- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
- Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006 Joe's Father (video "One")
- Going Home
2000 Charles Barton
- Magnolia
1999 Earl Partridge
- The Real Macaw
1998 Grandpa Girdis
- Heartwood
1998 Logan Reeser
- Beloved
1998 Mr. Bodwin
- Enemy of the State
1998 Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- A Thousand Acres
1997 Larry Cook
- Truman
1997 Narrator (voice)
- T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996 Narrator
- The Great American West
1995 Narrator (voice)
- My Antonia
1995 Josea Burden
- Journey
1995 Marcus
- Crimson Tide
1995 Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
- The Paper
1994 Graham Keighley
- The Enemy Within
1994 General R. Pendleton Lloyd
- Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994 Narrator
- Little Big League
1994 Thomas Heywood
- The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 The King
- The Trial
1993 Doctor Huld
- Philadelphia
1993 Charles Wheeler
- La Classe américaine
1993 The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
- Heidi
1993 Großvater
- Roots of Roe
1993 Anthony Comstock (voice)
- Storyville
1992 Clifford Fowler
- Deceptions
1992 Clay (voice)
- Lincoln
1992 President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- When It Was a Game 2
1992 Passage Narrator (voice)
- Mark Twain and Me
1991 Mark Twain
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991 Narrator (voice)
- The Perfect Tribute
1991 President Abraham Lincoln
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991 Dr. Armand Hammer
- Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991 Narrator (voice)
- When It Was a Game
1991 (voice)
- Quick Change
1990 Chief Rotzinger
- Parenthood
1989 Frank Buckman
- Dream a Little Dream
1989 Coleman Ettinger
- Black Rainbow
1989 Walter Travis
- Reunion
1989 Henry Strauss
- Thomas Hart Benton
1989 Narrator (voice)
- Bright Lights, Big City
1988 Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
- The Good Mother
1988 W. O. Muth
- The Christmas Wife
1988 John Tanner
- Inherit the Wind
1988 Harry Drummond
- Square Dance
1987 Dillard
- Laguna Heat
1987 Wade Shephard
- Breaking Home Ties
1987 Lloyd Wells
- Johnny Bull
1986 Stephan Kovacs
- You Can't Take it With You
1984 Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
- America and Lewis Hine
1984 Voice
- Sakharov
1984 Andrei Sakharov
- Max Dugan Returns
1983 Max Dugan
- The Day After
1983 Dr. Russell Oakes
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 Charles Halloway
- Burden of Dreams
1982 Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 President Ulysses S. Grant
- Caboblanco
1980 Gunther Beckdorff
- Raise the Titanic
1980 Admiral James Sandecker
- Melvin and Howard
1980 Howard Hughes
- F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Haywire
1980 Leland Hayward
- Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980 Narrator
- Hurricane
1979 Capt. Charles Bruckner
- A Plague on Our Children
1979 Narrator (voice)
- Comes a Horseman
1978 Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
- A Christmas to Remember
1978 Daniel Larson
- Julia
1977 Dashiell Hammett
- All the President's Men
1976 Ben Bradlee
- Addie and the King of Hearts
1976 James "Jamie" Mills
- The Spy Who Never Was
1976 Inspector Barkan
- A Boy and His Dog
1975 Lou Craddock
- A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975 James Tyrone Jr.
- Mr. Sycamore
1975 John Gwilt
- The Easter Promise
1975 James "Jamie" Mills
- The Country Girl
1974 Frank Elgin
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 Governor Wallace
- The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973 James "Jamie" Mills
- Old Faithful
1973 Jason Robards
- The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972 James "Jamie" Mills
- The War Between Men and Women
1972 Stephen Kozlenko
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 Cesar Charron
- Johnny Got His Gun
1971 Joe's Father
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 General Walter C. Short
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 Cable Hogue
- Julius Caesar
1970 Marcus Brutus
- Fools
1970 Matthew South
- Operation Snafu
1970 Sam Armstrong
- Isadora
1968 Paris Singer
- The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968 Raymond Paine
- Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 'Cheyenne'
- Hour of the Gun
1967 Doc Holliday
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 Al Capone
- Divorce American Style
1967 Nelson Downes
- The Belle of 14th Street
1967 Performer
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967 Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
- Any Wednesday
1966 John Cleves
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 Henry Drummond
- Noon Wine
1966 Royal Earle Thompson
- A Thousand Clowns
1965 Murray
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964 Abraham Lincoln
- Act One
1963 George S. Kaufman
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962 Jamie Tyrone
- Tender Is the Night
1962 Dick Diver
- By Love Possessed
1961 Julius Penrose
- The Bat
1960 Detective Anderson
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959 Robert Jordan
- The Journey
1959 Paul Kedes
- A Doll's House
1959 Dr. Rank
