Bill Nighy

Born: 1949-12-12

William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).


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Role Play

as Bob
Released: 2024-01-04

Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret...

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The First Omen

as Cardinal Lawrence
Released: 2024-04-03

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she...

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as Davy Jones
Released: 2006-07-06

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

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as Davy Jones
Released: 2007-05-19

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

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as Rufus Scrimgeour
Released: 2010-11-17

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...

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Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as Howard Clifford
Released: 2019-05-03

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across...

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as Viktor
Released: 2003-09-19

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all...

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as Met Chief Inspector
Released: 2007-02-14

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the...

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as Whitey (voice)
Released: 2006-10-22

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on...

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as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
Released: 2011-03-02

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt,...

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About Time

as Dad
Released: 2013-09-04

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men...

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

as Viktor
Released: 2009-01-22

A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud...

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as Hephaestus
Released: 2012-03-28

Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while - dangerously weakened by...

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as Viktor
Released: 2006-01-12

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death...

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Jack the Giant Slayer

as General Fallon
Released: 2013-02-27

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway...

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as Phillip
Released: 2004-04-09

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and,...

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Total Recall

as Matthias
Released: 2012-08-02

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for...

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as Billy Mack
Released: 2003-09-07

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with...

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The World's End

as The Network (voice)
Released: 2013-07-18

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier...

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I, Frankenstein

as Naberius
Released: 2014-01-22

200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth....

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as Friedrich Olbricht
Released: 2008-12-25

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native...

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Arthur Christmas

as Grandsanta (voice)
Released: 2011-11-10

Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute...

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Emma.

as Mr. Woodhouse
Released: 2020-02-13

In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

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The Wild Robot

as Longneck (voice)
Released: 2024-09-12

A robot — ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must...

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Astro Boy

as Dr. Elefun (voice)
Released: 2009-10-15

Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers...

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The Constant Gardener

as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Released: 2005-08-31

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly,...

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as Slartibartfast
Released: 2005-04-28

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is...

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Notes on a Scandal

as Richard Hart
Released: 2006-12-25

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one...

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

as Douglas Ainslie
Released: 2012-02-23

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored...

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G-Force

as Leonard Saber
Released: 2009-07-24

A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole...

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The Bookshop

as Mr. Brundish
Released: 2017-11-10

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local...

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The Boat That Rocked

as Quentin
Released: 2009-04-01

An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music....

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Living

as Williams
Released: 2022-11-04

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's...

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Minamata

as Robert "Bob" Hayes
Released: 2020-03-13

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect...

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The Limehouse Golem

as John Kildare
Released: 2016-10-18

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a...

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Stormbreaker

as Alan Blunt
Released: 2006-07-21

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his...

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Eye of the Needle

as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Released: 1981-07-24

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry...

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Wild Target

as Victor Maynard
Released: 2010-06-17

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother,...

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FairyTale: A True Story

as Edward Gardner
Released: 1997-10-24

Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of...

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StarDog and TurboCat

as Sinclair (voice)
Released: 2019-12-06

When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they...

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Pride

as Cliff
Released: 2014-09-12

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of...

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Curse of the Pink Panther

as ENT Doctor
Released: 1983-08-12

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look...

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Chalet Girl

as Richard Madsen
Released: 2011-02-02

While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and...

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Norm of the North

as Socrates (voice)
Released: 2016-01-14

Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their...

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Dad's Army

as Sergeant Wilson
Released: 2016-02-05

A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard...

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Thirteen at Dinner

as Ronald Marsh
Released: 1985-09-19

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces...

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Hope Gap

as Edward
Released: 2019-10-03

Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down...

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Red Nose Day Actually

as Billy Mack
Released: 2017-03-24

Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in...

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Still Crazy

as Ray Simms
Released: 1998-10-30

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies,...

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

as Douglas Ainslie
Released: 2015-02-26

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming...

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Their Finest

as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
Released: 2017-02-19

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's...

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The Kindness of Strangers

as Timofey
Released: 2019-12-12

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan...

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Page Eight

as Johnny Worricker
Released: 2011-08-28

Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable...

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The Magic Roundabout

as Dylan (voice)
Released: 2005-02-02

A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Officer
Released: 1980-12-01

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the...

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The Beautiful Game

as Mal
Released: 2024-03-22

Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless men to compete in a...

