luke Evans | Bill Nighy | Nick Frost

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

A live-action film franchise based on Detective Pikachu, a new character in the Pokemon universe. There is currently no official release date nor a official synopsis or plot released.

Directed by: Rob Letterman

Stars: Ryan Reynolds | Bill Nighy | Justice Smith | Suki Waterhouse | Kathryn Newton

Sometimes Always Never (2019)

As: Alan

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Carl Hunter

Stars: Bill Nighy | Jenny Agutter | Sam Riley | Alice Lowe | Tim McInnerny

The Kindness of Strangers (2019)

As: Timofey

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ ...

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Lone Scherfig

Stars: Andrea Riseborough | Zoe Kazan | Jay Baruchel | Caleb Landry Jones | Tahar Rahim

The Bookshop (2017)

As: Mr. Brundish

Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Isabel Coixet

Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Emily Mortimer | Bill Nighy | Honor Kneafsey | Hunter Tremayne

The Limehouse Golem (2017)

As: John Kildare

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Juan Carlos Medina

Stars: Daniel Mays | Bill Nighy | Douglas Booth | Sam Reid | Olivia Cooke

Their Finest (2017)

As: Ambrose Hilliard

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Lone Scherfig

Stars: Jack Huston | Gemma Arterton | Bill Nighy | Richard E. Grant | Sam Claflin

Red Nose Day Actually (2017)

As: Billy Mack

Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

Runtime: 15 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis | Mat Whitecross

Stars: Keira Knightley | Colin Firth | Liam Neeson | Hugh Grant | Rowan Atkinson

Dad's Army (2016)

As: Sergeant Wilson

A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Oliver Parker

Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Toby Jones | Michael Gambon | Bill Nighy | Mark Gatiss

Norm of the North (2016)

As: Socrates (voice)

The stereoscopic 3D animated family film "Norm" tells the story of the titular polar bear and his three Arctic lemming buddies, who are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Trevor Wall

Stars: Loretta Devine | Rob Schneider | Ken Jeong | Bill Nighy | Heather Graham

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

As: Douglas Ainslie

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Maggie Smith | Dev Patel | Richard Gere | Bill Nighy | Judi Dench

Pride (2014)

As: Cliff

Comedy-drama based on a true story set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not ...

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Matthew Warchus

Stars: Andrew Scott | Paddy Considine | Bill Nighy | Imelda Staunton | Dominic West

National Theatre Live: Skylight (2014)

As: Tom Sergeant

Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan feature in David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry, broadcast live from London’s West End by National Theatre Live.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Stephen Daldry

Stars: Carey Mulligan | Matthew Beard | Bill Nighy

Salting the Battlefield (2014)

As: Johnny Worricker

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: David Hare

Stars: Ewen Bremner | Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Bill Nighy | Judy Davis

Turks & Caicos (2014)

As: Johnny Worricker

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: David Hare

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Bill Nighy | Christopher Walken | Winona Ryder

I, Frankenstein (2014)

As: Naberius

200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Stuart Beattie

Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Miranda Otto | Yvonne Strahovski | Bill Nighy | Jai Courtney

About Time (2013)

As: Dad

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Stars: Rachel McAdams | Domhnall Gleeson | Lydia Wilson | Bill Nighy | Lindsay Duncan

The World's End (2013)

As: The Network (voice)

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Stars: Eddie Marsan | Paddy Considine | Simon Pegg | Martin Freeman | Nick Frost

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

As: General Fallon

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes ...

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Stars: Stanley Tucci | Ewan McGregor | Ian McShane | Nicholas Hoult | Eleanor Tomlinson

Total Recall (2012)

As: Matthias

Welcome to ReCall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Len Wiseman

Stars: Bryan Cranston | Colin Farrell | Jessica Biel | Bill Nighy | Kate Beckinsale

London: The Modern Babylon (2012)

As: Quotations spoken by

Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, The Filth and the Fury) surveys the past century of London's tumultuous history in this vibrant documentary. (TIFF)

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Julien Temple

Stars: Michael Gambon | Keith Allen | Hetty Bower | Miss Marsh | Malcolm McLaren

Wrath of the Titans (2012)

As: Hephaestus

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman

Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Toby Kebbell | Liam Neeson | Sam Worthington | Edgar Ramírez

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

As: Douglas Ainslie

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Maggie Smith | Tom Wilkinson | Dev Patel | Bill Nighy | Judi Dench

Arthur Christmas (2011)

As: Grandsanta (voice)

Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one – Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorized rookie mission to get the last present half way around the ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Barry Cook | Sarah Smith

Stars: James McAvoy | Bill Nighy | Imelda Staunton | Jim Broadbent | Hugh Laurie

Chalet Girl (2011)

As: Richard Madsen

While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Phil Traill

Stars: Felicity Jones | Brooke Shields | Tamsin Egerton | Bill Nighy | Ed Westwick

Page Eight (2011)

