Colin Cavill: What Public Records Actually Confirm

What UK company filings say about Henry Cavill's father — and what still isn't confirmed.

AdminMay 2, 2026Last Updated: July 11, 2026

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What UK Public Records Actually Show About Henry Cavill’s Father

Type “Colin Cavill” into Google and you’ll get a wall of near-identical pages guessing at his net worth and recycling the same three quotes. What almost none of them do is check the one source that doesn’t rely on guesswork at all: Companies House, the UK’s official register of company officers. It turns out to have more to say about Colin Cavill than any celebrity blog does.

Quick answer: Colin Cavill is a Jersey-based former stockbroker, husband of Marianne Cavill, and father of actor Henry Cavill. Public UK filings list a “Colin Richard Cavill,” born April 1944, as a resigned director of two film-related companies — Kensington Films Limited and Promethean Productions Limited — with a Jersey residence on record, matching the family’s known background.

The filing that actually confirms something

Companies House records don’t care about fame — they exist to log who’s legally responsible for a company. That makes them a useful cross-check rather than a fan rumor.

The Kensington Films Limited officer record lists a Colin Richard Cavill with the following details on file: date of birth April 1944, appointment as director on 26 June 2013, resignation on 4 December 2014, nationality British, and country of residence Jersey. He’s also recorded as a resigned director of Promethean Productions Limited, though that filing doesn’t carry the same level of public detail (no listed dates in the record referenced here).

Two things make this worth taking seriously rather than treating as coincidence:

The residence field says Jersey — and Britannica independently confirms the Cavill family lived in St. Helier, Jersey, while Henry was growing up.
The name is specific: “Colin Richard Cavill,” not a generic “C. Cavill.” Companies House requires officers to file legal names, which narrows the odds of misidentification considerably.

None of that proves what Colin Cavill does for a living today — director appointments from 2013–2014 tell you about a specific window, not a career. But it does put a real, checkable data point (a birth month and year, a residence, a resignation date) against a subject who otherwise exists almost entirely through his son’s press interviews.

What the family and celebrity sources add

Set against the Companies House filing, the softer sources fill in the parts a company register can’t:

Britannica’s Henry Cavill entry identifies Henry as the fourth of five sons of Marianne and Colin Cavill, and separately describes Colin as a stockbroker — consistent with someone who’d later turn up as a director on film-financing paperwork; stockbrokers and financiers do sometimes sit on production company boards without being filmmakers themselves.
Henry Cavill’s 2013 interview with Interview Magazine is the closest thing to a primary quote about his father: Henry said his mother worked in a bank and that his father worked in finance and was “head of his management team.” That interview happened the same year the Kensington Films appointment was filed — worth noting, though there’s no confirmation the two things are connected.
People’s 2024 family profile names all five Cavill sons — Piers, Niki, Simon, Henry, and Charlie — and describes Colin and Marianne as Henry’s parents, but adds nothing about Colin’s finances or career beyond what Britannica already states.

Where the trail goes cold

A few things get repeated across other Colin Cavill pages as if they’re settled, and they aren’t:

Claim	Status
Net worth (any figure)	Not published in any source reviewed here — anyone citing a number is guessing
Height, weight, current occupation	No public record found
Full career history in finance	Only “worked in finance” (Henry’s own words) is confirmed — no employer, title, or timeline exists in the record
Whether the film-company directorships were paid or connected to Henry’s career	Not stated in either filing

That last one is the most interesting open question and the one worth flagging honestly: a director of two “Films” and “Productions” companies with a Jersey address, appearing right around the period Henry Cavill’s own career was accelerating (post-Immortals, pre-Man of Steel), is a pattern that invites speculation about family involvement in Henry’s business affairs. But Companies House records officer appointments — it doesn’t record why someone was appointed, so drawing that connection outright would be reporting a guess as fact.

The bottom line

Colin Cavill is confirmed, through independent sources, as Henry Cavill’s father, a Jersey resident with a finance background, and — via a public company filing — a named, dated director of two UK production-related companies in 2013–2014. Everything past that, especially net worth and personal biography, remains unverified, and any page that states those with confidence is filling gaps with assumption rather than record.