Filmography
- Othello (1965) – Cassio
- Interlude (1968) – Paul
- Three Sisters (1970) – Andrei
- The Strauss Family (TV) (1972) – Joseph Lanner
- Blue Blood (1973) – Gregory
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) – Caron
- The Pallisers (TV) (1974) – Lord Fawn
- The Odessa File (1974) – Klaus Wenzer
- I, Claudius (TV) (1976) – Claudius
- Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century (TV) (1977) – Guy Burgess
- The Medusa Touch (1978) – Townley
- Richard II (TV) (1978) – Richard II
- The Human Factor (1979) – Arthur Davis
- Minder (TV) (1979) – Freddie Fenton
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (TV) (1980) – Hamlet
- Charlotte (1981) – Daberlohn
- The Secret of NIMH (1982) – Nicodemus (voice)
- Inside the Third Reich (TV) (1982) – Adolf Hitler
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV) (1982) – Frollo
- Enigma (1983) – Kurt Limmer
- Cyrano de Bergerac (TV) (1985) – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Mr Pye (TV) (1986) – Mr. Pye
- Breaking the Code (1986) – Alan Turing
- The Secret Garden (TV) (1987) – Archibald Craven
- The Tenth Man (TV) (1988) – The impostor
- Little Dorrit (TV) (1988) – Arthur Clennam
- Henry V (1989) – Chorus
- The Fool (1990) – Mr. Frederick/Sir John
- Dead Again (1991) – Franklyn Madson
- Cadfael (TV) (1994–1998) – Brother Cadfael
- Looking for Richard (1996) – Himself
- Breaking the Code (TV) (1996) – Alan Turing
- Hamlet (1996) – Claudius
- Basil (1998) – Father Frederick
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) – Francis Bacon
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) – Father Leonor Fousnel
- Edvard Grieg – What Price Immortality? (1999)
- The Wyvern Mystery (TV) (2000) – Squire Fairfield
- Up at the Villa (2000) – Lucky Leadbetter
- Jason and the Argonauts (TV) (2000) – Phineas
- Gladiator (2000) – Gracchus
- The Body (2001) – Father Lavelle
- Gosford Park (2001) – Probert
- The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) – voice of Nijinsky
- Revelation (2001) – Librarian
- Frasier (US TV) (2001) "The Show Must Go Off" – Jackson Hedley
- The Jury (TV) (2002) – George Cording QC
- The Gathering Storm (BBC) (2002) – Stanley Baldwin
- Revengers Tragedy (2002) – The Duke
- Two Men Went to War (2002) – Major Merton
- Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites (2003) – Voice
- London (TV) (2004) – Tacitus
- Strings (2004) – Nezo (voice)
- The Long Firm (TV) (2004) – Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
- Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (TV) (2004) – Colonel Protheroe
- Bye Bye Blackbird (2005) – Lord Dempsey
- Nanny McPhee (2005) – Mr. Wheen
- Underworld: Evolution (2006) – Alexander Corvinus
- Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (2006) - Narrator
- Doctor Who (TV) (2007) – Professor Yana / The Master
- The Riddle (2007) – The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- Airlock Or How To Say Goodbye In Space (2007) – President
- The Golden Compass (2007) – Magisterial Emissary
- In the Night Garden (2007 – 2010) – Narrator
- The Old Curiosity Shop (TV) (2007) – Grandfather
- A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) – Nigel
- Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009) – Quentin Neely
- Endgame (2009) – Rudolf Agnew
- Adam Resurrected (2009) – Dr. Nathan Gross
- Charles Dickens's England (2009) – Himself
- Hippie Hippie Shake (2010) – Judge
- There Be Dragons (2010) – Honorio
- Ironclad (2010) – Cornhill
- The King's Speech (2010) – Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang
- Hereafter (2010) – Himself
- Anonymous (2011) – Narrator (Prologue)
- My Week with Marilyn (2011) – Sir Owen Morshead
- The Borgias (TV) (2011) – Cardinal Orsini
- Titanic: Blood and Steel (TV) (2012) - Lord Pirrie
- Last Tango in Halifax (TV) (2012) - Alan Buttershaw
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