Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Anton Zoref | |
| 1977 | Roots | Sir Eric Russell | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Judas Iscariot | ||
| 1978 | Will Shakespeare | Christopher Marlowe | |
| Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| The Pirate | Rashid | ||
| 1981–82 | Magnum, P.I. | David Norman / Edwin Clutterbuck | |
| 1982 | Marco Polo | Ali Ben Yussouf | |
| 1983 | Grace Kelly | Prince Rainier of Monaco | |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Paul Lerner | |
| A.D. | Sejanus | ||
| 1986–94 | Lovejoy | Lovejoy | Also director of 4 episodes |
| 1987 | Miami Vice | Esteban Montoya / Gen. Manuel Borbon | |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Philip Rule | |
| 1989 | Dallas | Don Lockwood | |
| Minder | Jack Last | ||
| 2002 | The West Wing | Russian Negotiator Nikolai Ivanovich | Episode: "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" |
| In Deep | Jamie Lamb | Episode: "Untouched" | |
| 2003 | Trust | Alan Cooper-Fozzard | |
| 2004–06 | Deadwood | Al Swearengen | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2004) TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2004), also nominated in 2005 Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2005) Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2005) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (2005) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2006) Nominated - TV Land Award for Character You REALLY Don't Want to Make Angry (2008) |
| 2008 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Gordon | Episode: "Dear Vikings" |
| 2009 | Kings | King Silas Benjamin | |
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Waleran Bigod | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated - Monte Carlo TV Festival: Golden Nymph for Mini-Series - Best Performance by an Actor Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
| Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special | Tai Lung | Made for television Voice |
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| 2012 | American Horror Story: Asylum | TBA |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.
In Beverly Hills ... they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
—Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)