- The Moor
2024 Thornley
- Forever Young
2024 Oscar Smith
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 In Memory Of
- The Responder
2022 Tom Carson
- Remembers…
2022
- Segunda oportunidad
2018 Peter
- Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2017 Richard
- Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
2016 Narrator
- Golden Years
2016 Arthur
- Inside CERN
2016 Narrator
- North v South
2015 John Claridge
- Unforgotten
2015 Father Robert Greaves
- India's Frontier Railways
2015 Narrator - (Voice)
- Wolf Hall
2015 Duke of Norfolk
- From There to Here
2014 Samuel
- Hope and Wire
2014 Len Russell
- The Sorrows
2013
- ParaNorman
2012 Judge Hopkins (voice)
- Outpost 11
2012 Cranleigh
- Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2012 Captain EJ Smith
- The Kid
2010 Uncle David
- Canoe Man
2010 John Darwin
- Franklyn
2008 Esser
- Titus: The Gorilla King
2008 Narrator
- Bombay Railway
2008 Narrator
- Valkyrie
2008 General - Desert Sequence
- Exodus
2008 Narrator (voice)
- Sunshine
2008 George Crosby
- Wild China
2008 Himself - Narrator
- Fairy Tales
2008 Grettongrat
- The Heart of the Earth
2007 Sr. Crown
- The Crumblegiant
2007 Narrator
- Exodus
2007 Pharoah Mann
- Save Angel Hope
2007 Oscar Kurz
- Five Days
2007 Gerard Hopkirk
- Joy Division
2006 Dennis
- Ocean Odyssey
2006 Narrator (voice)
- No Go: The Free Derry Story
2006 Narrator (voice)
- Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
2006 Narrator (voice)
- Tim Haines Deep Ocean
2006 Erzähler
- Surviving Disaster
2006 Himself - Narrator
- A Very Social Secretary
2005 David Blunkett
- The Last Tommy
2005 Narrator
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005 King William III
- Heatwave
2005 Narrator (voice)
- Wimbledon
2004 Edward Colt
- Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004 Narrator
- The Grid
2004
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 Théoden
- The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003 John Joe
- Gothika
2003 Phil Parsons
- One Life
2003
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 Théoden
- The Scorpion King
2002 Philos
- Going Off Big Time
2000 Murray
- Eisenstein
2000 The voice of Stalin
- A Question of Faith
2000 Frederick
- Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000 Narrator (voice)
- Great Expectations
1999 Abel Magwitch
- The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999 Susan's Father
- The Criminal
1999 Det. Insp. Walker
- True Crime
1999 Warden Luther Plunkitt
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999 Egeus
- The Titanic Chronicles
1999 (voice)
- Great Expectations
1999 Abel Magwitch
- Titanic: Secrets Revealed
1998 Host
- The Mill on the Floss
1997 Edward Tulliver
- Titanic
1997 Captain Smith
- The Ghost and the Darkness
1996 Dr. David Hawthorne
- The Wind in the Willows
1996 The Engine Driver
- Madagascar Skin
1995 Flint
- First Knight
1995 Knight (uncredited)
- The Gambling Man
1995 Frank nickle
- Dirtysomething
1994 Larry
- Speaking In Tongues
1994 Joe
- Skallagrigg
1994 John
- Once Upon A Time In The North
1994 Len Tollit
- Stages
1994 Joe
- Shepherd on the Rock
1993 Tam Ferrier
- Olly's Prison
1993 Mike
- Lipstick on Your Collar
1993 Uncle Fred
- Double X: The Name of the Game
1992 Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
- A Question of Identity
1992 Erwin van Haarlem
- The Law Lord
1992 Martin Allport
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 Bottom (voice)
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 Bottom (voice)
- Between the Lines
1992 Chief Constable Harmsworth
- Crime Story
1992 Erwin van Haarlem
- Shrinks
1991 Frank Beasley
- Mountains of the Moon
1990 Dr. Livingstone
- Shoot the Revolution
1990 Octavian Barbu
- From Moscow to Pietushki
1990 Readings (voice)
- Shirley Valentine
1989 Joe Bradshaw
- About Face
1989 Bryce
- Drowning by Numbers
1988 Henry Madgett
- Bellman and True
1987 Hiller
- Boy Soldier
1987 Officer
- Theban Plays: Antigone
1986 Messenger
- ScreenPlay
1986 Octavian Barbu
- Restless Natives
1985 Will's father
- No Surrender
1985 Bernard
- The Burston Rebellion
1985 Tom Higdon
- John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985 John Lennon
- Screen Two
1985 John
- The Bounty
1984 William Cole
- The Chain
1984 Nick
- Squaring the Circle
1984 Lech Walesa
- Samson and Delilah
1984 Willie
- Henry VI Part 1
1983 Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
- Henry VI Part 2
1983 Duke of York
- Henry VI Part 3
1983 Duke of York
- The Tragedy of Richard III
1983 First Murderer
- Runners
1983 Trevor Field
- Natural World
1983
- Gandhi
1982 Sergeant Putnam
- Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 Yosser Hughes
- Say No to Strangers
1981 Teresa's Dad
- A Turn for the Worse
1981 Simon Simpson
- The Black Stuff
1980 Yosser Hughes
- Fox
1980 Vin Fox
- Fox
1980 Vin Fox
- The Glamour Girls
1980 Boris
- The Spongers
1978 Sullivan
- She Fell Among Thieves
1978 Carson
- Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978 Mick
- Pickersgill People
1978 Harry 'Sharky' Finn
- Daft Mam Blues
1977 Billy
- Professional Foul
1977 Broadbent
- Pit Strike
1977 Tom
- Our Flesh and Blood
1977 Bernard Blincoe
- BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 Carson
- Childhood
1977 Janey's father
- Premiere
1977 Tom
- Trial by Combat
1976 Blind Freddie
- It Could Happen to You
1976 Syph
- Housewives' Choice
1976 Eric
- The Peddler
1976 Graham
- I, Claudius
1976 Gratus
- Village Hall
1974 Policeman
- Hard Labour
1973 Edward Thornley
- Second City Firsts
1973 Billy
- Play for Today
1970 Graham
- Horizon
1964 Narrator
