Bill Nighy

Q: Has Bill Nighy won any awards?

Yes, Bill Nighy has received several awards, including a BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'The Girl in the Cafe' and a Critics' Choice Television Award for his role in 'The Third Day'.

Q: When did Bill Nighy start his acting career?

Bill Nighy began his acting career in the early 1970s, initially appearing in theatre productions before transitioning to television and film, gaining recognition in the 1990s.

Q: How many children does Bill Nighy have?

Bill Nighy has one daughter named Mary Nighy, who is also an actress and director.

Q: What is Bill Nighy's estimated net worth?

Bill Nighy's estimated net worth is around $8 million, largely attributed to his successful film and television career.

Q: What is a notable characteristic of Bill Nighy's acting?

Bill Nighy is known for his distinctive voice and ability to convey a wide range of emotions, often bringing a unique charm to his characters.

Q: What was Bill Nighy's first major film role?

Bill Nighy's first major film role was in the 1997 film 'Still Crazy', where he played the character of Ray Simms, which helped him gain wider recognition.

Q: Has Bill Nighy worked in television?

Yes, Bill Nighy has had a successful television career, including notable performances in series such as 'State of Play' and 'The Third Day', in addition to his film work.

Known for

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest poster

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

IMDb 7.4 / 10

2006 / Action, Adventure / 151 min

Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.

About Time (2013)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

2013 / Comedy, Drama / 123 min

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End poster

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

IMDb 7.1 / 10

2007 / Action, Adventure / 169 min

Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner...

Name

Bill Nighy

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

12 December 1949, Caterham, Surrey, England

Spouses

Catherine Zeta-Jones (2020–present)

