(2001) High Heels and Low Lifes

as Director

(1984) The Bounty

as John Smith

(2009) The Last Station

as Dushan

(2010) Spies and Lies

as Folkes

(2009) Nativity!

as Mr. Lore

(1993) Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

as James Boswell

(2021) Belfast

as Joseph Tomelty as Marley

(2007) Reichenbach Falls

as Professor Bell

(2013) Filth

as Toal

(2004) Five Children and It

as Peasemarsh

(1990) Sweet Revenge

as John

(1992) Sellers' Best

as Self

(2009) Breaking the Mould

as Edward Mellanby

(2005) The English Harem

as Ridley

(1997) My Night with Reg

as Daniel

(1986) Castaway

as Man in Pub

(2000) Around The World In 80 Days

as Jean Passepartout (voice)

(2004) Lighthouse Hill

as Mr. Reynard

(2014) Pudsey the Dog: The Movie

as Thorne

(2002) George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

as George Henry Lewes

(1996) The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Schoolmaster

(2014) The Silent Storm

as Mr. Smith

(2011) The Real American: Joe McCarthy

as Joe McCarthy

(2012) 30 Years of Comic Strip

as ---

(2017) Loving Vincent

as Pere Tanguy

(1994) Citizen Locke

as John Locke

(2009) Margaret

as Ian Gow

(2015) Sean Connery: In His Own Words

as Narrator

(2015) Legend

as Lord Boothby

(2004) The Merchant of Venice

as Salerio

(2015) We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

as Arthur Lowe

(2006) Scoop

as Strombel's Co-Worker (uncredited)

(1995) In the Bleak Midwinter

as Terry Du Bois

(2016) Red Top

as The Accountant

(2011) The Hunt for Tony Blair

as Norman Tebbit

(2011) The Hunt for Tony Blair

as Tebbit

(2004) Hawking

as Dennis Sciama

(2003) The Key

as ---

(1998) Faith

as Brian

(1999) A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Philostrate

(2016) Florence Foster Jenkins

as Dr. Hermann

(2016) The Rack Pack

as Ted Lowe

(2002) One of the Hollywood Ten

as Paul Jarrico

(2016) Whisky Galore

as Doctor McLaren

(1986) Whoops Apocalypse

as Mr. Sweetzer

(2011) The Iron Lady

as Edward Heath

(1989) Henry V

as Macmorris

(2016) Denial

as Prof. Richard Evans

(2002) Gangs of New York

as Harry Watkins / Lincoln

(2015) Mr. Holmes

as Mycroft Holmes

(2004) Stella Street

as ---

(2010) Made in Dagenham

as Harold Wilson

(2006) Low Winter Sun

as Prof Barry Lennox

(1986) Sky Bandits

as Flight

(1999) Faeries

as Chudley (voice)

(2008) Inconceivable

as Finbar 'Finn' Darrow

(2005) Rag Tale

as Felix Miles Sty

(2019) Intrigo: Dear Agnes

as Pumpermann

(2017) Finding Your Feet

as Mike Abbott

(1998) The Scarlet Tunic

as Humphrey Gould

(2018) Balls

as Brownlow

(1991) The Pope Must Diet

as Dino

(2006) The Good Shepherd

as Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin

(1994) David Macaulay: Roman City

as Laurens / Acco Bouvaix (voice)

(2001) David Macaulay: Mill Times

as Shadrack Moore (voice)

(2015) Hiroshima: The Aftermath

as Narrator

(2019) Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream

as Self

(1998) Cousin Bette

as Musical Director

(2004) The Legend of the Tamworth Two

as Rival Newspaper Editor

(1998) Queen's Park Story

as ---

(2000) A Profile of 'Brief Encounter'

as Self

(1994) Princess Caraboo

as Prince Regent

(1996) The Treasure Seekers

as Redman

(2010) The Making of Plus One

as Derek - the line producer

(1987) Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

as Antonio Gramsci

(2018) The Town That Floored the World

as Presenter

(1992) Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as Scotty / Additional voices (voice)

(2002) Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

as General Tannis

(1997) Midsomer Murders

as Barrett Filby

(2007) Skins

as Geoff Fitzgerald

(2002) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as John Corntel

(2006) Hotel Babylon

as ---

(1984) Spitting Image

as ---

(1985) Girls On Top

as Rodney

(2008) Only Connect

as Self - Contestant

(1988) Whose Line Is It Anyway?

as Self

(1997) The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Henry Fielding

(1986) Boon

as Barney Spitz

(2000) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

as ---

(2007) Ronni Ancona & Co

as ---

(1990) One Foot In the Grave

as ---

(2001) Judge John Deed

as ---

(2000) Gormenghast

as ---

(1997) Stella Street

as ---

(2007) Oliver Twist

as ---

(2004) New Tricks

as ---

(1990) Plunder

as ---

(2010) Sherlock

as Kenny Prince

(2003) Celebrity Mastermind

as Himself

(1982) Wogan

as Self

(1989) John Sessions On The Spot

as ---

(1994) Nice Day at the Office

as ---

(2016) Victoria

as Lord John Russell

(1994) John Sessions' Likely Stories

as ---

(1991) John Sessions' Tall Tales

as ---

(1987) Porterhouse Blue

as Zipser

(1991) Performance

as Daniel

(2005) Doctor Who

as Gus

(2013) Father Brown

as Reverend Adam Gillespie

(2003) QI

as Self

(2012) Dead Boss

as Sir Humphreys

(2014) Outlander

as Arthur Duncan

(1998) In the Red

as Hercules Fortescue

(2010) Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

as ---

(2001) Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

as Prof. Rutherford

(1985) Happy Families

as Dean

(2011) Friday Night Dinner

as ---

(2012) Moone Boy

as ---

(1987) The New Statesman

as Lord Penistone

(1990) Rab C. Nesbitt

as Chief Inspector Haggerty

(2017) The Loch

as DCI Frank Smilie

(1990) Have I Got News for You

as Himself

(2007) Oliver Twist

as Mr. Sowerberry

(1985) Tender Is the Night

as Young Scot

(2013) Blandings

as Lord Didcot

(2011) Death in Paradise

as Hugh Davenport

(1979) Question Time

as Self - Panellist

(2020) The Great

as Bishop Tarcinkus

(2015) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

as John Murray