Aug 19, 1948 - Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
James Edward Carter (born 19 August 1948) 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).
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| Movie | 2007 | The Golden Compass | John Faa | |
| Movie | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Ralph Bashford | |
| Movie | 1998 | Legionnaire | Lucien Galgani | |
| Movie | 2015 | Hitler's Supergun | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2009 | Creation | Parslow | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Madness of King George | Fox | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Little Vampire | Rookery | |
| Movie | 2014 | Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Richard III | Lord Hastings | |
| Movie | 1984 | Top Secret! | Déjà Vu | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Oxford Murders | Inspector Petersen | |
| Movie | 1996 | Brassed Off | Harry | |
| Movie | 1992 | Blame It on the Bellboy | Rossi | |
| Movie | 2013 | Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons | Narrator (Voice) | |
| Movie | 1987 | The American Way | Castro | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Wind in the Willows | Engine Driver | |
| Movie | 1994 | Black Beauty | John Manly | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Rainbow | Mr. Harby | |
| Movie | 2003 | Bright Young Things | Chief Customs Officer | |
| Movie | 1987 | A Month in the Country | Ellerbeck | |
| Movie | 2004 | Casablanca Driver | Joe Mateo, l'agent | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Grotesque | George Lecky | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Story of Alton Towers | Narrator/The Earl | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Mathieu | |
| Movie | 2011 | Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb | Narrator (Voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Heartlands | Geoff | |
| Movie | 1997 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Erskine | |
| Movie | 1992 | Stalin | Sergo | |
| Movie | 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Barry | |
| Movie | 2010 | Burlesque Fairytales | The Compere | |
| Movie | 2003 | Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Red Rose (voice) | |
| Movie | 1994 | Midnight Movie | Henry Harris | |
| Movie | 1999 | Trial by Fire | Geoffrey Bailey | |
| Movie | 2023 | Wonka | Abacus Crunch | |
| Movie | 1989 | Here Is the News | News Editor | |
| Movie | 2007 | Recovery | Mr. Lockwood | |
| Movie | 1994 | In The Cold Light Of Day | Father | |
| Movie | 2004 | Von Trapped | Larry Lavelle | |
| Movie | 1988 | Soursweet | Mr. Constantinides | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Sea Beast | King (voice) | |
| Movie | 1989 | Erik the Viking | Jennifer the Viking (Another Rapist) | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Fool | Mr. Blackthorn | |
| Movie | 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Harold Angus | |
| Movie | 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 | Harold Angus | |
| Movie | 1993 | Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown | Commander | |
| Movie | 2001 | According to Beryl | Samuel Johnson | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Man Who Is Obsessed With The Number 12 | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1999 | Tube Tales | Ticket Inspector (segment "Steal Away") | |
| Movie | 2016 | Punk Strut: The Movie | Skippy | |
| Movie | 1991 | Hancock | Ray Galton | |
| Movie | 2016 | Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | One of a Kind | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1984 | A Private Function | Inspector Noble | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Missing Postman | DS Lawrence Pitman | |
| Movie | 1992 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | Meinertzhagen | |
| Movie | 2025 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale | Charles Carson | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Tenth Man | Pierre | |
| Movie | 1999 | Tube Tales | Ticket Inspector (Steal Away) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Hornblower: Duty | Etheridge | |
| Movie | 1997 | Bright Hair | Norman Devenish | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Thief Lord | Victor | |
| Movie | 2005 | House of 9 | The Watcher | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Raggedy Rawney | The Soldier | |
| Movie | 2004 | Out of Season | Michael Philipps | |
| Movie | 1994 | Open Fire | DCS Young | |
| Movie | 1980 | Fox | Cliff Ryan | |
| Movie | 1986 | Haunted Honeymoon | Montego | |
| Movie | 1993 | Resnick: Rough Treatment | Grabianski | |
| Movie | 2002 | Dinotopia | Mayor Waldo | |
| Movie | 2004 | Ella Enchanted | Nish | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton | Henry Dorling | |
| Movie | 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Executioner (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Cassandra's Dream | Garage Boss | |
| Movie | 1995 | Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre | Inspector | |
| Movie | 2003 | 16 Years of Alcohol | Director | |
| Movie | 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Cogman (voice) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Bill's New Frock | Mr. Platworthy | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Little Vampire 3D | Rookery (voice) | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Witches | Head Chef | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Chest | Roland Blood | |
