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- Nothing Like a Dame → Self (archive footage)
- Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film → Self
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films → Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Discovering Hamlet → King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
- Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- Revisiting Brideshead → Self (archive footage)
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film → Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
- Catastrophe → The Protagonist
- The Tichborne Claimant → Cockburn
- Merlin (TV) → King Constant
- Elizabeth → The Pope
- Quest for Camelot → Merlin (voice)
- Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
- A Dance to the Music of Time (TV) → St. John Clarke
- David → Stimme Gottes
- DragonHeart → King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)
- Gulliver's Travels (TV) → Professor of Light
- Hamlet → Priam
- Shine → Cecil Parkes
- Looking for Richard → Self - Interviewee
- The Portrait of a Lady → Mr. Touchett
- The Leopard Son → Narrator
- First Knight → Oswald
- Haunted → Dr Henry Doyle
- Stick with Me, Kid (TV) → Grandpa
- The Thomas The Tank Engine Man → Self (Voice)
- Scarlett (TV) → Pierre Robillard
- A Summer Day's Dream
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (TV) → Self
- Shining Through → Sunflower
- The Power of One → St. John
- Swan Song → Svetlovidov
- A Walk Through Prospero's Library → Prospero
- Performance (TV) → Stephen Dawlish
- The Strauss Dynasty (TV) → Drechsler
- Prospero's Books → Prospero
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker → Self (archive footage)
- The Strauss Dynasty → Drechsler
- The Best of Friends → Sydney Cockerell
- A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) → Virgil (voice)
- Strike It Rich → Herbert Dreuther
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond → Self
- A TV Dante → Virgil
- Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes → Narrator (voice)
- Summer's Lease (TV) → Haverford Downs
- Getting It Right → Sir Gordon Munday
- Barbablù, Barbablù → Barbablù
- War and Remembrance (TV) → Aaron Jastrow
- Appointment with Death → Colonel Carbury
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks → Hobson
- A Man for All Seasons → Cardinal Wolsey
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton → Self
- Inspector Morse (TV) → Lord Hinksey
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville → British Lord
- Quartermaine's Terms → Eddie Loomis
- Lovejoy (TV) → Lord Wakering
- The Whistle Blower → Sir Adrian Chappie
- The Canterville Ghost → Sir Simon de Canterville
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King → Tieresias
- Theban Plays: Antigone → Tiresias
- Time After Time → Jasper Swift
- Screen Two (TV)
- Plenty → Sir Leonard Darwin
- To Be Hamlet → Self
- The Shooting Party → Cornelius Cardew
- Romance on the Orient Express → Theodore Woodward
- Leave All Fair → John Middleton Murry
- The Far Pavilions (TV) → Cavagnari
- Six Centuries of Verse (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Camille → Duke de Charles
- Scandalous → Uncle Willie
- The Master of Ballantrae → Lord Durrisdeer
- Frankenstein → De Lacey
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate → Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)
- The Scarlet and the Black → Pope Pius XII
- Wagner (TV) → Pfistermeister
- The Wicked Lady → Hogarth
- Invitation to the Wedding
- Marco Polo (TV) → Doge di Venezia
- Gandhi → Lord Irwin
- Inside the Third Reich (TV) → Albert Speer Sr.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame → Charmolue
- The Critic → Lord Burleigh
- Laurence Olivier: a life → Self
- Brideshead Revisited (TV) → Edward 'Ned' Ryder
- Chariots of Fire → Master of Trinity
- Arthur → Hobson
- Lion of the Desert → Sharif El Gariani
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery → Marquis of Caterhan
- Sphinx → Abdu-Hamdi
- Priest of Love → Herbert G. Muskett
- The Elephant Man → Carr Gomm
- The Formula → Dr. Abraham Esau
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? → Reverend Jones
- The Conductor → John Lasocki
- Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Jelks
- Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Cyril Boggis
- Caligula → Nerva
- Murder by Decree → Prime Minister
- The Human Factor → Brigadier Tomlinson
- Les Misérables → Gillenormand
- Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
- Richard II → John of Gaunt
- No Man's Land → Spooner
- Joseph Andrews → The Doctor
- Providence → Clive Langham
- Heartbreak House → Captain Shotover
- The Grand Inquisitor → Inquisitor
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man → The Preacher
- Second City Television (TV) → Self
- Aces High → Headmaster
- Peter Pan → Narrator
- The Picture of Dorian Gray → Lord Henry Wotton
- Galileo → The Old Cardinal
- Murder on the Orient Express → Mr. Beddoes
- QB VII (TV) → Clinton-Meek
- Gold → Farrell
- Frankenstein: The True Story → Chief Constable
- 11 Harrowhouse → Meecham
- Frankenstein: The True Story (TV) → Chief Constable
- Lost Horizon → Chang
- William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare → Various
- ABC Afterschool Special (TV) → Various Roles
- Probe → Harold L. Streeter
- Eagle in a Cage → Lord Sissal
- Home → Harry
- Great Performances (TV) → Self
- Play for Today (TV) → Harry
- Julius Caesar → Julius Caesar
- Menace (TV)
- Hamlet → The Ghost
- Oh! What a Lovely War → Count Leopold Von Berchtold
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- The Charge of the Light Brigade → Lord Raglan
- The Shoes of the Fisherman → The Elder Pope
- Sebastian → Head of Intelligence
- Assignment to Kill → Curt Valayan
- The Love Song of Barney Kempinski → Rich Man
- From Chekhov with Love → Anton Chekhov
- Omnibus (TV) → Self
- Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
- October Revolution → Narrator (voice)
- ABC Stage 67 (TV) → Rich Man
- Alice in Wonderland → Mock Turtle
- The Mayfly and the Frog → Gabriel Quantara
- Ivanov → Nikolai ivanov
- Ages of Man
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Chorus
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → The Inquisitor
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Charles II
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Capt. Shotover
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Lord Burleigh
- Chimes at Midnight → Henry IV
- The Loved One → Sir Francis Hinsley
- The Wednesday Play (TV) → Gabriel Quantara
- Becket → King Louis VII of France
- Hamlet → Ghost (voice)
- To Die in Madrid → Narrator (English version) (voice)
- The Cherry Orchard → Gaev
- The Bell Telephone Hour (TV) → Self
- The Big Party (TV) → Self
- The Immortal Land
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar (TV) → Self
- Saint Joan → Earl of Warwick
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street → Edward Moulton-Barrett
- Around the World in 80 Days → Foster
- Richard III → George, Duke of Clarence
- ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall → John Worthing, JP
- Romeo and Juliet → Chorus
- Hamlet: The Actor's View → Self
- Julius Caesar → Cassius
- Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five → Narrator
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → The Ghost
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Charmolue
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Lord Durrisdeer
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Duke
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- A Diary for Timothy → Hamlet
- The Prime Minister → Disraeli
- An Airman's Letter to His Mother → Narrator
- Heredity in Man → Self
- Secret Agent → Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
- The Good Companions → Inigo Jollifant
- Insult → Henri Dubois
- The Clue of the New Pin → Rex Trasmere
- Who Is the Man? → Daniel