Credits

• 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
• 2016 · Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film as Self
• 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)
• 2005 · Revisiting Brideshead as Self (archive footage)
• 2001 · Catastrophe as The Protagonist
• 1998 · Elizabeth as The Pope
• 1998 · The Tichborne Claimant as Cockburn
• 1998 · Quest for Camelot as Merlin (voice)
• 1998 · Merlin as King Constant
• 1998 · Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow as
• 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as St. John Clarke
• 1997 · David 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)
• 1996 · Gulliver's Travels as Professor of Light
• 1995 · Haunted as Doctor Doyle
• 1995 · Stick With Me, Kid as Grandpa
• 1995 · First Knight as Oswald
• 1995 · The Thomas The Tank Engine Man as Self (Voice)
• 1994 · A Summer Day's Dream as
• 1994 · Scarlett as
• 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
• 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 · Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
• 1991 · The Strauss Dynasty as Drechsler
• 1991 · The Best of Friends as Sydney Cockerell
• 1990 · Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
• 1990 · Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes as Narrator (voice)
• 1990 · A TV Dante as Virgil
• 1990 · Strike It Rich as Herbert Dreuther
• 1989 · Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
• 1989 · Getting It Right as Sir Gordon Munday
• 1988 · A Man for All Seasons as Cardinal Wolsey
• 1988 · War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
• 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 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as British Lord
• 1987 · Quartermaine's Terms as Eddie Loomis
• 1987 · Inspector Morse as Lord Hinksey
• 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
• 1986 · Lovejoy as Lord Wakering
• 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
• 1985 · Screen Two as
• 1984 · Camille as Duke de Charles
• 1984 · Frankenstein as De Lacey
• 1984 · Six Centuries of Verse as Himself - Presenter
• 1984 · The Far Pavilions as Cavagnari
• 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 · Wagner as Pfistermeister
• 1983 · The Wicked Lady as Hogarth
• 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Pope Pius XII
• 1983 · Invitation to the Wedding as
• 1982 · Marco Polo as Doge di Venezia
• 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 · Brideshead Revisited as Edward 'Ned' Ryder
• 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 · Tales of the Unexpected as Jelks
• 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Boggis
• 1979 · Murder by Decree as Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
• 1978 · Les Misérables as Gillenormand
• 1978 · Richard II as John of Gaunt
• 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as Chorus
• 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare 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 · Second City Television as Self - Special Guest Star
• 1976 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
• 1976 · Aces High as Headmaster
• 1975 · Galileo 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
• 1974 · QB VII as Clinton-Meek
• 1973 · Frankenstein: The True Story as Chief Constable
• 1973 · Lost Horizon as Chang
• 1973 · William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare as Various
• 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Various Roles
• 1972 · Probe as Harold L. Streeter
• 1972 · Eagle in a Cage as Lord Sissal
• 1972 · Home as Harry
• 1971 · Great Performances as Self
• 1970 · Play for Today as Harry
• 1970 · Menace as
• 1970 · Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
• 1969 · Oh! What a Lovely War as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
• 1968 · The Shoes of the Fisherman as The Elder pope
• 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
• 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 · Omnibus as Self
• 1967 · October Revolution as Narrator (voice)
• 1967 · Romeo and Juliet as Chorus
• 1966 · Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
• 1966 · The Mayfly and the Frog as Gabriel Quantara
• 1966 · ABC Stage 67 as Rich Man
• 1966 · Ages of Man as
• 1965 · Chimes at Midnight as Henry IV
• 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Captain Shotover
• 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Lord Burleigh
• 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Chorus
• 1965 · The Loved One as Sir Francis Hinsley
• 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as The Writer
• 1964 · The Wednesday Play as Gabriel Quantara
• 1964 · Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Ghost (voice)
• 1964 · Becket as King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France
• 1963 · To Die in Madrid as Narrator (English version) (voice)
• 1962 · The Cherry Orchard as Gaev
• 1959 · The Big Party as Self
• 1959 · The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
• 1958 · The Immortal Land as
• 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
• 1957 · Saint Joan as Earl of Warwick
• 1957 · The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett
• 1956 · Around the World in Eighty Days as Foster
• 1955 · Richard III 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
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Ghost
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Charmolue
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lord Durrisdeer
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Duke
• 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Shakespearean Reader
• 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• 1945 · A Diary for Timothy as Hamlet
• 1941 · An Airman's Letter to His Mother as Narrator
• 1941 · The Prime Minister as Disraeli
• 1937 · Heredity in Man as Self
• 1936 · Secret Agent as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
• 1933 · The Good Companions as Inigo Jollifant
• 1932 · Insult as Henri Dubois
• 1929 · The Clue of the New Pin as Rex Trasmere
• 1924 · Who Is the Man? as Daniel