- Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2026 Charles Dickens (voice)
- Jay Kelly
2025 Peter Schneider
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 Colin Jones
- Paddington in Peru
2024 Samuel Gruber
- An A to Z of Paddington
2024 Narrator (voice)
- Call Me Back
2023 George
- 2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023 Narrator
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 Harold Fry
- Charlotte
2022 Grosspapa (voice)
- A Boy Called Christmas
2021 King
- The Duke
2021 Kempton Bunton
- Six Minutes to Midnight
2020 Charlie
- Dolittle
2020 Lord Thomas Badgley
- Black '47
2018 Lord Kilmichael
- King Lear
2018 Earl of Gloucester
- New Town Utopia
2018 Lewis Silkin MP
- King of Thieves
2018 Terry Perkins
- The Sense of an Ending
2017 Tony Webster
- Paddington 2
2017 Samuel Gruber
- Birds Like Us
2017 Horozovich (voice)
- Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 Dad
- Eddie the Eagle
2016 BBC Commentator
- The Legend of Tarzan
2016 Prime Minister
- Ethel & Ernest
2016 Ernest Briggs (voice)
- Brooklyn
2015 Father Flood
- The Go-Between
2015 Old Leo
- The Lady in the Van
2015 Underwood
- The Weather Inside
2015 Britischer Botschafter
- Paddington
2014 Samuel Gruber
- Get Santa
2014 Santa Claus
- Postman Pat: The Movie
2014 CEO (voice)
- Big Game
2014 Herbert
- Filth
2013 Dr Rossi
- Closed Circuit
2013 Attorney General
- Le Week-End
2013 Nick Burrows
- The Phone Call
2013 Stan (voice)
- The Harry Hill Movie
2013 Cleaner
- Chance Meeting
2013
- Cloud Atlas
2012 Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 Horace Slughorn
- Arthur Christmas
2011 Santa (voice)
- The Iron Lady
2011 Denis Thatcher
- Perrier's Bounty
2010 Jim McCrea
- Another Year
2010 Tom
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 Horace Slughorn
- The Damned United
2009 Sam Longson
- The Young Victoria
2009 King William IV
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 Dean Charles Stanforth
- Inkheart
2008 Fenoglio
- Lost and Found
2008 Narrator (voice)
- Einstein and Eddington
2008 Sir Oliver Lodge
- Tales of the Riverbank
2008 G.P. (voice)
- Hot Fuzz
2007 Inspector Frank Butterman
- And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007 Arthur Morrison
- Art School Confidential
2006 Jimmy
- Longford
2006 Lord Longford
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 Prof. Digory Kirke
- Robots
2005 Madame Gasket (voice)
- Valiant
2005 Sergeant (voice)
- The Magic Roundabout
2005 Brian (voice)
- Around the World in 80 Days
2004 Lord Kelvin
- Vera Drake
2004 Judge
- Vanity Fair
2004 Mr. Osborne
- Pride
2004 Eddie (voice)
- Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
2004 Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
- Tooth
2004 The Rabbit (voice)
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003 Harry Aitken
- Bright Young Things
2003 The Drunken Major
- The Young Visiters
2003 Alfred Salteena
- Anna Spud
2003 Dad
- Gangs of New York
2002 Boss Tweed
- Nicholas Nickleby
2002 Mr. Wackford Squeers
- The Gathering Storm
2002 Desmond Morton
- The King's Beard
2002 The Wizard (voice)
- Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 Bridget's Dad
- Moulin Rouge!
2001 Harold Zidler
- Iris
2001 John Bayley
- Topsy-Turvy
1999 W. S. Gilbert
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999 The Shy Doctor
- Little Voice
1998 Mr. Boo
- The Avengers
1998 Mother
- Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
1998 Percy
- The Borrowers
1997 Pod Clock
- Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 Dr. Lagermann
- Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
1997 Percy
- The Secret Agent
1996 Chief Inspector Heat
- Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
1996 Percy
- Richard III
1995 The Duke of Buckingham
- Rough Magic
1995 Doc Ansell
- The Last Englishman
1995 Col. Alfred D. Wintle
- Widows' Peak
1994 Con Clancy
- Princess Caraboo
1994 Mr. Worrall
- Bullets Over Broadway
1994 Warner Purcell
- Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993 Writer
- Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993 Deric Longden
- Prince Cinders
1993 Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
- The Crying Game
1992 Col
- A Sense of History
1992 Writer
- Enchanted April
1991 Frederick Arbuthnot
- Life Is Sweet
1991 Andy
- Nona
1991 Carmelo
- Happy Feet
1991 Grocer
- Van Gogh
1990 Roulin
- Erik the Viking
1989 Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
- The Hangover
1989 (voice)
- 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989 Writer
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 Prince Albert
- Vroom
1988 Donald
- Running Out of Luck
1987 Jimmy
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 Jean Pierre Dubois
- The Insurance Man
1986 Gutling
- Brazil
1985 Dr. Jaffe
- The Good Father
1985 Roger Miles
- Silas Marner
1985 Jem Rodney
- Picture Friend
1985 Tes Goodwin
- The Hit
1984 Barrister
- The Man Who Shot Christmas
1984 Nick/Father Christmas
- Walter and June
1983 Orderly
- Birth of a Nation
1983 Geoff Figg
- Dead on Time
1983 Vicar
- Walter
1982 Joseph - Orderly
- Intensive Care
1982 Mr Horsfall
- Uliisses
1982
- Our Winnie
1982 Second Attendant
- Time Bandits
1981 Compere
- Games Without Frontiers
1980 Stewart
- Breaking Glass
1980 Station Porter
- The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
1980 Mr. Champing
- The Dogs of War
1980 Film Crew
- Phoelix
1979
- Long Distance Information
1979 Mackaness
- The Passage
1979 German Soldier (uncredited)
- The Shout
1978 Fielder in Cowpat
- The Life Story of Baal
1978 Woodcutter
- The Go-Between
1971 Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
- Fools
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