highest rated
acting
- Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh → Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
- A Very Open Prison → Lord Langland
- Middlemarch (TV) → Peter Featherstone
- Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt → Narrator
- Truckers → The Abbot (voice)
- Freddie As F.R.O.7. → King (voice)
- Memento Mori → Godfrey Colston
- Beauty and the Beast → Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
- The Christmas Collection → Badger (voice)
- Chillers (TV) → Colonel Eddie Phelps
- Perfect Scoundrels (TV) → Sir Norman
- Oh, Mr. Toad (TV) → Badger
- The Fool → Mr. Tatham
- The Green Man (TV) → Gramps
- Diamond Skulls → Lord Crewne
- More Children's Holiday Favourites → Badger (voice)
- Danny the Champion of the World → Lord Claybury
- Ending Up → George
- The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads → Badger (voice)
- The Dog It Was That Died → George
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1 → Badger (voice)
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2 → Badger (voice)
- More Children's Summer Stories → Badger (voice)
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1 → Badger (voice)
- Inspector Morse (TV) → Doctor Starkie
- Daytime Live (TV)
- The Secret Garden → Ben Weatherstaff
- Comrades → Mr. Pitt
- The Trouble with Spies → Jason Locke
- Scoop → Uncle Theodor
- Suspicion → Lord McLaidlaw
- The Secret World of Polly Flint → Narrator
- Lovejoy (TV) → Wilfred Shotley
- Labyrinth → The Wiseman (voice)
- Lady Jane → Dr. Feckenham
- Paradise Postponed (TV) → Rev. Simeon Simcox
- The Little Match Girl → Himself - Introduction
- Paradise Postponed → Simeon Simcox
- The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales → Badger (voice)
- Paddington Goes to School
- Paddington's Birthday Bonanza → Narrator
- Screen Two (TV) → Lord Langland
- Screen Two (TV) → Godfrey Colston
- Theatre Night (TV)
- Young Sherlock Holmes → Older Watson (voice)
- A Crack in the Ice → The Storyteller
- Now Voyager → The Old Man
- The Wind in the Willows (TV) → Badger (voice)
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood → Psychoanalyst
- Yellowbeard → Dr. Gilpin
- Cymbeline → Jupiter
- Clash of Loyalties → Narrator
- Group Madness → Self / Dr. Gilpin
- The Wind in the Willows → Badger
- Wogan (TV) → Self
- Gandhi → Sir George Hodge
- Ivanhoe → Cedric
- The Missionary → Slatterthewaite/Narrator
- Oliver Twist → Mr. Brownlow
- King Lear → King Lear
- The History Man (TV) → Professor Marvin
- All's Well That Ends Well → Lafeu
- You're All Right, How Am I? → Patient
- Shōgun (TV) → Friar Domingo
- The Tempest → Prospero
- The Wildcats of St Trinian's → Sir Charles Hackforth
- Gauguin the Savage → Durand-Huel
- The Spirit of Cheshire
- Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies → Narrator (voice)
- Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Cyril Bixby
- Watership Down → Frith (voice)
- The Medusa Touch → Atropos - Fortune Teller
- Romeo and Juliet → Capulet
- The Talking Parcel → Oswald, the Sea Serpent
- Joseph Andrews → Parson Adams
- A Christmas Carol → Ebenezer Scrooge
- Paddington (TV) → Narrator
- Paddington Bear (TV) → Narrator
- The Slipper and the Rose → King
- The Chester Mystery Plays → God
- Paddington Bear → Narrator / All
- Barry Lyndon → Narrator (voice)
- Edward the Seventh (TV) → W. E. Gladstone
- Lucky Lady → Captain Rockwell
- Royal Flash → Headmaster
- King Lear → King Lear
- The Old Curiosity Shop → Edward Trent
- Playhouse (TV) → Patient
- Fall of Eagles (TV) → Narrator
- Fall of Eagles (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Juggernaut → Mr. Baker
- The Three Musketeers → Treville (voice)
- The MacKintosh Man → Mr. Brown
- Theatre of Blood → George Maxwell
- England Made Me → F. Minty
- The Possession of Joel Delaney → Justin
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland → Mock Turtle
- The Pied Piper → Melius, Alchemist
- Demons of the Mind → Priest
- A Ghost Story for Christmas (TV) → Professor Parkins
- Six Dates with Barker (TV) → Arch Funster
- Up Pompeii → Ludicrus Sextus
- A Christmas Carol → Marley's Ghost (voice)
- Girl Stroke Boy → George Mason
- Tall Stories (TV)
- Some Will, Some Won't → Denniston Russell
- Futtocks End → The Butler
- Anne of the Thousand Days → Thomas Boleyn
- The Bed Sitting Room → Bules Martin
- Where Eagles Dare → Adm. Rolland
- Prudence and the Pill → Dr. Morley (uncredited)
- Whistle and I'll Come to You → Professor Parkins
- Omnibus (TV) → Self
