Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

153

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-08-19 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Джим Картер
James Edward Carter
James Carter
جیم کارتر

Jim Carter

Biography

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

6.6%

Alice in Wonderland

Mar 3, 2010

6.1%

Transformers: The Last Knight

Jun 16, 2017

6.1%

The Golden Compass

Dec 4, 2007

7.1%

Wonka

Dec 6, 2023

6.9%

Shakespeare in Love

Dec 11, 1998

6.5%

Ella Enchanted

Apr 9, 2004

7.3%

The Sea Beast

Jun 24, 2022

5.5%

102 Dalmatians

Oct 7, 2000

6.7%

My Week with Marilyn

Nov 23, 2011

6.9%

The Witches

May 25, 1990

6.4%

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Nov 4, 1994

7.1%

Top Secret!

Jun 8, 1984

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Acting

2025

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Charles Carson

2023		Wonka as Abacus Crunch
2023		Hidden Treasures of the National Trust as Narrator

2022		The Sea Beast as King (voice)
2022		Downton Abbey: A New Era as Charles Carson

2020

Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans as Dad Turtle

2019		The Good Liar as Vincent
2019		Downton Abbey as Charles Carson
2019		Inside the Ritz Hotel as Narrator

2018		Swimming with Men as Ted
2018		King Lear as Earl of Kent

2017		Knightfall as Pope Boniface VIII
2017		The Little Vampire 3D as Rookery (voice)
2017		Transformers: The Last Knight as Cogman (voice)

2016		Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me as Self
2016		Punk Strut: The Movie as Skippy

2015

Hitler's Supergun as Narrator (voice)

2014		Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama as Self
2014		One of a Kind as Narrator (voice)

2013		Rock 'n' Roll Britannia as Self
2013		Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons as Narrator (Voice)

2012

Honest Trailers as Abacus Crunch (archive footage)

2011		My Week with Marilyn as Barry
2011		Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb as Narrator (Voice)

2010		Downton Abbey as Charles Carson
2010		Alice in Wonderland as The Executioner
2010		Burlesque Fairytales as The Compere

2009		Creation as Parslow
2009		Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Harold Angus
2009		Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 as Harold Angus

2008

The Oxford Murders as Inspector Petersen

2007		The Golden Compass as John Faa
2007		Cranford as Self/Captain Brown
2007		Cranford as Captain Brown
2007		Cassandra's Dream as Garage Boss
2007		Would I Lie to You? as Self
2007		Recovery as Mr. Lockwood

2006		The Wind in the Willows as Engine Driver
2006		The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Henry Dorling
2006		Aberfan: The Untold Story as Lord Robens
2006		The Thief Lord as Victor

2005		The Man Who Is Obsessed With The Number 12 as Narrator
2005		House of 9 as The Watcher
2005		The Story of Alton Towers as Narrator/The Earl

2004		Out of Season as Michael Philipps
2004		Von Trapped as Larry Lavelle
2004		Casablanca Driver as Joe Mateo, l'agent
2004		Modigliani as Achilles Hebuterne
2004		London as Henry Fielding
2004		Ella Enchanted as Nish

2003		Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Red Rose (voice)
2003		Cromwell: Warts and All as Oliver Cromwell
2003		Pompeii: The Last Day as Polybius
2003		Bright Young Things as Chief Customs Officer
2003		Trevor's World of Sport as Sir Frank Luckton
2003		Strange as Inspector Stuart
2003		Blue Murder as Frank Evans
2003		16 Years of Alcohol as Director
2003		Heartlands as Geoff
2003		Hornblower: Duty as Etheridge

2002		Dinotopia as Mayor Waldo
2002		Discovering Dinotopia as Mayor Waldo
2002		Dinotopia as Mayor Waldo

2001		Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Odin - Member of the Great Council of Mac Slec
2001		According to Beryl as Samuel Johnson

