Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.

Filmography

• Dalgliesh — Father Barnes
• 2021The Secret Garden: The Musical — Ben Weatherstaff
• 2020The Dead Hands of Dublin — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Prisoners of the Moon — Arthur Rudolph
• 2019The Last Right — Padraig
• 2018Mary Poppins Returns — Binnacle
• 2016The Boy — Mr. Heelshire
• 2015National Theatre Live: Hamlet — Polonius
• River — Michael Bennigan
• 2014Jimmy's Hall — Father Sheridan
• 2014National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men — Candy
• 2013Homemade — Tommy
• Elementary — Sir James Walter
• 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Old Mr. Black
• 2011Water for Elephants — Camel
• 2009The Eclipse — Malachy
• 2008The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — Herr Liszt
• 2008Uncle Bill's Barrel — Older Michael
• 2006Driving Lessons — Mr. Fincham
• 2006Stan — Stan Laurel
• 2004Oyster Farmer — Mumbles
• 2003Conspiracy of Silence — Bishop Quinn
• The Royal — Rory
• 2002Boxed — Father Moran
• 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Mr Mason
• 2002The Hound of the Baskervilles — Coroner
• 2001On the Nose — Patrick Cassidy
• Waking the Dead — David Dusniak
• 2000Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time — (voice)
• 2000Mad About Mambo
• 2000Rough for Theatre II — A
• 1999A Love Divided
• 1999Sunset Heights — Sam Magee, The Preacher
• 1998American History X — Randy
• Midsomer Murders — Edward Canning
• The Treacle People — Brendan Robinson (voice) / Silas Mitton (voice) / Digger (voice)
• Father Ted — Bishop Len Brennan
• 99-1 — DCI Otterly
• Babylon 5 — Ombuds Wellington, Dr. Lazarenn, G'Quan
• Wycliffe — Owens
• Frasier — Wentworth
• Peak Practice — Father Matthew Corlon
• 1992Into the West — Superintendant O'Mara
• Maigret
• 1992Memoirs of an Invisible Man — Dr. Bernard Wachs
• 1992Midnight's Child — Dr. Stefan Grossbart
• 1991Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend — Marcus's Dad
• 1990Hidden Agenda — Brodie
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Roger Havering
• Stay Lucky
• 1988The Temptation of Eileen Hughes — Bernard McAuley
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Holodeck Albert Einstein
• 1986Home Cooking — Gordon
• Lovejoy — Father Xavier
• Unnatural Causes — Gordon
• Screen Two — Bernard McAuley
• T-Bag — Shopkeeper / Gardner
• Mr. Palfrey of Westminster — Robert Sanding
• 1984Sakharov — Roy Medvedev
• The Bill
• Cheers — Henderson
• 1982Grass — Arthur
• Saturday Night Thriller — Arthur
• Nanny
• 1980Cry of the Innocent — Jasper Tooms
• 1980Juno and the Paycock — "Joxer" Daly
• 1979Light — Jack Parry
• Minder — O'Brady
• Tales of the Unexpected — Dr Mellish, H.A.K. Bates
• People Like Us — Jim Carver
• Strangers — Cathal Slattery
• 1978The Legion Hall Bombing — Detective Sergeant
• 1990
• Rumpole of the Bailey — F.I.G. Newton
• The Sweeney — Phil Harrister
• 1975Waiting at the Field Gate — Rainmarsh
• Churchill's People — Cuthbert
• Fall of Eagles — Kerensky
• 1974Screamer — The Man
• 1973Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall — Pongo
• Second City Firsts — Rainmarsh
• 1973The Death of Captain Doughty — Francis Drake
• Thriller — The Man
• Colditz — Capt. James Porteous
• Crown Court — Jeremy Williams
• 1972George — Smedley
• Late Night Theatre — Francis Drake
• The Adventurer — Morgan
• Van der Valk — Eddy, Hanson
• Villains — 'Smudger' Smedley
• Justice — Alan Cartwright
• 1971Straw Dogs — Chris Cawsey
• Play for Today — Jack Parry, The Detective Sergeant
• ITV Playhouse — Brian Snow
• Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
• Insurrection — Tom Clarke
• Blackmail — Johnny Franks
• 1965The Face of Fu Manchu — Mathius
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Tom
• The Wednesday Play — Rodney
• Armchair Theatre — Dug Whitby

Appearances as themselves (5)

• Dinner with Dani — Himself
• 2011Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted — Self
• Hell's Kitchen — Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner