Jim Carter (actor)

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Jim Carter

OBE
Jim Carter 2013.jpg
Carter in 2012
Born
James Edward Carter

(1948-08-19) 19 August 1948 (age 73)
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
OccupationActor
Years active1968–present
Spouse(s)
Imelda Staunton
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(m. 1983)​
ChildrenBessie Carter

James Edward Carter OBE (born 19 August 1948)[1] is an English actor. He is best known for his role in Downton Abbey (2010–2015) playing Mr Carson, a role that has earned him four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015). He reprised his role in the feature film Downton Abbey (2019).

Carter's film credits include A Private Function (1984), A Month in the Country (1987), A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992), The Madness of King George (1994), Richard III (1995), Brassed Off (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Ella Enchanted (2004), The Thief Lord (2006), The Golden Compass (2007), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), My Week with Marilyn (2011), and The Good Liar (2019).

His television credits include Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), Cracker (1994), The Way We Live Now (2001), The Singing Detective (1986), As Dectective Sergeant Tomkins in Minder (1994), Arabian Nights (2000), The Chest (1997), Red Riding (2009), A Very British Coup (1988), the Hornblower episode "Duty" (2003) and the Midsomer Murders episode "The Fisher King" (2004), and Dinotopia (2002). He also plays Captain Brown in the five-part BBC series Cranford (2007) alongside his wife, Imelda Staunton. He recently appeared in King Lear on PBS alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. He also appeared in an episode of “Fox”, “Just another villain in a cheap suit” as Cliff Ryan, in 1980.

Early life[]

Carter was born in Harrogate in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. His mother was a land girl and later a school secretary and his father worked for the Air Ministry.[2] Carter attended Ashville College, Harrogate, where he was head boy in his final year, and the University of Sussex where he studied law and became a leading light of the fledgling Drama Society, playing the title role in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, the first student production at the newly built Gardner Arts Centre theatre. He dropped out of university after two years to join a fringe theatre group in Brighton.[1][2]

Career[]

Acting[]

He began acting professionally in "the early 1970s."[3] When asked, "If you hadn't become an actor, what would you have done professionally?" he answered, "I wouldn't have pursued law—I'd actually dropped out of law into English, I'd even changed my course. But when the offer came from this fringe theatre group, the Brighton Combination, to leave university and join them for five quid a week, it was like a door opening, and there wasn't a moment's hesitation. I walked through that door and never looked back. I have never earned a penny from doing anything apart from acting. I have never had another job."[4]

His first paid job for £5 a week with free board and lodging was in a play called Gum and Goo by Howard Brenton for the Brighton Combination.[5] Howard Brenton's Gum and Goo was first produced by the Brighton Combination (in Brighton) in 1969.[6][7]

He appeared in Howard Brenton's Winter Daddykins in July 1968 for the Brighton Combination. It was directed by Barry Edwards, and Carter performed with Fiona Baker and Lily Sue Todd.[8][9] This is probably the play referred to in Jenny Harris's website that took place on 9 July 1968 in the Brighton Combination's cafe. Jenny Harris was one of the initiators of the Brighton Combination.[10] Jim Carter mentioned her in one interview as one who started the Brighton Combination. She was then head of the National Theatre's education department.[11]

In 1970, he performed in the show Come Together at London's Royal Court Theatre together with the Brighton Combination and the Ken Campbell Roadshow along with other theatre personalities and groups.[12] The Royal Court's Come Together Festival was on the cover page of Plays and Players magazine issue of December 1970. Scenes from this festival are also featured in this issue.[13] The Come Together festival opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 21 October 1970 and contributed to one of the Royal Court's best years. The festival brought the avante-garde like the Brighton Combination and Ken Campbell into the Court. The Brighton Combination presented "The NAB Show", a politically oriented account of the National Assistance Board.[14]

