Biography
Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 ...
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Complete Filmography

The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Stephen Best
Four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and, led by a former spy, form the Thursday Murder Club to solve cold cases for fun. Bu...

The Penguin Lessons
2025
as Headmaster Buckle
In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendsh...

William Tell
2025
as Attinghausen
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, de...

One Life
2023
as Martin Blake
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of ...

Soul of the Ocean
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The undersea world has often been depicted as a dangerous place filled with lethal predators. A world where sharks are mindless eating machines. A wor...

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
2022
as Jacob Marley (voice)
On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

The Spirit of 1926
2022
as Narrator
In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
2022
as Self - Narrator
In the year Queen Elizabeth marks her 70th on the throne, Fortnum & Mason has challenged home bakers to create a tart, cake, or pudding to honor her l...

All the Old Knives
2022
as Bill Compton
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to ...

The Witness is a Whale
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Archival footage, hidden documents, and personal records reveal one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century: the secret and illegal s...

Save the Cinema
2022
as Mr. Morgan
The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre ...
Stories of You and I
2021
as Narrator
Narrated by Academy Award Nominee, Jonathan Pryce, 'Stories of You and I' is an open letter to the Earth. Based on true accounts, memories and relatio...

The Two Popes
2019
as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and ...

He Dreams of Giants
2019
as Himself
15 years after "Lost in la Mancha", Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam's new (successful) attempt at filming "The Man Who K...

Piney: The Lonesome Pine
2019
as Grandpa Sid
A cheerful Welsh girl grows a talking pine named PINEY to be her Christmas tree, but when he's accidentally removed from her grandfather's Christmas t...

The Wife
2018
as Joe Castleman
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
To Provide All People
2018
as Retired Neurosurgeon
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birt...

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018
as Don Quixote
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. I...

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Mr. John Dickens
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, ...

Becoming Cary Grant
2017
as Cary Grant (voice)
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, th...

The Healer
2017
as Raymond Heacock
The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.

To Walk Invisible
2016
as Patrick Brontë
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they fac...
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known ...

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
2016
as Special Finale Guest Star
The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young Vietnamese bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris — but their live...

The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2016
as Shylock
Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The winner will win her hand in marriage; the losers will lose her han...

The White King
2016
as Colonel Fitz
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter,...
Shylock's Ghost
2015
as Self
As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan Yentob to...

Narcopolis
2015
as Sidorov
In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational drugs comes with a price.

Dough
2015
as Nat
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales s...

Woman in Gold
2015
as Chief Justice Rehnquist
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis ...

Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
2015
as Self
Glimpse the epic scale of Game of Thrones in this featurette that spends one day touring various Season 5 sets in Croatia, Spain and Ireland.

Sluizer Speaks
2014
Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of George Sluizer, director of such films a...

Under Milk Wood
2014
as Mr. Pugh
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National...

The Salvation
2014
as Mayor Nathan Keane
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow tow...

Listen Up Philip
2014
as Ike
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise,...

The Ghost and the Whale
2014
as Whale
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who ...

G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013
as U.S. President
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their m...

King Lear
2012
as King Lear
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejec...

Dark Blood
2012
as Harry Fletcher
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site i...

Patience (After Sebald)
2012
as Voiceover
A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internation...

Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
2011
as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial powers. He lived there revolts against foreigners, t...

City State
2011
as Jimmy
A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prost...

Hysteria
2011
as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
2010
In the mid-nineteenth century an artist named Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins had one ambition: to show the world what dinosaurs looked like. His astonish...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
as U.S. President
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fi...

Echelon Conspiracy
2009
as Mueller
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous se...

Bedtime Stories
2008
as Marty Bronson
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
2008
as Ian Fleming (voice)
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

My Zinc Bed
2008
as Victor
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.

What Is Brazil?
2008
as Self
Rob Hedden's witty on-set documentary captures the revolutionary air that had begun to swirl around Brazil even before the controversy surrounding its...

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008
as Self / Horatio Jackson
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away...

Leatherheads
2008
as CC Frazier
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
as Governor Weatherby Swann
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate da...

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
as Sherlock Holmes
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.

The Moon and the Stars
2007
as James Clavel / Scarpia
1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. ...

Brothers of the Head
2006
as Henry Couling
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
as Weatherby Swann
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart ...

The New World
2005
as King James
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
2005
as Self
Behind the scenes of The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm
2005
as Delatombe
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and ...

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...

Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin."

De-Lovely
2004
as Gabriel
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly uncon...

An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary of the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, featuring behind the scenes footage, interviews wit...

