(2000) Gladiator

as Gracchus

(2006) Underworld: Evolution

as Alexander Corvinus

(2007) The Golden Compass

as Magisterial Emissary

(1996) Hamlet

as King Claudius

(1989) Henry V

as Chorus

(1982) Stranger in Town

as The Stranger

(1982) Enigma

as Kurt Limmer

(1973) The Day of the Jackal

as Inspector Caron

(2001) Gosford Park

as Probert

(1998) Animated Epics: Beowulf

as Narrator ( voice )

(1998) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

as Francis Bacon

(2004) Strings

as Nezo (voice)

(1974) The Odessa File

as Klaus Wenzer

(2005) Nanny McPhee

as Mr. Wheen

(1982) The Secret of NIMH

as Nicodemus (voice)

Moss & Freud

as Lucian Freud

(1978) The Medusa Touch

as Townley - Publisher

(1991) Dead Again

as Franklyn Madson

(2002) Revengers Tragedy

as The Duke

(2023) Allelujah

as Ambrose

(2007) The Old Curiosity Shop

as Grandfather

(2001) The Body

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(2002) The Gathering Storm

as Stanley Baldwin

(2000) The Wyvern Mystery

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(2005) Bye Bye Blackbird

as Lord Dempsey

(2011) Anonymous

as Prologue

(1993) The Vision Thing

as George Salisbury

(1965) Othello

as Cassio

(2011) There Be Dragons

as Honorio

(2007) The Riddle

as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

(1995) Achilles

as Narrator

(2011) Ironclad

as Cornhill

(1977) Philby, Burgess and Maclean

as Guy Burgess

(1987) Little Dorrit

as Arthur Clennam

(1979) The Human Factor

as Arthur Davis

(2002) Two Men Went To War

as Maj. Merton

(2008) Adam Resurrected

as Dr. Nathan Gross

(2008) A Bunch of Amateurs

as Nigel Dewberry

(2000) Up at the Villa

as Lucky Leadbetter

(1987) The Secret Garden

as Archibald Craven

(2002) Ultimate Fights from the Movies

as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

(1982) The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Dom Claude Frollo

(2024) Gladiator II

as Gracchus

(1985) Cyrano de Bergerac

as Cyrano de Bergerac

(2010) Joe Maddison's War

as Mr. Simpson

(2007) Anastezsi

as Balzer

(1996) Breaking the Code

as Alan Turing

(1986) On Wings of Fire

as Self

(2006) Pinochet in Suburbia

as Senator Augusto Pinochet

(2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

as Self

(1988) The Tenth Man

as The Imposter

(2012) Last Will. & Testament

as Himself

(2014) Effie Gray

as Travers Twiss

(2007) Guantanamero

as Guido

Venom! Nine Ways to Die

as Narrator

(2022) Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

as Self

(1996) Witness Against Hitler

as General

(2011) Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

as Narrator (voice)

(2014) Grace of Monaco

as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

(1994) The Secret Garden

as Archibald Craven (voice)

(2013) Muse of Fire

as Self

(2007) Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

as President

(2009) Diamonds

as Piers Denmont

(2023) The Martini Shot

as Errol

(2010) The King's Speech

as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

(1978) Richard II

as King Richard II

(1990) The Fool

as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

(1974) Blue Blood

as Gregory

(1990) Discovering Hamlet

as Himself

(1996) Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

(2002) The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

(2025) Verona's Romeo & Juliet

as The Friar

(1986) Mr. Pye

as Mr. Pye

(1970) Three Sisters

as Andrei

(1980) The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

as Martin Beck

(1967) Much Ado About Nothing

as Don John

(2022) Pearl Islands

as Self

(2015) The Gospel of Luke

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

(1982) Inside the Third Reich

as Adolf Hitler

(2000) Wilfred

as Voice

(2002) The Dinosaur Hunters

as Narrator (voice)

(2015) Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

(1962) The Fishing Match

as Eric

(2021) Rhythm of Life

as Self

(2001) Revelation

as Librarian

(1980) Hamlet

as Hamlet

(2000) Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

as Various Characters

(2009) Endgame

as Rudolph Agnew

(2008) Sidney Turtlebaum

as Sidney Turtlebaum

(1994) Aladdin

as The Magician (voice)

