Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes
|
1967 |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Watchman No. 4 |
Television movie, BBC
|
Softly, Softly |
Pete Lucas |
Episode: Appointment in Wyvern
|
1967–1978
|
Play of the Month
|
Various characters
|
5 episodes
|
1968 |
Public Eye |
Unknown |
Episode: "Have Mud, Will Throw"
|
1969 |
Fraud Squad |
Rex Lucien |
Episode: "Last Exit to Leichstenstein"
|
1968–1970 |
The Borderers |
Gavin Ker |
26 episodes
|
1970 |
Confession |
Mr. Tennent |
Episode: "People Who Visit Glass Houses"
|
1971 |
Eyeless in Gaza |
Mark Staithes |
5 episodes
|
1972 |
The Challengers |
John Killane |
5 episodes
|
The Man Outside |
Ralph Kenward |
Episode: "Cuculus Canorus"
|
Softly, Softly: Task Force |
Cranley |
Episode: "Welcome to the Club"
|
Kate |
Edward |
Episode: "A Fact of Life"
|
1973 |
Menace |
Ellis |
Episode: "Judas Goat"
|
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield |
Harry |
Episode "#1.5"
|
Special Branch |
Muller |
Episode: "Hostage"
|
Arthur of the Britons |
Roland |
Episode: "The Prisoner"
|
Six Days of Justice |
Mr. Golding |
Episode: "Stranger in Paradise"
|
ITV Saturday Night Theatre |
Brother Kevin |
Episode: "Catholics"
|
Orson Welles Great Mysteries |
Major Rolfe |
Episode: "An Affair of Honour"
|
1974 |
Zodiac |
Reuben Keiser |
Episode: "The Cool Aquarian"
|
Masquerade |
Stewart |
Episode: "May We Come In?"
|
1975 |
The Secret Agent |
Tom Ossipon |
Television Movie, BBC
|
1976 |
Centre Play |
Edith Harrison |
Episode: "In the Labyrinth"
|
1972–1976 |
Play for Today |
Various characters |
3 episodes
|
1977 |
ITV Sunday Night Drama |
Various characters |
2 episodes
|
1978 |
Premiere |
Kenny |
Episode: "One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day"
|
1977–1979 |
The Other One |
Brian Bryant |
13 episodes
|
1979 |
Chalk and Cheese |
Unknown |
Unknown episodes
|
1980 |
Tales of the Unexpected |
Andrew |
Episode: "The Umbrella Man"
|
1982 |
ITV Playhouse |
Unknown |
Episode: "The Breadwinner"
|
La ronde |
Unknown |
Television movie, BBC
|
1985 |
Absurd Person Singular |
Geoffrey Jackson |
Television movie, BBC
|
Oscar |
Oscar Wilde |
TV miniseries
|
Tropical Moon Over Dorking |
Bill |
Television movie, BBC
|
1986 |
The Singing Detective |
Philip Marlowe |
6 episodes
|
1987 |
Bergerac |
Jarvis McLeod |
Episode: "Winner Takes All"
|
Theatre Night |
Pastor Manders |
Episode: Ghosts
|
1988 |
Mountain Language |
Sergeant |
Television Movie, BBC
|
1989 |
The Heat of the Day |
Harrison |
TV movie
|
The Jim Henson Hour |
Ultragorgon (voice) |
Episode: Monster Maker
|
About Face |
Trevor |
Episode: "Searching for Señor Duende"
|
1990 |
Blood Royal: William the Conqueror |
William I |
TV movie
|
1991 |
The Storyteller: Greek Myths |
The Storyteller |
4 episodes
|
Minder |
Tommy Hanbury |
Episode: "Guess Who's Coming to Pinner?"
|
1992–1993 |
Maigret |
Insp. Maigret |
12 episodes
|
1993 |
Performance |
Archie Rice |
Episode: "The Entertainer"
|
1994 |
Faith |
Peter John Moreton |
TV miniseries
|
1995 |
The Wind in the Willows |
Badger (voice) |
Television movie
|
1996 |
Expert Witness |
Presenter / Narrator |
|
Samson and Delilah |
King Hanun |
TV miniseries
|
1999 |
Wives and Daughters |
Squire Hamley |
TV miniseries, BBC
|
2000 |
Longitude |
John Harrison |
Television movie, A&E
|
Endgame |
Hamm |
Television Movie, BBC
|
2001 |
Perfect Strangers |
Raymond |
Miniseries, BBC
|
2002 |
Path to War |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Television Movie, HBO
|
Top Gear |
Guest |
Series 1: episode 8
|
2003 |
The Lost Prince |
Edward VII |
TV movie, BBC
|
Angels in America |
Prior Walter Ancestor |
TV Miniseries, HBO
|
2006 |
Top Gear |
Guest |
Series 8: episode 5
|
Celebration |
Lambert |
TV movie
|
2007 |
Joe's Palace |
Elliot Graham |
Television movie, BBC
|
Cranford |
Mr. Holbrook |
2 episodes
|
2009 |
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire |
The Narrator |
Episode: "Wench Trouble"
|
Emma |
Mr. Woodhouse |
TV miniseries
|
2010 |
Doctor Who |
Kazran / Elliot Sardick |
Christmas special: "A Christmas Carol"[3]
|
2011 |
Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey |
Narrator |
Uncredited
|
Page Eight |
Benedict Baron |
TV movie, PBS
|
2012 |
Luck |
Michael "Mike" Smythe |
Miniseries, HBO
|
Restless |
Baron Mansfield |
Miniseries, PBS
|
2013 |
National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage |
Himself |
Live special; PBS
|
Lucan |
Older John Burke |
Miniseries, ITV
|
2014 |
Quirke |
Judge Garret Griffin |
3 episodes
|
Common |
Judge |
TV movie, BBC
|
On Angel Wings |
Grandfather (voice) |
Short
|
2015 |
The Casual Vacancy |
Howard Mollison |
Mini-series, HBO[4]
|
2016 |
Churchill's Secret |
Winston Churchill |
TV movie, PBS
|
The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part I |
Mortimer |
Miniseries, BBC
|
2017 |
Fearless |
Sir Alastair McKinnon |
Miniseries, ITV
|
Little Women |
Mr. Laurence |
TV miniseries, PBS
|
2015–2018 |
Fortitude |
Henry Tyson |
10 episodes
|