- Omnibus (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Omnibus (TV) → Professor Parkins
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (TV) → Prof. Ainslie Grey
- The Taming of the Shrew → Baptista
- How I Won the War → Grapple
- The Jokers → Sir Matthew
- I'll Never Forget What's'isname → Headmaster
- Khartoum → Lord Granville
- Cast a Giant Shadow → British Ambassador
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum → Senex
- Turner → Reads recollections
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Mr. Posket
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → God
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → The Devil
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Tartuffe
- BBC Play of the Month (TV) → Lear
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold → Ashe
- Genghis Khan → Geen
- The Wednesday Play (TV) → Sir Jocelyn Symonds
- The Wednesday Play (TV) → Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
- Story Parade (TV) → Anatol Stiller
- Detective (TV) → Detective Inspector Rason
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce → Harnsworth
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (TV) → Squire Banks
- Macbeth → Banquo
- Festival (TV) → Sir Augustus Thwaites
- Espionage (TV) → Minister
- Cleopatra → Cicero
- The V.I.P.s → Airport Director
- Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow → Squire Thomas Banks
- El Cid → Don Diego
- The Square → The Man
- Sunday-Night Play (TV) → Walter Ormund
- Sink the Bismarck! → Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
- Man in the Moon → Dr. Davidson
- Moment of Danger → Inspector Farrell
- Back to Back
- I Was Monty's Double → Governor of Gibralter
- I Accuse! → Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
- The Spaniard's Curse → Judge Manton
- Girls at Sea → Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
- No Time for Tears → Surgeon
- Windom's Way → Patterson
- The Dock Brief → Morgenhall
- Alexander the Great → Demosthenes
- Armchair Theatre (TV) → Det. Supt. Coates
- The Man Who Never Was → Gen. Coburn
- The Baby and the Battleship → Capt. Hugh
- Pacific Destiny → Resident Commissioner
- The Spanish Gardener → Harrington Brande
- The Dark Avenger → King Edward
- Storm Over the Nile → General Faversham
- The Night My Number Came Up → Lindsay
- The Constant Husband → The Judge
- The Wonderful World of Disney (TV) → Squire Banks
- Svengali → Billy's Uncle
- Forbidden Cargo → Director of Customs
- The Beachcomber → The Headman
- You Know What Sailors Are
- Tonight in Britain → Self
- Street Corner → Insp. Heron
- The Heart of the Matter → Commissioner
- Personal Affair → Headmaster Griffith
- Grand National Night → Inspector Ayling
- The Card → Bank Manager
- The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men → Scathelock
- The Magic Box → Official Receiver
- The Hour of 13 → Sir Herbert Frensham
- Scrooge → Jacob Marley
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Banquo
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Ben Weatherstaff
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
- Tom Brown's Schooldays → Wilkes
- Flesh and Blood → Webster
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Epilogue spoken by (voice)
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Jacques
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Hugh Wigmore
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Trigorin
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → General Parmenion
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Christopher Williams
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Major Booth Voysey
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Rev. James Mavor Morell
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Shylock
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Maurice Lammering
- Trio → Vicar
- Highly Dangerous → Lab Director Owens
- The Astonished Heart → Ernest
- Passport to Pimlico → Bashford
- Train of Events → First Plain Clothes Man
- Portrait from Life → Johnson
- The Small Voice → Dr. Mennell
- Good-Time Girl → Seddon
- Nightbeat → Police Training Officer
- Mine Own Executioner → Co-Counsel at Inquest
- Rebecca → Maxim de Winter
- School for Secrets → Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
- The Years Between → Member of Parliament (uncredited)
- Morning Departure → Commander Gates
- A Girl in a Million → Divorce Counsel
- Girl in the News → Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
- Band Waggon → (uncredited)
- A Girl Must Live