(2012) Jail Caesar

as ---

(2011) National Theatre Live: King Lear

as King Lear

The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island

as Narrator

(2016) Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

as Mercutio

(2016) The History of Love

as Leopold Gursky

(2017) Murder on the Orient Express

as Edward Henry Masterman

(2001) Great Escape: The Untold Story

as Narrator

(2009) Margot

as Fred Ashton

(2002) Inquisition

as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

(2013) National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

as Claudius/Spooner

(2010) Hereafter

as Derek Jacobi

(2017) Stratton

as Ross

(2008) One of Those Days

as Howard Whittam

(2012) The Halloween Kid

as Narrator

(2017) A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

as Scrooge

(1999) The Chimes

as Narrator

(2006) Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

as Narrator

(1986) David Macaulay: Cathedral

as Pierre (voice)

(2019) Tolkien

as Professor Joseph Wright

(2018) Tomb Raider

as Mr. Yaffe

(1999) Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

as Father Leonor Fousnel

(2018) Nothing Is Truer than Truth

as ---

(2019) Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

as Claudius

(1994) David Macaulay: Roman City

as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

(1989) David Macaulay: Pyramid

as Hordedef (voice)

(2001) David Macaulay: Mill Times

as Priam Huntington (voice)

(2020) Come Away

as Mr. Brown

(2009) Morris: A Life with Bells On

as Quentin Neely

(2013) Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

as Narrator (voice)

(1981) Charlotte

as Daberlohn

(1989) The Congress

as (voice)

(2004) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

as Other Voices (voice)

(2019) The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

as Lord Palmerston

(1993) Circle of Deceit

as Randal

(2007) The Art of Francis Bacon

as Derek Jacobi

(2020) The Host

as Dr. Hobson

(2019) Muse

as The Lawyer

(1965) Olivier Talks About Othello

as (archive footage)

(2002) I, Claudius: A Television Epic

as Self

(1985) The Statue of Liberty

as Self (voice)

(2022) A Bird Flew In

as David

(2009) Charles Dickens's England

as Himself - Presenter

(2021) Say Your Prayers

as Father Enoch

Lead Heads

as ---

Coronation Street: Queens of the Street

as Himself

(2002) The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self

(1998) Basil

as Father Frederick

(2008) Pompeii and the Roman Villa

as Narrator

(2017) Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

as ---

(2015) Venom

as Narrator

(1978) Mysterious Castles of Clay

as Narrator

(2011) My Week with Marilyn

as Sir Owen Morshead

(2004) Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

as Mr. Operatski (voice)

(2015) Cinderella

as King

(2021) Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Himself (archive footage)

(2013) You

as Man

(2020) Breaking The Codes

as ---

(1971) Budgie

as Herbert Fletcher

(2005) Doctor Who Confidential

as ---

(1979) Tales of the Unexpected

as The Stranger

(1993) Frasier

as Jackson Hedley

(1979) Minder

as Freddie Fenton

(2000) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

as ---

(2007) In the Night Garden

as ---

(1976) I, Claudius

as Claudius

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dom Claude

(2021) The Lost Pirate Kingdom

as Narrator

(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as William Drew

(1974) The Pallisers

as ---

(2014) Inside No. 9

as Webster

(1992) The Velvet Claw

as Narrator

(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare

as King Richard II

(1972) The Strauss Family

as ---

(2009) Diamonds

as ---

(1994) Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

(2012) Titanic: Blood and Steel

as Lord Pirrie

(2012) Last Tango in Halifax

as Alan

(1974) NOVA

as Voice of Ernest Shackleton

(2012) Shakespeare Uncovered

as Himself

(2013) Vicious

as Stuart Bixby

(2004) Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

(2004) London

as Tacitus

(1956) Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

(2002) The Jury

as George Cording QC

(2019) Good Omens

as The Metatron

(1976) I, Claudius

as Self

(2023) The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies

as Sir Ralph Unwin

(2005) Doctor Who

as Professor Yana

(2003) Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

as The Master (voice)

(2009) Doctor Who Greatest Moments

as Himself

(2011) The Amazing World of Gumball

as Narrator (voice)

(1986) Mr. Pye

as Mr. Pye

(2000) Jason and the Argonauts

as Phineas

(2004) The Long Firm

as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

(1990) The Civil War

as Various

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Archibald Craven

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Imposter

(1994) Baseball

as Various (voice)

(2023) The American Buffalo

as (voice)

(2014) Inside No. 9

as Dennis Fulcher (voice)

(2018) Les Misérables

as Bishop Myriel

(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple

as Colonel Protheroe

(2022) The Sandman

as Erasmus Fry

(1996) The West

as Self (voice)

(2019) Good Omens

as Metatron

(2023) U-Boat Wargamers

as Narrator (voice)

(2019) Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

as Narrator

(1999) Family Guy

as Rupert (voice)

(1986) Wedden, dat..?

as Self

(2016) The Crown

as Duke of Windsor

(2024) Ludwig

as Mr. Todd

(1992) The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)