He first worked at the Combination Theatre Company in Brighton. Later he joined the Newcastle University Theatre where he played, among other parts, Estragon in Waiting for Godot. From 1974 to 1976 he toured America with the Ken Campbell Roadshow and on his return joined the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester. In 1977 he joined the National Theatre Company where he appeared as Dom Fiollo (sic) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Cottesloe Theatre. In 1978 he became a member of the Young Vic Company appearing as Stephano in The Tempest, Buckingham in Richard III and Mephistopheles in Faust. In 1978 he went to America to study in a circus school where he learned juggling, unicycling and tightrope walking. From 21 May to 29 June 1980 he played Trebonius/Marullus/Poet in a Julius Caeasar production of Riverside Studios directed by Peter Gill. He performs magic acts in cabarets.[15][16] The Young Vic's Richard III production in 1978, which featured James Carter with, among others, Bill Wallis and Michael Attwell, was directed by Michael Bogdanov. He also performed in the Young Vic production of Bartholomew Fair in 1978. It was also directed by Michael Bogdanov.[17]

He was a member of The Madhouse Company of London, a comedy troupe which performed in Boston in the 1970s; together with the late Marcel Steiner (1931–1999), Marc Weil and Tommy Shands. Ken Campbell was also associated with the group.[18][19] The Madhouse Co. was an offshoot of the Ken Campbell's Roadshow that came to New York City and Boston. It broke up eventually and Steiner and Carter returned to England. The Madhouse Co. was in Cambridge, Massachusetts. in August 1976.[20] The Madhouse Company of London was mentioned and its shows advertised and reviewed in several New York magazine issues from April 1974 to March 1975.[21] Marc Weil created The Madhouse Company of London in 1973.[22]

In June to August 2005, he appeared in The President of an Empty Room at the National Theatre (written by Stephen Knight and directed by Howard Davies). When he did this he had not done theatre in 14 years. He considers his appearance in Richard Eyre's 1982 National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls a significant moment. It was when he met his future wife, Imelda Staunton, who also appeared in this play. He considers Richard Eyre and Howard Davies two of his favourite directors. He was with the Brighton Combination still when it moved to London and opened a theatre called the Albany in Deptford. In his own words: "The Brighton Combination moved to London and started a theatre called the Albany in Deptford, and I was with them then."[23]

In the early 1970s, the Brighton Combination, a touring fringe theatre group, became resident in the Albany Institute in Deptford, South East London. This was considered one of the great achievements of the Albany's then director Paul Curno. By fusing community work and the arts, Director Paul Curno and "The Combination" transformed the Albany's fortunes. This fusion still drives the Albany to this day.[24] The Brighton Combination Company moved to become resident at the Albany in SE London in 1972 with a brief to set up community action and arts development projects. It combined artistic and cultural works with social activism.[25]

He performed in the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine (with Maggie Smith and with Simon Callow directing, 1986–87).[26][27] Photos and a review of this play appeared in Plays and Players magazine in January 1987.[28]

He also performed in The Mysteries: The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday at the Cottesloe Theatre for the National Theatre in 1984 and 1985. Both performances were directed by Bill Bryden.[29]

He appeared in Doug Lucie's Fashion in May–June 1990 at the Tricycle Theatre, directed by Michael Attenborough.[30][31]

In the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC)The Wizard of Oz production, Carter played the Cowardly Lion while his wife, Imelda Staunton, played Dorothy. He considers playing a baddie dressed in black in the cowboy film Rustlers' Rhapsody one of the highlights of his career.[32] The Wizard of Oz was directed by Ian Judge; it opened on 17 December 1987 at the RSC's Barbican Theatre. It played in repertory through 27 February 1988.[33]

Other media[]

Carter narrates the pre-shows and announcements for the ride "Hex – The Legend of the Towers", at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.[citation needed]

He narrated the six-part series Home Front Britain, a documentary of life in Britain during World War II created and produced by the Discovery Channel and the British Film Institute.[34] Home Front Britain was broadcast on Discovery Channel from 11 September 2009.[35]

In 2013, Carter was featured in a Greenpeace campaign about the effects of global warming.[36]

Personal life[]

Jim Carter and actress Imelda Staunton met in January 1982 during rehearsals of Richard Eyre's Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre. Carter was 34, Staunton was 26 and she considered him already old. According to Staunton, "we worked together for a year and it was a slow burn rather than a heady rush of passion." Carter and Staunton married in 1983 and have one daughter, Bessie, born in 1993. Bessie enrolled at the National Youth Theatre in 2010. Staunton says of Carter's acting: "He has never been the sort of actor who yearns to play Hamlet. Maybe it's because he came to acting from performing in the circus. He has always done just what he wants to do."[37]

