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4 wins & 6 nominations.
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Actor (150 credits)
2017-2019
Knightfall
(TV Series)
Pope Boniface VIII / Pope Boniface
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Fiat!
(2018)
... Pope Boniface VIII
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IV
(2018)
... Pope Boniface VIII
2007-2009
Cranford
(TV Series)
Captain Brown
2003
The Big Read
(TV Series)
Reader (segment "Captain Corelli's Mandolin")
2003
Strange
(TV Mini-Series)
Inspector Stuart
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Asmoth
(2003)
... Inspector Stuart
2002
Dinotopia
(TV Mini-Series)
Mayor Waldo
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Part 3
(2002)
... Mayor Waldo
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Part 2
(2002)
... Mayor Waldo
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Part 1
(2002)
... Mayor Waldo
1999
Tube Tales
Ticket Inspector (segment "Steal Away")
1995
Balto
(voice, uncredited)
1989-1995
Screen Two
(TV Series)
Inspector / Henry Harris / Father / ...
1994
Open Fire
(TV Movie)
Det Chief Supt Young
1994
Cracker
(TV Series)
Kenneth Trant
1993-1994
Minder
(TV Series)
Tomkins
1993
Medics
(TV Series)
Hugh Buckley
1991
Casualty
(TV Series)
Matthew Charlton
1990
Zorro
(TV Series)
Colonel Mefisto Palomarez
1985
Widows
(TV Mini-Series)
D.I. Frinton
1984
Hiawatha
(TV Movie)
Nawadaha - The Story Teller
1980
Fox
(TV Series)
Cliff Ryan
2012
Downton Abbey
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
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Episode #3.3
(2012)
... (performer: "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" - uncredited)
The Singing Detective
(TV Mini-Series) (1 episode, 1986) (performer - 1 episode, 1986)
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Lovely Days
(1986)
... (performer: "Paper Doll", "Do I Worry?" - uncredited)
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Heat
(1986)
... ("It Might as Well Be Spring", "Bird Songs at Eventide", uncredited)
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Self (65 credits)
2019
Good Morning Britain
(TV Series)
Self / Self - Actor / Self - Plays 'Mr Carson' in Downton Abbey
2014
Weekend
(TV Series)
Self - Guest
2014
Nova
(TV Series documentary)
Self - Narrator
2013
Skavlan
(TV Series)
Self - Guest
2013
50s Britannia
(TV Series documentary)
Self - Lonnie Donegan Expert
2004
Peter Ackroyd's London
(TV Mini-Series documentary)
Henry Fielding / Henry Fielding - Novelist & Magistrate
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The Crowd
(2004)
... Henry Fielding - Novelist & Magistrate
1996
Film 2018
(TV Series)
Self - Interviewee
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Personal Details
Other Works:
TV commercial for Greenpeace - playing Santa.
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Alternate Names:
James Carter
Height:
6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Personal Quote:
On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.
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Trivia:
A 1984 diary entry by
Alan Bennett (scriptwriter of
A Private Function (1984)) mentions Carter amusing himself on the set between takes by doing conjuring tricks. In the finished film he performs a magic trick as Inspector Noble, and in
Shakespeare in Love (1998) can be seen juggling.
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Trademark:
Deep commanding voice