highest rated
acting
- Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One → Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
- Directed by William Wyler → Self
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes → The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
- Six Centuries of Verse (TV) → Self - Reader
- Give My Regards to Broad Street → Jim
- Wagner (TV) → Pfordten
- Invitation to the Wedding
- Witness for the Prosecution → Sir Wilfred Robarts
- Laurence Olivier: a life → Self
- Dragonslayer → Ulrich
- Time Bandits → Supreme Being
- Charlie Muffin → Sir Archibald Willoughby
- Watership Down → Chief Rabbit (voice)
- No Man's Land → Hirst
- Jesus of Nazareth (TV) → Simeon
- The Man in the Iron Mask → Colbert de Voliere
- Second City Television (TV) → Self
- Rollerball → Librarian
- Frankenstein: The True Story → Mr. Lacey
- Frankenstein: The True Story (TV) → Mr. Lacey
- O Lucky Man! → Sir James Burgess / Monty
- A Doll's House → Dr. Rank
- William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare → Various
- O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment → Himself
- ABC Afterschool Special (TV) → Various Roles
- Tales from the Crypt → The Crypt Keeper
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland → The Caterpillar
- Eagle in a Cage → Sir Hudson Lowe
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? → Mr. Benton
- Lady Caroline Lamb → George IV
- Home → Jack
- Great Performances (TV) → Self
- Great Performances (TV)
- Play for Today (TV) → Jack
- The Looking Glass War → LeClerc
- Twelfth Night → Sir Toby Belch
- Upon This Rock → Himself (Narrator)
- Battle of Britain → Sir David Kelly - British Minister to Switzerland
- Oh! What a Lovely War → Sir Edward Grey
- David Copperfield → Mr. Micawber
- The Bed Sitting Room → Lord Fortnum of Alamein
- Midas Run → Lord Henshaw
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- The Movie Orgy → Self (archive footage)
- Omnibus (TV) → Self
- Omnibus (TV) → Self / Johnson
- The World of Wodehouse (TV) → Clarence Threepworth, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- Blandings Castle (TV) → Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- Khartoum → William Gladstone
- The Wrong Box → Joseph Finsbury
- Doctor Zhivago → Alexander Gromeko
- Chimes at Midnight → Narrator (voice)
- Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean → Self
- Moscow in Madrid → Self
- Johnson Over Jordan → Robert Johnson
- The Great War (TV) → Douglas Haig (voice)
- Woman of Straw → Charles Richmond
- The 300 Spartans → Themistocles of Athens
- Long Day's Journey Into Night → James Tyrone
- Hedda Gabler → Judge Brack
- Heart to Heart → Sir Stanley Johnson
- Exodus → Gen. Sutherland
- Our Man in Havana → 'C'
- Oscar Wilde → Sir Edward Carson
- The Passionate Stranger → Roger Wynter / Sir Clement
- Smiley → Rev. Lambeth
- Richard III → Duke of Buckingham
- The Sound Barrier → John Ridgefield
- The Holly and the Ivy → Reverend Martin Gregory
- Home at Seven → David Preston
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Barrister
- Outcast of the Islands → Captain Tom Lingard
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
- Cricket → Narrator(voice)
- Eagles of the Fleet → Commentary
- The Heiress → Dr. Austin Sloper
- Come Saturday → Narrator
- Anna Karenina → Alexei Karenin
- The Fallen Idol → Baines
- School for Secrets → Prof. Heatherville
- The Volunteer → Self - Narrator
- The Silver Fleet → Jaap van Leyden
- The Day Will Dawn → Frank Lockwood
- The Four Feathers → John Durrance
- Q Planes → Maj. Charles Hammond
- The Lion Has Wings → Wing Commander Richardson
- On the Night of the Fire → Will Kobling
- Bees on the Boat-Deck → Sam Gridley
- Smith → Smith
- Health of a Nation
- The Citadel → Dr. Philip Denny
- The Divorce of Lady X → Lord Mere
- South Riding → Robert Carne
- Thunder in the City → Henry V. Manningdale
- Things to Come → The Boss
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles → Colonel Winstanley
- Bulldog Jack → Morelle
- The King of Paris → Paul Lebrun
- Java Head → William Ammidon
- The Return of Bulldog Drummond → Major Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
- The Ghoul → Nigel Hartley
- Friday the Thirteenth → Horace Dawes
- Dreyfus → Extra