Martin Jarvis OBE is one of Britain's most versatile leading actors. His distinguished career continues to encompass just about every aspect of the entertainment industry: film, television, theatre, radio and audio recording. He is also the author of two bestselling books: a hilarious autobiography Acting Strangely and a compelling account of his award-winning time on Broadway in 2001: Broadway, Jeeves - The Diary of a Theatrical Adventure, both published by Methuen. In 2010 he starred as Vincent Hogg in a new production of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Cracked in ITV/WGHB's popular 'Miss Marple' series. In 2009, he starred in BBC2's comedy/drama Taking the Flak, receiving outstanding reviews for his performance as national treasure tv journalist David Bradburn. He stars in the feature film Neander Jin - Return of the Neanderthal Man (US/ Germany co-production, 2010) as Peter Blodnik, network mogul.

Filmography

• 2025Brave the Dark — Henry V (voice)
• Tales of the Tardis — Governor
• 2014Batman: Assault on Arkham — Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
• Cosmos — Humphry Davy (voice)
• 2014United Passions — Sir Stanley Rous
• By Any Means — Paul Hollander
• Endeavour — Henry Broom
• Father Brown — Graham Snow
• 2013Phil Spector — British TV Interviewer
• 2012Wreck-It Ralph — Saitine (voice)
• 2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Birger
• 2010Beware of What You Wish For — hinself
• 2010Inside the Actor's Workshop — Interviewer
• Just William — Narrator (voice)
• 2009Neander Jin - Die Rückkehr des Neandertalers — Peter Blodnik
• Taking the Flak
• 2008Underfist: Halloween Bash — Nergal / Police Officer / Tarvis (voice)
• 2007Hitler: The Comedy Years — Johannes Hentschel (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2006The Ruby in the Smoke — Voice of Capt. Lockhart (voice)
• 2005Much Ado About Nothing — Leonard
• Numb3rs — Taylor Ashby
• ShakespeaRe-Told — Leonard
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee — William / Bartok (voice), William / King Teddy (voice)
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Vincent Hogg
• Stargate Atlantis — Davos
• Bootleg — Mr. Blades
• 2002Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War — JB
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Cowfrey Pitt
• 2001By Jeeves — Jeeves
• 2001Lorna Doone — Baron de Whichehalse
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy — Nergal
• Jackie Chan Adventures — (voice)
• Lorna Doone — Baron de Whichehalse
• Max Steel — John Dread (voice)
• 1999Sex 'n' Death — Neil Biddle
• Extreme Ghostbusters
• 1997Titanic — Sir Duff Gordon
• 1996Moses — Moses / God (voice)
• Richie Rich — Cadbury, Bascomb
• Testament: The Bible in Animation — Moses / God (voice)
• Space: Above and Beyond — Cyril MacKendrick
• 1995The Absence of War — Linus Frank
• The Queen's Nose — Frank
• 1994Calliope — O'Brien
• The Tick — Breadmaster (voice)
• Scarlet and Black — Monsieur de Renal
• 1993The Tempest — Narrator
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Colin Draper
• A Touch of Frost — Harvey Wade
• 1992Emily's Ghost — Papa
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Narrator (voice)
• Murder Most Horrid — Maurice Howling
• 1990The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship — Sharp Shooter / Lightening (voice)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Captain Warburton
• Huxley Pig
• 1988Buster — Inspector Jack Mitchell
• Dispatches
• Inspector Morse — Randall Rees
• 1987Make and Break — Frank
• 1987The Reluctant Dragon — Narrator / Boy / Father (voice)
• Artists and Models — Commentary (voice)
• Casualty — Bart
• Lovejoy — Adam Bailey
• 1985Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos — The Governor
• Screen Two — Linus Frank
• The Black Tower — Wilfred Anstey
• Mr. Palfrey of Westminster — Armitage
• Murder, She Wrote — Giles Havelock, Cyril Ruddy
• Natural World — Narrator
• Countdown
• Sunday Night Thriller — Stone
• 1981The Bunker — Johannes Hentschel
• Breakaway — Det. Insp. Sam Harvey
• Ike — King George VI
• Enemy at the Door — Nils Borg
• Rings on Their Fingers — Oliver Pryde
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Klaus
• 1977Charades — Sir Fergus / Sir James
• The Sunday Drama — Narrator
• 1977True Patriot — Klaus
• Killers — Alfred Arthur Rouse
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Canon Timothy Donkin
• Zigger Zagger — Les
• David Copperfield — Uriah Heep
• 1974Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs — Butler
• NOVA — G.H. Hardy (voice), Narrator (voice)
• Seven Faces of Woman — James Thurley
• The Pallisers — Frank Greystock
• European Heritage — Narrator (voice)
• Arthur of the Britons
• The Moonstone — Godfrey Ablewhite
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Philip Marsden
• Little Women — John Brooke
• Play for Today — Sir Fergus / Sir James
• 1970Taste the Blood of Dracula — Jeremy Secker
• 1970The Last Escape — Lt. Donald Wilcox
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Godfrey Footman
• Paul Temple
• W. Somerset Maugham — Dr. Naughton
• Nicholas Nickleby — Nicholas Nickleby
• Escape — Peter
• ITV Playhouse — David Bryant
• 1967Look at Life: Hopping Along — Commentator
• Omnibus — Alan
• The Forsyte Saga — Jon Forsyte
• 1966Secrets of a Windmill Girl
• BBC Play of the Month — Aircraftman Dickinson
• 1965Doctor Who: The Web Planet — Hilio
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Father Ramon
• Detective
• Doctor Who — Hilio, Butler, Butler / Voice in Reminder Room, Governor
• Dixon of Dock Green — Vic Hallan

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2018New Chilling Tales: The Anthology — Self - Narrator
• 2016Hallelujah! — Self
• 2005Tales of Isop — Self
• 1994An Audience with Ken Dodd — Self
• 1984Hamlet — Self - Presenter
• An Audience with... — Self
• 1969Look at Life: Look at Man — Self - Commentator
• 1968Look at Life: High Living — Self - Commentator
• 1968Look at Life: On the Meter — Self
• 1968Look at Life: The Sinking City — Self - Commentator
• 1968Look at Life: Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? — Self - Commentator