Hugh Bonneville
Known for acting · Born 10 November 1963 · 62 · Paddington, London, England, UK
214 credits
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963) is an English stage, film, television and radio actor. He was born in Paddington in west London in 1963. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School in south-east London and at Sherborne School in Dorset. After reading theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Known for
Downton Abbey
2010
Paddington
2014
Paddington 2
2017
Downton Abbey
2019
I Came By
2022
Breathe
2017
Paddington in Peru
2024
The Monuments Men
2014
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
2020
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
Viceroy's House
2017
Acting (213)
2026Cold War 1994Chris HughesFilm
2026Twenty Twenty SixIan Fletcher · 6 episodesSeries
2026From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026Himself - HostFilm
2025Downton Abbey: The Grand FinaleRobert CrawleyFilm
2025Bank of Dave 2: The Loan RangerSir CharlesFilm
2025Born to Be WildSelf - Narrator (voice) · 6 episodesSeries
2025Christmas KarmaMarleyFilm
2025Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand FinaleSelfFilm
2025Nordic Train at ChristmasSelf - Narrator (voice)Film
2025A Sisyphean TaskThe HeadmasterFilm
2025The Simpson: Yellow PlanetNarradorFilm
2025JAMES & CoSelf - Video messageSeries
2025Great British Train Journeys from AboveSelf - Narrator (voice) · 4 episodesSeries
2024The GentlemenLord Hawthorne · 3 episodesSeries
2024Paddington in PeruHenry BrownFilm
2024The AgencyJames Richardson · 12 episodesSeries
2024The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick TurpinJonathan Wilde · 3 episodesSeries
2024Douglas Is CancelledDouglas · 4 episodesSeries
2024OZI: Voice of the ForestThe Narrator (voice)Film
2024The Secret Lives of AnimalsSelf - Narrator (voice) · 10 episodesSeries
2024Dame Maggie Smith - A CelebrationRobert Crawley (archive footage)Film
2024The Real History of Communismالراوي · 2 episodesSeries
2024Alpine Train at ChristmasNarratorFilm
2023MummiesLord Sylvester Carnaby (voice)Film
2023Bank of DaveSir CharlesFilm
2023The GoldDCI Brian Boyce · 12 episodesSeries
2023The Coronation ConcertSelf- PresenterFilm
2023The Wonders of EuropeNarrator · 12 episodesSeries
2023Peter Sellers: Genius at WorkNarratorFilm
2023Dead Cat FilmClioFilm
2022I Came ByHector BlakeFilm
2022Downton Abbey: A New EraRobert CrawleyFilm
2022The Amazing MauriceThe Mayor (voice)Film
2022The Secret Life of Our PetsNarrator (voice) · 4 episodesSeries
2022Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelfSeries
2022The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A CelebrationSelf - NarratorFilm
2022Secrets of the Royal GardensNarrator · 4 episodesSeries
2021Silent HoursCommander William CalthorpeFilm
2021To OliviaRoald DahlFilm
2021Madame Tussauds: The Full WaxNarratorFilm
2021The Crown's Ancient ForestNarratorFilm
2021The Vicar of Dibley: Inside OutSelfFilm
2021Dancing NationNarrator ("States of Mind")Series
2021Secret Life of the ForestNarrator (Voice) · 4 episodesSeries
2021Inside the Forest Seasons of WonderVypravěč · 4 episodesSeries
2021Wild Tales from the FarmNarrateur · 4 episodesSeries
2020Jingle Jangle: A Christmas JourneyMr. DelacroixFilm
2020StagedHughSeries
2020Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for ChristmasSelfFilm
2020Miranda: My Such Fun CelebrationSelfFilm
2020SandylandsOne-eyed man · 6 episodesSeries
2020The Life and Times of Captain Sir TomSelf - Narrator (voice)Film
2020Men in BrownSelfFilm
2019Downton AbbeyRobert CrawleyFilm
2019AmphibiaWigbert (voice)Series
2019The CorruptedHammondFilm