2000		The Little Vampire as Rookery
2000		102 Dalmatians as Detective Armstrong
2000		Arabian Nights as Ja'Far

1999		Tube Tales as Ticket Inspector (segment "Steal Away")
1999		Tube Tales as Ticket Inspector (Steal Away)
1999		The Bass Player
1999		Trial by Fire as Geoffrey Bailey
1999		The Scarlet Pimpernel as General La Forge
1999		Blood on the Carpet as Self - Narrator (voice)

1998		Shakespeare in Love as Ralph Bashford
1998		Legionnaire as Lucien Galgani
1998		Hornblower as Etheridge
1998		Vigo as Bonaventure (uncredited)
1998		Bill's New Frock as Mr. Platworthy

1997		Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Erskine
1997		The View as Self
1997		Ain't Misbehavin' as Maxie Morrell
1997		The Chest as Roland Blood
1997		The Missing Postman as DS Lawrence Pitman
1997		The Missing Postman as DS Lawrence Pitman
1997		Midsomer Murders as Nathan Green
1997		Bright Hair as Norman Devenish
1997		Harpur and Iles: Protection as Tenderness Mellick

1996

Brassed Off as Harry

1995		Richard III as Lord Hastings
1995		Coogan's Run as Fraser
1995		The Grotesque as George Lecky
1995		Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre as Inspector
1995		Dangerfield as Stephen Millwood

1994		The Madness of King George as Fox
1994		Midnight Movie as Henry Harris
1994		Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
1994		Open Fire as DCS Young
1994		Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Executioner (uncredited)
1994		Black Beauty as John Manly
1994		In The Cold Light Of Day as Father
1994		Pie in the Sky as Alec Bailey

1993		Cracker as Kenneth Trant
1993		The Hour of the Pig as Mathieu
1993		Resnick: Rough Treatment as Grabianski
1993		Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown as Commander
1993		A Year in Provence as Ted Hopkins
1993		Lipstick on Your Collar as Inspector

1992		Stalin as Sergo
1992		Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Mark Antony (voice)
1992		A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Meinertzhagen
1992		Blame It on the Bellboy as Rossi

1991		Murder Most Horrid as General Alberto
1991		Murder Most Horrid as Roy Redfern
1991		Hancock as Ray Galton
1991		Soldier Soldier as Snr Supt Derek Tierney, RHKP

1990		The Fool as Mr. Blackthorn
1990		Crimestrike as The Detective
1990		The Gravy Train as Personip
1990		The Witches as Head Chef
1990		A Sense of Guilt as Richard Murray

1989		Erik the Viking as Jennifer the Viking (Another Rapist)
1989		The Rainbow as Mr. Harby
1989		Here Is the News as News Editor
1989		Precious Bane as Sarn

1988		The Tenth Man as Pierre
1988		Thompson
1988		The Raggedy Rawney as The Soldier
1988		Soursweet as Mr. Constantinides
1988		The First Kangaroos as Arthur Hughes
1988		Star Trap as Dr. Wax
1988		Duck

1987		The American Way as Castro
1987		A Month in the Country as Ellerbeck

1986		The Singing Detective as Mr. Marlow
1986		Lost Empires as Inspector Crabb
1986		Casualty as Matthew Charlton
1986		The Monocled Mutineer
1986		Haunted Honeymoon as Montego

1985		The Mysteries as Mak / Fourth Soldier
1985		Rustlers' Rhapsody as Blackie

1984		Hiawatha as Nawadaha - The Story Teller
1984		A Private Function as Inspector Noble
1984		The Company of Wolves as Second Husband (uncredited)
1984		Top Secret! as Déjà Vu

1983		The Oresteia as Agamemnon
1983		Widows as D.I. Frinton

1982

The Comic Strip Presents... as Commander

1980		Fox as Cliff Ryan
1980		Fox as Cliff Ryan

1979		Minder as Tomkins
1979		Not the Nine O'Clock News

1974

NOVA as Narrator