highest rated
acting
- The Souvenir: Part II → Narrator Patrick's Musical
- Surviving Christmas with the Relatives → Uncle John
- London Spy (TV) → James
- 1864 (TV) → Lord Palmerton
- The Double → The Colonel
- Effie Gray → Sir Charles Eastlake
- Unknown Heart → Ludlow
- Utopia (TV) → The Assistant
- The Great Train Robbery (TV) → Henry Brooke, Home Secretary
- A Long Way From Home → Joseph
- Cleanskin → Scott Catesby
- All at Sea → George
- Death in Paradise (TV) → Martin Goodman QC (voice) (uncredited)
- Death in Paradise (TV) → Martin Goodman QC
- W.E. → King George V
- The Kid → Alan
- Sherlock Holmes → Sir Thomas Rotheram
- Red Riding (TV)
- Margaret → Charles Powell
- Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 → Philip Evans
- Bunny and the Bull → Narrator
- Merlin (TV) → King Rodor
- Mister Lonely → The Pope
- Lewis (TV)
- Celebration → Richard
- Goodbye Mr Snuggles → Mr. Tomly
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory → Mr. Salt
- Colditz (TV) → Lt. Colonel Fordham
- Colditz → Lt. Colonel Fordham
- Agatha Christie's Marple (TV) → Colonel Arthur Bantry
- New Tricks (TV)
- The Prince & Me → King Haraald
- Cambridge Spies (TV) → Lord Halifax
- Doctor Who: Shada → Professor Chronotis (voice)
- Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (TV) → Jonas Collin
- The Falklands Play → Rt Hon Peter, 6th Baron Carrington KCMG MC (Foreign Secretary)
- Hideous Man
- Waking the Dead (TV) → Dr Bruno Rivelli
- Sexy Beast → Harry
- The Lost World (TV) → Professor Summerlee
- The Lost World → Prof. Summerlee
- All Forgotten → Old Vladimir (voice)
- The Mystic Masseur → Mr. Stewart
- The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey → Self
- Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw → Self
- The Golden Bowl → Colonel Bob Assingham
- Up at the Villa → Sir Edgar Swift
- Mickey Blue Eyes → Philip Cromwell
- The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes' → Self
- Kings in Grass Castles (TV) → Longman
- Jinnah → Mountbatten
- Shadow Run → Landon-Higgins
- Midsomer Murders (TV) → Sir Michael Fielding
- Trial & Retribution (TV)
- Anna Karenina → Karenin
- Never Ever → Arthur Trevane
- Gulliver's Travels (TV) → Dr. Bates
- The Choir (TV) → Hugh Cavendish
- The Old Curiosity Shop → Single Gentleman
- The Dwelling Place (TV) → Lord Fischel
- Doomsday Gun → Sir James Whittington
- An Audience with Ken Dodd → Self
- The Remains of the Day → Lord Darlington
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (TV) → Self
- Heart of Darkness → Gosse
- Patriot Games → Lord William Holmes
- Hostage → Hugo Paynter
- As You Like It → Jaques
- A Perfect Hero (TV) → Angus Meikle
- Afraid of the Dark → Frank
- A Question of Attribution → Sir Anthony Blunt
- Chillers (TV) → Skipperton
- The Russia House → Ned
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV) → Colonel Race
- The Mighty Quinn → Thomas Elgin
- Farewell to the King → Col. Ferguson
- She's Been Away → Hugh Ambrose
- These Foolish Things → Nick Verney
- Boys in the Island → George Farrell
- The Play on One (TV) → Nick Verney
- Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun → Mansfield Markham
- Sun Child
- Comrades → William Norfolk, Governor of New South Wales
- High Season → Patrick
- Absolute Beginners → Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
- The Whistle Blower → Lord
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes → Lord Charles Esker
- A Passage to India → Richard Fielding
- The Road to 1984 → Eric Blair/George Orwell/Winston Smith
- Anna Pavlova → Victor d'André
- Runners → Tom Lindsay
- Anna Pavlova (TV) → Victor Dandré(as Dzheims Foks)
- Wogan (TV) → Self
- Nancy Astor (TV) → Waldorf Astor
- Country → Philip Carlion
- An Audience with... (TV) → Self
- No Longer Alone → Alan Richards
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... (TV) → Self
- Play for Today (TV)
- Performance → Chas
- Isadora → Gordon Craig
- Sympathy for the Devil → Self (uncredited)
- Duffy → Stefane Calvert
- Thoroughly Modern Millie → Jimmy Smith
- Arabella → Giorgio
- The Chase → Jason 'Jake' Rogers
- King Rat → Peter Marlowe
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes → Richard Mays
- Espionage (TV) → Paul
- The Servant → Tony
- Tamahine → Oliver
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner → Willy Gunthorpe - Ranley School Runner (uncredited)
- The Verdict Is Yours (TV) → Council for the Prosecution
- One Wild Oat → Porter
- The Miniver Story → Toby Miniver
- The Magnet → Johnny Brent