As: Johnny Worricker

Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny Worricker, a jazz-loving charmer who works high up at MI5 as an intelligence analyst. It’s a part made for Bill Nighy and he purrs out bon mots ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: David Hare

Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Felicity Jones | Michael Gambon | Rachel Weisz | Bill Nighy

Rango (2011)

As: Rattlesnake Jake (voice)

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Stars: Alfred Molina | Ned Beatty | Johnny Depp | Bill Nighy | Isla Fisher

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

As: Rufus Scrimgeour

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Runtime: 146 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson

Wild Target (2010)

As: Victor Maynard

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Stars: Eileen Atkins | Emily Blunt | Bill Nighy | Rupert Grint | Rupert Everett

Glorious 39 (2009)

As: Alexander Keyes

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff

Stars: Bill Nighy | Juno Temple | Julie Christie | Romola Garai | Eddie Redmayne

Astro Boy (2009)

As: Dr. Elefun (voice)

Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: David Bowers

Stars: Nicolas Cage | Donald Sutherland | Kristen Bell | Freddie Highmore | Bill Nighy

G-Force (2009)

As: Leonard Saber

A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But the government shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Can they escape to defeat the villain and save the world?

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Hoyt Yeatman

Stars: Steve Buscemi | Sam Rockwell | Penélope Cruz | Tracy Morgan | Jon Favreau

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

As: Quentin

The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government ...

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Stars: Rhys Ifans | Emma Thompson | Tom Sturridge | Bill Nighy | Philip Seymour Hoffman

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

As: Viktor

A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Patrick Tatopoulos

Stars: Rhona Mitra | Steven Mackintosh | Michael Sheen | Bill Nighy | Shane Brolly

Valkyrie (2008)

As: Friedrich Olbricht

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Stars: Terence Stamp | Carice van Houten | Bill Nighy | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Cruise

A Fox's Tale (2008)

As: Ringmaster (voice)

The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: György Gát | János Uzsák

Stars: Miranda Richardson | Freddie Highmore | Bill Nighy | Sienna Miller | Clemency Burton-Hill

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

As: Captain Davy Jones

Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.

Runtime: 169 min.

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Stars: Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Stellan Skarsgård | Johnny Depp | Chow Yun-Fat

Hot Fuzz (2007)

As: Met Chief Inspector

Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Stars: Paddy Considine | Rafe Spall | Simon Pegg | Jim Broadbent | Nick Frost

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

As: Richard Hart

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Richard Eyre

Stars: Cate Blanchett | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple | Judi Dench | Max Lewis

Flushed Away (2006)

As: Whitey (voice)

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: David Bowers | Sam Fell

Stars: Ian McKellen | Jean Reno | Kate Winslet | Bill Nighy | Hugh Jackman

Stormbreaker (2006)

As: Alan Blunt

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax

Stars: Ewan McGregor | Stephen Fry | Robbie Coltrane | Sarah Bolger | Alex Pettyfer

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

As: Captain Davy Jones

Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.

Runtime: 151 min.

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Stars: Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Stellan Skarsgård | Johnny Depp | Bill Nighy

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

As: Viktor

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Len Wiseman

Stars: Derek Jacobi | Tony Curran | Scott Speedman | Kate Beckinsale | Shane Brolly

The Lost Prince (2005)

As: Stamfordham

The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like developmental disorder, and the Royal Family tried to shelter him from public view as much as possible; rather than presenting the Royal Family as unsympathetic to ...

Runtime: 180 min.

Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff

Stars: Rollo Weeks | Tom Hollander | Daniel Williams | Brock Everitt-Elwick | Matthew James Thomas

Gideon's Daughter (2005)

As: Gideon Warner

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss ...

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff

Stars: Tom Hardy | Miranda Richardson | Emily Blunt | Bill Nighy | Robert Lindsay

The Constant Gardener (2005)

As: Sir Bernard Pellegrin

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Fernando Meirelles

Stars: Danny Huston | Ralph Fiennes | Rachel Weisz | Donald Sumpter | Bill Nighy

The Girl in the Café (2005)

As: Lawrence

Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Bill Nighy | Paul Ritter | Kelly Macdonald | Anton Lesser | Meneka Das

The Magic Roundabout (2005)

As: Dylan

A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twin). As the world is placed in mortal danger Zeebad who wants to turn the world to ice. Doogal and his friends must recover 3 diamonds that are needed to stop him.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Frank Passingham | Jean Duval | Dave Borthwick

Stars: Ian McKellen | Bill Nighy | Kylie Minogue | Tom Baker | Robbie Williams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

As: Slartibartfast

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Garth Jennings

Stars: Sam Rockwell | John Malkovich | Zooey Deschanel | Martin Freeman | Yasiin Bey

Enduring Love (2004)

As: Robin

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Roger Michell

Stars: Rhys Ifans | Bill Nighy | Susan Lynch | Samantha Morton | Daniel Craig

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

As: Phillip

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Stars: Kate Ashfield | Simon Pegg | Lucy Davis | Nick Frost | Dylan Moran

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher (2003)

As: Narrator

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.

