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Jim Carter

James Edward Carter (born 19 August 1948) is an English actor. He is best known for his role in Downton Abbey (2010–2015) playing Mr Carson, a role that has earned him four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015). He reprised his role in the feature film Downton Abbey (2019).

Known For: Acting

Born: Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1948-08-19

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	Fox	Cliff Ryan	10
2	1983	The Oresteia	Agamemnon	100
3	1984	Top Secret!	Déjà Vu	71
4	1984	The Company of Wolves	Second Husband (uncredited)	63
5	1984	A Private Function	Inspector Noble	63
6	1984	Hiawatha	Nawadaha - The Story Teller	0
7	1985	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Blackie	55
8	1986	Haunted Honeymoon	Montego	54
9	1987	A Month in the Country	Ellerbeck	64
10	1987	The American Way	Castro	58
11	1988	Star Trap	Dr. Wax	0
12	1988	Duck		0
13	1988	The First Kangaroos	Arthur Hughes	0
14	1988	Soursweet	Mr. Constantinides	53
15	1988	The Raggedy Rawney	The Soldier	58
16	1988	The Tenth Man	Pierre	67
17	1989	Precious Bane	Sarn	60
18	1989	Here Is the News	News Editor	0
19	1989	The Rainbow	Mr. Harby	57
20	1989	Erik the Viking	Jennifer the Viking (Another Rapist)	59
21	1990	The Witches	Head Chef	69
22	1990	Crimestrike	The Detective	0
23	1990	The Fool	Mr. Blackthorn	70
24	1991	Hancock	Ray Galton	0
25	1992	Blame It on the Bellboy	Rossi	54
26	1992	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	Meinertzhagen	64
27	1992	Stalin	Sergo	51
28	1993	Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown	Commander	0
29	1993	Resnick: Rough Treatment	Grabianski	0
30	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Mathieu	62
31	1994	In The Cold Light Of Day	Father	0
32	1994	Black Beauty	John Manly	67
33	1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Executioner (uncredited)	64
34	1994	Open Fire	DCS Young	70
35	1994	Julius Caesar	Mark Antony	0
36	1994	Midnight Movie	Henry Harris	10
37	1994	The Madness of King George	Fox	68
38	1995	Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre	Inspector	0
39	1995	The Grotesque	George Lecky	53
40	1995	Richard III	Lord Hastings	67
41	1996	Brassed Off	Harry	70
42	1997	Harpur and Iles: Protection	Tenderness Mellick	50
43	1997	Bright Hair	Norman Devenish	38
44	1997	The Missing Postman	DS Lawrence Pitman	50
45	1997	The Chest	Roland Blood	0
46	1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Erskine	60
47	1998	Bill's New Frock	Mr. Platworthy	0
48	1998	Vigo	Bonaventure (uncredited)	48
49	1998	Legionnaire	Lucien Galgani	58
50	1998	Shakespeare in Love	Ralph Bashford	69
51	1999	Trial by Fire	Geoffrey Bailey	0
52	1999	The Bass Player		0
53	1999	Tube Tales	Ticket Inspector (segment "Steal Away")	51
54	1999	Tube Tales	Ticket Inspector (Steal Away)	51
55	2000	102 Dalmatians	Detective Armstrong	55
56	2000	The Little Vampire	Rookery	69
57	2001	According to Beryl	Samuel Johnson	0
58	2002	Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	65
59	2002	Discovering Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	63
60	2003	Hornblower: Duty	Etheridge	73
61	2003	Heartlands	Geoff	61
62	2003	16 Years of Alcohol	Director	56
63	2003	Bright Young Things	Chief Customs Officer	63
64	2003	Pompeii: The Last Day	Polybius	67
65	2003	Cromwell: Warts and All	Oliver Cromwell	0
66	2003	Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose	Red Rose (voice)	0
67	2004	Ella Enchanted	Nish	65
68	2004	Modigliani	Achilles Hebuterne	71
69	2004	Casablanca Driver	Joe Mateo, l'agent	58
70	2004	Von Trapped	Larry Lavelle	0
71	2004	Out of Season	Michael Philipps	47
72	2005	The Story of Alton Towers	Narrator/The Earl	0
73	2005	House of 9	The Watcher	50
74	2005	The Man Who Is Obsessed With The Number 12	Narrator	0
