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.
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Popularity93
Credits6.6
Rating51.9M
Budget216M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 Christmas Karma
2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Robert Crawley
2025 Go Away!
2025 Restoring Genius: The Art of Agnolo Bronzino as Narrator
2025 Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger as Sir Charles
2024 Alpine Train at Christmas as Narrator
2024 Paddington in Peru as Henry Brown
2023 Peter Sellers: Genius at Work as Narrator
2023 The Coronation Concert as Self- Presenter
2023 Bank of Dave as Sir Charles
2023 Dead Cat Film as Clio
2022 The Amazing Maurice as The Mayor (voice)
2022 I Came By as Hector Blake
2022 The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration as Self - Narrator
2022 Downton Abbey: A New Era as Robert Crawley
2021 The Crown's Ancient Forest as Narrator
2021 Silent Hours as Commander William Calthorpe
2021 The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out as Self
2021 To Olivia as Roald Dahl
2020 Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Self
2020 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey as Mr. Delacroix
2020 The Life and Times of Captain Sir Tom as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020 Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration as Self
2019 Paddington: The Man Behind the Bear as Himself - Presenter
2019 Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event as Self
2019 Downton Abbey as Robert Crawley
2019 Downton Abbey Live! as Self
2019 The Corrupted as Hammond
2019 Odilo Fabian or (the Possibility of Impossible Dreams) as The Narrator
2018 A Merry Little Christmas with Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville as Self
2018 Sofia the First: Forever Royal as Voice of the Library/The First Storykeeper (voice)
2018 Countdown to Calvary as Self
2017 Paddington 2 as Henry Brown
2017 Breathe as Teddy Hall
2017 Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor - The Movie as Merlin (voice)
2017 Viceroy's House as Lord Mountbatten
2017 Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World as Narrator (voice)
2017 A Return to Grace: Luther's Life and Legacy as Narrator
2015 Stick Man as Santa (voice)
2015 All Change at Longleat as Narrator
2015 The Secret World of LEGO as Narration
2015 Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
2014 Paddington as Henry Brown
2014 Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama as Self
2014 Muppets Most Wanted as Irish Journalist
2014 TB: Return of the Plague as Himself
2014 The Monuments Men as 2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries
2014 The Dinner Party as The Host
2013 The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 as Self
2013 The Magnificent Lion Boy as Leonard Orlov
2012 Mr. Stink as Mr. Stink
2011 Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot Prequel as Captain Henry Avery
2010 Burke & Hare as Lord Harrington
2010 Shanghai as Ben Sanger
2010 Third Star as Beachcomber
2010 Critical Eye as Brian
2009 Glorious 39 as Gilbert
2009 Knife Edge as Charles Pollock
2009 From Time to Time as Captain Oldknow
2008 French Film as Jed
2008 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story as Sir Hugh Carleton Greene
2008 Miss Austen Regrets as Rev Brook Bridges
2008 One of Those Days as Mr. Burrell
2007 Four Last Songs as Sebastian Burrows
2007 The Diary of a Nobody as Pooter
2006 Scenes of a Sexual Nature as Gerry
2006 Beau Brummell: This Charming Man as Prince Regent
2005 Asylum as Max Raphael
2005 Underclassman as Headmaster Felix Powers
2005 Man to Man as Fraser McBride
2004 Piccadilly Jim as Lord Wisbeach
2004 Stage Beauty as Samuel Pepys
2003 Hear the Silence as Dr. Andrew Wakefield
2003 Love Again as Philip Larkin
2003 Conspiracy of Silence as Fr. Jack Dowling
2003 Thursday the 12th as Brin Hopper
2002 The Biographer as Eric
2002 Right Under My Eyes as James
2002 The Gathering Storm as Ivo Pettifer
2001 Iris as Young John Bayley
2001 The Emperor's New Clothes as Bertrand
2001 High Heels and Low Lifes as Farmer
2001 Blow Dry as Louis
2000 Madame Bovary as Charles Bovary
1999 Mansfield Park as Mr. Rushworth
1999 Notting Hill as Bernie
1998 The Scold's Bridle as Tim Duggan
1998 Mosley as Bob Boothby
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies as HMS Bedford Air Warfare Officer
1997 Breakout as Peter Schneider
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Schiller
1994 Fair Game as Gerry (as Richard Bonneville)
1993 Stalag Luft as Sqdn. Ldr. Barton (as Richard Bonneville)