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- Arthur Miller: Writer → Self (archive footage)
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone → Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film → Self
- Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 → Joe's Father (video "One")
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade → Self (archive footage)
- That Moment: Magnolia Diary → Self
- Going Home → Charles Barton
- Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone → Self (archive footage)
- Magnolia → Earl Partridge
- My Best Fiend → Self (archive footage)
- Enemy of the State → Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- Beloved → Mr. Bodwin
- The Real Macaw → Grandpa Girdis
- Heartwood → Logan Reeser
- A Thousand Acres → Larry Cook
- Truman → Narrator (voice)
- The West (TV) → Self - Brigham Young
- T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt → Narrator
- Crimson Tide → Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
- Journey → Marcus
- My Antonia → Josea Burden
- The Great American West → Narrator (voice)
- Baseball (TV) → (voice)
- The Paper → Graham Keighley
- Little Big League → Thomas Heywood
- The Enemy Within → General R. Pendleton Lloyd
- Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital → Narrator
- Philadelphia → Charles Wheeler
- Heidi (TV) → Grandfather
- The Adventures of Huck Finn → The King
- La Classe américaine → The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
- The Trial → Doctor Huld
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron → Self
- Heidi → Großvater
- Lincoln → President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Storyville → Clifford Fowler
- When It Was a Game 2 → Passage Narrator (voice)
- Deceptions → Clay (voice)
- The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library → Self - Narrator (voice)
- An Inconvenient Woman (TV) → Jules Mendelson
- The Perfect Tribute → President Abraham Lincoln
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning → Dr. Armand Hammer
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio → Narrator (voice)
- When It Was a Game → (voice)
- Mark Twain and Me → Mark Twain
- Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale → Narrator (voice)
- The Civil War (TV) → Ulysses S. Grant
- Quick Change → Chief Rotzinger
- Night of 100 Stars III → Self
- Parenthood → Frank Buckman
- Black Rainbow → Walter Travis
- Dream a Little Dream → Coleman Ettinger
- Reunion → Henry Strauss
- Thomas Hart Benton → Narrator (voice)
- American Experience (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- The Good Mother → W. O. Muth
- Bright Lights, Big City → Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
- Inherit the Wind → Harry Drummond
- The Christmas Wife → John Tanner
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood → Self
- Square Dance → Dillard
- Laguna Heat → Wade Shephard
- Breaking Home Ties → Lloyd Wells
- The Last Frontier (TV) → Ed Stenning
- Johnny Bull → Stephan Kovacs
- Portrait: Werner Herzog → Self (archive footage)
- The Last Frontier → Ed Stenning
- Screen Two (TV) → Doctor Huld
- The Atlanta Child Murders (TV) → Alvin Binder
- The Long Hot Summer (TV) → Will Varner
- Empire City → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Sakharov → Andrei Sakharov
- You Can't Take it With You → Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
- America and Lewis Hine → Voice
- The World of Tomorrow → Self / Narrator
- Reading Rainbow (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Day After → Dr. Russell Oakes
- Something Wicked This Way Comes → Charles Halloway
- Max Dugan Returns → Max Dugan
- The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History → Self - Host
- Night of 100 Stars → Self
- Burden of Dreams → Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger → President Ulysses S. Grant
- Raise the Titanic → Admiral James Sandecker
- Caboblanco → Gunther Beckdorff
- Melvin and Howard → Howard Hughes
- F.D.R.: The Last Year → President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Haywire → Leland Hayward
- Ghosts of Cape Horn → Narrator
- Hurricane → Capt. Charles Bruckner
- Broadway on Showtime (TV) → Erie Smith
- The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
- The Magic of David Copperfield (TV)
- Comes a Horseman → Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
- A Christmas to Remember → Daniel Larson
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors (TV) → President Richard Monckton
- Julia → Dashiell Hammett
- All the President's Men → Ben Bradlee
- The Spy Who Never Was → Inspector Barkan
- Addie and the King of Hearts → James "Jamie" Mills
- A Boy and His Dog → Lou Craddock
- Mr. Sycamore → John Gwilt
- The Easter Promise → James "Jamie" Mills
- A Moon for the Misbegotten → James Tyrone Jr.
- The Country Girl → Frank Elgin
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid → Governor Wallace
- The Thanksgiving Treasure → James "Jamie" Mills
- Old Faithful → Jason Robards
- Ghost Story (TV) → Elliot Brent
- The War Between Men and Women → Stephen Kozlenko
- The House Without a Christmas Tree → James "Jamie" Mills
- Johnny Got His Gun → Joe's Father
- Murders in the Rue Morgue → Cesar Charron
- Tora! Tora! Tora! → General Walter C. Short
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue → Cable Hogue
- Julius Caesar → Marcus Brutus
- Fools → Matthew South
- Operation Snafu → Sam Armstrong
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Once Upon a Time in the West → 'Cheyenne'
- Isadora → Paris Singer
- The Night They Raided Minsky's → Raymond Paine
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre → Al Capone
- Hour of the Gun → Doc Holliday
- Divorce American Style → Nelson Downes
- The Belle of 14th Street → Performer
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde → Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
- ABC Stage 67 (TV) → Royal Earle Thompson
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady → Henry Drummond
- Any Wednesday → John Cleves
- Noon Wine → Royal Earle Thompson
- The Face of Genius → Narrator (voice)
- A Thousand Clowns → Murray
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois → Abraham Lincoln
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV)
- The Danny Kaye Show (TV) → Self
- Act One → George S. Kaufman
- Tender Is the Night → Dick Diver
- Long Day's Journey Into Night → Jamie Tyrone
- By Love Possessed → Julius Penrose
- The Iceman Cometh → Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
- The Iceman Cometh (TV) → Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
- The Bat → Detective Anderson
- Play of the Week (TV)
- The Journey → Paul Kedes
- A Doll's House → Dr. Rank
- For Whom the Bell Tolls → Robert Jordan
- Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Host
- Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Playhouse 90 (TV) → Robert Jordan
- The Alcoa Hour (TV) → Bert Palmer
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Col. Carter
- Omnibus (TV)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Dr. Rank
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Marcus
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Abe Lincoln
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Frank Elgin
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
- Studio One (TV) → Frank Cameron
- Studio One (TV) → Prisoner
- Studio One (TV) → Walter Osgood
- Studio One (TV) → Leonard O'Brien
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Joe Grant
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV) → Mason
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self