Staunton would later proudly claim that after 21 years of marriage, she and Carter had been apart for only three weeks.[38] They have a terrier named Molly.[39][40]

Carter is a former chairman of Hampstead Cricket Club, whose ground is near his home.[41] On 18 September 2011 he organised the Hampstead Cricket Club (HCC) Celebrity Cricket Match. It was HCC's third annual charity celebrity cricket match.[42]

Carter is a keen cyclist and has frequently ridden for charity causes. On 30 September 2011 Carter travelled with 25 other riders to Ghana for a 10-day trip which included six days of cycling to raise money for clean water in the small impoverished town of Tafo. This was his tenth charity ride. The previous nine (Jordan, Costa Rica, Laos, Vietnam, India, Namibia, Chile, Argentina and London to Paris—twice) were to raise money for the National Deaf Children's Society.[43] He intended to raise a minimum of £2,750 but ended up with £8,670.[44]

As of October 2019, Carter lives in West Hampstead, North London.[45]

Honours[]

Carter was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to drama.[46]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Film Role Notes
1980 Flash Gordon Azurian Man
1984 Top Secret! Déjà Vu, Resistance Member
1984 The Company of Wolves Second Husband Uncredited
1984 A Private Function Inspector Noble
1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody Blackie
1986 The American Way Castro
1986 Haunted Honeymoon Montego
1987 A Month in the Country Ellerbeck
1988 The First Kangaroos Arthur Hughes
1988 The Tenth Man Pierre
1988 Soursweet Mr. Constantinides
1988 The Raggedy Rawney
1989 The Rainbow Mr. Harby
1989 Erik the Viking Jennifer the Viking
1989 Duck Short
1990 The Witches Head Chef
1990 Crimestrike The Detective
1990 The Fool Mr. Blackthorn
1992 Blame It on the Bellboy Rossi
1993 The Hour of the Pig Mathieu
1994 Black Beauty John Manly
1994 The Madness of King George Fox
1995 Richard III Lord Hastings
1995 The Grotesque George Lecky
1995 Balto Voice Uncredited
1996 Brassed Off Harry
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying Erskine
1998 Bill's New Frock Mr. Platworthy Short
1998 Vigo: A Passion for Life Bonaventure Uncredited
1998 Legionnaire Lucien Galgani
1998 Shakespeare in Love Ralph Bashford Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2000 The Little Vampire Rookery
2000 102 Dalmatians Detective Armstrong
2002 Heartlands Geoff
2002 Dinotopia Mayor Waldo
2003 Bright Young Things Chief Customs Officer
2003 16 Years of Alcohol Director
2004 Ella Enchanted Nish
2004 Casablanca Driver Joe Mateo, l'agent
2004 Modigliani Achilles Hébuterne
2004 Out of Season Michael Philipps
2005 House of 9 The Watcher Voice
2006 The Thief Lord Victor
2007 Cassandra's Dream Garage Boss
2007 The Golden Compass John Faa
2008 The Oxford Murders Inspector Petersen
2009 Creation Joseph Parslow
2009 Wish 143 Priest Short
2009 Burlesque Fairytales The Compere
2010 Punk Strut: The Movie Skippy
2010 Alice in Wonderland The Executioner Voice
2011 My Week with Marilyn Barry
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight Cogman Voice
2018 Swimming with Men Ted
2019 Downton Abbey Charles Carson
2019 The Good Liar Vincent
2022 Downton Abbey: A New Era Charles Carson

Television[]