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Turks & Caicos

as Johnny Worricker
Released: 2014-03-20

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker,...

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Guest House Paradiso

as Mr. Johnson
Released: 1999-12-03

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring...

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Blow Dry

as Ray Robertson
Released: 2001-03-01

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian...

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Salting the Battlefield

as Johnny Worricker
Released: 2014-03-27

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue...

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I Capture the Castle

as James Mortmain
Released: 2003-05-09

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes...

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The Phantom of the Opera

as Martin Barton
Released: 1989-11-04

An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the...

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10 Lives

as Professor Craven (voice)
Released: 2024-05-02

Beckett is a pampered and selfish cat who totally takes for granted the lucky hand he has been...

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Death Watch

as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
Released: 1980-01-23

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even...

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Enduring Love

as Robin
Released: 2004-10-29

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful...

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Sometimes Always Never

as Alan
Released: 2019-03-14

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching...

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The Girl in the Café

as Lawrence
Released: 2005-06-25

Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes...

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Dragonkeeper

as Danzi (voice)
Released: 2024-04-11

In ancient China, dragons were once friends of men, but men’s greed and lust for power ended...

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Glorious 39

as Alexander Keyes
Released: 2009-11-20

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious...

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Being Human

as Julian
Released: 1994-05-06

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

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The Little Drummer Girl

as Al
Released: 1984-10-19

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli...

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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
Released: 2015-12-26

Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace...

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Lucky Break

as Roger
Released: 2001-08-24

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...

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Killers Kill, Dead Men Die

as The Preacher
Released: 2007-03-13

The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue, this...

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The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later

as Self
Released: 2022-11-29

ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic...

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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'

as Self
Released: 2005-09-05

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

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True Blue

as Jeremy Saville
Released: 1996-11-15

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

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Buckley's Chance

as Spencer
Released: 2021-06-24

A fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback...

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London: The Modern Babylon

as Spoken Quotations (voice)
Released: 2012-08-03

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to...

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Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil

as Helmut Hoffmann
Released: 1985-02-17

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on...

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Longitude

as Lord Sandwich
Released: 2000-01-02

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at...

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Gideon's Daughter

as Gideon Warner
Released: 2005-10-21

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense...

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Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

as Conrad (voice)
Released: 2024-08-15

Gracie and Pedro are family pets with nothing in common. Gracie is a snobby, purebred pooch who...

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AKA

as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
Released: 2002-01-19

In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his...

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A Fox's Tale

as Ringmaster (voice)
Released: 2008-04-17

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

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Antonia and Jane

as Howard Nash
Released: 1990-01-01

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris...

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Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

as Self
Released: 2007-06-11

A documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz.

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National Theatre Live: Skylight

as Tom Sergeant
Released: 2014-07-24

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from...

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Don't Leave Me This Way

as John Tracey
Released: 1993-05-30

British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch....

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Alive and Kicking

as Tristan
Released: 1996-11-08

A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced...

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Burst

as Maxwell's Fan 22
Released: 2004-01-01

A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring...

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That Christmas

as Bill (voice)
Released:

A series of entwined tales about love and loneliness, family and friends, and Santa Claus making...

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Great White Shark

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 2013-05-24

Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic...

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Dreams of Leaving

as William
Released: 1980-01-17

William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could...

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Lawless Heart

as Dan
Released: 2002-06-28

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

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Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

as Self
Released: 2005-07-05

Documentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as...

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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

as Bill
Released: 1978-12-05

One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and,...

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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

as Self
Released: 2006-01-10

The Constant Gardener featurette.

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Unnatural Causes

as Oliver Latham
Released: 1993-01-02

Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This...

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Mack the Knife

as Tiger Brown
Released: 1989-11-01

In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide...

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Slapper

as Arnold Percy
Released: 2008-06-21

A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather...

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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

as Graham Greene (voice)
Released: 2013-01-01

The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as...

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Occupy!

as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Released: 1976-01-01

Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre...

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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

as Self
Released: 2020-12-01

Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her...

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A Masculine Ending

as John Tracey
Released: 1992-04-12

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night...

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The Young Visiters

as Earl of Clincham
Released: 2003-12-26

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal...

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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

as Phil Parish
Released: 2003-01-01

Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to...

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Absolute Hell

as Hugh Marriner
Released: 1991-10-05

Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of...

