highest rated
acting
- Red, White & Royal Wedding → King James III
- Now & Then → TG
- The Story of Bean → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Touché → Narrator (voice)
- Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts (TV) → Self - Host
- Frank and Percy
- Black Samphire
- This Is Soho → Narrator (voice)
- The Three Urns → Bookseller
- Joke
- 100 Questions with Tom Simons (TV) → Self
- Too Much (TV) → Simon Remen
- Lubach (TV) → Self
- The Celebrity Traitors (TV) → Self - Contestant
- Christmas Karma → Radio Presenter (Voice)
- The Assembly (TV) → Self
- This Ordinary Thing → Self (voice)
- Time Travel Is Dangerous! → Narrator (voice)
- A Friend of Dorothy → Dickie
- Finding Father Christmas → Self
- China's Wild Secrets (TV) → Narrated
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future → Self
- The Castle, Rebuilding History → Narrator
- Recall Me Maybe → Kevin
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (TV) → Supervisor (voice)
- Doctor Who at the Proms → C (archive footage)
- Jeopardy! (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Treasure → Edek
- Bottom: Exposed → Narrator (voice)
- We Work for the Dead → Pruitt (voice)
- About a Hero
- Jeopardy! Australia (TV) → Host
- The Big Fat Quiz of Telly → Self
- U.Me: The Musical → Narrator
- This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) → Self
- Black Samphire → Mari's Boss
- We Are Home → Self - narrator (voice)
- Red, White & Royal Blue → King James III
- Everything Now (TV) → Dr Nell
- The Canterville Ghost → Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- The Inventor → Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story → Self - Contributor
- The Dinosaur Hour (TV) → Self
- Dinosaur with Stephen Fry (TV)
- Mind Games - The Experiment → Narrator
- The Big Fat Quiz of Sport → Self
- Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
- John Craxton: A Life of Gifts → John Craxton (Voice)
- The Sandman (TV) → Gilbert
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV) → Self – writer and comedian
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV) → Self - Writer and Comedian
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV) → Self – Writer and broadcaster
- Heartstopper (TV) → Headmaster Barnes (voice)
- The Dropout (TV) → Ian Gibbons
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts → Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- A Year on Planet Earth (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History → Self - Narrator
- Stuff the British Stole (TV) → Self
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba → Self
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life → Self
- The Fringe, Fame and Me → Self
- David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count → Self
- George Michael: Portrait of an Artist → Self
- In Conversation with Alan Yentob (TV) → Self
- Mr Bear's Christmas → Narrator
- It's a Sin (TV) → Arthur Garrison
- Hating Peter Tatchell → Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray → The Interviewer
- Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne → Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean → Narrator
- Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films → Narrator
- Night of the Living Dread → Meditation Guru (voice)
- It's Always Something → Narrator
- The Big Night In → Lord Melchett
- Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World → Self
- What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? → Self
- Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley → Self
- Fear of Dancing → Self - Actor & Writer
- London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Sex Education (TV) → NSQC Quizmaster
- The Morning Show (TV) → Leonard Cromwell
- Harley Quinn (TV) → Brainiac (voice)
- Missing Link → Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- Greed → Self
- Dancing with the Birds → Narrator
- Tomorrow → Chris
- Churchill and the Movie Mogul → Self
- Almost Human → Narrator
- Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive → Self
- Apple & Onion (TV) → William Steakspeare (voice)
- Apple & Onion (TV) → Onion's Dad (voice)
- The Big Narstie Show (TV) → Self
- The Con Is On → Sidney
- Duck Duck Goose → Frazier (voice)
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood → Self
- M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity → M. C. Escher (voice)
- Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
- And the Winner Isn't → Self
- Queer as Art → Self
- Battle of Soho → Self
- 50 Years Legal → Self
- Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song → Self
- Britain's Great Gay Buildings (TV)
- All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
- Alice Through the Looking Glass → Cheshire Cat (voice)
- The Great Indoors (TV) → Roland
- The Man Who Knew Infinity → Sir Francis Spring
- Love & Friendship → Mr. Johnson
- A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats → Self
- The Killing$ of Tony Blair → Self
- Pocoyo's Halloween → Narrator
- The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On → Self
- Santa Forgot → Narrator
- Wild Africa / Tiny Giants → Narrator (Tiny Giants)
- The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (TV) → Uncle Duke (voice)
- Danger Mouse (TV) → Colonel K (voice)
- Do I Sound Gay? → Self
- Rocky Horror Show Live → Narrator
- Stephen Fry in Central America (TV) → Self - Presenter
- A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry → Self
- Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review → Narrator
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (TV) → Winston Churchill (voice)
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies → Master of Laketown
- Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (TV) → Self
- Lily's Driftwood Bay (TV) → Lord Stag (voice)
- Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) (TV) → Self
- A Life on Screen (TV) → Self
- That Sugar Film → The Sugar Family Sketch
- Hidden Kingdoms (TV) → Narrator
- Marked → Father Christmas
- Tiny Giants 3D → Narrator
- A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell → Self - Darts Fan
- The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill → Self
- Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
- Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
- Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me → Self
- Le peuple miniature
- Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk → Narrator
- The Last Leg (TV) → Self
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug → The Master of Laketown
- Yonderland (TV) → Cuddly Dick
- Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan (TV) → Self
- The Look of Love → Barrister
- Super Clyde → Randolph
- Stephen Fry: Out There (TV) → Self
- Frost on Sketch Shows → Self
- Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was → Narrator
- Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
- Stephen Fry's Key to the City → Self - Presenter
- Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
- The Lonely Dodo → Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- Veep (TV) → Nikolai Genidze
- Playhouse Presents (TV) → The European
- Gadget Man (TV) → Presenter
- The Story of Musicals (TV) → Self
- Just a Minute (TV) → Self
- The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (TV) → Skulkingworm
- Twelfth Night → Malvolio
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Doors Open → Professor Robert Gissing
- A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman → Oscar Wilde (voice)
- Jools Holland: My Life in Music → Self
- Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets → Self
- Cicada Princess → Narrator (voice)
- Special Report – The Voice of Darts → Self (archive footage)
- Wagner & Me → Self
- The Jonathan Ross Show (TV) → Self
- The Jonathan Ross Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows → Mycroft Holmes
- The Borrowers → Professor Mildeye
- Holy Flying Circus → God
- Ocean Giants (TV) → Narrator
- Making Qi → Self
- March of the Dinosaurs → Narrator (UK)
- Botham: The Legend of '81 → Self
- Fry's Planet Word (TV)
- Ocean Giants → Narrater
- Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry (TV) → Self
- Wogan on Wodehouse → Self
- Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins → The Narrator
- Alice in Wonderland → Cheshire Cat (voice)
- Fry and Laurie Reunited → Self
- In Confidence (TV)
- The Bible: A History (TV)
- Lost Connection → Dad
- Wagner and Me (TV) → Star
- The Great American Oil Spill → Self
- Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House → Stephen Fry
- Chris Moyles' Quiz Night (TV) → Self
- Country Tracks (TV) → Self
- Last Chance to See (TV) → Self - Presenter
- House of Boys → Dr. Marsh
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened → Self – Narrator (voice)
- Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News → Self
- Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Last Chance to See → Self
- Tales of the Riverbank → Owl (voice)
- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments → Self
- Stephen Fry in America (TV) → Self - Host
- Blackadder Rides Again → Self
- Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga → Self
- Pocoyo & the Space Circus → Narrator (English)
- Happy Birthday to GNU → Self
- The Machine That Made Us → Self - Presenter
- Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo → Narrator
- Last of the Dambusters → Narrator
- Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest → Narrator
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
- Kingdom (TV) → Peter Kingdom
- St Trinian's → Stephen Fry
- Shrink Rap (TV) → Self
- Eichmann → Minister Tormer
- Snow White: The Sequel → The Narrator (voice)
- Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out → Self
- Stephen Fry: HIV & Me (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Stephen Fry: Guilty → Self
- Stephen Fry: HIV & Me → Self
- The One Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- V for Vendetta → Deitrich
- Legends (TV) → Self (uncredited)
- Stormbreaker → Smithers
- The Secret Show (TV)
- The Story of Light Entertainment (TV) → Self - Narrator
- Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (TV)
- 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked → Deitrich
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration → Self
- The Transporters → Narrator
- Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot → Self
- Bones (TV) → Gordon Wyatt
- American Dad! (TV) → John Michael Heaton (voice)
- American Dad! (TV) → Mr. Cavendish (voice)
- Doctor Who (TV) → C
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV) → Self
- Pocoyo (TV) → Narrator
- Extras (TV) → Stephen Fry
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy → Narrator / The Guide (voice)
- MirrorMask → Librarian
- Nigella (TV) → Self
- Missing (TV)
- A Cock and Bull Story → Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- Dirty Tricks (TV) → Owl (voice)
- Tom Brown's Schooldays → Dr. Thomas Arnold
- Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' → Self
- 29 Minutes of Fame (TV) → Self - Panelist
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy → General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' → Self
- Meet Pocoyo! → Narrator
- Pocoyo & Friends → Narrator
- Ashes Fever → Self
- Who Do You Think You Are? (TV) → Self
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers → Maurice Woodruff
- Tooth → Pedro
- A Bear Named Winnie → Protheroe
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? → Self
- The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope → Narrator
- Supergrass: A Home Movie → Self (archive footage)
- QI (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Fortysomething (TV) → Derek
- Bright Young Things → Chauffeur
- Le Divorce → Piers Janely
- Absolute Power (TV) → Charles Prentiss
- The Biggest Nose in Borneo → Narrator
- Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind → Self
- Top Gear (TV) → Self
- Thunderpants → Sir Anthony Silk
- The Making of Gosford Park → Self
- Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali → Andre Breton
- Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time → The Minister of Chance
- 24 (TV) → Alastair Davies
- Gosford Park → Inspector Thompson
- Baddiel's Syndrome (TV) → The Psychiatrist
- The Discovery of Heaven → Onno Quist
- Four Play → Nigel Steele
- Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making → Self
- In Search of the Prisoner → Self
- Funny Old World → Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 2 → Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 3 → Narrator (voice)
- Paddington Bear: The Early Years
- Funny Old World 4 → Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 5 → Narrator (voice)
- Click (TV) → Self
- Longitude (TV) → Sir Kenelm Digby
- Gormenghast (TV) → Professor Bellgrove
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (TV)
- Longitude → Sir Kenelm Digby
- Relative Values → Frederick Crestwell
- Best → Frazer Crane
- Sabotage!! → Wellington
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? → Dr. Peter Robinson
- Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration → Self
- A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' → Self
- Watership Down (TV) → Cowslip (voice)
- The Magician's House (TV) → Jasper the Owl (voice)
- Blackadder: Back & Forth → Melchett
- Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over (TV) → Self - Panellist
- The Tichborne Claimant → Hawkins
- Geri → Self
- A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
- Parkinson (TV) → Self
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (TV) → Self - Contestant
- So Graham Norton (TV) → Self
- A Civil Action → Pinder
- In the Red (TV) → Controller, Radio 2
- Stanley Baxter in Person → Self
- Wilde → Oscar Wilde
- Spice World → Judge
- An Audience with Elton John → Self
- Oscar → Self
- Simply Wilde → Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV) → Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV) → Self - Panellist
- The Wind in the Willows → The Judge
- Kulturzeit (TV) → self
- The Thin Blue Line (TV) → Blaster Sump
- Cold Comfort Farm → Mybug
- The Steal → Wimborne
- Room 101 (TV) → Self
- I.Q. → James Moreland
- The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller (TV) → Self
- An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
- Shooting Stars (TV) → Self
- Stalag Luft → Wing Commander James Forrester
- Camp Christmas → Santa Claus
- Peter's Friends → Peter Morton
- Common Pursuit
- Have I Got News for You (TV) → Self
- Jeeves and Wooster (TV) → Jeeves
- Rita Rudner (TV)
- Old Flames → Daniel Davenport
- The Simpsons (TV) → Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie (TV)
- Anything More Would Be Greedy (TV)
- Saturday Night Clive (TV)
- The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball → Self
- Employees From Hell
- Colleagues From Hell
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV) → Self
- A Fish Called Wanda → Hutchison
- Comic Relief (TV)
- This Morning (TV) → Self
- A Handful of Dust → Reggie
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol → Lords Melchett / Frondo
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute → Self
- Blackadder: The Cavalier Years → King Charles I
- This Is David Lander (TV)
- The New Statesman (TV) → Piers Lonsdale
- Filthy Rich & Catflap (TV) → P'Farty
- The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball → Self
- The Laughing Prisoner → No. 2
- Saturday Live (TV)
- Omnibus Presents Comic Relief (TV)
- The Dangerous Brothers (TV)
- The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live → Self
- Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
- Screen Two (TV) → Humphrey Taylor
- Happy Families (TV) → Doctor De Quincy
- The Good Father → Creighton
- Happy Families → Dr. De Quincy
- Blackadder (TV) → Lord Melchett
- Blackadder (TV) → General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
- Blackadder (TV) → The Duke of Wellington
- Natural World (TV) → Narrator
- Alfresco (TV) → Various
- The Crystal Cube (TV) → Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- Wogan (TV) → Self
- The Young Ones (TV) → Lord Snot
- Countdown (TV)
- There's Nothing to Worry About! (TV) → Various
- The Cellar Tapes → various
- Chariots of Fire → Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- An Audience with... (TV) → Self
- The Secret Policeman's Ball (TV) → Self
- The BAFTA Awards (TV) → Host
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee