| 2021 | Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Bare Knuckle | |
| 2018 | Ayamé | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Damascus Cover | Miki |
| 2017 | The Journey | Harry Patterson |
| 2017 | My Name Is Lenny | Leslie Salmon |
| 2017 | That Good Night | Ralph |
| 2016 | Jackie | The Priest |
| 2016 | ChickLit | Francis Bonar |
| 2016 | The Final Reel | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets | Siegfried Sassoon |
| 2015 | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie | Sailor John (voice) |
| 2015 | The Last Panthers | Tom |
| 2015 | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) |
| 2015 | נדיה: שם זמני | 347 |
| 2015 | Break | Jack |
| 2015 | Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces | Narator |
| 2014 | Hercules | Cotys |
| 2014 | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self |
| 2014 | Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 | Narrator |
| 2013 | Snowpiercer | Gilliam |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Christopher Marlowe |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The War Doctor |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The War Doctor |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | The War Doctor (archive voice) |
| 2013 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self |
| 2013 | Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | Self / Stephen Ward |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | Self |
| 2013 | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro | The War Doctor |
| 2013 | Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre | The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self |
| 2012 | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2012 | More Than Honey | Narrator (english voice) |
| 2012 | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | The Chorus |
| 2012 | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | The Snipist | The Ministry |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Ollivander |
| 2011 | Melancholia | Dexter |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control |
| 2011 | Immortals | Old Zeus |
| 2011 | Human Planet | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) |
| 2011 | The Confession | Priest |
| 2011 | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | The Confession | Priest |
| 2011 | On Borrowed Time | Self |
| 2011 | 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes | Professor Orit |
| 2011 | Sailcloth | Man |
| 2011 | In Love with Alma Cogan | MC |
| 2011 | The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa | Narrador |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Ollivander |
| 2010 | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Grandpa Sammy (voice) |
| 2010 | Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Carnak |
| 2010 | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery |
| 2010 | Whistle and I'll Come to You | James Parkin |
| 2010 | Lou | Doyle |
| 2010 | Love at First Sight | Arthur |
| 2010 | Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self |
| 2009 | The Gruffalo | Owl (voice) |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Guitar |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | The Horned King (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut |
| 2009 | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp |
| 2009 | Ballybrando | Self |
| 2009 | Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Remembrance | Bellhop |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Professor Harold Oxley |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm |
| 2008 | Outlander | Rothgar |
| 2008 | Merlin | The Great Dragon (voice) |
| 2008 | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Bellhop |
| 2008 | Recount | Warren Christopher |
| 2008 | Lezione 21 | Mondrian Kilroy |
| 2007 | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice) |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction | Samswope |
| 2007 | Boxes | Le père de Fanny |
| 2007 | Interview with John Hurt | Self |
| 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Adam Sutler |
| 2006 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Shooting Dogs | Christopher |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest |
| 2006 | Whaledreamers | Self |
| 2006 | The Plot Against Harold Wilson | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | War Doctor |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | The Doctor |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux |
| 2005 | Valiant | Felix (voice) |
| 2005 | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb |
| 2005 | Manderlay | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Once Upon a Halloween | The Horned King |
| 2005 | Short Order | |
| 2004 | Hellboy | Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm |
| 2004 | Pride | Harry (voice) |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self |
| 2004 | Shadowing the Third Man | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self |
| 2004 | The Alan Clark Diaries | Alan Clark |
| 2004 | Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' | Self |
| 2003 | Dogville | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Owning Mahowny | Victor Foss |
| 2003 | The Beast Within: Making Alien | Self |
| 2003 | Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill | Man from Maybury Hill |
| 2002 | Miranda | Christian |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator |
| 2002 | The Alien Saga | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | HypaSpace | Self |
| 2002 | Bait | Jack Blake |
| 2002 | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self |
| 2002 | Edge of the Universe | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Mr. Ollivander |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis |
| 2001 | Tabloid | Vince |
| 2001 | The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Shaolin: Wheel of Life | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed | Self |
