
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
12/12/1949
Place of Birth
Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
Bill Nighy
Biography
Known For

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rufus Scrimgeour

The Wild Robot
as Longneck (voice)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Davy Jones

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Davy Jones

Love Actually
as Billy Mack

Hot Fuzz
as Met Chief Inspector

Astro Boy
as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)

That Christmas
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)

Flushed Away
as Whitey (voice)

Underworld
as Viktor

Chalet Girl
as Richard Madsen

Jack the Giant Slayer
as General Fallon

Shaun of the Dead
as Phillip

About Time
as Dad

The First Omen
as Cardinal Lawrence

Wrath of the Titans
as Hephaestus

Rango
as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)

Minamata
as Robert "Bob" Hayes

Living
as Williams

10 Lives
as Professor Craven (voice)
Career Timeline
2025
2024
That Christmas
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
Joy
as Patrick Steptoe
The Wild Robot
as Longneck (voice)
Kent: Garden of England
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
as Conrad (voice)
10 Lives
as Professor Craven (voice)
The First Omen
as Cardinal Lawrence
The Beautiful Game
as Mal
2023
2022
2021
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lotus: A New Dawn
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Buckley's Chance
as Spencer
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
as Self - Narrator (voice)
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
Notes on a Scandal
as Richard Hart
Flushed Away
as Whitey (voice)
Stormbreaker
as Alan Blunt
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Davy Jones
We Love Cigarettes
as Narrator
Underworld: Evolution
as Viktor
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
2005
Gideon's Daughter
as Gideon Warner
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
Meerkat Manor
as Narrator
The Constant Gardener
as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
The Girl in the Café
as Lawrence
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Slartibartfast
Doctor Who
as Dr Black
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Enduring Love
as Robin
The Magic Roundabout
as Dylan (voice)
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil Parish
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
as Self - Narrator
He Knew He Was Right
as Colonel Osborne
Shaun of the Dead
as Phillip
Burst
as Maxwell's Fan 22
2003
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
as Self - Narrator
The Young Visiters
as Earl of Clincham
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
Role unknown
Grumpy Old Men
as Self
Underworld
as Viktor
Canterbury Tales
as James
Love Actually
as Billy Mack
State of Play
as Cameron Foster
I Capture the Castle
as James Mortmain
The Lost Prince
as Stamfordham