Jim Broadbent
Actor | Writer
One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Broadbent and sculptress Dee Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a place at an art school. His heart was in acting, though, and he would later transfer to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Following his 1972 graduation, he began his professional career on the stage, performing with the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and as part of the National Theatre of Brent, a two-man troupe which he co-founded. In addition to his theatrical work, Broadbent did steady work on television, working for such directors as Mike Newell and Stephen Frears. Broadbent made his film debut in 1978 with a small part in Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout (1978). He went on to work with Frears again in The Hit (1984) and with Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil ... Show more...
One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Broadbent and sculptress Dee Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a place at an art school. His heart was in acting, though, and he would later transfer to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Following his 1972 graduation, he began his professional career on the stage, performing with the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and as part of the National Theatre of Brent, a two-man troupe which he co-founded. In addition to his theatrical work, Broadbent did steady work on television, working for such directors as Mike Newell and Stephen Frears. Broadbent made his film debut in 1978 with a small part in Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout (1978). He went on to work with Frears again in The Hit (1984) and with Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985), but it was through his collaboration with Mike Leigh that Broadbent first became known to an international film audience. In 1990 he starred in Leigh's Life Is Sweet (1990), a domestic comedy that cast him as a good-natured cook who dreams of running his own business. Broadbent gained further visibility the following year with substantial roles in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game (1992) and Mike Newell's Enchanted April (1992), and he could subsequently be seen in such diverse fare as Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Widows' Peak (1994), Richard Loncraine's highly acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) and Little Voice (1998), the last of which cast him as a seedy nightclub owner. Appearing primarily as a character actor in these films, Broadbent took center stage for Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (1999), imbuing the mercurial W.S. Gilbert with emotional complexity and comic poignancy. Jim's breakthrough year was 2001, as he starred in three critically and commercially successful films. Many would consider him the definitive supporting actor of that year. First he starred as Bridget's dad (Colin Jones) in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), which propelled Renée Zellweger to an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Next came the multiple Oscar-nominated film (including Best Picture) Moulin Rouge! (2001), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award for his scene-stealing performance as Harold Zidler. Lastly, came the small biopic Iris (2001/I), for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as devoted husband John Bayley to Judi Dench's Iris Murdoch, the British novelist who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The film hit home with Jim, since his own mother had passed away from Alzheimer's in 1995. Show less...
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The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)
A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.
Directed by: Stephen Gaghan
Stars: Emma Thompson | Octavia Spencer | Antonio Banderas | Tom Holland | Robert Downey Jr.
King of Thieves (2018)
As: Terry Perkins
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: James Marsh
Stars: Michael Caine | Jim Broadbent | Charlie Cox | Tom Courtenay | Paul Whitehouse
King Lear (2018)
As: Earl of Gloucester
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre | Richard Eyre
Stars: Emma Thompson | Emma Thompson | Anthony Hopkins | Anthony Hopkins
New Town Utopia (2018)
As: Lewis Silkin MP
What happened when we built Utopia? New Town Utopia is feature documentary about the power of art, architecture, the state of the nation - and some rather angry puppets.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Christopher Ian Smith
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Terry Bird | Vincent O'Connell
Black 47 (2018)
As: Lord Kilmichael
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lance Daly
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Stephen Rea | Jim Broadbent | Freddie Fox | James Frecheville
Paddington 2 (2017)
As: Samuel Gruber
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul King
Stars: Sally Hawkins | Hugh Bonneville | Ben Whishaw | Samuel Joslin | Madeleine Harris
Birds Like Us (2017)
As: Horozovich (voice)
The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Faruk Šabanović | Amela Ćuhara
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Jeremy Irons | Alicia Vikander | Khalid Abdalla | Sheridan Smith
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
