James "Jim" Broadbent is an English theatre, film, and television actor, who for Disney, portrayed the villain Lord Kelvin in the 2004 Disney adventure comedy film Around the World in 80 Days, voiced Sergeant Monty in Valiant, and played Professor Digory Kirke in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Broadbent was born in Lincolnshire, Broadbent's parents were both amateur actors who co-founded the Holton Players acting troupe at Holton. He was educated at Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, and briefly attended art college before transferring to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1972.
Broadbent came into prominence in the 1980s through television shows, like Only Fools and Horses as Roy Slater before appearing in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits and Brazil before a breakthrough role in the independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet. He continued appear in films, like The Borrowers, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Gathering Storm, Hot Fuzz, Widow's Peak, Bullets Over Broadway, Moulin Rouge!, Longford, Gangs of New York, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Nicholas Nickleby, The Young Victoria, Another Year, The Iron Lady, Cloud Atlas, and Brooklyn. He also played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Mr. Gruber in the Paddington film series, and as John Bayley in the feature film Iris, where he won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
On television, he appeared in shows, like Gone to the Dogs, Screen One, The Peter Principle, Percy the Park Keeper, Any Human Heart, Exile, London Spy, War & Peace, Game of Thrones, and more recently voiced the Voice Trumpets in the 2015 reboot of Teletubbies.
Disney Roles[]
(Valiant)
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