Acting

2023

2018

as Self (archive footage)

2016

as Self

2011

as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

2005

as Self (archive footage)

2001

as The Protagonist

1998		Elizabeth as The Pope
1998		The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
1998		Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
1998		Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

1997

as Stimme Gottes

1996		Hamlet as Priam
1996		The Portrait of a Lady as Mr. Touchett
1996		Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
1996		The Leopard Son as Narrator
1996		Shine as Cecil Parkes
1996		DragonHeart as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

1995		Haunted as Doctor Doyle
1995		First Knight as Oswald
1995		The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Himself (Voice)

1994

1992		The Power of One as St. John
1992		The South Bank Show: Noël Coward as Self
1992		Shining Through as Sunflower
1992		A Walk Through Prospero's Library as Prospero
1992		Swan Song as Svetlovidov

1991		Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
1991		Prospero's Books as Prospero
1991		A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) as Virgil (voice)
1991		The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
1991		The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell

1990		Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
1990		A TV Dante as Virgil
1990		Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther

1989

as Sir Gordon Munday

1988		A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
1988		In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self
1988		Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Hobson
1988		Appointment with Death as Colonel Carbury

1987

as Eddie Loomis

1986		The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
1986		The Whistle Blower as Sir Adrian Chappie
1986		Theban Plays: Antigone as Tiresias
1986		Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Tieresias
1986		Time After Time as Jasper Swift

1985		Plenty as Sir Leonard Darwin
1985		Leave All Fair as John Middleton Murry
1985		Romance on the Orient Express as Theodore Woodward
1985		The Shooting Party as Cornelius Cardew
1985		To Be Hamlet as Self

1984		Camille as Duke de Charles
1984		Frankenstein as De Lacey
1984		The Master of Ballantrae as Lord Durrisdeer
1984		Scandalous as Uncle Willie
1984		James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)

1983		The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
1983		The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
1983		Wagner as Pfistermeister
1983		Invitation to the Wedding

1982		Gandhi as Lord Irwin
1982		The Critic as Lord Burleigh
1982		Inside the Third Reich as Albert Speer Sr.
1982		The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue

1981		Priest of Love as Herbert G. Muskett
1981		Arthur as Hobson
1981		Chariots of Fire as Master of Trinity
1981		Lion of the Desert as Sharif El Gariani
1981		Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery as Marquis of Caterhan
1981		Sphinx as Abdu-Hamdi

1980		The Formula as Dr. Abraham Esau
1980		The Elephant Man as Carr Gomm
1980		Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Reverend Jones
1980		The Conductor as John Lasocki

1979		The Human Factor as Brigadier Tomlinson
1979		Caligula as Nerva
1979		Murder by Decree as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury

1978		Les Misérables as Gillenormand
1978		Richard II as John of Gaunt
1978		Romeo & Juliet as Chorus
1978		No Man's Land as Spooner

1977		A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as The Preacher
1977		Heartbreak House as Captain Shotover
1977		The Grand Inquisitor as Inquisitor
1977		Joseph Andrews as The Doctor
1977		Providence as Clive Langham

1976		Peter Pan as Narrator
1976		The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
1976		Aces High as Headmaster

1975

as The Old Cardinal

1974		Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Beddoes
1974		11 Harrowhouse as Meecham
1974		Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
1974		Gold as Farrell

1973		Lost Horizon as Chang
1973		William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various

1972		Probe as Harold L. Streeter
1972		Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
1972		Home as Harry

1970

as Julius Caesar

1969

as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

1968		The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder pope
1968		The Love Song of Barney Kempinski as Rich Man
1968		Assignment to Kill as Curt Valayan
1968		The Charge of the Light Brigade as Lord Raglan
1968		Sebastian as Head of Intelligence

1967		Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
1967		October Revolution as Narrator (voice)

1966		Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
1966		The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
1966		Ages of Man

1965		Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
1965		The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley

1964		Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Ghost (voice)
1964		Becket as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France

1963

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1962

as Gaev

1958

1957		Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
1957		The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1956

as Foster

1955

as George, Duke of Clarence

1954		Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
1954		Hamlet: The Actor's View as Self

1953		Julius Caesar as Cassius
1953		Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five as Narrator

1945

as Hamlet

1941		An Airman's Letter to His Mother as Narrator
1941		The Prime Minister as Disraeli

1937

as Self

1936

as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

1933

as Inigo Jollifant

1932

as Henri Dubois

1929

as Rex Trasmere

1924

as Daniel

Writing

2016		Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied … Writer
2016		Trouser Bar … Writer

1962

… Writer

Directing

1964

… Director