Children

1, Mary Nighy

Parents

James Nighy, Anne Nighy

Estimated Net Worth

$8 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie & Sons A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, believing he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead...	Andrew	Not rated
2026	TV Ride or Die Best friends, Judith and Debbie, know everything about each other … well, almost everything. Judith has been living a double...	The Director	Not rated
2026	Movie 500 Miles A broken family is forced to come together when 16-year-old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	Movie Bulk When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far, his brane explodes. That's "brane", not "brain",...	The Voice	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2026	Movie Shelter A man living in self-imposed exile on a remote island rescues a young girl from a violent storm, setting off...	Manafort	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2025	TV Harlan Coben's Lazarus Forensic psychiatrist Dr Joel 'Laz' Lazarus is forced to confront long-buried demons after his father Dr L dies in suspicious...	Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2025	Movie This Is the Beginning A father and daughter attempt to find their way through grief together.	Unknown character	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2024	Movie That Christmas It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including...	Lighthouse Bill (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2024	Movie Joy A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment,...	Patrick Steptoe	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie The Wild Robot After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz...	Longneck (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2024	TV Kent: Garden of England Celebrating the county's beauty - from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Thames Estuary.	Self - Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2024	Movie Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue Family frenemies, Gracie and Pedro, must put their differences aside, embarking on a thrilling quest packed with perilous escapades in...	Conrad (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie 10 Lives A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by...	Professor Craven (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2024	Movie The First Omen When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters...	Cardinal Lawrence	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2024	Movie The Beautiful Game A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of...	Mal	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2023	Movie Role Play Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret...	Bob	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	Movie Darkling The wanderer of Roger Hyams' films Sunday and Grand Union steps out into the night.	Unknown character	Not rated
2023	Movie Spectre of the Bear One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes...	Bennett (voice)	Not rated
2023	Movie Bloody Fury In the Far West, the fur trade is booming. Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves still alive, decides...	Bloody's Consciousness (voice)	Not rated
2023	TV Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country Bill Nighy narrates this series celebrating the beauty of the gorgeous eastern counties.	Self - Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2022	Movie The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Living London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to...	Williams	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV LIGHT & MAGIC When George Lucas set out to make Star Wars, little did he know he would end up revolutionizing an industry....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	TV The Man Who Fell to Earth An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to...	Thomas Jerome Newton	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2021	Movie Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens Follows Christmas celebrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as staff prepare for one of their busiest times of year....	Self - Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2021	Movie Lotus: A New Dawn This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer Lotus. Once famous for its championship-winning race cars and iconic...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	TV Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge In this 2-episode documentary series, we will see the challenges to which the forest dweller must battle each day to...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2021	Movie Buckley's Chance A fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback with nothing but his...	Spencer	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2021	TV Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty Continuing the compelling saga of the heartstring-tugging, dramatic tale of survival revolving around three families of meerkats who are descendants...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2021	TV World's Most Scenic River Journeys Bill Nighy narrates a visually stunning trip along a spectacular river.	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2021	TV Natural History Museum: World of Wonder Series venturing behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Visitors to the museum see only...	Self - Narrator	Not rated
2020	Movie Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2020	Movie Minamata War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal...	Robert "Bob" Hayes	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	Movie Emma. In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.	Mr. Woodhouse	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie The Kindness of Strangers Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start...	Timofey	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie StarDog and TurboCat When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they discover not only the...	Sinclair (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	TV World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys Bill Nighy narrates the stories of epic train journeys through stunning scenery.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2019	Movie Hope Gap Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband...	Edward	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	Movie Pokémon Detective Pikachu In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who...	Howard Clifford	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2019	Movie Sometimes Always Never Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his...	Alan	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	TV Ordeal by Innocence The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now...	Leo Argyll	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2017	Movie The Bookshop Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a...	Mr. Brundish	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	TV Castlevania A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.	Saint Germain (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2017	Movie Red Nose Day Actually Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that...	Billy Mack	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie Their Finest During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way...	Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie The Limehouse Golem A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from...	John Kildare	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2016	Movie Dad's Army A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female...	Sergeant Wilson	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	Movie Norm of the North Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins...	Socrates (voice)	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2015	Movie A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit...	Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2015	Movie Pride: The True Story Featurette on the true story that inspired "Pride" (2014). On Pride (2014) DVD.	Himself	Not rated
2015	Movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh...	Douglas Ainslie	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2014	Movie Pride In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their...	Cliff	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2014	Movie National Theatre Live: Skylight On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a...	Tom Sergeant	TMDB 8.9 / 10
2014	Movie Salting the Battlefield David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the...	Johnny Worricker	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	Movie Turks & Caicos The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page...	Johnny Worricker	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	Movie I, Frankenstein 200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in...	Naberius	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2013	Movie About Time The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have...	Dad	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2013	Movie The World's End Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's...	The Network (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2013	Movie The Hungry Corpse In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a broken wing.	The Hungry Corpse	Not rated