75	2006	The Thief Lord	Victor	59
76	2006	Aberfan: The Untold Story	Lord Robens	50
77	2006	The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton	Henry Dorling	62
78	2006	The Wind in the Willows	Engine Driver	58
79	2007	Recovery	Mr. Lockwood	67
80	2007	Cassandra's Dream	Garage Boss	63
81	2007	The Golden Compass	John Faa	61
82	2008	The Oxford Murders	Inspector Petersen	60
83	2009	Creation	Parslow	64
84	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980	Harold Angus	69
85	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983	Harold Angus	69
86	2010	Burlesque Fairytales	The Compere	56
87	2010	Alice in Wonderland	The Executioner	66
88	2011	Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb	Narrator (Voice)	65
89	2011	My Week with Marilyn	Barry	67
90	2013	Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons	Narrator (Voice)	70
91	2013	Rock 'n' Roll Britannia	Self	0
92	2014	One of a Kind	Narrator (voice)	0
93	2014	Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama	Self	0
94	2015	Hitler's Supergun	Narrator (voice)	55
95	2016	Punk Strut: The Movie	Skippy	0
96	2016	Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me	Self	0
97	2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Cogman (voice)	61
98	2017	The Little Vampire 3D	Rookery (voice)	61
99	2018	King Lear	Earl of Kent	60
100	2018	Swimming with Men	Ted	61
101	2019	Downton Abbey	Charles Carson	71
102	2019	The Good Liar	Vincent	67
103	2020	Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans	Dad Turtle	74
104	2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Charles Carson	72
105	2022	The Sea Beast	King (voice)	73
106	2023	Wonka	Abacus Crunch	71
107	2025	Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale	Charles Carson	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	NOVA	Narrator	70
2	1979	Not the Nine O'Clock News		70
3	1979	Minder	Tomkins	68
4	1980	Fox	Cliff Ryan	57
5	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Commander	74
6	1983	Widows	D.I. Frinton	74
7	1985	The Mysteries	Mak / Fourth Soldier	0
8	1986	The Monocled Mutineer		70
9	1986	Casualty	Matthew Charlton	61
10	1986	Lost Empires	Inspector Crabb	40
11	1986	The Singing Detective	Mr. Marlow	76
12	1988	Thompson		10
13	1990	A Sense of Guilt	Richard Murray	43
14	1990	The Gravy Train	Personip	80
15	1991	Soldier Soldier	Snr Supt Derek Tierney, RHKP	66
16	1991	Murder Most Horrid	General Alberto	66
17	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Roy Redfern	66
18	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Mark Antony (voice)	64
19	1993	Lipstick on Your Collar	Inspector	71
20	1993	A Year in Provence	Ted Hopkins	60
21	1993	Cracker	Kenneth Trant	66
22	1994	Pie in the Sky	Alec Bailey	82
23	1995	Dangerfield	Stephen Millwood	60
24	1995	Coogan's Run	Fraser	64
25	1997	Midsomer Murders	Nathan Green	75
26	1997	The Missing Postman	DS Lawrence Pitman	67
27	1997	Ain't Misbehavin'	Maxie Morrell	70
28	1997	The View	Self	45
29	1998	Hornblower	Etheridge	78
30	1999	Blood on the Carpet	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
31	1999	The Scarlet Pimpernel	General La Forge	72
32	2000	Arabian Nights	Ja'Far	67
33	2001	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Odin - Member of the Great Council of Mac Slec	68
34	2002	Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	64
35	2003	Blue Murder	Frank Evans	67
36	2003	Strange	Inspector Stuart	65
37	2003	Trevor's World of Sport	Sir Frank Luckton	55
38	2004	London	Henry Fielding	0
39	2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self	77
40	2007	Cranford	Captain Brown	81
41	2010	Downton Abbey	Charles Carson	81
42	2012	Honest Trailers	Abacus Crunch (archive footage)	65
43	2017	Knightfall	Pope Boniface VIII	70
44	2019	Inside the Ritz Hotel	Narrator	0
45	2023	Hidden Treasures of the National Trust	Narrator	0