As: Tony Webster
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Ritesh Batra
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Matthew Goode | Harriet Walter | Jim Broadbent | Michelle Dockery
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
As: Ernest Briggs (voice)
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Roger Mainwood
Stars: Roger Allam | Luke Treadaway | Jim Broadbent | Brenda Blethyn | Pam Ferris
Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
As: Mr. Colin Jones
Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Patrick Dempsey | Gemma Jones | Jim Broadbent
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
As: Prime Minister
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Alexander Skarsgård | Samuel L. Jackson | Margot Robbie | Christoph Waltz
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
As: BBC Commentator
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Dexter Fletcher
Stars: Ania Sowinski | Christopher Walken | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Hugh Jackman | Taron Egerton
The Lady In The Van (2015)
As: Underwood
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Maggie Smith | Dominic Cooper | Frances de la Tour | Alex Jennings | Gwen Taylor
Brooklyn (2015)
As: Father Flood
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson | Saoirse Ronan | Jim Broadbent | Julie Walters | Emory Cohen
The Go-Between (2015)
As: Old Leo
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Pete Travis
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Lesley Manville | Jim Broadbent | Ben Batt | Joanna Vanderham
Magik (2015)
As: Garret
Lewis Clark is a brilliant author who stumbles upon a world of Magic after the disappearance of his two young children. He begins a quest to try to stop the insidious evil that threatens to destroy both his new world and his old one.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Stephen Wallis
Stars: Dominique Swain | Benedict Cumberbatch | Matthew Goode | Jim Broadbent | Samantha Morton
Get Santa (2014)
As: Santa Claus
A father and son who must team up to save Christmas, once they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Christopher Smith
Stars: Stephen Graham | Rafe Spall | Jodie Whittaker | Jim Broadbent | Warwick Davis
Paddington (2014)
As: Samuel Gruber
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Paul King
Stars: Sally Hawkins | Hugh Bonneville | Ben Whishaw | Samuel Joslin | Madeleine Harris
The One and Only Mike Leigh (2014)
As: Himself
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Jude Ho
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Phil Davis | Marion Bailey | Mike Leigh | Alan Yentob
Big Game (2014)
As: Herbert
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness. 13-year old Oskari is also in that wilderness, on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jalmari Helander
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Onni Tommila | Ted Levine | Victor Garber | Felicity Huffman
Postman Pat: The Movie (2014)
As: CEO (voice)
Like always, Postman Pat is happily going about his duty delivering letters and parcels around the fictional town of Greendale. One day, auditions for the TV talent show, "You're the One", are held in Greendale, which Pat manages to pass. With Pat required to be away from Greendale whilst participating in the contest, various Patbot 3000 robots are deployed to take Pat's postal duties. This ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Mike Disa
Stars: Stephen Mangan | Rupert Grint | Jim Broadbent | David Tennant | Ronan Keating
The Harry Hill Movie (2013)
As: Cleaner
The comedy film sees TV Burp star Hill embark on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan (Julie Walters) when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Steve Bendelack
Stars: Guillaume Delaunay | Julian Barratt | Julie Walters | Sheridan Smith | Simon Bird
Le Week-End (2013)
As: Nick Burrows
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Roger Michell
Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Olly Alexander | Lindsay Duncan | Jim Broadbent | Brice Beaugier
The Phone Call (2013)
As: Stan (voice)
Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Mat Kirkby
Stars: Sally Hawkins | Edward Hogg | Jim Broadbent | Prunella Scales
Filth (2013)
As: Dr. Rossi
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Eddie Marsan | James McAvoy | Imogen Poots | Jamie Bell | Joanne Froggatt
Closed Circuit (2013)
As: Attorney General
A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). The attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall) as special advocate on Erdogan's legal team. On the eve of the trial, Erdogan's lawyer dies, and a new defense attorney, Martin Rose (Eric Bana), steps in. Martin and Claudia are former lovers, a fact which must remain hidden. As Martin ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Kenneth Cranham | Rebecca Hall | Ciarán Hinds | Jim Broadbent | Eric Bana
Cloud Atlas (2012)
As: Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries ...
Runtime: 172 min.
Directed by: Lilly Wachowski | Lana Wachowski | Tom Tykwer
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Tom Hanks | Jim Sturgess | Jim Broadbent | Halle Berry
Her Master's Voice (2012)
As: Himself
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven' the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a ...
