- 100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
2026 (archive footage)
- The Other Side of the Wind
2018 J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mr. North
1988 Screenplay
- Mister Corbett's Ghost
1987 Soul Collector
- The Dead
1987 Director
- Momo
1986 Meister Hora
- The Black Cauldron
1985 Narrator (voice)
- Epic
1985 The Narrator (US version)
- Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985 Narrator
- Prizzi's Honor
1985 Director
- Under the Volcano
1984 Director
- Lovesick
1983 Larry Geller, M.D.
- A Minor Miracle
1983 Father Cardenas
- Cannery Row
1982 Narrator
- Annie
1982 Director
- Escape to Victory
1981 Director
- The Return of the King
1980 Gandalf (voice)
- Head On
1980 Clarke Hill
- Phobia
1980 Director
- Winter Kills
1979 Pa Kegan
- Wise Blood
1979 Director
- The Visitor
1979 Jerzy Colsowicz
- Jaguar Lives!
1979 Ralph Richards
- Love and Bullets
1979 Director
- The Biggest Battle
1978 Sean O'Hara
- The Bermuda Triangle
1978 Edward
- The Hobbit
1977 Gandalf the Grey (voice)
- Tentacles
1977 Ned Turner
- Angela
1977 Hogan
- Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976 Professor James Moriarty
- Hollywood on Trial
1976 Narrator
- Circasia
1976 Ringmaster
- Independence
1976 Director
- Breakout
1975 Harris Wagner
- The Wind and the Lion
1975 John Hay
- The Man Who Would Be King
1975 Director
- Chinatown
1974 Noah Cross
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973 The Lawgiver
- The MacKintosh Man
1973 Director
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 Director
- Fat City
1972 Director
- Man in the Wilderness
1971 Captain Filmore Henry
- The Bridge in the Jungle
1971 Sleigh
- Myra Breckinridge
1970 Buck Loner
- The Kremlin Letter
1970 Director
- The Deserter
1970 General Miles
- The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970 Narrator
- Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970 Director
- A Walk with Love and Death
1969 Director
- De Sade
1969 The Abbe
- Sinful Davey
1969 Director
- Candy
1968 Dr. Arnold Dunlap
- Casino Royale
1967 Director
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 Director
- The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966 Director
- The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966 Narrator
- The Night of the Iguana
1964 Director
- The Cardinal
1963 Kardinal Glennon
- The List of Adrian Messenger
1963 Director
- Freud: The Secret Passion
1962 Director
- The Misfits
1961 Director
- The Unforgiven
1960 Director
- The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 Director
- The Roots of Heaven
1958 Director
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 Director
- Moby Dick
1956 Director
- Beat the Devil
1953 Director
- The African Queen
1952 Director
- Moulin Rouge
1952 Director
- The Red Badge of Courage
1951 Director
- The Prowler
1951 Producer
- The Asphalt Jungle
1950 Director
- We Were Strangers
1949 Director
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 Director
- Key Largo
1948 Director
- Three Strangers
1946 Screenplay
- Let There Be Light
1946 Director
- The Killers
1946 Writer
- The Stranger
1946 Producer
- The Battle of San Pietro
1945 Director
- Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945 Writer
- Tunisian Victory
1944 Director
- Report from the Aleutians
1943 Director
- In This Our Life
1942 Director
- Across the Pacific
1942 Director
- Winning Your Wings
1942 Director
- The Maltese Falcon
1941 Director
- High Sierra
1941 Screenplay
- Sergeant York
1941 Screenplay
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 Screenplay
- Juarez
1939 Screenplay
- Jezebel
1938 Screenplay
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938 Screenplay
- Death Drives Through
1935 Story
- It Happened in Paris
1935 Adaptation
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932 Additional Dialogue
- Law and Order
1932 Adaptation
- A House Divided
1931 Dialogue
- The Storm
1930 Dialogue
- Two Americans
1929
- Hell's Heroes
1929 Church Member (uncredited)
- The Return of the King
Gandalf (voice)
