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- Snapshot Wedding → Donald
- Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain → Winston Churchill
- Joseph's Reel → Old Joseph
- Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis → Self - Interviewee
- Margaret → Willie Whitelaw
- Ghosts in the Machine → Narrator
- Centenary: The BP Story → George Reynolds (voice)
- Lewis (TV) → Sir Arnold Raeburn
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix → Cornelius Fudge
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show (TV) → Self
- Elementary My Dear Viewer → Self
- Le Grand Charles (TV) → Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Goodbye Mr Snuggles → Mr. Stiles
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire → Cornelius Fudge
- Lassie → Judge Murray
- Agatha Christie's Marple (TV) → Winston Churchill
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban → Cornelius Fudge
- Making Waves → Father Parry
- Death in Holy Orders (TV) → Father Martin Petrie
- The Gathering → Bishop
- Lucky Jim → Professor Neddy Welch
- Spooks (TV) → Sir John Barry
- Foyle's War (TV) → Henry Beaumont
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets → Cornelius Fudge
- Shackleton (TV) → Sir James Caird
- Thunderpants → Doctor
- The Falklands Play → Sir Anthony Parsons
- Bertie and Elizabeth → President Roosevelt
- The Lost World (TV) → Professor Illingworth
- The Lost World → Prof. Illingworth
- The 10th Kingdom (TV) → Chancellor Griswold
- Nancherrow (TV)
- Nancherrow → Viscount Berryan
- The Tichborne Claimant → Lord Rivers
- An Ideal Husband → Lord Caversham
- The Barber of Siberia → Forsten
- Midsomer Murders (TV) → Robert Cavendish
- Mrs. Dalloway → Sir William Bradshaw
- Castle Ghosts of Wales → Self
- Gulliver's Travels (TV) → Dr. Parnell
- Testament: The Bible in Animation (TV) → Abraham (voice)
- Castle Ghosts of Ireland → Self
- Sense and Sensibility → Sir John Middleton
- Bramwell (TV) → Sir Herbert Hamilton
- Bramwell (TV) → Sir Herbert Hamilton
- Look at the State We're In! (TV) → Judge Sutcliffe
- Castle Ghosts of England → Self
- Middlemarch (TV) → Arthur Brooke
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein → Prof. Krempe
- A Feast at Midnight → Headmaster
- The Master Blackmailer → Charles Augustus Milverton
- Paris by Night → Adam Gillvray
- Bomber Harris → Winston Churchill
- War and Remembrance (TV) → Winston Churchill
- The Woman He Loved → Winston Churchill
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton → Self
- Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair → Dr. Price
- Inspector Morse (TV) → Andrew Baydon
- Northanger Abbey → General Tilney
- Make and Break → John Garrard
- The Death of the Heart → Major Brutt
- Blat → Sidney Tolland
- Hot Metal (TV)
- The Demon Lover → William Drover
- Paying Guests (Part 2) → Colonel Chase
- Paying Guests (Part 1) → Colonel Chase
- Screen Two (TV) → General Tilney
- Jenny's War (TV) → Klein
- The Shooting Party → Bob, Lord Lilburn
- Jenny's War → Klein
- Sherlock Holmes (TV) → Charles Augustus Milverton
- The Far Pavilions (TV) → The Commandant
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood → King Richard
- James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate → Lord Bob Lilburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Natural World (TV) → Narrator
- The Cleopatras (TV) → Julius Caesar
- Countdown (TV)
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV) → Winston Churchill
- Fothergill → John Fothergill
- Twelfth Night → Sir Toby Belch
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin → Narrator (voice)
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV) → Clayton
- Speed King → Dorothy Campbell
- All Creatures Great and Small (TV) → Siegfried Farnon
- Raffles (TV)
- Supernatural (TV) → Adrian Gall
- The Duchess of Duke Street (TV) → George Duggan
- Bill Brand (TV) → Mr. Marples
- Victorian Scandals (TV) → Arthur Munby
- Edward the Seventh (TV) → Prince Albert
- Caesar and Claretta → Benito Mussolini
- The Secret Agent → The Assistant Commissioner
- Playhouse (TV) → John Fothergill
- Playhouse (TV) → Sir Malcolm Campbell
- Churchill's People (TV) → King Oswy
- Shoulder to Shoulder (TV) → Asquith
- The Gathering Storm → Joachim von Ribbentrop
- The Slap → Robert Dickinson
- Yellow Dog → Alexander
- Dark Places → Edward Foster / Andrew Marr
- The Silent One → Assistant
- Psychomania → Chief Inspector Hesseltine
- Gawain and the Green Knight → Sir Bertilak
- European Heritage (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Young Winston → Prep School Headmaster
- Demons of the Mind → Zorn
- The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night → Doctor Sir Robert Baldick
- Great Performances (TV) → Self
- Upstairs, Downstairs (TV) → Sir Guy Paynter
- A Ghost Story for Christmas (TV) → Archdeacon Haynes
- Elizabeth R (TV) → Robert Dudley
- 10 Rillington Place → Malcolm Morris
- The Stalls of Barchester → Archdeacon Haynes
- Getting In → Official
- Manhunt (TV) → Abwehr Sergeant Gratz
- Warm Feet, Warm Heart → Albert Purvis
- Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary → Narrator
- Strange Report (TV) → Doctor Michael Sanders
- Son of Man → Pontius Pilate
- ITV Playhouse (TV) → Ray Malcolm
- How I Won the War → British General
- Berserk! → Detective Superintendent Brooks
- Mystery and Imagination (TV) → William Oke
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV) → The Official
- The Troubleshooters (TV) → Alec Stewart
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold → Dick Carlton
- Old Man's Fancy → Jason
- Theatre 625 (TV)
- Theatre 625 (TV) → Adriano
- The Wednesday Play (TV) → Nick Prockter
- The Wednesday Play (TV) → Pontius Pilate
- The Spread of the Eagle (TV) → Caius Martius Coriolanus
- The Saint (TV) → Walter Faber
- The Dark Island (TV)
- Drama 61-67 (TV) → Adam Irwin
- Drama 61-67 (TV) → Philip Weathers
- An Age of Kings (TV) → Henry, Prince of Wales
- An Age of Kings (TV) → Henry V
- The Veil (TV)
- Torpedo Run → Lt. Redley
- The Buccaneers (TV) → Lord Hinch
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (TV) → Sir Rupert
- Armchair Theatre (TV) → Albert Purvis
- Othello → Cassio
- General Electric Theater (TV)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Orsino
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → Admetus
- Sunday Night Theatre (TV) → William Herndon
- Black Legend → Mad Thomas