Jeremy Irons Movies: Every Film Credit, 1980–2027

Jeremy Irons has film credits spanning 47 years, from 1980 to 2027. A filmography that runs that long stops being a list of jobs and starts being a record of how the industry changed around someone: the kinds of film available to a performer in 1980 and in 2027 have little in common, and the 69 titles below cross that shift rather than sitting on one side of it.

Every Jeremy Irons film credit

In release order, with the character recorded where the source carries it — 17 of 69 here.

1. 01 Nijinsky 1980
2. 02 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
3. 03 Moonlighting 1982
4. 04 Betrayal 1983
5. 05 The Wild Duck 1983
6. 06 Un amour de Swann 1984
7. 07 The Statue of Liberty 1985
8. 08 The Mission 1986
9. 09 A Chorus of Disapproval 1988
10. 10 Dead Ringers 1988
11. 11 Danny, the Champion of the World 1989
12. 12 Australia 1989
13. 13 Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow 1990
14. 14 The Beggar's Opera 1991
15. 15 Kafka as Franz Kafka 1991
16. 16 Damage 1992
17. 17 Waterland 1992
18. 18 M. Butterfly 1993
19. 19 The House of the Spirits 1993
20. 20 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995
21. 21 Stealing Beauty 1996
22. 22 Chinese Box 1997
23. 23 Lolita as Humbert Humbert 1997
24. 24 The Man in the Iron Mask as Aramis 1998
25. 25 Faeries 1999
26. 26 Dungeons & Dragons 2000
27. 27 The Fourth Angel 2001
28. 28 Last Call 2002
29. 29 Callas Forever 2002
30. 30 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen 2002
31. 31 The Time Machine 2002
32. 32 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003
33. 33 Mathilde 2004
34. 34 The Merchant of Venice as Antonio 2004
35. 35 Being Julia 2004
36. 36 Casanova 2005
37. 37 Kingdom of Heaven as Raymond III of Tripoli 2005
38. 38 Elizabeth I as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 2005
39. 39 Inland Empire 2006
40. 40 Eragon as Brom 2006
41. 41 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic as Havelock Vetinari 2008
42. 42 Appaloosa 2008
43. 43 The Magic 7 2009
44. 44 The Pink Panther 2 2009
45. 45 Prohibition 2011
46. 46 Margin Call 2011
47. 47 The Words 2012
48. 48 Trashed 2012
49. 49 Night Train to Lisbon 2013
50. 50 Beautiful Creatures 2013
51. 51 High-Rise 2015
52. 52 The Man Who Knew Infinity as G.H. Hardy 2015
53. 53 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Alfred Pennyworth 2016
54. 54 Race as Avery Brundage 2016
55. 55 Assassin's Creed 2016
56. 56 The Correspondence 2016
57. 57 Justice League as Alfred Pennyworth 2017
58. 58 Red Sparrow 2018
59. 59 An Actor Prepares 2018
60. 60 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Alfred Pennyworth 2021
61. 61 Munich: The Edge of War as Neville Chamberlain 2021
62. 62 House of Gucci as Maurizio D'Ancora 2021
63. 63 The Flash as Alfred Pennyworth 2023
64. 64 The Cello 2023
65. 65 The Beekeeper 2024
66. 66 Palestine 36 2025
67. 67 The Beekeeper 2 2027
68. 68 Highlander —
69. 69 Rizana – A Caged Bird —

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 1980 to 2027, filled where a credit lands, empty where none does. The empty frames are the informative part: a filmography is usually described by its total, and the total is the one thing that hides the gaps.

1. 80 1
2. 81 1
3. 82 1
4. 83 2
5. 84 1
6. 85 1
7. 86 1
8. 87
9. 88 2
10. 89 2
11. 90 1
12. 91 2
13. 92 2
14. 93 2
15. 94
16. 95 1
17. 96 1
18. 97 2
19. 98 1
20. 99 1
21. 00 1
22. 01 1
23. 02 4
24. 03 1
25. 04 3
26. 05 3
27. 06 2
28. 07
29. 08 2
30. 09 2
31. 10
32. 11 2
33. 12 2
34. 13 2
35. 14
36. 15 2
37. 16 4
38. 17 1
39. 18 2
40. 19
41. 20
42. 21 3
43. 22
44. 23 2
45. 24 1
46. 25 1
47. 26
48. 27 1

1980s: 12 · 1990s: 13 · 2000s: 19 · 2010s: 15 · 2020s: 8

Films here with a full cast list

One of these films has a cast page on this site, so the rest of the ensemble is one click away.

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The shape of the career

The first credit on record is 1980 and the most recent is 2027, with work in 39 separate years. 2002 was the busiest single year, with 4 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

The longest gap runs 3 years, between 2018 and 2021. A gap that size in a screen filmography is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: it is where the record stops describing a run of work and starts describing whatever happened instead, a project that collapsed, a move into other media, or simply nothing being offered.

What those films actually are

One of these credits sits in a film this site holds full cast data for, which is worth spelling out because a title on its own says very little.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) , directed by Zack Snyder carries 38 credited performers, with Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth. An ensemble that large means most of its cast go unlisted everywhere else, which is the gap the cast page for it fills.

Reading the list

69 credits across 39 working years averages out at roughly 1.8 per year in the years with any work at all, a figure worth treating carefully, because release dates bunch and a filmography is a record of when films came OUT rather than when they were made. Of the 69 credits, 17 carry a character name, so the rest are placed by film and year alone.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in. What that source is reliable about is who was credited. What it carries unevenly is character names, and what it almost never carries is billing order, so nothing here calls any of these 69 credits a lead role, because the data cannot support that claim.

Questions about Jeremy Irons

How many films has Jeremy Irons been in?

69 credited film roles are on record, running from 1980 to 2027. That counts feature credits only, so television and uncredited appearances are not included.

When was Jeremy Irons most active in film?

The 2000s, with 19 of the 69 credits. The full spread across decades is listed above.

Why are some roles missing?

Character names are recorded for 17 of the 69 credits. The source is reliable about who was cast and patchy about what they were called, so the rest say the role is not recorded instead of leaving a blank that reads like an oversight.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.