Credits

• 2026 · Heartstopper Forever as
• 2026 · Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
• 2026 · Broken English as The Narrator
• 2025 · Tinsel Town as Albert
• 2025 · Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
• 2024 · Gladiator II as Gracchus
• 2024 · Ludwig as Mr. Todd
• 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
• 2023 · The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin
• 2022 · The Sandman as Erasmus Fry
• 2022 · Remembers… as Self
• 2021 · The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
• 2020 · Come Away as Mr. Brown
• 2019 · Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans as Claudius
• 2019 · Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator
• 2019 · Good Omens as The Metatron
• 2019 · Good Omens as Metatron
• 2019 · Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
• 2018 · Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel
• 2018 · Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe
• 2017 · Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
• 2017 · Stratton as Ross
• 2016 · The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
• 2016 · The Crown as Duke of Windsor
• 2015 · Cinderella as King
• 2014 · Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
• 2014 · Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
• 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Webster
• 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
• 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
• 2013 · Vicious as Stuart Bixby
• 2012 · Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
• 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
• 2012 · Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
• 2011 · My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
• 2011 · Anonymous as Prologue
• 2011 · The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)
• 2011 · The Borgias as Cardinal Orsini
• 2011 · There Be Dragons as Honorio
• 2011 · Ironclad as Cornhill
• 2010 · The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
• 2010 · Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
• 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
• 2008 · Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
• 2007 · The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
• 2007 · In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
• 2005 · Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
• 2005 · Doctor Who as Professor Yana
• 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as
• 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe
• 2004 · Strings as Nezo
• 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
• 2004 · The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
• 2004 · London as Tacitus
• 2003 · Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
• 2003 · Henry VIII as Narrator
• 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
• 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
• 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
• 2002 · The Jury as George Cording QC
• 2001 · Gosford Park as Probert
• 2001 · The Body as Father Lavelle
• 2001 · Revelation as Librarian
• 2000 · Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
• 2000 · Gladiator as Gracchus
• 2000 · Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
• 2000 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
• 1998 · Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
• 1996 · Hamlet as King Claudius
• 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
• 1996 · The West as Self (voice)
• 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
• 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
• 1994 · Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
• 1993 · Frasier as Jackson Hedley
• 1992 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1991 · The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
• 1991 · Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
• 1990 · The Civil War as William Russell / Various (voice)
• 1989 · Henry V as Chorus
• 1988 · The Tenth Man as The Imposter
• 1987 · Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
• 1987 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
• 1986 · ScreenPlay as George Salisbury
• 1986 · Mr Pye as Mr Pye
• 1986 · Wedden, dat..? as Self
• 1982 · Enigma as Kurt Limmer
• 1982 · The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
• 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
• 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
• 1981 · Charlotte as Daberlohn
• 1979 · The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
• 1979 · Minder as Freddie Fenton
• 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
• 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Drioli
• 1978 · Richard II as King Richard II
• 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as Richard II
• 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as Hamlet
• 1978 · The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
• 1976 · I, Claudius as Claudius
• 1974 · The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
• 1974 · Affairs of the Heart as Bertram Braddle
• 1974 · NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
• 1974 · The Pallisers as Lord Fawn
• 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
• 1971 · The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew
• 1971 · Budgie as Herbert Fletcher
• 1967 · ITV Playhouse as Gerry
• 1965 · Othello as Cassio
• 1964 · Horizon as Narrator
• 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Eric
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald Craven
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Imposter
• Future · Frank and Percy as
• 2023 · The Martini Shot as Errol
• 2023 · Allelujah as Ambrose
• 2023 · U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice)
• 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
• 2022 · A Bird Flew In as David
• 2022 · Pearl Islands as Self
• 2021 · Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
• 2020 · The Host as Dr. Hobson
• 2019 · The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
• 2019 · Muse as The Lawyer
• 2016 · Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
• 2015 · Venom as Narrator
• 2015 · The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
• 2012 · Last Will. & Testament as Himself
• 2012 · Jail Caesar as Sulla
• 2011 · National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
• 2009 · Diamonds as
• 2009 · Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
• 2008 · A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
• 2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
• 2008 · The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
• 2007 · The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
• 2007 · Guantanamero as Guido
• 2007 · The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
• 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
• 2002 · Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
• 2002 · I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
• 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
• 2002 · The Making of Gosford Park as Self
• 2000 · The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
• 2000 · Wilfred as Voice
• 1999 · The Chimes as Narrator
• 1999 · Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
• 1998 · Basil as Father Frederick
• 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
• 1996 · Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
• 1994 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
• 1994 · Monk's Hood as Brother Cadfael
• 1994 · The Sanctuary Sparrow as Brother Cadfael
• 1994 · One Corpse Too Many as Brother Cadfael
• 1993 · Circles of Deceit as Randal
• 1992 · Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
• 1990 · The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
• 1990 · Discovering Hamlet as Himself
• 1989 · The Congress as (voice)
• 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
• 1986 · On Wings of Fire as Self
• 1986 · David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
• 1985 · The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
• 1980 · Hamlet as Hamlet
• 1978 · Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
• 1974 · Blue Blood as Gregory
• 1970 · Three Sisters as Andrei
• Future · Lead Heads as
• 2024 · Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
• 2021 · Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
• 2020 · Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
• 2020 · Breaking The Codes as
• 2018 · 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year as
• 2018 · Nothing Is Truer than Truth as
• 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
• 2017 · Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge as
• 2016 · The Devil of Christmas as
• 2015 · Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
• 2013 · You as Man
• 2013 · The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
• 2013 · Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
• 2012 · The Halloween Kid as Narrator
• 2011 · Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)
• 2010 · Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
• 2009 · Margot as Fred Ashton
• 2009 · Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
• 2009 · Diamonds as Piers Denmont
• 2009 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
• 2008 · Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
• 2008 · One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
• 2007 · Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
• 2007 · Anastezsi as Balzer
• 2007 · The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
• 2006 · Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
• 2005 · Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator(voice)
• 2005 · Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
• 2005 · Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
• 2004 · Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
• 2004 · Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor
• 2002 · The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
• 2002 · Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
• 2002 · The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
• 2001 · The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus (voice)
• 2001 · David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
• 2001 · Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
• 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
• 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as General
• 1995 · The Virgin in the Ice as Brother Cadfael
• 1995 · Achilles as Narrator
• 1994 · The Leper of St. Giles as Brother Cadfael
• 1994 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1994 · David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
• 1993 · The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
• 1992 · The Velvet Claw as Narrator
• 1986 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
• 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1982 · Stranger in Town as The Stranger
• 1980 · The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
• 1977 · Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
• 1972 · Man of Straw as Diederich Hessling
• 1967 · Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
• 1965 · Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
• 1962 · The Fishing Match as Eric
• Future · Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator