Credits

• 2022 · Night of the Broken as Adolf Hitler
• 2019 · Gentleman Jack as Jeremy Lister
• 2018 · Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators as Johnny Falstaff
• 2015 · The Vote as Fred Norris
• 2014 · Great Canal Journeys as Self
• 2014 · Sardines as Andrew
• 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Andrew
• 2013 · Toast of London as
• 2012 · Last Tango in Halifax as Ted
• 2012 · Run For Your Wife as Man in Pub
• 2012 · Titanic as Lord Pirrie
• 2011 · Going Postal 2in1 as Ridcully
• 2011 · Exile as Metzler
• 2010 · Going Postal as Ridcully
• 2009 · Endgame as P.W. Botha
• 2008 · A Room with a View as Reverend Eager
• 2007 · A Room with a View as Mr Eager
• 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
• 2007 · Lewis as Donald Terry
• 2006 · Not Going Out as Geoffrey Adams
• 2005 · Bleak House as Sir Leicester Dedlock
• 2005 · Colditz as Bunny Warren
• 2005 · Colditz as Bunny Warren
• 2004 · London as Henry Mayhew
• 2004 · The Alan Clark Diaries as Sir Robert Armstrong
• 2004 · New Tricks as Professor Mears
• 2003 · Looking for Victoria as Thomas Creevey
• 2003 · Beyond Borders as Lawrence Bauford
• 2003 · Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as Dymas (voice)
• 2002 · Dickens as John Dickens
• 2002 · The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Andy Maiden
• 2001 · Iris as Older Maurice
• 2001 · Bedtime as Andrew Oldfield
• 2001 · The Fourth Angel as Jones
• 2001 · Waking the Dead as Joe Doyle
• 2001 · Murder in Mind as Dr. William Collins
• 2000 · 102 Dalmatians as Judge
• 1999 · The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Cauchon
• 1998 · EverAfter as King Francis
• 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Hrothgar ( voice )
• 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Marcus Devere
• 1996 · Cuts as Lord Mellow
• 1995 · Bramwell as Colonel Kindersley
• 1994 · Smokescreen as Frank Sheringham
• 1993 · Goodnight Sweetheart as Tufty McDuff
• 1992 · Framed as DCI Jimmy McKinnes
• 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Prospero (voice)
• 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Old Doctor Adams
• 1991 · Performance as Gloucester
• 1990 · Dirty Beasts as Narrator
• 1989 · Screen One as Derek Blore
• 1989 · Screen One as Geoffrey Cowper
• 1989 · Campion as William Faraday
• 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Reverend Cottrell
• 1988 · Lenin... The Train as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus
• 1988 · Lenin: The Train as Parvus
• 1988 · Strife as David Roberts
• 1988 · Consuming Passions as Dr. Rees
• 1988 · After Henry as Nigel
• 1987 · Cry Freedom as Capt. De Wet
• 1986 · The Monocled Mutineer as
• 1986 · Sunday Premiere as Harry King
• 1986 · A Very Peculiar Practice as Professor Furie
• 1985 · Tender Is the Night as Mr. Morris
• 1985 · Theatre Night as Doctor Rance
• 1985 · Theatre Night as David Roberts
• 1985 · Theatre Night as Ewbank
• 1985 · Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye as Rex Fortescue
• 1984 · Miss Marple as Rex Fortescue
• 1983 · Brass as Bradley Hardacre
• 1983 · Brass as Winston Churchill
• 1982 · Oliver Twist as Mr. Bumble
• 1982 · Murder Is Easy as Lord Gordon Easterfield
• 1981 · Masada as Emperor Vespasian
• 1980 · Rough Cut as Nigel Lawton
• 1979 · Friday Night, Saturday Morning as
• 1979 · Churchill and the Generals as Winston Churchill
• 1979 · Crime and Punishment as Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
• 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Albert Taylor
• 1979 · Agatha as Kenward
• 1978 · The Thirty Nine Steps as Porton
• 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
• 1977 · Hard Times as Josiah Bounderby
• 1977 · Cottage to Let as David Weston
• 1977 · Joseph Andrews as Mr. Tow-Wouse
• 1975 · Edward the Seventh as Albert Edward 'Bertie'
• 1975 · Edward the Seventh as Edward, Prince of Wales
• 1975 · Edward the Seventh as King Edward VII
• 1974 · Soft Beds, Hard Battles as
• 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Commissioner Berthier
• 1973 · Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Prof. Gebhardt
• 1972 · The Edwardians as Horatio Bottomley
• 1972 · Villains as Benny
• 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Dr. Botkin
• 1970 · Play for Today as Mark Childers
• 1970 · The Looking Glass War as Taylor
• 1968 · Twisted Nerve as Superintendant Dakin
• 1967 · Trapped as Ossie
• 1967 · The Deadly Affair as Matrvis (in Edward II)
• 1966 · Mystery and Imagination as Dr Middleton
• 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as Jack Campion
• 1964 · Theatre 625 as Jan
• 1960 · Persuasion as Charles Hayter
• 1960 · Coronation Street as Eric Babbage
• 1959 · No Hiding Place as
• 1957 · Theatre Night as Talky
• Future · The Book of Water as Geiser
• 2024 · The Big Snow of '47 as Self
• 2022 · Bring Back My Bonnie as Roger
• 2019 · Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes as Pte. Charles Godfrey
• 2018 · We the Kings as Victor
• 2017 · Delirium as College Bursar
• 2010 · Idle-Hands as Spam
• 2003 · Martin Luther as Martin Luther
• 2002 · Villa Des Roses as Hugh Burrell
• 2001 · Station Jim as Sir Christopher Ellis
• 1998 · King Lear as Gloucester
• 1997 · The Place of the Dead as Chairman of the Inquiry
• 1996 · Over Here as Narrator
• 1995 · Eleven Men Against Eleven as Sir Bob Luckton
• 1993 · The Tempest as Prospero
• 1990 · The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Col. Wilfred Wood
• 1990 · Survival of the Fittest as Geoffrey Cowper
• 1990 · Revolting Rhymes as Narrator
• 1990 · Beecham as Sir Thomas Beecham
• 1989 · Blore M.P. as Derek Blore MP
• 1988 · Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Charles Clutterbuck
• 1987 · When We Are Married as Councillor Albert Parker
• 1987 · Breakthrough at Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1987 · Harry's Kingdom as Harry King
• 1987 · What the Butler Saw as Dr Rance
• 1986 · The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams as Dr John Bodkin Adams
• 1985 · Florence Nightingale as William Russell
• 1984 · Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage as Self
• 1979 · Henry VIII as Cardinal Wolsey
• 1978 · News from Nowhere as William Morris
• 1977 · The Devil's Advocate as Father Anselmo
• 1975 · Hedda as Brack
• 1975 · The After Dinner Game as Mark Childers
• 1972 · Horatio Bottomley as Horatio Bottomley
• 1970 · Edward II as Young Mortimer
• 1970 · The Tragedy of King Richard II as Henry Bolingbroke
• 1969 · Big Breadwinner Hog as Lennox
• 1967 · Witch Hunt as Dr. Howard Agister
• 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Ralph