highest rated
acting
- A Separate Peace → Professor Carmichael
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There → Self
- The John Garfield Story → Self
- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood → Self
- Off Season → Sam Clausner
- Rope Unleashed → Self
- Yesterday's Children → Old Sonny Sutton
- Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film → Self
- Seasons of Love (TV) → Lonzo
- Santa and Pete → Saint Nick
- Sea People → Mr. John McRae
- Omnibus: Television's Golden Age → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Angel Passing → Pianist
- 12 Angry Men → Juror 9
- Alone → John Webb
- Marvin's Room → Marvin Wakefield
- An African love story → Self
- People: A Musical Celebration → Grandpa (voice)
- Camilla → Ewald
- Hitchcock: Alfred the Great → Himself
- The Pelican Brief → Justice Rosenberg
- To Dance with the White Dog → Robert Samuel Peek
- Broadway Bound → Ben
- Christmas on Division Street → Cleveland Meriwether
- Night of 100 Stars III → Self
- Day One → James F. Byrnes
- Age-Old Friends → John Cooper
- The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness → Narrator (Voice)
- American Experience (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Cocoon: The Return → Joe Finley
- *batteries not included → Frank Riley
- Foxfire → Hector Nations
- Cocoon → Joseph Finley
- Brewster's Millions → Rupert Horn
- Impulse → Dr. Carr
- The World According to Garp → Mr. Fields
- Rollover → Maxwell Emery
- Honky Tonk Freeway → Sherm
- The Gin Game → Weller Martin
- The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
- The Parallax View → Bill Rintels
- Conrack → Skeffington
- There Was a Crooked Man... → Dudley Whinner
- The Arrangement → Arthur Houghton
- Gaily, Gaily → Tim Grogan
- Hawaii Five-O (TV) → Lewis Avery Filer
- Hamlet → Polonius
- Cleopatra → Sosigenes
- The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV) → Charles King
- Sunrise at Campobello → Louis Howe
- The Moon and Sixpence → Dirk Stroeve
- A Doll's House → Krogstad
- Naked City (TV) → Professor Henry J. Fallon
- DuPont Show of the Month (TV) → Uncle Pio
- Telephone Time (TV)
- Crowded Paradise → George Heath
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Henry Daw
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Fitzhugh Oldham
- The Fourposter
- Climax! (TV) → Reverend Mr. Muldoon
- The Marriage (TV) → Ben Marriott
- Letter to Loretta (TV) → Hap Martin
- Letter to Loretta (TV) → Henry Goodens
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Ralph Whitemore
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Benedict Arnold Brummel
- Omnibus (TV)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Nils Krogstad
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Hector
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV) → Wilbur Meeler
- People Will Talk → Prof. Rodney Elwell
- Suspense (TV) → Dr. Violet
- Suspense (TV) → Sig
- Suspense (TV)
- Top o' the Morning → Hughie Devine
- Studio One (TV) → Ben Hecht
- Studio One (TV) → Ellis Davenport
- Studio One (TV) → Mr. Moore
- Studio One (TV) → Pop Thatcher
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV)
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Ben Marriott
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- The Bride Goes Wild → John McGrath
- Brute Force → Capt. Munsey
- The Beginning or the End → Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The Postman Always Rings Twice → Arthur Keats
- The Secret Heart → Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
- The Green Years → Papa Leckie
- A Letter for Evie → John Phineas McPherson
- Ziegfeld Follies → Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
- Main Street After Dark → Keller
- The Sailor Takes a Wife → Freddie Potts
- Lifeboat → Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
- The Seventh Cross → Paul Roeder
- Blonde Fever → Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Shadow of a Doubt → Herbie Hawkins
- Phantom of the Opera → Gerard
- The Cross of Lorraine → Duval