| Movie | 2004 | Modigliani | Achilles Hebuterne | |
| Movie | 1989 | Precious Bane | Sarn | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Company of Wolves | Second Husband (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2018 | King Lear | Earl of Kent | |
| Movie | 2018 | Swimming with Men | Ted | |
| Movie | 1988 | The First Kangaroos | Arthur Hughes | |
| Movie | 2019 | Downton Abbey | Charles Carson | |
| Movie | 1998 | Vigo | Bonaventure (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Good Liar | Vincent | |
| Movie | 2003 | Pompeii: The Last Day | Polybius | |
| Movie | 1997 | Harpur and Iles: Protection | Tenderness Mellick | |
| Movie | 1988 | Star Trap | Dr. Wax | |
| Movie | 2020 | Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans | Dad Turtle | |
| Movie | 1983 | The Oresteia | Agamemnon | |
| Movie | 1985 | Rustlers' Rhapsody | Blackie | |
| Movie | 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Detective Armstrong | |
| Movie | 2006 | Aberfan: The Untold Story | Lord Robens | |
| Movie | 2013 | Rock 'n' Roll Britannia | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | Duck | ||
| Movie | 2022 | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Charles Carson | |
| Movie | 1990 | Crimestrike | The Detective | |
| Movie | 2003 | Cromwell: Warts and All | Oliver Cromwell | |
| Movie | 2002 | Discovering Dinotopia | Mayor Waldo | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Bass Player | ||
| Movie | 1984 | Hiawatha | Nawadaha - The Story Teller | |
| Movie | 1994 | Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | |
| Movie | 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | The Executioner | |
| TV Show | 1986 | The Singing Detective | Mr. Marlow | 6 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Missing Postman | DS Lawrence Pitman | 2 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Hornblower | Etheridge | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Downton Abbey | Charles Carson | 47 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Blood on the Carpet | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Narrator | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Would I Lie to You? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Blue Murder | Frank Evans | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Murder Most Horrid | General Alberto | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | London | Henry Fielding | 3 |
| TV Show | 1999 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | General La Forge | 3 |
| TV Show | 1993 | A Year in Provence | Ted Hopkins | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1995 | Coogan's Run | Fraser | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Dangerfield | Stephen Millwood | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Cracker | Kenneth Trant | 3 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Fox | Cliff Ryan | 2 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Mysteries | Mak / Fourth Soldier | 3 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Hidden Treasures of the National Trust | Narrator | 6 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Thompson | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1991 | Murder Most Horrid | Roy Redfern | 2 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Strange | Inspector Stuart | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | The Monocled Mutineer | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1986 | Casualty | Matthew Charlton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Minder | Tomkins | 2 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Pie in the Sky | Alec Bailey | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Trevor's World of Sport | Sir Frank Luckton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Ain't Misbehavin' | Maxie Morrell | 3 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Dinotopia | Mayor Waldo | 3 |
| TV Show | 1990 | A Sense of Guilt | Richard Murray | 7 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Arabian Nights | Ja'Far | 2 |
| TV Show | 1990 | The Gravy Train | Personip | 4 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Odin - Member of the Great Council of Mac Slec | 2 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Lost Empires | Inspector Crabb | 7 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Honest Trailers | Abacus Crunch (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Knightfall | Pope Boniface VIII | 18 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The View | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Soldier Soldier | Snr Supt Derek Tierney, RHKP | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Nathan Green | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Mark Antony (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Lipstick on Your Collar | Inspector | 6 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Commander | 1 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Widows | D.I. Frinton | 2 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Cranford | Captain Brown | 7 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Inside the Ritz Hotel | Narrator | 4 |
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