highest rated
acting
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut → The President
- Harvesting Horror: Children of the Corn → (archival footage)
- Walker Evans / America → Narrator
- The Defenders: Choice of Evils → Lawrence Preston
- Absolute Power → Walter Sullivan
- Miss Evers' Boys → The Senate Chairman
- The Defenders: Payback → Lawrence Preston
- Nixon → John Mitchell
- Chicago Hope (TV) → Arthur Thurmond
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (TV) → Professor Taw
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All → Professor Taw
- The Himalayas (TV) → Narrator
- The Tommyknockers (TV) → Ev Hillman
- Tornadoes: The Entity → Narrator 1
- George Marshall and the American Century → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Consenting Adults → George Gordon
- Earth and the American Dream → Reader (voice)
- Lincoln → Gideon Welles (voice)
- Russian Holiday → Joe Meadows
- Ironclads → Commdr. Smith
- Two Evil Eyes → Steven Pike
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation → Art
- The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro → Stanley 'Stan' Kubacki
- Fire From the Sun: The Search for Fusion Energy → Host
- War and Remembrance (TV) → Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Tanner '88 (TV) → Gen. John Tanner
- Tanner '88 (TV) → General John Tanner
- Emma: Queen of the South Seas (TV) → President Ulysses S. Grant
- An Empire of Reason → Federalist Spokesman
- The Explorers: A Century of Discovery
- At Mother's Request (TV) → Franklin Bradshaw
- Power → Senator Sam Hastings
- My Chauffeur → Witherspoon
- Under Siege → Harold Sloan
- La gran fiesta → Judge Cropper
- Ike → Dwight David Eisenhower
- The Equalizer (TV) → Senator Virgil Thomas Blake
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Charlie Pitt
- Murder, She Wrote (TV) → Prof. Leon Walker
- The Cosby Show (TV) → Stanley Rappaport
- Tales from the Darkside (TV) → Father
- Kennedy (TV) → Joseph P. Kennedy
- Saigon: Year of the Cat → The Ambassador
- The Winter of Our Discontent → Mr. Baker
- Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK → Self - Host
- Born of Fire → Narrator
- Creepshow → Upson Pratt (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
- Eleanor, First Lady of the World → John Foster Dulles
- Falcon Crest (TV) → Henri Denault
- Nurse (TV) → Father
- The Phoenix → Dr. Ward Frazier
- Superman II → The President
- A Capitol Fourth (TV) → Self
- Dive to the Edge of Creation → Self - Host
- Disaster on the Coastliner → Roy Snyder
- Vampire → Harry Kilcoyne
- The Lazarus Syndrome → Dr. Mendel
- HR 6161: An Act of Congress → Narrator
- Interiors → Arthur
- Billy Jack Goes to Washington → Sen. Joseph Paine
- Independence → Narrator
- Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur → President Harry S. Truman
- The Abduction of Saint Anne → Bishop Francis Paul Logan
- The Incredible Machine → Narrator
- Money to Burn → Jed Finnegan
- Pursuit → James Wright
- Look Homeward, Angel → W. O. Gant
- Vanished (TV) → Arthur Ingram
- The Pursuit of Happiness → Daniel Lawrence
- The City → Sheridan Hugotor
- Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You → Dr. Cazalis
- Night Gallery (TV) → Jared Soames (segment "Death in the Family")
- Tora! Tora! Tora! → Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
- A Clear and Present Danger → Senator Stowe
- The Brady Bunch (TV)
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV) → Dr. David Craig
- The Bridge at Remagen → Brig. Gen. Shinner
- The Littlest Angel → God
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- A Case of Libel → Paul Cleary
- Ironside (TV)
- The Chase → Val Rogers
- Is Paris Burning? → Intelligence Officer Powell (uncredited)
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower → Coley Jones
- National Geographic Specials (TV) → Narrator
- The Vote → Self - Host
- The Virginian (TV) → Judge Elmo J. Carver
- The Defenders (TV) → Lawrence Preston
- Town Without Pity → Colonel Pakenham
- Route 66 (TV)
- The Islanders (TV) → Curt Cober
- Cash McCall → Winston Conway
- The Master Builder → Solness
- Rawhide (TV) → Ben Foley
- Compulsion → District Attorney Harold Horn
- The Journey → Harold Rhinelander
- The Buccaneer → Gov. William Claiborne
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV)
- Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV) → Merchant
- Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV) → Rip Van Winkle
- The Plot to Kill Stalin → Beria
- 12 Angry Men → Juror 4
- Suspicion (TV) → Paul Steppe
- Man on Fire → Sam Dunstock
- The Bachelor Party → Walter
- Clash by Night → Jerry D'Amato
- The Mountain → Solange
- The Scarlet Hour → Lt. Jennings
- The Little Foxes → Oscar
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Ronald J. Grimes
- The 20th Century Fox Hour (TV)
- Playwrights '56 (TV)
- The Alcoa Hour (TV) → Herman Magnus
- The Left Hand of God → Dr. David Sigman
- Inner Sanctum (TV)
- Justice (TV)
- Broken Lance → Horace (The Governor)
- The Caine Mutiny → Lt. Comdr. Challee
- Pushover → Police Lt. Carl Eckstrom
- The Silver Chalice → Ignatius
- The Bamboo Prison → Father Francis Dolan
- Middle of the Night → Jerry
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Jack
- General Electric Theater (TV) → O'Hoolihan
- Omnibus (TV) → Actor
- Omnibus (TV)
- Diplomatic Courier → Military Police Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Grover Cleveland
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Mr. Baker
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Oscar
- Casey, Crime Photographer (TV)
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV)
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show (TV) → Self
- Suspense (TV) → Eddie Hunt
- Suspense (TV)
- Suspense (TV) → Gavin Stevens
- Suspense (TV) → Abner Snopes
- Lights Out (TV)
- The Emmy Awards (TV) → Self
- The Twentieth Century
- Studio One (TV)
- Studio One (TV) → Harry Mork
- Studio One (TV) → Everett Metcalf
- Studio One (TV) → George Banks
- Studio One (TV) → Aaron Kinney
- Studio One (TV) → Dr. Shratt
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Alf Rylett
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV)
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Barnwell Rhett
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Horace Greeley
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Hiram Holliday
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → N. Y. Times editor
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Jerry
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Dennis Leighton
- Call Northside 777 → Rayska (uncredited)
- Kraft Television Theatre (TV) → Mr. Lazarus
- Kraft Television Theatre (TV)
- Untamed Fury → Pompano, the dance caller