Jim Carter

James Edward Carter 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	0
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	1985	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Blackie	56
7	1986	Haunted Honeymoon	Montego	54
8	1987	A Month in the Country	Ellerbeck	64
9	1987	The American Way	Castro	58
10	1988	Star Trap	Dr. Wax	0
11	1988	Duck		0
12	1988	The First Kangaroos	Arthur Hughes	0
13	1988	Soursweet	Mr. Constantinides	53
14	1988	The Raggedy Rawney	The Soldier	59
15	1988	The Tenth Man	Pierre	68
16	1989	Precious Bane	Sarn	60
17	1989	Here Is the News	News Editor	0
18	1989	The Rainbow	Mr. Harby	58
19	1989	Erik the Viking	Jennifer the Viking (Another Rapist)	59
20	1990	The Witches	Head Chef	69
21	1990	Crimestrike	The Detective	0
22	1990	The Fool	Mr. Blackthorn	70
23	1991	Hancock	Ray Galton	0
24	1992	Blame It on the Bellboy	Rossi	53
25	1992	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	Meinertzhagen	64
26	1992	Stalin	Sergo	53
27	1993	Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown	Commander	0
28	1993	Resnick: Rough Treatment	Grabianski	0
29	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Mathieu	62
30	1994	In The Cold Light Of Day	Father	0
31	1994	Black Beauty	John Manly	67
32	1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Executioner (uncredited)	64
33	1994	Open Fire	DCS Young	80
34	1994	Midnight Movie	Henry Harris	10
35	1994	The Madness of King George	Fox	68
36	1995	Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre	Inspector	0
37	1995	The Grotesque	George Lecky	54
38	1995	Richard III	Lord Hastings	67
39	1996	Brassed Off	Harry	70
40	1997	Harpur and Iles: Protection	Tenderness Mellick	50
41	1997	Bright Hair	Norman Devenish	45
42	1997	The Missing Postman	DS Lawrence Pitman	50
43	1997	The Chest	Roland Blood	0
44	1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Erskine	60
45	1998	Bill's New Frock	Mr. Platworthy	0
46	1998	Vigo	Bonaventure (uncredited)	48
47	1998	Legionnaire	Lucien Galgani	57
48	1998	Shakespeare in Love	Ralph Bashford	69
49	1999	Trial by Fire	Geoffrey Bailey	0
50	1999	The Bass Player		0
51	1999	Tube Tales	Ticket Inspector (segment "Steal Away")	53
52	1999	Tube Tales	Ticket Inspector (Steal Away)	53
53	2000	102 Dalmatians	Detective Armstrong	55
54	2000	The Little Vampire	Rookery	69
55	2001	According to Beryl	Samuel Johnson	0
56	2002	Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	65
57	2002	Discovering Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	65
58	2003	Hornblower: Duty	Etheridge	72
59	2003	Heartlands	Geoff	61
60	2003	16 Years of Alcohol	Director	57
61	2003	Bright Young Things	Chief Customs Officer	63
62	2003	Pompeii: The Last Day	Polybius	68
63	2003	Cromwell: Warts and All	Oliver Cromwell	0
64	2003	Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose	Red Rose (voice)	0
65	2004	Ella Enchanted	Nish	65
66	2004	Modigliani	Achilles Hebuterne	71
67	2004	Casablanca Driver	Joe Mateo, l'agent	58
68	2004	Von Trapped	Larry Lavelle	0
69	2004	Out of Season	Michael Philipps	50
70	2005	The Story of Alton Towers	Narrator/The Earl	0
71	2005	House of 9	The Watcher	50
72	2005	The Man Who Is Obsessed With The Number 12	Narrator	0
73	2006	The Thief Lord	Victor	59
74	2006	Aberfan: The Untold Story	Lord Robens	50
75	2006	The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton	Henry Dorling	62
76	2006	The Wind in the Willows	Engine Driver	64
77	2007	Recovery	Mr. Lockwood	66
78	2007	Cassandra's Dream	Garage Boss	63
79	2007	The Golden Compass	John Faa	61
80	2008	The Oxford Murders	Inspector Petersen	60
81	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980	Harold Angus	69
82	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983	Harold Angus	70
83	2009	Creation	Parslow	64
84	2010	Burlesque Fairytales	The Compere	56
85	2011	Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb	Narrator (Voice)	65
86	2011	My Week with Marilyn	Barry	67
87	2013	Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons	Narrator (Voice)	70
88	2013	Rock 'n' Roll Britannia	Self	0
89	2014	One of a Kind	Narrator (voice)	0
90	2014	Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama	Self	0
91	2015	Hitler's Supergun	Narrator (voice)	55
92	2016	Punk Strut: The Movie	Skippy	0
93	2016	Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me	Self	0
94	2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Cogman (voice)	61
95	2017	The Little Vampire 3D	Rookery (voice)	61
96	2018	King Lear	Earl of Kent	60
97	2018	Swimming with Men	Ted	61
98	2019	Downton Abbey	Charles Carson	71
99	2019	The Good Liar	Vincent	67
100	2020	Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans	Dad Turtle	76
101	2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Charles Carson	72
102	2022	The Sea Beast	King (voice)	73
103	2023	Wonka	Abacus Crunch	71
104	2025	Downton Abbey 3	Charles Carson	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	NOVA	Narrator	69
2	1979	Not the Nine O'Clock News		71
3	1979	Minder	Tomkins	68
4	1980	Fox	Cliff Ryan	57
5	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Commander	73
6	1983	Widows	D.I. Frinton	70
7	1985	The Mysteries	Mak / Fourth Soldier	0
8	1986	The Monocled Mutineer		70
9	1986	Casualty	Matthew Charlton	60
10	1986	Lost Empires	Inspector Crabb	40
11	1986	The Singing Detective	Mr. Marlow	77
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	64
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)	68
19	1993	Lipstick on Your Collar	Inspector	71
20	1993	A Year in Provence	Ted Hopkins	60
21	1993	Cracker	Kenneth Trant	65
22	1994	Pie in the Sky	Alec Bailey	84
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	65
27	1997	Ain't Misbehavin'	Maxie Morrell	80
28	1997	The View	Self	45
29	1998	Hornblower	Etheridge	75
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	66
36	2003	Strange		60
37	2003	Trevor's World of Sport	Sir Frank Luckton	40
38	2004	London	Henry Fielding	0
39	2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self	77
40	2007	Cranford	Self/Captain Brown	81
41	2007	Cranford	Captain Brown	81
42	2010	Downton Abbey	Charles Carson	81
43	2012	Honest Trailers	Abacus Crunch (archive footage)	64
44	2017	Knightfall	Pope Boniface VIII	70
45	2019	Inside the Ritz Hotel	Narrator	0
46	2023	Hidden Treasures of the National Trust	Narrator	0