Jim Carter's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Downton Abbey (UK) Mr Carson Dinotopia Mayor Waldo Cranford (UK) Captain Brown Hornblower: Duty Etheridge

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Alice in Wonderland 2009 - Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 2009 - Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 2008 - The Oxford Murders 2007 - The Golden Compass 2007 - Cassandra's Dream 2006 - The Thief Lord 2005 - House Of 9 2004 - Out of Season 2004 - Ella Enchanted 2004 - Modigliani 2003 - 16 Years of Alcohol 2003 - Bright Young Things 2000 - The Little Vampire 2000 - 102 Dalmatians 1998 - Legionnaire 1998 - Shakespeare in Love 1996 - Brassed Off 1995 - Richard III 1995 - Balto 1994 - Black Beauty 1994 - The Madness of King George 1993 - The Hour of the Pig 1992 - Blame It on the Bellboy 1990 - The Witches 1989 - The Rainbow 1989 - Erik the Viking 1986 - Haunted Honeymoon 1985 - Rustlers' Rhapsody 1984 - The Company of Wolves 1984 - Top Secret! 1980 - Flash Gordon

BIOGRAPHY:

Carter was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. His father worked for the Air Ministry and his mother was a land girl and later a school secretary. Carter attended the University of Sussex to study law, but dropped out after two years to join a fringe theatre group in Brighton.

Carter is married to English actress Imelda Staunton, with whom he has a daughter named Bessie born in 1993. He is also currently the chairman of Hampstead Cricket club.


TRIVIA:

• A 1984 diary entry by 'Alan Bennett (I)' (qv) (scriptwriter of _A Private Function (1984)_ (qv)) 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)_ (qv) can be seen juggling.
• Daughter, Bessie, born in 1993
• Was a member of the "Madhouse Company of London", a comedy troupe which performed in Boston in the 1970s. Other members were Marcel Steiner, Marc Weil and Tommy Shands. 'Ken Campbell (I)' (qv), who appears in _A Fish Called Wanda (1988)_ (qv) as George Thomason's lawyer was also associated with the troupe.