Credits

• 2025 · Eternal Return as Malcolm
• 2024 · The Holiday List as Samuel
• 2024 · The Boy That Never Was as Cozimo
• 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
• 2024 · Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 as Cavendish
• 2023 · Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll as Richard O'Keefe
• 2023 · Doctor Jekyll as
• 2022 · The Pay Day as Gates
• 2022 · Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2021 · Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Alexander Pope
• 2018 · The Dead Room as Aubrey Judd
• 2018 · They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
• 2016 · There's Something About Romcoms as Self
• 2016 · Golden Years as Royston
• 2015 · Creditors as
• 2014 · Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule as Narrator (voice)
• 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
• 2014 · Miss in Her Teens as The Author
• 2012 · Them From That Thing as Various
• 2012 · Acts of Godfrey as Godfrey
• 2011 · The British Guide to Showing Off as Self
• 2011 · Late Bloomers as Richard
• 2010 · The Unforgettable Harry Secombe as Self
• 2008 · Chemical Wedding as Haddo
• 2007 · How Gay Sex Changed the World as Self
• 2005 · Rag Tale as Cormac Rourke
• 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as Bob
• 2002 · The Mystery of Charles Dickens as Charles Dickens
• 1998 · Bedrooms and Hallways as Keith
• 1996 · Victory as Zangiacomo
• 1995 · El pasajero clandestino as Major Owens
• 1994 · Little Napoleons as Edward Feathers
• Future · Étoile as
• 2023 · Dodger Special: Coronation as Archbishop of Canterbury
• 2023 · Surprised by Oxford as Dr. Sterling
• 2022 · American: An Odyssey to 1947 as Self
• 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
• 2022 · Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Narrator
• 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye as
• 2021 · The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Blunden
• 2021 · Hawkeye as Armand Duquesne III
• 2021 · The Cleaner as Mr. Abahassine
• 2021 · Classical Destinations: The Great Composers as narrator
• 2020 · Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet as Narrator
• 2019 · The Witcher as Codringher
• 2018 · A Christmas Carol as
• 2018 · Blue Iguana as Uncle Martin
• 2017 · Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty as
• 2017 · The Man Who Invented Christmas as Leech
• 2017 · Victoria & Abdul as Mr. Puccini
• 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
• 2017 · Hampstead as Judge
• 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
• 2017 · Viceroy's House as Cyril Radcliffe
• 2016 · Mindhorn as Himself
• 2016 · The Rebel as Henry Palmer
• 2015 · Galavant as Edwin the Magnificent
• 2014 · The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World as
• 2014 · Outlander as Duke of Sandringham
• 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Dick
• 2013 · The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 as Self
• 2013 · A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley as Himself
• 2013 · Plebs as
• 2012 · Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story as Dickie Attenborough
• 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
• 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Dudley
• 2012 · Being Shakespeare as
• 2011 · Death in Paradise as Larry South
• 2011 · Love's Kitchen as Guy Witherspoon
• 2011 · Art of Freedom as Self
• 2011 · Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags as Narrator
• 2011 · Jamie's Dream School as Himself
• 2011 · Ice as Prime Minister
• 2011 · Ice as Prime Minister
• 2010 · Save Our Bacon as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
• 2010 · Arn: The Knight Templar as Fader Henry
• 2009 · Orson Welles Over Europe as Himself - Presenter
• 2009 · The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words as Readings (voice)
• 2009 · Theatreland as Himself
• 2008 · Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait as Self
• 2008 · Q&A as Self - Panellist
• 2007 · Arn: The Knight Templar as Father Henry
• 2007 · The Company as MI6 liaison officer Elihu
• 2007 · Surveillance 24/7 as St John
• 2007 · Roman Mysteries as Pliny
• 2007 · Derren Brown: Trick or Treat as Himself
• 2006 · The Madness of Boy George as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as George Russell
• 2006 · Reviving Harry Lime as Himself
• 2006 · The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as George Russell
• 2006 · Men of Mystery as Himself
• 2005 · Ripley Under Ground as Dean Bentliffe
• 2005 · A Tribute To Ismail Merchant as Self (archive footage)
• 2005 · Revisiting Brideshead as Narrator
• 2005 · The Best Man as Big-Time Publisher
• 2005 · The Civilization of Maxwell Bright as Mr. Wroth
• 2005 · Doctor Who as Charles Dickens
• 2005 · Bob the Butler as Mr. Butler
• 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Melchett
• 2004 · The Phantom of the Opera as Andre
• 2004 · Shoebox Zoo as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
• 2004 · George and the Dragon as King Edgar
• 2003 · Angels in America as Prior 2
• 2003 · Angels in America as Prior Walter Ancestor #2
• 2003 · Bright Young Things as King of Anatolia
• 2003 · Little Britain as
• 2002 · Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens as Galileo
• 2002 · Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale as Charles Dickens
• 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir John Osgood
• 2001 · Christmas Carol: The Movie as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
• 2001 · Don't Eat the Neighbours as
• 2001 · No Man's Land as Colonel Soft
• 2000 · Deadly Appearances as Rick Spencer
• 2000 · Around The World In 80 Days as Phileas Fogg (voice)
• 2000 · Animated Epics: Don Quixote as Don Quixote
• 1999 · Loose Women as Self
• 1999 · Notting Hill as Simon Callow (uncredited)
• 1998 · Shakespeare in Love as Tilney
• 1998 · The Scarlet Tunic as Captain Fairfax
• 1998 · Parkinson as Self
• 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Dr. Wellow
• 1997 · The Woman In White as Count Fosco
• 1996 · Testament: The Bible in Animation as Meneptah (voice)
• 1996 · Moses as Meneptah II (voice)
• 1996 · James and the Giant Peach as Grasshopper (voice)
• 1996 · Dennis the Menace and Gnasher as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
• 1996 · An Audience with Charles Dickens as Charles Dickens
• 1995 · Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls as Vincent Cadby
• 1995 · Jefferson in Paris as Richard Cosway
• 1995 · England, My England as Charles II
• 1994 · Street Fighter as A. N. Official
• 1994 · Four Weddings and a Funeral as Gareth
• 1993 · Camp Christmas as
• 1993 · Femme Fatale as Vicar Ronnie
• 1993 · Soft Top Hard Shoulder as Eddie Cherdowski
• 1992 · Howards End as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
• 1991 · The Trials of Oz as John Mortimer
• 1991 · The Crucifer of Blood as Inspector Lestrade
• 1991 · Performance as John Mortimer
• 1990 · Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as Dr. Alex Sauer
• 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Simon Asquith
• 1990 · Old Flames as Nathanial Quass
• 1989 · Revolutionary Witness as Franciscus Palloy
• 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Lutz
• 1988 · Manifesto as Police Chief Hunt
• 1987 · The Reluctant Dragon as Dragon (voice)
• 1987 · Maurice as Mr. Ducie
• 1987 · Acting as
• 1987 · Cariani and the Courtesans as Raimondi
• 1987 · Inspector Morse as Theodore Kemp
• 1986 · David Copperfield as Wilkins Micawber
• 1986 · Dead Head as Hugo Silver
• 1985 · A Room with a View as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
• 1985 · The Good Father as Mark Varda
• 1985 · Honour, Profit & Pleasure as George Frideric Handel
• 1984 · Amadeus as Emanuel Schikaneder
• 1984 · Chance in a Million as Tom Chance
• 1981 · The Man of Destiny as Napoleon
• 1979 · Instant Enlightenment Including VAT as Maximillian
• 1979 · Question Time as Himself - Panellist
• 1975 · The Sweeney as Detective Sergeant
• 1974 · NOVA as Galileo