David Bowie - Sound and Vision
2003
as Narrator
A documentary, which takes you on a journey of Bowie's revolutionary career, struggle with his personal life and his achievements and successes. Featu...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003
as Governor Weatherby Swann
After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann in the process, William Turne...
Quest for the Giant Squid
2003
as Narrator
The quest led by well respected scientists to record the Giant Squid.

What a Girl Wants
2003
as Alistair Payne
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...

Mad Dogs
2002
as Supreme Being
London, one year from today... The dogs of England are dying, of "Mad Dog Disease," and Rabbie Burns, young drifter and certified schizophrenic, is he...
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self / Elliot Carver
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Unconditional Love
2002
as Victor Fox
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2002
as Master Schoemacker
A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters
Taliesin Jones
2002
as Da
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's ide...

The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grac...

Victoria & Albert
2001
as King Leopold I of Belgium
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-...

Bride of the Wind
2001
as Gustav Mahler
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Very Annie Mary
2001
as Jack Pugh
Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take car...

Il gioco
2001
as Mark
A reputed art critic convinces a young actress to play for him alone the role of a mysterious and seductive woman.

Tales from the Madhouse
2000
as The Thief
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. ...

The Suicide Club
2000
as Bourne
A man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club's only female member...

Stigmata
1999
as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus re...

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
as The Master
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.

Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
1999
as Narrator
300 miles off the coast of North America, in the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean, a group of ships have come together at the site of the Titanic. E...

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
'Hey, Mr Producer!' features selected scenes from the productions of the world's most successful musical producer, Cameron Mackintosh - classic songs ...

Ronin
1998
as Seamus O'Rourke
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...

Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
His world is full of glamour, mystery and intrigue and now you get to be a part of it! Let gadget wizard Q (Desmond Llewelyn) be your guide to the ubi...

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Elliot Carver
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...

The Secrets of 007
1997
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

Regeneration
1997
as Capt. William Rivers
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest hom...

David
1997
as Saul
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be...

Evita
1996
as Juan Perón
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator ...

A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
1996
as Self
Documentary about the making of Alan Parker's film adaptation of the stage musical EVITA.

Carrington
1995
as Lytton Strachey
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...

Shopping
1994
as Conway
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars ar...

A Troll in Central Park
1994
as Alan (voice)
A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to be mean ugly and scare humans when...

Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Duncan Stewart
The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journ...

Deadly Advice
1994
as Dr. Ted Philips
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has fe...

A Business Affair
1994
as Alec Bolton
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...

The Age of Innocence
1993
as Rivière
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin...

Thicker Than Water
1993
as Sam
Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead Jo's...

Selling Hitler
1993
as Gerd Heidemann
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop ...

Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as Henry Kravis
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as James Lingk
When an office full of real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to ...

Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
as Trilby (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve...

A Child's Garden of Verses
1992
as Narrator / Father (voice)
A young boy, confined to his bed, uses his imagination to find the fun and excitement he can't experience in real life. Tony Award-winning actor Jonat...
The Man from the Pru
1990
as William Wallace
The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution...

The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
1989
as Self - 'The Engineer'
A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including footage of the cast rehearsing and the triumphant first...

The Rachel Papers
1989
as Norman
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

The World Within Us
1988
as Voice
Voiced by Jonathan Pryce, Terry Flaxton’s The World Within Us is a lyrical meditation set inside the mind of a dying writer. Combining original poetry...

Consuming Passions
1988
as Mr. Farris
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless m...

Man on Fire
1987
as Michael
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
as Jack
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Haunted Honeymoon
1986
as Charles Abbot
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech...

The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Robert Fallon
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple wa...

Brazil
1985
as Sam Lowry
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...

An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
as Self (uncredited)
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespe...

Martin Luther, Heretic
1983
as Martin Luther
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.

The Ploughman's Lunch
1983
as James Penfield
As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying...

Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Mr. Dark
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can...

Murder Is Easy
1982
as Mr. Ellsworthy
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial ki...

Praying Mantis
1982
as Christian Magny
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that on...

Loophole
1981
as Taylor
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in...

The Caretaker
1981
as Mick
The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.

Timon of Athens
1981
as Timon
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthro...

Breaking Glass
1980
as Ken
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manag...

The Day Christ Died
1980
as Herod
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.

Comedians
1979
as Gethin Price
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.

For Tea on Sunday
1978
as Nicholas
An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party.

Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Joseph Manasse
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Play Things
1976
as Playleader
A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

The Death of a Young Young Man
1975
as Tommy
Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower block, but his friends think he's daft. Billy can se...
Flavia de Luce
N/A
The adventures of 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is both an amateur detective and a master poisoner. When she discovers a dead body in her family’s d...
Sleeping Lions
N/A
The dying Earl of Warbeck summons his nearest and dearest for a final Christmas at Warbeck Hall. A snowstorm hits, leaving the guests trapped and cut ...