Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Other cast members | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Build Thy House | Clarkis | Goodwins, FredFred Goodwins | Henry Ainley | |
| 1933 | The Invisible Man | Dr. Jack Griffin/The Invisible Man | Whale, JamesJames Whale | Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor | |
| 1934 | The Clairvoyant | Maximus | Elvey, MauriceMaurice Elvey | Fay Wray | |
| 1934 | Crime Without Passion | Lee Gentry | Hecht, BenBen Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Margo, Whitney Bourne | |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Paul Verin | Ludwig, EdwardEdward Ludwig | Lionel Atwill, Joan Bennett | |
| 1935 | The Last Outpost | John Stevenson | Gasnier, LouisLouis Gasnier, Charles Barton | Cary Grant | |
| 1935 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | John Jasper | Walker, StuartStuart Walker | Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners | |
| 1936 | Hearts Divided | Napoleon Bonaparte | Borzage, FrankFrank Borzage | Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton | |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Marquis Don Luis | LeRoy, MervynMervyn LeRoy | Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Gale Sondergaard | |
| 1937 | Stolen Holiday | Stefan Orloff | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Kay Francis, Ian Hunter | |
| 1937 | The Prince and the Pauper | Earl of Hertford | Keighley, WilliamWilliam Keighley | Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch | |
| 1937 | They Won't Forget | Dist. Atty. Andrew J. "Andy" Griffin | LeRoy, MervynMervyn LeRoy | Gloria Dickson, Lana Turner | |
| 1938 | White Banners | Paul Ward | Goulding, EdmundEdmund Goulding | Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, Kay Johnson | |
| 1938 | Gold is Where You Find It | Colonel Christopher "Chris" Ferris | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Tim Holt | Technicolor |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Prince John | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz, William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone | Technicolor |
| 1938 | Four Daughters | Adam Lemp | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield | |
| 1939 | They Made Me a Criminal | Det. Monty Phelan | Berkeley, BusbyBusby Berkeley | John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, May Robson | |
| 1939 | Juarez | Emperor Louis Napoleon III | Dieterle, WilliamWilliam Dieterle | Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, John Garfield | |
| 1939 | Sons of Liberty | Haym Salomon | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Gale Sondergaard | Technicolor; two-reel short |
| 1939 | Daughters Courageous | Jim Masters | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield | |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine | Capra, FrankFrank Capra | Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Thomas Mitchell | Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1939 | Four Wives | Adam Lemp | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Eddie Albert, Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield | |
| 1940 | Saturday's Children | Mr. Henry Halevy | Sherman, VincentVincent Sherman | John Garfield, Anne Shirley | |
| 1940 | The Sea Hawk | Don José Alvarez de Córdoba | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Henry Daniell, Flora Robson, Alan Hale | Sepia tone (sequence) |
| 1940 | Lady with Red Hair | David Belasco | Bernhardt, CurtisCurtis Bernhardt | Miriam Hopkins, Laura Hope Crews | |
| 1941 | Four Mothers | Adam Lemp | Keighley, WilliamWilliam Keighley | Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla Lane, Gale Page | |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Mr. Jordan | Hall, AlexanderAlexander Hall | Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Everett Horton | |
| 1941 | The Wolf Man | Sir John Talbot | Waggner, GeorgeGeorge Waggner | Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya | |
| 1942 | Kings Row | Dr. Alexander Tower | Wood, SamSam Wood | Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn | |
| 1942 | Moontide | Nutsy | Mayo, ArchieArchie Mayo | Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell | |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Dr. Jaquith | Rapper, IrvingIrving Rapper | Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper | |
| 1942 | Casablanca | Capt. Louis Renault | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson | Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Ambrose Pomfret | Wilcox, HerbertHerbert Wilcox (sequence with Rains) |
Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith | |
| 1943 | Phantom of the Opera | Erique Claudin/The Phantom of the Opera | Lubin, ArthurArthur Lubin | Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster | Technicolor |
| 1944 | Passage to Marseille | Captain Freycinet | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine | |
| 1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Job Skeffington | Sherman, VincentVincent Sherman | Bette Davis, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring | Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1945 | Strange Holiday | John Stevenson | Duvivier, JulienJulien Duvivier | Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew | |
| 1945 | This Love of Ours | Joseph Targel | Dieterle, WilliamWilliam Dieterle | Merle Oberon | |
| 1945 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Pascal, GabrielGabriel Pascal | Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson | Technicolor |
| 1946 | Notorious | Alex Sebastian | Hitchcock, AlfredAlfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern | Nomination—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1946 | Angel on My Shoulder | Nick | Mayo, ArchieArchie Mayo | Paul Muni, Anne Baxter | |
| 1946 | Deception | Alexander Hollenius | Rapper, IrvingIrving Rapper | Bette Davis, Paul Henreid | |
| 1947 | The Unsuspected | Victor Grandison | Curtiz, MichaelMichael Curtiz | Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield | |
| 1949 | The Passionate Friends | Howard Justin | Lean, DavidDavid Lean | Ann Todd, Trevor Howard | |
| 1949 | Rope of Sand | Arthur "Fred" Martingale | Dieterle, WilliamWilliam Dieterle | Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre | |
| 1949 | Song of Surrender | Elisha Hunt | Leisen, MitchellMitchell Leisen | Wanda Hendrix, Macdonald Carey | |
| 1950 | The White Tower | Paul DeLambre | Tetzlaff, TedTed Tetzlaff | Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oskar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke, Lloyd Bridges | Technicolor |
| 1950 | Where Danger Lives | Frederick Lannington | Farrow, JohnJohn Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan | |
| 1951 | Sealed Cargo | Captain Skalder | Werker, Alfred L.Alfred L. Werker | Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges | |
| 1953 | The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By | Kees Popinga | French, HaroldHarold French | Märta Torén, Marius Goring | Technicolor |
| 1956 | Lisbon | Aristides Mavros | Milland, RayRay Milland | Ray Milland, Maureen O'Hara | Trucolor Naturama |
| 1957 | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | The Mayor of Hamelin | Windust, BretaigneBretaigne Windust | Van Johnson, Lori Nelson | Technicolor |
| 1959 | This Earth Is Mine | Philippe Rambeau | King, HenryHenry King | Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire | Technicolor CinemaScope |
| 1960 | The Lost World | Professor George Edward Challenger | Allen, IrwinIrwin Allen | Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Richard Haydn | Deluxe color CinemaScope |
| 1961 | Battle of the Worlds | Professor Benson | Margheriti, AntonioAntonio Margheriti | Bill Carter | Color |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Mr. Dryden | Lean, DavidDavid Lean | Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Arthur Kennedy, José Ferrer | Technicolor Super Panavision 70 |
| 1963 | Twilight of Honor | Art Harper | Sagal, BorisBoris Sagal | Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Joey Heatherton, Linda Evans | |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Herod the Great | Stevens, GeorgeGeorge Stevens | Max von Sydow, plus many cameos | Technicolor Ultra Panavision 70 |
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