(2007) The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Self

(1990) The Witches

as Mr Jenkins

(1984) Comfort and Joy

as Alan

(2000) Complicity

as Wallace Byatt

(1985) Dutch Girls

as Mr Mole

(2006) Miss Potter

as Rupert Potter

(1986) Defence of the Realm

as Jack Macleod

(1989) The Return of the Musketeers

as Charles I

(2006) Amazing Grace

as Lord Dundas

(2009) Ghosts in the Machine

as Himself

(1995) The Riddle of the Sands

as Narrator

(1996) Victory

as Capt. Davidson

(2008) The Man Who Lives with Bears

as Self - Narrator (voice)

(1998) Hilary and Jackie

as Cello Teacher

(1990) Yellowbacks

as Alex McPherson

(2014) Documenting John Grierson

as Narrator

(2024) Arthur's Whisky

as Henry

(2011) The Man who Crossed Hitler

as Kurt Ohnesorge

(2021) The Colour Room

as Gordon Forsythe

(2009) Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

as Dr James Niven

(2013) The List

as Reg Troughton

(2011) Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me

as Judge Underwood

(1987) Friendship's Death

as Sullivan

(2009) Creation

as Dr. Gully

(2024) A Bear Named Wojtek

as Zoo Director (voice)

(1987) Coming Up Roses

as Mr. Valentine

(1974) The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

as Various

(2007) Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

as Dr Watson

(1996) The Writing on the Wall

as Bull

(1994) Hard Times

as Stephen Blackpool

(2004) Lie with Me

as DCI Collman

(1987) The Interrogation of John

as Det. Supt. Chase

(1987) Lily My Love

as Colin

(1991) Truly Madly Deeply

as Sandy

(2007) Intervention

as Dr. Martin

(1984) The Killing Fields

as Dr. MacEntire

(1974) Clydescope

as Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited)

(1996) Chaplin's Goliath

as Narrator (voice)

(1978) Licking Hitler

as Archie MacLean

(1988) Byrne About Byrne

as Father/F.S. McDade

(2006) A War on Science

as Narrator (voice)

(1986) God's Chosen Car Park

as Victor Rosen

(2015) The Vote

as Simon Featherstone

(1992) Chaplin

as Stage Manager

(1979) One Fine Day

as Third Man in Lift

(2016) Dad's Army

as Private Frazer

(1984) A Private Function

as Wormold

(2003) Bright Young Things

as Sir James Brown

(2016) Churchill's Secret

as Lord Moran

(2001) Othello

as Sinclair Carver

(2001) The Whistle-Blower

as D.I. Neil Sleightholme

(2012) Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

as Narrator

(1981) The Cherry Orchard

as Lopakhin

The White Room

as Jackie Jordan

(1991) The Object of Beauty

as Victor Swayle

(2009) 1929: The Great Crash

as Narrator

(1992) In Dreams

as Dr Gold

(1997) Mr White Goes To Westminster

as Ben White

(1995) Richard III

as Sir Richard Ratcliffe

(1978) Jackie McCafferty's Romance

as Bus Conductor

(2002) Crush

as Gerald

(2003) Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

as DI Nick Biddiss

(1999) Sunshine

as Minister of Justice

(1988) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as Henry Salt

(2008) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

as Richard Young

(1987) Hidden City

as Anthony

(1988) Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

as Titorelli

(1988) Just Ask for Diamond

as Chief Inspector Snape

(1983) The Ploughman's Lunch

as Lecturer

(1997) Spice World

as Brian

(1989) Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

as Jordan

(2015) High-Rise

as Mercer

(1999) The Match

as Tommy

(1999) Heart

as Mr. Kreitman

(2005) Rag Tale

as Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd

(2017) The Man Who Invented Christmas

as Mr. Grimsby

(2005) Kingdom of Heaven

as Bishop (director's cut)

(2018) Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

as Gordon Burstead

(1981) United Kingdom

as Tony

(1978) The Odd Job

as Sergeant Mull

(1989) The Rachel Papers

as Gordon Highway

(2018) Wonderdate

as Kolodon

(1978) The Vanishing Army

as Girling

(2009) Into the Storm

as Clement Attlee

(1995) The Turnaround

as James Webb

(1977) The Garden Beyond

as Jim Finlayson

(1999) Chrono-Perambulator

as Professor Teddy Knox

(2019) The Day Mountbatten Died

as Narrator (voice)

(1992) Tell Tale Hearts

as Anthony Steadman

(1993) Wall of Silence

as Howard Mullen

(2020) Marionette

as Dr. Mandelbaum

(2020) Love Sarah

as Felix

(2006) Fascism in Colour

as Narrator (voice)

(1985) Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

as Self

(2008) The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

as Self - 'Henry Salt'

(2002) The Entity

as ---

(2020) Rebecca

as Dr. Baker

(1977) The Thin End of the Wedge

as Luke

(2001) Behind Bars

as Narrator

(2002) Home Road Movies

as Father

(1992) God on the Rocks

as Kenneth Marsh

(2024) Children of the Wicker Man

as Self

(1995) The Pen

as ---

(2011) The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema

as Narrator (Voice)

(2025) The House Was Not Hungry Then

as Dad

(1991) Murder Most Horrid

as Chief Inspector

(2000) The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne

as ---

(1986) The Singing Detective

as Dr. Gibbon

(2006) The One Show

as Self - Guest

(1964) Horizon

as ---

(2002) Foyle's War

as ---

(2019) Good Omens

as Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch

(2009) Law & Order: UK

as George Castle

(2008) Criminal Justice

as Harry Box

(1999) Wives and Daughters

as Mr. Gibson

(2002) Doctor Zhivago

as Alexander Gromyko

(2008) Little Dorrit

as ---

(2005) ShakespeaRe-Told

as ---

(1989) Traffik

as John Lithgow

(1995) Oliver's Travels

as Baxter

(2004) Sea of Souls

as Dr. Douglas Monaghan

(1982) Smiley's People

as Lauder Strickland

(2001) Rebel Heart

as James Connolly

(1978) Life of Shakespeare

as King James I

(1994) Junior Masterchef

as ---

(1997) Melissa

as DCI Cameron

(2010) The Michael Ball Show

as Self

(2005) Doctor Who

as Edwin Bracewell

(2010) Birds Britannia

as ---

(2021) Britain’s Scenic Railways

as Narrator

(2014) 37 Days

as Lord Morley

(1996) The Crow Road

as Kenneth McHoan

(2002) Born and Bred

as Harry Woolf

(2003) Canterbury Tales

as Theo

(2014) Outlander

as Ned Gowan

(1995) Sharman

as James Webb

(2013) Shetland

as James Perez

(1978) Will Shakespeare

as ---

(2004) Shoebox Zoo

as The Storyteller (voice)

(1997) Arthouse

as Self

(2016) Fleabag

as Dad

(2020) Between the Covers

as Self

(2017) Urban Myths

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(1983) Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Ally Fraser

(2005) A Passion for Churches

as Narrator

(2022) The Sandman

as Dr. John Hathaway

(2022) House of the Dragon

as Lord Lyman Beesbury

(2022) Halo

as Ackerson's Dad

(2019) Brassic

as Tony Tillerton

(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple

as Bradley

(2017) The Repair Shop

as Self - Narrator

(2012) Them From That Thing

as Various

(2014) Scot Squad

as Sir Neville Archibald

(2017) The Repair Shop

as Narrator (voice)

(2014) Inside No. 9

as Mr. Green

(2002) Battle of the Atlantic

as Himself - Narrator

(1970) Play for Today

as Luke

(1988) The Play on One

as Alex McPherson

(1988) The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

as Titorelli

(2016) The Rebel

as Charles

(1994) Hard Times

as Stephen Blackpool

(2019) Guilt

as Roy Lynch

(2012) Dirk Gently

as Professor Jericho