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Lotus: A New Dawn

as Self - Narrator
Released: 2021-07-28

This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer 'Lotus'. In the past...

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Easter 2016

as Connor Mullan
Released: 1982-05-18

Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated...

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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

as Narrator
Released: 2003-12-29

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom...

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The Maitlands

as Roger Maitland
Released: 1993-11-13

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

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Astonish Me

as The Professor
Released: 2011-07-26

When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard...

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Spectre of the Bear

as Bennett (voice)
Released: 2023-10-07

One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's...

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The Hungry Corpse

as The Hungry Corpse
Released: 2013-06-26

In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a...

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Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

as Self - Narrator
Released: 2021-12-14

Follows Christmas celebrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as staff prepare for one of...

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Under the Skin

as Dave
Released: 1982-01-19

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an'...

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Real Creatures of Dirt

as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
Released: 2011-07-15

In this fun and educational piece, animal experts talk about the real creatures that inspired...

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We Love Cigarettes

as Narrator
Released: 2006-06-29

A day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe,...

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Darkling

as uncredited
Released: 2023-10-23

The wanderer of Roger Hyams' films Sunday and Grand Union steps out into the night.

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Doctor Who

as Dr Black
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...

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Minder

as Oates
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Bergerac

as Barry
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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The One Show

as Self
First aired: 2006-08-14

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD....

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Richard & Judy

as Self
First aired: 2001-11-26

Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Lockwood
First aired: 2002-04-08

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

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Peak Practice

as Alan Sinclair
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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Castlevania

as Saint Germain (voice)
First aired: 2017-07-07

A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan,...

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Wycliffe

as David Cleeve
First aired: 1994-07-24

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective...

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

as Thomas Jerome Newton
First aired: 2022-04-24

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must...

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Timeshift

as self (voice)
First aired: 2002-10-10

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its...

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Black Books

as Man at bar
First aired: 2000-09-29

Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black....

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State of Play

as Cameron Foster
First aired: 2003-05-18

The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to...

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Performance

as Hugh Marriner
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Performance

as Roger Maitland
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Kavanagh Q.C.

as Giles Culpepper QC
First aired: 1995-01-03

James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling...

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Ordeal by Innocence

as Leo Argyll
First aired: 2018-04-01

The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a...

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Jeffrey Grainger
First aired: 1983-11-11

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to...

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Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

as Self - Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2021-06-05

Continuing the compelling saga of the heartstring-tugging, dramatic tale of survival revolving...

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Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Goschen
First aired: 1983-09-05

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...

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South Of The Border

as Tony Freason
First aired: 1988-10-25

Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn...

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World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2019-10-25

Bill Nighy narrates the stories of epic train journeys through stunning scenery.

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People Like Us

as Will Rushmore
First aired: 1999-09-20

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary...

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He Knew He Was Right

as Colonel Osborne
First aired: 2004-04-18

He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was...

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Testament: The Bible in Animation

as Belshazzar (voice)
First aired: 1996-12-11

A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation...

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Grumpy Old Men

as Self
First aired: 2003-10-10

Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.

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Chillers

as Tom Dickenson
First aired: 1990-04-14

Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...

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Longitude

as Lord Sandwich
First aired: 2000-01-02

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock...

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Meerkat Manor

as Narrator
First aired: 2005-09-02

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal...

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The Lost Prince

as Stamfordham
First aired: 2003-01-19

The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at...

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Canterbury Tales

as James
First aired: 2003-09-11

The Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003....

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World's Most Scenic River Journeys

as Narrator
First aired: 2021-04-02

Bill Nighy narrates a visually stunning trip along a spectacular river.

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The Last Place on Earth

as Cecil Meares
First aired: 1985-02-18

The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor...

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Fox

as Colin Street
First aired: 1980-03-10

Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the...

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Agony

as Vincent Fish
First aired: 1979-03-11

Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a...

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Eye of the Storm

as Tom Frewen
First aired: 1993-01-08

A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a...

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Live from Studio Five

as Self
First aired: 2009-09-14

Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky...

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Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge

as Self - Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2021-06-29

In this 2-episode documentary series, we will see the challenges to which the forest dweller...

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Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country

as Narrator
First aired: 2023-09-06

Bill Nighy narrates this series celebrating the beauty of the gorgeous eastern counties.

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