2013	Movie Great White Shark Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic predator: the creature we love...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie Jack the Giant Slayer The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world...	General Fallon	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his...	Graham Greene (voice)	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2012	Movie London: The Modern Babylon London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.	Spoken Quotations (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie Total Recall Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a...	Matthias	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Wrath of the Titans Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion...	Hephaestus	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2012	Movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious...	Douglas Ainslie	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Arthur Christmas For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which...	Grandsanta (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2011	Movie Page Eight Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of...	Johnny Worricker	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2011	Movie Astonish Me When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical...	The Professor	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2011	Movie Real Creatures of Dirt In this fun and educational piece, animal experts talk about the real creatures that inspired the characters of Rango and...	Self / Rattlesnake Jake	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2011	Movie The Man with the Stolen Heart A surreal tale about a Man who wakes up one day only to discover his heart has left. This forces...	Narrator	Not rated
2011	Movie Rango When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard...	Rattlesnake Jake (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Chalet Girl While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so...	Richard Madsen	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	Movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting...	Rufus Scrimgeour	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2010	Movie Wild Target Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for...	Victor Maynard	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	TV 10 Minute Tales The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive...	Mr Jellaby	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie Glorious 39 A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming...	Alexander Keyes	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Astro Boy Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant...	Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2009	TV Live from Studio Five Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It...	Self	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2009	Movie G-Force A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on...	Leonard Saber	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	TV The Big Art Project The Big Art Project is a UK-wide public art initiative funded by the Channel 4 and Arts Council England. The...	Narrator	Not rated
2009	Movie The Boat That Rocked When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to...	Quentin	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2009	Movie Underworld: Rise of the Lycans A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and...	Viktor	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie Valkyrie Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the...	Friedrich Olbricht	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie Slapper A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than...	Arnold Percy	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2007	Movie Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz A documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz.	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to...	Davy Jones	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie Hot Fuzz Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of...	Met Chief Inspector	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2006	Movie Notes on a Scandal A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old...	Richard Hart	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2006	Movie Flushed Away London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap...	Whitey (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Stormbreaker After the death of his uncle, 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK's...	Alan Blunt	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2006	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler...	Davy Jones	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie We Love Cigarettes A day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of...	Narrator	Not rated
2006	Movie Underworld: Evolution As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an...	Viktor	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2006	Movie Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener The Constant Gardener featurette.	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2005	Movie Gideon's Daughter Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer...	Gideon Warner	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2005	Movie Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).	Self	Not rated
2005	TV Meerkat Manor Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September...	Narrator	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Constant Gardener Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems....	Sir Bernard Pellegrin	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Documentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as a radio series through...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Girl in the Café Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8...	Lawrence	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the...	Slartibartfast	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2005	TV Doctor Who The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...	Dr Black	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Magic Roundabout A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort...	Dylan (voice)	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2004	Movie Bottom Mindless Violence The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25...	Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	Movie Enduring Love Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their...	Robin	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2004	Movie Ready When You Are, Mr McGill Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line...	Phil Parish	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2004	Movie Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews A selection of highlights from Sir Peter Ustinov's appearances on Parkinson. A look back at a multitalented writer, director, actor...	Self - Narrator	Not rated
2004	TV He Knew He Was Right A man's unfounded jealousy destroys his marriage after he forbids his wife from seeing her godfather, leading to suspicion, separation,...	Colonel Osborne	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2004	Movie Shaun of the Dead Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This...	Phillip	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2004	Movie Burst A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.	Maxwell's Fan 22	Not rated
2003	Movie Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker....	Self - Narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie The Young Visiters The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious...	Earl of Clincham	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2003	Movie Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2003	TV Grumpy Old Men Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	Movie Underworld Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a...	Viktor	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2003	TV Canterbury Tales Six single dramas adapted from six of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales, transferred to a modern, 21st century setting,...	James	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2003	Movie Love Actually Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month...	Billy Mack	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2003	TV State of Play The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and...	Cameron Foster	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	Movie I Capture the Castle In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a decaying English castle.	James Mortmain	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	TV The Lost Prince The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age...	Stamfordham	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2002	TV Timeshift Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied...	self (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Lawless Heart In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.	Dan	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2002	TV The Inspector Lynley Mysteries DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.	Lockwood	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2002	Movie AKA In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something...	Uncle Louis Gryffoyn	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2001	TV Richard & Judy Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show...	Self	TMDB 3.4 / 10
2001	Movie Lucky Break Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to...	Roger	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2001	Movie Blow Dry The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's...	Ray Robertson	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2000	TV Black Books Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures...	Man at bar	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2000	TV Longitude The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work...	Lord Sandwich	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Longitude Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with...	Lord Sandwich	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1999	Movie Guest House Paradiso Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power...	Mr. Johnson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	Movie The Bass Player In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an...	Unknown character	Not rated
1999	TV People Like Us People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and...	Will Rushmore	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1998	Movie Still Crazy In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and...	Ray Simms	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1998	TV Parkinson Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.	Self	Not rated
1997	Movie FairyTale: A True Story In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of...	Edward Gardner	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	Movie True Blue The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning...	Jeremy Saville	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Alive and Kicking A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through...	Tristan	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1996	TV Testament: The Bible in Animation A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer...	Belshazzar (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	TV Kavanagh Q.C. John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London,...	Giles Culpepper QC	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1994	TV Wycliffe Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced...	David Cleeve	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Being Human One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.	Julian	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1993	Movie The Maitlands There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.	Roger Maitland	Not rated
1993	Movie Don't Leave Me This Way British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to...	John Tracey	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1993	TV Peak Practice Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the...	Alan Sinclair	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	TV Eye of the Storm A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her...	Tom Frewen	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Unnatural Causes Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a...	Oliver Latham	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1992	Movie A Masculine Ending While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a...	John Tracey	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Hugh Marriner	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Roger Maitland	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie Absolute Hell Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of...	Hugh Marriner	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1990	Movie Antonia and Jane Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out...	Howard Nash	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	TV Making News Making News is a television drama set in the world of journalism produced by Thames Television for the ITV network....	Sam Courtney	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1990	TV Chillers A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that...	Tom Dickenson	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1989	Movie The Phantom of the Opera An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured...	Martin Barton	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1989	Movie Mack the Knife In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly...	Tiger Brown	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1988	TV South of the Border Female private detectives Pearl Parker and Finn Gallagher operate within the bustling multicultural communities of South London.	Tony Freason	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1988	TV This Morning This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech,...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1985	Movie Thirteen at Dinner Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed...	Ronald Marsh	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1985	TV The Last Place on Earth The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the...	Cecil Meares	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1985	Movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931,...	Helmut Hoffmann	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1984	Movie The Little Drummer Girl An American actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a...	Al	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1983	TV Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in...	Jeffrey Grainger	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1983	TV Reilly: Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became...	Goschen	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1983	Movie Curse of the Pink Panther Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus,...	ENT Doctor	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1983	TV Storyboard Highly regarded anthology from the 1980s presenting a diverse range of high-quality single dramas that would serve as pilots for...	Sam	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie Easter 2016 Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A...	Connor Mullan	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1982	Movie Under the Skin "When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's...	Dave	Not rated
1981	Movie Eye of the Needle Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German...	Squadron Leader Blenkinsop	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie Standing in for Henry At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry....	Bruno	Not rated
1980	Movie Little Lord Fauntleroy Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father....	Officer	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1980	Movie Fox The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had...	Colin Street	TMDB 1.0 / 10
1980	TV Fox The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland...	Colin Street	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1980	Movie Death Watch In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle...	Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1980	Movie Dreams of Leaving William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then...	William	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1979	Movie Deasey (Desperate) Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin...	Deasy	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1979	TV Minder Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.	Oates	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1979	TV Agony Agony is a British sitcom produced by LWT for ITV, broadcast from 1979 to 1981. It stars Maureen Lipman as...	Vincent Fish	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1978	Movie Soldiers Talking, Cleanly One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence...	Bill	Not rated
1977	TV Premiere A series of anthologies highlighting the initial projects of directors venturing into television drama filmmaking.	Deasey	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie Occupy! Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation...	Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1974	TV Playhouse A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.	Bruno	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1970	TV Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970...	Dave	TMDB 6.6 / 10
TBA	TV California Avenue Set in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside, its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the...	Jerry	Not rated
TBA	Movie Heart of Darkness Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a mysterious figure...	(voice)	Not rated
TBA	Movie A Town in Nova Scotia Leon, an Irishman in his 70s, lives in a council block flat in the metropolitan area of Merseyside - his...	Leon	Not rated
TBA	Movie Caine A Hong Kong-style action thriller, following Caine after the events of "John Wick: Chapter 4." Plot TBA.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Welcome to Paradise A woman finds herself in a strange, magical carnival with no memory of anything but her own name. Time seems...	Hooker Duck Host (voice)	Not rated
TBA	Movie Ibelin Follows the life of Mats Steen, diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as he made his way and touched the hearts...	Mats Steen	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Turning Door Young Ariadlyn is sent to bed as a party rages downstairs. Escaping her bedtime, she slips into her parents’ room,...	(voice)	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie Sometimes Always Never Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2011	Movie Page Eight Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
TBA	TV California Avenue Set in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside, its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated

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2024 / TMDB 7.1

Joy

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

About Time (2013)

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

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