- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 Big Daddy (archive footage)
- Thomas Hart Benton
1989 Himself
- Two Moon Junction
1988 Sheriff Earl Hawkins
- Uphill All the Way
1986 Sheriff John Catledge
- The Ewok Adventure
1984 Narrator (voice)
- White Dog
1982 Carruthers
- Earthbound
1981 Ned Anderson
- Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981 Himself
- Just You and Me, Kid
1979 Max
- The Bermuda Depths
1978 Dr. Paulis
- The New Adventures of Heidi
1978 Grandfather
- Baker's Hawk
1976 Mr. McGraw
- The First Easter Rabbit
1976 Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
- The McMasters
1970 McMasters
- The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970 T.M. Trask
- The Whole World Is Watching
1969 Walter Nichols
- The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968 Narrator (voice)
- The Sound of Anger
1968 Walter Nichols
- Pinocchio
1968 Geppetto
- Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967 Phineas T. Barnum
- The Daydreamer
1966 Father Neptune (voice)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964 Sam the Snowman (voice)
- Ensign Pulver
1964 Captain Morton
- The Brass Bottle
1964 Fakrash
- Summer Magic
1963 Osh Popham
- The Spiral Road
1962 Dr. Brits Jansen
- Mediterranean Holiday
1962 Narrator (US Version) (voice)
- Our Man in Havana
1960 Dr. Hasselbacher
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
- Day of the Outlaw
1959 Jack Bruhn
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
- The Big Country
1958 Rufus Hannassey
- Wind Across the Everglades
1958 Cottonmouth
- Desire Under the Elms
1958 Éphraïm Cabot
- The Miracle Worker
1957 Captain Keller
- The Power and the Prize
1956 George Salt
- East of Eden
1955 Sam the Sheriff
- Sierra
1950 Lonesome
- So Dear to My Heart
1948 Uncle Hiram Douglas
- Station West
1948 Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Green Grass of Wyoming
1948 Gus
- Smoky
1946 Willie