Year Film Role Notes
1980 Fox Cliff Ryan 2 episodes
1982 Not The Nine O'Clock News Darts Referee 1 episode
1984 December Flower Dentist TV film
1984 Hiawatha Narrator TV film
1985 The Bill Stan 1 episode: "Death of a Cracksman"
1985 Widows 2 Det. Insp. Frinton Mini-series (2 episodes)
1986 The Monocled Mutineer Spencer 1 episode: "A Dead Man on Leave"
1986 Lost Empires Inspector Crabbe Mini-series (2 episodes)
1986 The Singing Detective Mr. Marlow 5 episodes
1987 Harry's Kingdom Bill TV film
1988 Star Trap Dr. Wax TV film
1988 A Very British Coup The Cabinet – Newsome Mini-series (2 episodes)
1988 Christabel Bausch TV film
1988 Hallmark Hall of Fame Pierre 1 episodes: "The Tenth Man"
1988 Thompson 1 episode: "Episode No.1.6"
1989 Precious Bane Sarn TV film
1989–1994 Screen Two Father 2 episodes
1990 A Sense of Guilt Richard Murray 7 episodes
1990 Zorro Colonel Mefisto Palomarez 2 episodes
1990 The Gravy Train Personip 1 episode: "Episode No.1.3"
1991 Incident in Judaea Afranius TV film
1991 Screen One Ray Galton 1 episode: "Hancock"
1991 Casualty Matthew Charlton 1 episode: "Dangerous Games"
1991–1999 Murder Most Horrid Various 3 episodes
1992 Great Performances Meinertzhagen 1 episode: "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia"
1992 Between the Lines D.I. Dick Corbett 1 episode: "Lies and Damned Lies"
1992 Soldier Soldier Snr. Supt. Derek Tierney, RHKP 1 episode: "Lifelines"
1992 Stalin Sergo TV film
1993 Lipstick on Your Collar' Inspector Mini-series
1993 A Year in Provence Ted Hopkins Mini-series (1 episode: "Room Service")
1993 The Comic Strip Presents... Commander 1 episode: "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown"
1993 Medics Hugh Buckley 1 episode: "Episode No.3.6"
1993 Resnick: Rough Treatment Grabianski TV film
1993 The Murder of James Bulger Narrator BBC Documentary
1993–1994 Minder Tompkins 2 episodes
1994 Pie in the Sky Alec Bailey 1 episode: "Passion Fruit Fool"
1994 Cracker Kenneth Trant 3 episodes
1994 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Marc Anthony (voice) 1 episode: "Julius Caesar"
1994 Open Fire Dept. Chief Supt. Young TV film
1994 Midnight Movie Henry Harris TV film
1995 It Could Be You Wally "Lottery" Whaley TV film
1995 The Late Show Albert Knox Documentary (1 episode: "Sophie's World")
1995 Dangerfield Stephen Millwood 1 episode: "A Patient's Secret"
1995 Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre Inspector TV film
1995 Coogan's Run Fraser 1 episode: "Natural Born Quizzers"
1995 The All New Alexei Sayle Show various roles Appeared in all six episodes in the second season
1997 Harpur and Iles Tenderness Mellick TV film
1997 The Missing Postman DS Lawrence Pitman TV film
1997 The Chest Roland Blood TV film
1997 Alas Smith and Jones 1 episode: "Episode No. 9.5"
1997 Ain't Misbehavin' Maxie Morrell 3 episodes
1997 Bright Hair Norman Devenish TV film
1999 Trial By Fire Geoffrey Bailey TV film
1999 Tube Tales Ticket Inspector TV film
2000 Arabian Nights Ja'Far TV film
2000 The Scarlet Pimpernel General La Forge TV series (1 episode: "Friends and Enemies")
2001 Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story Odin, Member of Great Council of Mac Slec TV film
2001 The Way We Live Now Mr. Brehgert TV mini-series (3 episodes)
2002 Inside the Murdoch Dynasty Narrator TV film
2002 Dinotopia Mayor Waldo Seville Mini-series (3 episodes)
2002 Dalziel and Pascoe Ted Lowry 1 episode: "The Unwanted"
2003 Hornblower: Duty Etheridge TV film
2003 Helen of Troy Pirithous TV film
2003 Strange Inspector Stuart 1 episode: "Asmoth"
2003 Trevor's World of Sport Sir Frank Luckton 1 episode: "A Man's Game"
2003 Trial & Retribution Dr. Jenkins 1 episode: "Suspicion: Part 1"
2003 Pompeii: The Last Day Polybius TV film
2003 Cromwell: Warts and All Oliver Cromwell TV film
2003 Midsomer Murders Nathan Green TV series (1 episode: "The Fisher King")
2004 London Henry Fielding TV film
2004 Von Trapped Larry Lavelle TV film
2004 Blue Murder Frank Evans 1 episode: "Up in Smoke"
2006 Aberfan: The Untold Story Lord Robens TV documentary
2006 The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton Henry Dorling TV film
2006 The Wind in the Willows Engine Driver TV film
2007 Recovery Mr. Lockwood TV film
2007 Silent Witness Malcolm Young 2 episodes
2007–2009 Cranford Captain Brown Mini-series (7 episodes)
2008 Caught in a Trap Brian Perkins TV film
2009 Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 Harold Angus TV film
2009 Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 Harold Angus TV film
2010–2015 Downton Abbey Mr Charles Carson 52 episodes
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012-2015)
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2013 Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons Narrator TV film documentary
2013 Secrets from the Workhouse Narrator 2 episodes
2013 Queen Victoria And The Crippled Kaiser Narrator TV Documentary
2015 "Building Hitler's Supergun" Narrator TV Documentary
2017 Knightfall Pope Boniface VIII
2018 King Lear Earl of Kent Television film
2019– Inside the World's Greatest Hotels Narrator TV Series