| 2000 | The Tigger Movie | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Lost Souls | Father Lareaux |
| 2000 | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp |
| 1999 | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers |
| 1999 | Watership Down | General Woundwort |
| 1999 | New Blood | Alan White |
| 1999 | You're Dead... | Maitland |
| 1999 | If... Dog... Rabbit | Sean Cooper |
| 1998 | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath |
| 1998 | The Commissioner | James morton |
| 1998 | The Climb | Chuck Langer |
| 1998 | Night Train | Michael Poole |
| 1997 | Contact | S. R. Hadden |
| 1997 | Bandyta | Babits |
| 1996 | Tender Loving Care | Dr. Turner |
| 1995 | Dead Man | John Scholfield |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | John Graham |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Charley Prince |
| 1995 | Two Nudes Bathing | Marquis de Prey |
| 1995 | On Jupiter | Narrator (voice) |
| 1995 | Saigon Baby | Jack Lee |
| 1995 | Picture Windows | Marquis de Prey |
| 1994 | Thumbelina | Mr. Mole (voice) |
| 1994 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1994 | Second Best | Uncle Turpin |
| 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear |
| 1994 | The World of Jim Henson | The Storyteller (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Monolith | Villano |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self |
| 1992 | L’œil qui ment | Anthony / Le Marquis |
| 1992 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Father |
| 1991 | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves |
| 1991 | I Dreamt I Woke Up | Boorman's Alter Ego |
| 1991 | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer |
| 1991 | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter |
| 1991 | Journey to Knock | Alfred |
| 1991 | Performance | The Father |
| 1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell |
| 1990 | Resident Alien | Actor |
| 1990 | Windprints | Charles Rutherford |
| 1990 | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin |
| 1990 | Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch | Self |
| 1990 | Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool | Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice) |
| 1989 | Scandal | Stephen Ward |
| 1989 | The Jim Henson Hour | |
| 1989 | Little Sweetheart | Robert Burger |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice) |
| 1988 | The Storyteller | The Storyteller |
| 1988 | Deadline | Granville Jones |
| 1988 | La nuit Bengali | Lucien Metz |
| 1987 | Spaceballs | John Hurt |
| 1987 | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville |
| 1987 | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit |
| 1987 | Aria | The Actor |
| 1987 | Vincent | (voice) |
| 1987 | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | Iceberg | Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | Monolith | Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | Frightmares | |
| 1986 | Jake Speed | Syd |
| 1986 | Rocinante | Bill |
| 1986 | Thames Film | |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) |
| 1985 | Live Aid | Self |
| 1985 | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford |
| 1985 | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator (voice) |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith |
| 1984 | The Hit | Braddock |
| 1984 | Champions | Bob Champion |
| 1984 | Success Is the Best Revenge | Dino Montecurva |
| 1984 | Sunset People | |
| 1983 | The Osterman Weekend | Lawrence Fassett |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator |
| 1983 | King Lear | The Fool |
| 1982 | The Plague Dogs | Snitter (voice) |
| 1982 | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk |
| 1982 | Partners | Kerwin |
| 1982 | Paul McCartney - Take It Away | |
| 1981 | History of the World: Part I | Jesus - The Roman Empire |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | John Merrick |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine |
| 1980 | An Evening with Quentin Crisp | Host |
| 1979 | Alien | Kane |
| 1979 | Crime and Punishment | Raskolnikov |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Max |
| 1978 | The Lord of the Rings | Aragorn (voice) |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Hazel (voice) |
| 1978 | The Shout | Anthony Fielding |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Atkinson |
| 1977 | Spectre | Mitri Cyon |
| 1977 | East of Elephant Rock | Nash |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats | |
| 1977 | Three Dangerous Ladies | Lt. George Simmonds |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Caligula |
| 1976 | La linea del fiume | Chandler |
| 1976 | The Peddler | Alec Cassell |
| 1975 | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp |
| 1975 | The Ghoul | Tom Rawlings |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Tony Grey |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
| 1974 | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Malcolm Scrawdyke |
| 1974 | The Playboy of the Western World | Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon) |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Joshua Harlborough |
| 1972 | The Pied Piper | Franz |
| 1971 | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy Evans |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Narrator |
| 1971 | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | James Parkin |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Alec Cassell |
| 1969 | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart |
| 1969 | In Search of Gregory | Daniel |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | John |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Richard Rich |
| 1965 | Gideon's Way | Freddy Tisdale |
| 1964 | This Is My Street | Charlie |
| 1962 | The Wild and the Willing | Phil Corbett |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Joe |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |
