John Shrapnel
- Hamlet Within
2022
- Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017 Narrator (Voice)
- King Charles III
2017 Archbishop of Canterbury
- The Return of the Flying Scotsman
2016 Narrator - (Voice)
- Hamlet
2015 Claudius/Ghost
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015 Camilo
- OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014 Creon
- National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
- Run.
2013 St. Peter
- The Awakening
2011 Reverend Hugh Purslow
- An Organization of Dreams
2009 Father
- National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 Théramène
- Chemical Wedding
2008 Crowley
- The Duchess
2008 General Grey
- Mirrors
2008 Lorenzo Sapelli
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 Lord Howard
- Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007 Himself (Narrator)
- Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007 Billy Palmer
- Alien Autopsy
2006 Michael Kuhn
- Shadow of the Sword
2005 Archbishop
- Troy
2004 Nestor
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
2004 Narrator
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
2004 Narrator
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
2004 Narrator
- Wild Women of Viramba
2003 Narrator
- The Race for Everest
2003 Narrator
- K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 Admiral Bratyeev
- Alone
2002 Hannah
- Claim
2002 Lex Vandenberg
- Whistle
2002 Paul
- The Body
2001 Moshe Cohen
- Animals of the Ocean Desert
2001 Narrator
- Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
2001 Narrator
- The Gentleman Thief
2001 Monty Sinclair
- The Misfit and the Matterhorn
2001 Narrator
- Gladiator
2000 Gaius
- Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
2000 Narrator
- Notting Hill
1999 PR Chief
- Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999 General Charette
- Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 Simon
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 Iwaszkiewicz
- Lion Queen
1998 Narrator (voice)
- Solo Shuttle
1998 Cain
- Two Deaths
1996 Cinca
- 101 Dalmatians
1996 Skinner
- England, My England
1995 Samuel Pepys
- Fatherland
1994 General Globus
- Selling Hitler
1993 Gerd Schulte-Hillen
- SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
1992 Narrator
- Hamlet
1992 Claudius
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990 BKA Police Chief
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989 Psychiatrist
- Testimony
1988 Andre Zhdanov
- Partition
1987 General Flood
- Personal Services
1987 Lionel
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 Creon
- Theban Plays: Antigone
1986 Creon
- Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
1986 Creon
- Poppyland
1985 George Sims
- The Burston Rebellion
1985 Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
- King Lear
1982 Earl of Kent
- Timon of Athens
1981 Alcibiades
- Troilus & Cressida
1981 Hector
- The Tom Machine
1980
- The Victim
1980 Vincent Craig
- Gossip from the Forest
1979 Matthias Erzberger
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978 Maj. Alexander Hardinge
- Flayed
1978 Robert
- Professional Foul
1977 McKendrick
- The Three Hostages
1977 Gaudian
- Hitting Town
1976 Leonard Brazil (voice)
- Hennessy
1975 Tipaldi
- King Lear
1975 Duke of Cornwall
- Pope Joan
1972 Father James
- Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 Petya
- The Ha-Ha
1969 Jamie
- It's Called the Sugar Plum
1969 Wally Zuckerman