2019A Little Late with Lilly SinghSelfSeries
2019Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand EventSelfFilm
2019Downton Abbey Live!SelfFilm
2019DNA JourneySeries
2019Paddington: The Man Behind the BearHimself - PresenterFilm
2019Odilo Fabian or (the Possibility of Impossible Dreams)The NarratorFilm
2019Thomas & Friends: Monkey Trouble!Merlin (voice)Film
2019Her Majesty's CavalryNarrator - SelfSeries
2018Countdown to CalvarySelfFilm
2018Sofia the First: Forever RoyalVoice of the Library/The First Storykeeper (voice)Film
2018Wild BritainNarrator · 8 episodesSeries
2018Wild Great BritainNarrator · 4 episodesSeries
2018A Merry Little Christmas with Sutton Foster and Hugh BonnevilleSelfFilm
2017Paddington 2Henry BrownFilm
2017BreatheTeddy HallFilm
2017DuckTalesSanta Claus (voice)Series
2017Viceroy's HouseLord MountbattenFilm
2017Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond SodorMerlin (voice)Film
2017Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the WorldNarrator (voice)Film
2017A Return to Grace: Luther's Life and LegacyNarratorFilm
2017Sofia the First: The Mystic IslesNarrator (voice)Film
2017Silent HoursCommander William Calthorpe · 3 episodesSeries
2016The Grand TourSelfSeries
2016Our Ex-WifeNarratorSeries
2016Sofia the First: The Secret LibraryBook Narrator (voice)Film
2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelfSeries
2015GalavantPirate King · 2 episodesSeries
2015Stick ManSanta (voice)Film
2015The Secret World of LEGONarrationFilm
2015Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the MauritshuisFilm
2015All Change at LongleatNarratorFilm
2014PaddingtonHenry BrownFilm
2014The Monuments Men2nd Lt. Donald JeffriesFilm
2014Muppets Most WantedIrish JournalistFilm
2014Last Week Tonight with John OliverNarrator (voice), Self - Guest StarSeries
2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - GuestSeries
2014W1AIan Fletcher · 14 episodesSeries
2014Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night FeastHimselfSeries
2014Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi DramaSelfFilm
2014TB: Return of the PlagueHimselfFilm
2014A Life on ScreenSelfSeries
2014Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)Narrator · 5 episodesSeries
2014The Dinner PartyThe HostFilm
2013Da Vinci's DemonsSeries
2013Sofia the FirstBook Narrator (voice) · 2 episodes, Secret Library (voice)Series
2013The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2SelfFilm
2013The Magnificent Lion BoyLeonard OrlovFilm
2012The Hollow CrownGloucesterSeries
2012Mr. StinkMr. StinkFilm
2012Just a MinuteSelfSeries
2011Twenty TwelveIan Fletcher · 13 episodesSeries
2011The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf · 2 episodesSeries
2011World's Most Dangerous RoadsSeries
2011Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot PrequelCaptain Henry AveryFilm
2011The HotelHimself - Narrator · 25 episodesSeries
2010Downton AbbeyRobert Crawley · 47 episodesSeries
2010Burke & HareLord HarringtonFilm
2010ShanghaiBen SangerFilm
2010Third StarBeachcomberFilm
2010Ben HurPilate · 2 episodesSeries
2010The Silence · 4 episodesSeries
2010Turn Back TimeNarrator (voice) · 11 episodesSeries
2010Critical EyeBrianFilm
2009From Time to TimeCaptain OldknowFilm
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - GuestSeries
2009Glorious 39GilbertFilm
2009Knife EdgeCharles PollockFilm
2009Getting OnPhilip MooreSeries
2009HunterDSI Iain Barclay · 2 episodesSeries
2008Lost in AustenMr Bennet · 4 episodesSeries
2008Miss Austen RegretsRev Brook BridgesFilm
2008French FilmJedFilm
2008BonekickersGregory Parton · 6 episodesSeries
2008One of Those DaysMr. BurrellFilm
2008Filth: The Mary Whitehouse StorySir Hugh Carleton GreeneFilm
