- The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
2027 Gandalf
- The Christophers
2026 Julian Sklar
- Avengers: Doomsday
2026 Magneto
- Ebenezer
2026 Jacob Marley
- Frank and Percy
2026 Percy
- LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes
2026 L S Lowry
- Schadenfreude
2025 Continuity Announcer
- The Critic
2024 Jimmy Erskine
- Hamlet
2024 Hamlet
- Dragfox
2024 Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
- The One Note Man
2023 Narrator (voice)
- Hamlet Within
2022
- Infinitum: Subject Unknown
2021 Dr. Charles Marland-White
- The Good Liar
2019 Roy Courtnay
- Cats
2019 Gus, the Theatre Cat
- The Isle
2019 Associate Producer
- Animal Crackers
2018 Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
- National Theatre Live: King Lear
2018 King Lear
- All Is True
2018 Earl of Southampton
- Beauty and the Beast
2017 Cogsworth
- How a Kite Flies
2017 Mr. Kite (voice)
- All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
2016 Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
- The Roof
2016 And Even Yet Another Fan
- National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
2016 Spooner
- Mr. Holmes
2015 Sherlock Holmes
- The Dresser
2015 Norman
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 Gandalf the Grey
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 Magneto
- Miss in Her Teens
2014 The Prologue
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 Gandalf the Grey
- The Wolverine
2013 Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
- The Egg Trick
2013 Magician
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 Gandalf the Grey
- Doctor Who: The Snowmen
2012 The Great Intelligence (voice)
- A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
2010 Narrator (voice)
- Small-Time Revolutionary
2010 Hamish Miller (voice)
- King Lear
2008 King Lear
- The Golden Compass
2007 Iorek Byrnison (voice)
- Stardust
2007 Narrator (voice)
- For the Love of God
2007 The Jackdaw
- The Da Vinci Code
2006 Sir Leigh Teabing
- Flushed Away
2006 The Toad (voice)
- Doogal
2006 Zebedee (voice)
- X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
- Saint of 9/11
2006 Narrator
- Neverwas
2005 Gabriel Finch
- Asylum
2005 Dr. Peter Cleave
- The Magic Roundabout
2005 Zebedee (voice)
- Eighteen
2005 Jason Anders (voice)
- My First Time
2004 Narrator
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 Gandalf
- Emile
2003 Emile
- X2
2003 Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 Gandalf
- Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
2001 Narrator (voice)
- X-Men
2000 Magneto
- Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
2000 Narrator (voice)
- Gods and Monsters
1998 James Whale
- Swept from the Sea
1998 Dr. James Kennedy
- Apt Pupil
1998 Kurt Dussander
- Bent
1997 Uncle Freddie
- A Bit Of Scarlet
1997 Narrator
- Rasputin
1996 Tsar Nicholas II
- Jack & Sarah
1995 William
- Richard III
1995 Screenplay
- Cold Comfort Farm
1995 Amos Starkadder
- Restoration
1995 Will Gates
- Thin Ice
1995 Ian McKellen
- The Shadow
1994 Dr. Reinhardt Lane
- To Die For
1994 Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
- I'll Do Anything
1994 John Earl McAlpine
- David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 Augustus Caesar (voice)
- And the Band Played On
1993 Bill Kraus
- Six Degrees of Separation
1993 Geoffrey
- Last Action Hero
1993 Death
- The Ballad of Little Jo
1993 Percy Corcoran
- Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
1993 Narration (voice)
- Camp Christmas
1993
- Gladio
1992 Aldo Moro (voice)
- Othello
1990 Iago
- Scandal
1989 John Profumo
- Countdown to War
1989 Adolf Hitler
- Scarfe's Follies
1988
- Süleyman the Magnificent
1987 Narrator
- Plenty
1985 Sir Andrew Charleson
- Zina
1985 Kronfeld
- The Keep
1983 Dr. Theodore Cuza
- Walter and June
1983 Walter
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982 Chauvelin
- Walter
1982 Walter
- Priest of Love
1981 D.H. Lawrence
- Dying Day
1980 Antony Skipling
- Macbeth
1979 Macbeth
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979 Alexander Ivanov
- Graceless Go I
1974 Tony
- Hedda Gabler
1972 George Tesman
- Craven Arms
1972 David Masterman
- Hamlet
1970 Hamlet
- Edward II
1970 King Edward
- The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970 King Richard II
- Alfred the Great
1969 Roger
- A Touch of Love
1969 George
- The Promise
1969
- No Man's Land
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