Runtime: 50 min.

Stars: Bill Nighy | Christopher Biggins | Peter Vaughan | Ronnie Barker | Patricia Brake

The Young Visiters (2003)

As: Earl of Clincham

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Bill Nighy | Jim Broadbent | Geoffrey Palmer | Hugh Laurie | Lyndsey Marshal

Underworld (2003)

As: Viktor

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Len Wiseman

Stars: Michael Sheen | Scott Speedman | Bill Nighy | Kate Beckinsale | Shane Brolly

Love Actually (2003)

As: Billy Mack

Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Stars: Colin Firth | Sienna Guillory | Bill Nighy | Gregor Fisher | Rory MacGregor

I Capture the Castle (2003)

As: James Mortmain

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Tim Fywell

Stars: Rose Byrne | Bill Nighy | Tara Fitzgerald | Marc Blucas | Romola Garai

Lawless Heart (2002)

As: Dan

In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Tom Hunsinger | Neil Hunter

Stars: Clémentine Célarié | Bill Nighy | Douglas Henshall | Tom Hollander | Sukie Smith

Lucky Break (2001)

As: Roger

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival ...

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Peter Cattaneo

Stars: James Nesbitt | Timothy Spall | Olivia Williams | Christopher Plummer | Bill Nighy

Blow Dry (2001)

As: Ray Robertson

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Paddy Breathnach

Stars: Rachel Griffiths | Rachael Leigh Cook | Alan Rickman | Natasha Richardson | Josh Hartnett

Longitude (2000)

As: Lord Sandwich

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Runtime: 200 min.

Directed by: Charles Sturridge

Stars: Michael Gambon | Ian Hart | Jeremy Irons | Jonathan Coy | Peter Cartwright

Guest House Paradiso (1999)

As: Mr Johnson

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Adrian Edmondson

Stars: Kate Ashfield | Bill Nighy | Rik Mayall | Adrian Edmondson | Steven O'Donnell

Don't Leave Me This Way (1999)

As: John Tracey

British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While ...

Directed by: Stuart Orme

Stars: Bill Nighy | Imelda Staunton | Ian McNeice | Janet McTeer | John Fortune

Still Crazy (1998)

As: Ray Simms

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Brian Gibson

Stars: Timothy Spall | Stephen Rea | Bill Nighy | Billy Connolly | Jimmy Nail

Alive and Kicking (1997)

As: Tristan

A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Nancy Meckler

Stars: Jason Flemyng | Antony Sher | Bill Nighy | Anthony Higgins | Dorothy Tutin

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

As: Edward Gardner

Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Charles Sturridge

Stars: Harvey Keitel | Peter O'Toole | Paul McGann | Florence Hoath | Elizabeth Earl

True Blue (1996)

As: Jeremy Saville

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Ferdinand Fairfax

Stars: Johan Leysen | Bill Nighy | Dominic West | Edward Atterton | Ryan Bollman

Being Human (1994)

As: Julian

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Bill Forsyth

Stars: Robin Williams | Robert Carlyle | Maudie Johnson | Max Johnson | Irvine Allen

Unnatural Causes (1993)

As: Oliver Latham

Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: John Davies

Stars: Simon Chandler | Bill Nighy | Kenneth Colley | Mel Martin | Roy Marsden

Absolute Hell (1991)

Black comedy written by Rodney Ackland.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Anthony Page

Stars: Ronald Pickup | Bill Nighy | Charles Gray | Judi Dench | Francesca Annis

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

As: Martin Barton

A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young singer.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Dwight H. Little

Stars: Bill Nighy | Robert Englund | Alex Hyde-White | Jill Schoelen | Stephanie Lawrence

Mack the Knife (1989)

As: Tiger Brown

In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Menahem Golan

Stars: Richard Harris | Roger Daltrey | Mark Northover | Julia Migenes | Raúl Juliá

Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

As: Ronald Marsh

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Lou Antonio

Stars: Faye Dunaway | Bill Nighy | Peter Ustinov | Jonathan Cecil | Diane Keen

Hitler's SS: Portrait In Evil (1985)

As: Helmut Hoffmann

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A." (storm troopers).

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Jim Goddard

Stars: John Shea | Bill Nighy | David Warner | Warren Clarke | Lucy Gutteridge

The Little Drummer Girl (1984)

As: Al (Theatre Company)

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Runtime: 130 min.

Directed by: George Roy Hill

Stars: Diane Keaton | Eli Danker | Sami Frey | Klaus Kinski | Yorgo Voyagis

Easter 2016 (1982)

As: Connor Mullan

Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.

Runtime: 68 min.

Directed by: Ben Bolt

Stars: Denys Hawthorne | Denys Hawthorne | Derrick O'Connor | Derrick O'Connor