Cast & creator
James Smith
Best known for American Playhouse, Heartbeat, The Professionals
James Smith is an actor and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), In the Loop (2009) and The Iron Lady (2011).
17
film credits
23
television credits
39
1977–2026 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (40)
Showing 40 of 40 credits
American Playhouse
Dr. Harrison
1982
Heartbeat
Mr. Dobson
1992
The Professionals
Pennington
1977
Gen V
Intruder #3
2023
The Great
Count Gorky of Norilsk
2020
Dispatches
Michael Scholar, HM Treasury
1987
Lovejoy
Charles Bullivant
1986
Secret Army
Dunlop
1977
The Thick of It
Glenn Cullen
2005
The Favourite
Godolphin
2018
Savage House
Lord Wilbury, Art Dealer
2026
The Iron Lady
Lord Carrington - Cabinet Minister
2011
Oppenheimer
Dr Harrison
1980
Daylight Robbery
Magistrate
1999
99-1
Massingham
1994
Starhunter ReduX
Colonel Bramwell
2018
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Mr Maxwell
1996
Boomers
Trevor
2014
Live at the Moth Club
Sergeant Fawley
2022
Grandma's House
Clive Freeman
2010
The Armando Iannucci Shows
Various Characters
2001
Wolcott
CI Berry
1981
Sleepers
Roger Stanley
1991
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
Robin Hayes
1981
In the Loop
Michael Rodgers
2009Inside Story
Toby Greene
1986
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Graham Watkins
2017
The Parole Officer
Tribunal Man
2001
The Boy Merlin
Octa
1979
The Rise of the Nutters
Glenn Cullen
2007
Vanilla
Lewis
2025
Magicians
Richard
2007Sleepers
Roger Stanley
1991
Spinners and Losers
Glenn Cullen
2007Black and Blue
Superintendent
1992
Buried Treasure
Coroner
2001
Rumpole's Return
D.C. Jarwood
1980
Pews
Hodge
1980
One French Summer
2022One French Summer
Executive Producer
2022