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Nina Conti
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Nina Conti | Daisy Campbell | Brad Cummings | Nacho Estrada
The Iron Lady (2011)
As: Denis Thatcher
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Meryl Streep | Susan Brown | Harry Lloyd | Anthony Stewart Head
Arthur Christmas (2011)
As: Santa (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: Sarah Smith | Barry Cook
Stars: James McAvoy | Bill Nighy | Imelda Staunton | Jim Broadbent | Hugh Laurie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
As: Horace Slughorn
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Rupert Grint | Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
Another Year (2010)
As: Tom
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Lesley Manville | Peter Wight | Jim Broadbent | Ruth Sheen | Oliver Maltman
Any Human Heart (2010)
As: Logan Mountstuart (Older)
A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Directed by: Michael Samuels
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Gillian Anderson | Jim Broadbent | Hayley Atwell | Sam Claflin
Perrier's Bounty (2009)
As: Jim McCrea
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Cillian Murphy | Jim Broadbent | Padraic Delaney | Natalie Britton
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
As: Horace Slughorn
As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as 'Property of the Half-Blood Prince', and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Tom Felton | Michael Gambon | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
The Damned United (2009)
As: Sam Longson
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colm Meaney | Timothy Spall | Michael Sheen | Jim Broadbent | Maurice Roeves
The Young Victoria (2009)
As: King William IV
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria. Packed with drama, ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Jean-Marc Vallée
Stars: Rupert Friend | Miranda Richardson | Paul Bettany | Emily Blunt | Jim Broadbent
Lost and Found (2008)
As: Narrator (voice)
A magical tale of friendship and loneliness, which tells the story of a little boy who one day finds a penguin on his doorstep. Although at first he is unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home...Even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!
Runtime: 24 min.
Directed by: Philip Hunt
Stars: Jim Broadbent
Inkheart (2008)
As: Fenoglio
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Andy Serkis | Sienna Guillory | Eliza Bennett | Paul Bettany | Brendan Fraser
Einstein and Eddington (2008)
As: Sir Oliver Lodge
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Philip Martin
Stars: Andy Serkis | Rebecca Hall | David Tennant | Richard McCabe | Patrick Kennedy
Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
As: G.P. (voice)
Tales of the Riverbank tells the story of three friends - Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP the Guinea Pig - who, having swept down the river in a violent storm, embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey, full of comic incident and dramatic danger, becomes even more precarious when they discover that the whole riverbank is threatened by a waffle, Marmalade and Doughnut (WMD) ...
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Steve Coogan | Peter Serafinowicz | Jim Broadbent | Stephen Fry | Ardal O'Hanlon
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
As: Dean Charles Stanforth
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Ray Winstone | Harrison Ford | Shia LaBeouf | Karen Allen
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
As: Arthur Morrison
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Stars: Colin Firth | Jim Broadbent | Gina McKee | Juliet Stevenson | Sarah Lancashire
Hot Fuzz (2007)
As: Inspector Frank Butterman
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
Art School Confidential (2006)
As: Jimmy
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: John Malkovich | Max Minghella | Matt Keeslar | Jim Broadbent | Sophia Myles
Longford (2006)
As: Lord Longford
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Stars: Andy Serkis | Lindsay Duncan | Jim Broadbent | Samantha Morton | Kate Miles
Free Jimmy (2006)
As: Stomowskij (voice)
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nielsen
Stars: Simon Pegg | Woody Harrelson | Kyle MacLachlan | Phil Daniels | Samantha Morton
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
As: Professor Kirke
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead ...
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Liam Neeson | Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | Anna Popplewell | William Moseley
Valiant (2005)
As: Sergeant (voice)
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Gary Chapman
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Tim Curry | Jim Broadbent | Hugh Laurie | Ricky Gervais
Robots (2005)
As: Madame Gasket (voice)
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Chris Wedge | Carlos Saldanha
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Paula Abdul | Robin Williams | Halle Berry | Mel Brooks
Spider-Plant Man (2005)
As: Batman
Spider-Plant Man is a parody of Spider-Man, made for the Comic Relief 2005 appeal and aired on BBC One. It featured Rowan Atkinson as Peter Piper/Spider-Plant Man and Rachel Stevens as his love-interest Jane-Mary (parodying Mary-Jane Watson). Jim Broadbent also made an appearance, portraying Batman, and Tony Robinson as Robin.
Runtime: 14 min.
Stars: Mackenzie Crook | Rowan Atkinson | Jim Broadbent | Tony Robinson | Rachel Stevens
The Magic Roundabout (2005)
As: Brian
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: Dave Borthwick | Jean Duval | Frank Passingham
Stars: Ian McKellen | Bill Nighy | Kylie Minogue | Tom Baker | Robbie Williams
Vera Drake (2005)
As: Judge
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Eddie Marsan | Sally Hawkins | Daniel Mays | Imelda Staunton | Phil Davis
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
As: Bridget's Dad
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent
Vanity Fair (2004)
As: Mr. Osborne
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims ...
