Bradley played fictional Labour Member of Parliament Eddie Wells in the 1996 award-winning BBC Two serial "Our Friends in the North". Also in 1996, he appeared as gangster Alf Black in "Band of Gold". In 1998, he appeared in the BBC adaptation of "Vanity Fair" as the miserly Sir Pitt Crawley, and "Our Mutual Friend" as the villainous Rogue Riderhood. Other television appearances include the 2001 series "The Way We Live Now", directed by David Yates, who would work with Bradley five years later on the "Harry Potter" films.