2008Freezing · 3 episodesSeries
2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf · 5 episodesSeries
2007Five DaysDSI Iain Barclay · 10 episodesSeries
2007Four Last SongsSebastian BurrowsFilm
2007The Diary of a NobodyPooterFilm
2006Scenes of a Sexual NatureGerryFilm
2006Rachael RaySeries
2006Tsunami: The AftermathTony Whittaker · 2 episodesSeries
2006The One ShowSelf - GuestSeries
2006Beau Brummell: This Charming ManPrince RegentFilm
2006Courting AlexJulian · 12 episodesSeries
2005Doctor WhoHenry Avery · 2 episodesSeries
2005AsylumMax RaphaelFilm
2005UnderclassmanHeadmaster Felix PowersFilm
2005Man to ManFraser McBrideFilm
2005The RobinsonsGeorge Robinson · 6 episodesSeries
2005The Rotters' ClubAdult Ben (voice) · 2 episodesSeries
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleInspector HewittSeries
2004Stage BeautySamuel PepysFilm
2004Piccadilly JimLord WisbeachFilm
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - GuestSeries
2003Conspiracy of SilenceFr. Jack DowlingFilm
2003The CommanderJames Lampton (uncredited) · 3 episodesSeries
2003Hear the SilenceDr. Andrew WakefieldFilm
2003Love AgainPhilip LarkinFilm
2003Thursday the 12thBrin HopperFilm
2003ImpactPhil EpsonFilm
2002Top GearSelfSeries
2002The Gathering StormIvo PettiferFilm
2002Doctor ZhivagoYevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago · 3 episodesSeries
2002Tipping the VelvetRalph BannerSeries
2002Daniel DerondaHenleigh Mallinger Grandcourt · 4 episodesSeries
2002Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale · 2 episodesSeries
2002Right Under My EyesJamesFilm
2002The BiographerEricFilm
2001IrisYoung John BayleyFilm
2001Blow DryLouisFilm
2001High Heels and Low LifesFarmerFilm
2001The Emperor's New ClothesBertrandFilm
2001The CazaletsHugh Cazalet · 6 episodesSeries
2000Madame BovaryCharles Bovary · 2 episodesSeries
2000Take a Girl Like YouJulian Ormerod · 3 episodesSeries
2000Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle ChoirHimselfSeries
1999Notting HillBernieFilm
1999Mansfield ParkMr. RushworthFilm
1998The Scold's BridleTim DugganFilm
1998MosleyBob Boothby · 4 episodesSeries
1998MosleyBob BoothbyFilm
1997Tomorrow Never DiesHMS Bedford Air Warfare OfficerFilm
1997Midsomer MurdersHugh BartonSeries
1997The ViewSelfSeries
1997Get Well SoonNorman Tucker · 6 episodesSeries
1997BreakoutPeter SchneiderFilm
1997The Man Who Made Husbands JealousFerdie Fitzgerald · 3 episodesSeries
1997See You FridayDaniel · 6 episodesSeries
1997Holding The BabyGordon Muir · 5 episodesSeries
1996Married for LifeSteve Hollingsworth · 7 episodesSeries
1995BugsSeries
1995The VetAlan Sinclair · 6 episodesSeries
1994Mary Shelley's FrankensteinSchillerFilm
1994CadfaelDaniel AurifaberSeries
1994The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesVictor SavageSeries
1994Fair GameGerry (as Richard Bonneville)Film
1994The Sanctuary SparrowDaniel AurifaberFilm
1993GMTVSelf · 2 episodesSeries
1993Peak PracticeDominic KentSeries
1993Stalag LuftSqdn. Ldr. Barton (as Richard Bonneville)Film
1992Between the LinesSeries
1991Murder Most HorridInspector DawsonSeries
1991Paul Merton: The SeriesSeries
1991DodgemRick Bayne · 5 episodesSeries
1990ChancerJas · 2 episodesSeries
1989Agatha Christie's PoirotEdward MastermanSeries
1987DispatchesSelf - NarratorSeries
1984Sherlock HolmesVictor SavageSeries
1971Great PerformancesSelf · 9 episodesSeries
1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - NomineeSeries
—Restoring Genius: The Art of Agnolo BronzinoNarratorFilm
—Go Away!Film
—Dog PersonFilm
—Cold War 1995Chris HughesFilm
—Legally MadGordan HammSeries
Production (1)
2026Everybody to Kenmure StreetExecutive ProducerFilm