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Mira Nair
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Gabriel Byrne | Reese Witherspoon | Romola Garai | James Purefoy
Pride (2004)
As: Eddie (voice)
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Downer
Stars: Sean Bean | Kate Winslet | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Jim Broadbent
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
As: Lord Kelvin
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Steve Coogan | Jackie Chan | Jim Broadbent | Cécile de France | Robert Fyfe
Tooth (2004)
As: The Rabbit (voice)
Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give away all of its money. When Tooth begins to understand how much trouble she is in, she realizes the only person who can help is the legendary Mrs. C, who disappeared, along with magic over 100 years ago. Teaming ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Edouard Nammour
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Yasmin Paige | Stephen Fry | Sally Phillips | Harry Enfield
The Young Visiters (2003)
As: Alfred Salteena
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
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
As: Harry Aitken
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore), interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Eion Bailey | Antonio Banderas | Alan Arkin | Jim Broadbent | Matt Day
Bright Young Things (2003)
As: The Drunken Major
in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stephen Fry
Stars: Emily Mortimer | Michael Sheen | James McAvoy | Stephen Campbell Moore | Fenella Woolgar
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
As: Mr. Wackford Squeers
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Stars: Christopher Plummer | Nathan Lane | Jim Broadbent | Jamie Bell | Charlie Hunnam
Gangs of New York (2002)
As: William "Boss" Tweed
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Runtime: 167 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Leonardo DiCaprio | Cameron Diaz | Liam Neeson | Daniel Day-Lewis
The Gathering Storm (2002)
As: Desmond Morton
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Lena Headey | Albert Finney | Jim Broadbent | Linus Roache
Iris (2001)
As: John Bayley
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Stars: Kate Winslet | Hugh Bonneville | Jim Broadbent | Judi Dench | Penelope Wilton
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
As: Harold Zidler
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Richard Roxburgh | Ewan McGregor | Nicole Kidman | John Leguizamo | Jim Broadbent
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
As: Bridget's Dad
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
As: W. S. Gilbert
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Allan Corduner | Dexter Fletcher | Shirley Henderson | Timothy Spall | Jim Broadbent
Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
As: The Doctor
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
Runtime: 23 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Richard E. Grant | Jonathan Pryce | Rowan Atkinson | Jim Broadbent | Julia Sawalha
Little Voice (1998)
As: Mr. Boo
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Mark Herman
Stars: Michael Caine | Ewan McGregor | Jane Horrocks | Jim Broadbent | Brenda Blethyn
The Avengers (1998)
As: Mother
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Stars: Sean Connery | Ralph Fiennes | Uma Thurman | Jim Broadbent | Patrick Macnee
The Borrowers (1997)
As: Pod Clock
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Peter Hewitt
Stars: Tom Felton | Celia Imrie | John Goodman | Jim Broadbent | Mark Williams
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
As: Dr. Lagermann
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Bille August
Stars: Richard Harris | Tom Wilkinson | Julia Ormond | Jim Broadbent | Gabriel Byrne
The Secret Agent (1996)
As: Chief Inspector Heat
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Christopher Hampton
Stars: Christian Bale | Bob Hoskins | Gérard Depardieu | Patricia Arquette | Jim Broadbent
Richard III (1995)
As: The Duke of Buckingham
Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Stars: Ian McKellen | Kristin Scott Thomas | Annette Bening | Jim Broadbent | Adrian Dunbar
Rough Magic (1995)
As: Doc Ansell
A sleazy politician sends an agent (Russell Crowe) after his ex-fiancee (Bridget Fonda), who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Clare Peploe
Stars: Russell Crowe | D.W. Moffett | Bridget Fonda | Jim Broadbent | Kenneth Mars
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
As: Warner Purcell
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Dianne Wiest | Mary-Louise Parker | John Cusack | Chazz Palminteri
Princess Caraboo (1994)
As: Mr. Worrall
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Austin
Stars: Kevin Kline | Stephen Rea | John Lithgow | Jim Broadbent | Phoebe Cates
Widows' Peak (1994)
As: Con Clancy
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Irvin
Stars: Mia Farrow | Jim Broadbent | Natasha Richardson | Joan Plowright | Adrian Dunbar
The Crying Game (1992)
As: Col
Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Forest Whitaker | Miranda Richardson | Stephen Rea | Jaye Davidson | Adrian Dunbar
A Sense of History (1992)
As: 23rd Earl of Leete
Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Stephen Bill | Belinda Bradley | Edward Bradley
Enchanted April (1991)
As: Frederick Arbuthnot
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Miranda Richardson | Alfred Molina | Josie Lawrence | Joan Plowright | Polly Walker
Nona (1991)
British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of her entire family, with her constant craving for food and demands, which everybody indulges, in spite of falling into prostitution and bankruptcy. Her two grandsons hit on the idea of marrying her off to an elderly man who runs a tobacconists and sweet ...
