highest rated
acting
- The Book of Water → Narrator/Geiser
- Time & Tide - A Trilogy
- Sam & Ade Go Birding (TV)
- Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius (TV) → Self
- Return to Narnia → Self
- Merchant Ivory → Self
- Slow Horses (TV) → Peter Judd
- Remembers… (TV)
- The Midwich Cuckoos (TV) → Bernard Westcott
- The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall) → Master of Ceremonies
- All Creatures Great & Small (TV) → Siegfried Farnon
- The Gentlemen → Lord Pressfield
- Small Axe (TV) → Mr. Hill
- Gatecrash → Policeman
- Trust (TV) → Professor Talbot
- On Chesil Beach → Geoffrey Ponting
- Darkest Hour → Sir Anthony Eden
- Spying on the Royals (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Edouard VIII, espionnage et liaisons dangereuses (TV) → Narrator
- The Crown (TV) → Anthony Blunt
- Westworld (TV) → Security Guard
- All the world's a stage → Narrator (voice)
- The Frankenstein Chronicles (TV) → Sir William Chester
- Suffragette → Benedict Haughton
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV) → Sir Walter Pole
- The Eichmann Show → Narrator
- Inside the Court of Henry VIII → Narrator
- W1A (TV) → Richard Cartwright
- Fleming (TV) → Rear Admiral John Godfrey
- The Crimson Field (TV) → Elliot Vincent
- The Riot Club → Tutor
- Great Canal Journeys (TV) → Self
- Secrets of Britain (TV) → Himself - Narrator
- If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day → Norman Skinner
- Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (TV) → Narrator
- Faberge: A Life of Its Own → Narrator
- Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath → Host
- Secrets of Underground London → Narrator
- Mr Selfridge (TV) → Frank Edwards
- Winterwatch (TV) → Self
- Secrets of the Tower of London → Narrator
- Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy → Narrator
- Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court → Narrator (voice)
- The Hollow Crown (TV) → Bishop of Winchester
- Eternal Law (TV) → Zak Gist
- Hyde Park on Hudson → Bertie
- Secrets of the Manor House (TV) → Self - Narrator
- First Man on the Moon → Narrator (Voice UK)
- Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies → Narrator (voice)
- Secrets of the Manor House → Narrator
- Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson → Narrator (voice)
- King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy (TV) → Narrator (Voice)
- Death in Paradise (TV) → Donald McCormack
- Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters → Narrator
- Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel → Self - Narrator
- Hitler's Children → Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Any Human Heart (TV) → Peter Scabius (Older)
- Harold Pinter: A Celebration → Self
- Dark Relic → Friar George
- BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? → Self - Narrator
- Garrow's Law (TV) → Thomas Erskine
- Desperate Romantics (TV)
- Albert Schweitzer → Phil Figgis
- English Heritage (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India → Narrator - (Voice)
- The Blood of the Rose → Narrator
- World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (TV) → narrator
- Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley → Ted Heath
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show (TV) → Self
- The First Emperor → Himself - Narrator
- Random Quest → Colin
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (TV) → Narrator
- Einstein's Big Idea → Humphry Davy
- Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich → Narrator (voice)
- After the War: Conquering Germany → Narrator
- Van Helsing → Dr. Victor Frankenstein
- Ring of the Nibelungs → Gunther
- Ring of the Nibelungs (TV) → Gunther
- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure → Pongo (voice)
- Cambridge Spies (TV) → Anthony Blunt
- Foyle's War (TV) → Lt. Col. James Wintringham
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV) → Tony Wainwright
- Waking the Dead (TV) → Thomas Rice
- Iris → Young Maurice
- Pandaemonium → Robert Southey
- The Private Life of a Masterpiece (TV) → Narrator
- Nero's Golden House → Narrator
- Longitude (TV) → Nevil Maskelyne
- Bread and Roses → Party Guest (uncredited)
- Longitude → Nevil Maskelyne
- Complicity → Neil
- Notting Hill → Anna's Co-Star
- The Planets (TV) → Himself - Narrator
- Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters → Major Edrington
- Battle of the Sexes - In the Animal World (TV) → Narrator
- War of the Century (TV) → Self - Narrator
- War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin → Narrator
- In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence → Narrator (voice)
- Runt → Pork
- Hornblower (TV) → Major Edrington
- Stiff Upper Lips → Edward
- Rupert's Land → Rupert McKay
- The Dance of Shiva → Lieutenant Davies
- Midsomer Murders (TV) → Jeremy Thacker
- Midsomer Murders (TV) → James Oswood
- Danielle Steel's Zoya → Nicolai
- The Ripper → Prince Albert Victor Edward
- The Nazis: A Warning from History (TV) → Self - Narrator
- I Hate Christmas Too → Soldier
- Jane Eyre → St John Rivers
- Over Here (TV) → Archie Bunting
- Persuasion → Mr. Elliot
- Carrington → Gerald Brenan
- Heavy Weather → 'Monty' Bodkin
- The Vacillations of Poppy Carew → Victor
- Open Fire → Stephen Waldorf
- A Feast at Midnight → Chef
- A Breed of Heroes → Lt. Charles Thoroughgood
- The Maitlands → Jack Maitland
- Archipel → Alan Stewart
- Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time → Cyrian
- Voices in the Garden → Mark
- As Time Goes By (TV) → Terry
- Howards End → Leonard Bast
- Performance (TV) → Jack Maitland
- Stanley and the Women (TV) → Stephen Duke
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV) → Dr Constantine
- Reunion → Count Konradin von Lohenburg
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader → King Caspian
- The Chronicles of Narnia (TV) → King Caspian
- Frankie and Johnnie → Johnnie Mallett
- NOVA (TV) → Humphry Davy