Theatre[]

His National Theatre performances (as James Carter):[47]

  • 1. as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Cottesloe Theatre, 20 December 1977 – 14 January 1978)
  • 2. as Daui a fugitive/Guard/Second Cook in The Romans in Britain (Olivier Theatre, 10 October 1980 – 24 March 1981)
  • 3. as Nawadaha the storyteller in Hiawatha (Olivier Theatre, 25 November 1980 – December 1983)
  • 4. as Henry Straker in Man and Superman (Olivier Theatre, 17 January–October 1981)
  • 5. as Rebolledo a soldier in The Mayor of Zalamea (Cottesloe and Olivier Theatre, 4 August 1981(opening night at Cottesloe), Jim Carter performed at the Olivier, December 1981 – July 1982)
  • 6. as Chorus in The Oresteia (Olivier Theatre, 20 November 1981– )
  • 7. as Big Julie in Guys and Dolls (Olivier Theatre, 26 February 1982 – October 1983)
  • 8. as Hitler/SS Man Muller in Schewyk in the Second World War (Olivier Theatre, 16 September 1982 – March 1983)
  • 9. as Don Jose, the cigar taster in The President of an Empty Room (Cottesloe Theatre, 28 June 2005 – 27 August 2005[48])
  • He was magic adviser, not one of the performers, in The Cherry Orchard (Cottesloe Theatre, 3 December 1985– )

His Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performances include:[49]

  • 1. as the Judge in The Balcony (Barbican Theatre, 15 July 1987– )
  • 2. as Zekel, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (Barbican Theatre, 17 December 1987 – 27 February 1988)

Summary of James "Jim" Carter's stage works:

  • 1. Winter Daddykins (for the Brighton Combination, July 1968)
  • 2. Gum and Goo (for the Brighton Combination, 1969)
  • 3. Come Together festival (for the Brighton Combination, Royal Court Theatre, October 1970– )

[Was with the Brighton Combination when it became resident in the Albany in Deptford, SE London, 1972]

  • 4. Waiting for Godot (for Newcastle University Theatre, ???)
  • 5. The Madhouse Company of London shows (offshoot of the Ken Campbell Roadshow) in New York and Massachusetts, 1974–76
  • 6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (for the National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, December 1977 – January 1978)
  • 7. The Tempest (for the Young Vic Company, 1978)
  • 8. Richard III (for the Young Vic Company, 1978)
  • 9. Faust (for the Young Vic Company, 1978)
  • 10. Bartholomew Fair (for the Young Vic Company, 1978)
  • 11. Julius Caesar (Riverside Studios, May–June 1980)
  • 12. The Romans in Britain (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, October 1980 – March 1981)
  • 13. Hiawatha (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, November 1980 – December 1983)
  • 14. Man and Superman (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, January–October 1981)
  • 15. The Mayor of Zalamea (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, December 1981 – July 1982)
  • 16. The Oresteia (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, November 1981)
  • 17. Guys and Dolls (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, February 1982 – October 1983)
  • 18. Schweyk in the Second World War (for the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, September 1982 – March 1983)
  • 19. The Mysteries: The Nativity, The Passion, and Doomsday (for the National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, 1984–85)
  • 20. The Infernal Machine (Lyric Hammersmith, 1986–87)
  • 21. The Balcony (for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, July 1987)
  • 22. The Wizard of Oz (for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, December 1987 – February 1988)
  • 23. Fashion (Tricycle Theatre, May–June 1990)
  • 24. Gasping (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, September 1990–February 1991) [50]
  • 25. The President of an Empty Room (for the National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, June–August 2005)

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