Directed by: Simon Curtis
Stars: Timothy Spall | Jane Horrocks | Jim Broadbent | Maurice Denham | Les Dawson
Life is Sweet (1990)
As: Andy
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Stephen Rea | Jane Horrocks | Jim Broadbent | Claire Skinner | Alison Steadman
Erik the Viking (1989)
As: Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Terry Jones
Stars: Tim Robbins | Terry Jones | Mickey Rooney | Eartha Kitt | Imogen Stubbs
Vroom (1988)
As: Donald
Two friends aim flee their drab hometown existence.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: David Thewlis | Clive Owen | Diana Quick | Tim Potter | Bill Rodgers
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
As: Prince Albert
Pleasant Ebenezer Blackadder is turned into a cruel and witty miser after seeing visions of his ancestors and descendants.
Runtime: 43 min.
Directed by: Richard Boden
Stars: Miranda Richardson | Rowan Atkinson | Stephen Fry | Tony Robinson | Hugh Laurie
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
As: Jean Pierre Dubois
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Margot Kidder | Christopher Reeve | Gene Hackman | Jackie Cooper | Marc McClure
Silas Marner (1985)
As: Jem Rodney
Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Giles Foster
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Freddie Jones | Jenny Agutter | Jonathan Coy | Patrick Ryecart
Only Fools and Horses - To Hull and Back (1985)
As: Roy Slater
Boycie and Abdul pitch a diamond scam to Del Boy, who immediately turns them down. That is until they offer him a £15,000 cut of the estimated £150,000 sale of the stone on the UK market. Del finds himself designated as the courier between Holland and Britain. No sooner has Del enlisted a reluctant Rodders, he hears his old foil Chief Inspector Slater is eyeing Boycie and Abdul as drug dealers. Del ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ray Butt
Stars: David Jason | Roger Lloyd Pack | Nicholas Lyndhurst | John Challis | Buster Merryfield
The Good Father (1985)
As: Roger Miles
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | Harriet Walter | Simon Callow | Jim Broadbent | Frances Viner
Brazil (1985)
As: Dr. Jaffe
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Ian Holm | Robert De Niro | Bob Hoskins | Jonathan Pryce | Katherine Helmond
The Hit (1984)
As: Barrister
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: John Hurt | Terence Stamp | Tim Roth | Bill Hunter | Laura del Sol
Birth of a Nation (1983)
As: Geoff Figg
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Bruce Myers | Fred Pearson | Robert Stephens | Richard Butler
Walter and June (1983)
As: Orderly
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
Runtime: 63 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen | Jim Broadbent | Barbara Jefford | Sarah Miles | Tim Potter
Our Winnie (1982)
As: Second Attendant
Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie's father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with ...
Runtime: 40 min.
Directed by: Malcolm Mowbray
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Elizabeth Spriggs | Sheila Kelley | Max Hafler | Constance Chapman
Walter (1982)
As: Joseph - Orderly
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen | David Ryall | Barbara Jefford | Tony Melody | Arthur Whybrow
Uliisses (1982)
Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Werner Nekes
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Tabea Blumenschein | Armin Wölfl | Russel Derson | Shezad Abbas
Time Bandits (1981)
As: Compere
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Kenny Baker | David Rappaport | Malcolm Dixon | Mike Edmonds | Craig Warnock
Breaking Glass (1980)
As: Station Porter
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Brian Gibson
Stars: Peter-Hugo Daly | Jonathan Pryce | Jon Finch | Phil Daniels | Hazel O'Connor
The Shout (1978)
As: Fielder in cowpat
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: John Hurt | Tim Curry | Robert Stephens | Alan Bates | Susannah York