Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
Ref.
|
1961 |
BBC Sunday-Night Play |
Charles Marlow |
Episode: She Stoops to Conquer |
|
1962 |
Armchair Theatre |
Eric |
Episode: The Fishing Match |
|
1967 |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon |
TV adaptation of the National Theatre Zeffirelli production |
[2]
|
1968 |
ITV Playhouse |
Jerry |
Episode: The Photographer |
|
1971 |
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes |
William Drew |
Episode: The Secret of the Foxhunter |
|
1972 |
Man of Straw |
Diederich Hessling |
6 episodes |
|
The Strauss Family |
Joseph Lanner |
2 episodes |
|
Budgie |
Herbert Fletcher |
2 episodes |
|
1974 |
The Pallisers |
Lord Fawn |
8 episodes |
|
1975 |
Affairs of the Heart |
Bertram Braddle |
Episode: Elizabeth |
|
1976 |
I, Claudius |
Claudius |
12 episodes |
|
1977 |
Philby, Burgess and MacLean |
Guy Burgess |
TV movie |
|
1978 |
Tycoon |
Timothy West |
Episode: What Price a Life |
|
Jackanory |
Narrator |
5 episodes reading 'Tales from Tartary' by James Riordan |
|
Richard II |
Richard II |
BBC-TV |
|
1979 |
Minder |
Freddie Fenton |
Episode: The Bounty Hunter |
|
1980–82 |
Tales of the Unexpected |
Drioli |
2 episodes |
|
1980 |
Hamlet |
Hamlet |
TV movie |
|
1982 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Frollo |
TV movie |
|
Inside the Third Reich |
Adolf Hitler |
TV movie |
|
Tales of the Unexpected |
Performer |
2 episodes |
|
1985 |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
Channel 4 TV presentation of the Terry Hands RSC production |
|
1986 |
Mr Pye |
Mr. Pye |
4 episodes |
|
David Macaulay: Cathedral |
Pierre |
TV movie |
|
1987 |
The Secret Garden |
Archibald Craven |
TV movie |
|
1988 |
The Tenth Man |
The Imposter |
TV movie |
|
1990 |
The Civil War |
Various |
9 episodes |
|
1990 |
The Storyteller |
Daedalus |
1 episode |
|
1992 |
Aladdin |
The Magician |
Voice, TV Movie |
|
1993 |
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends |
Mr Jeremy Fisher |
1 episode |
|
1994–98 |
Cadfael |
Brother Cadfael |
13 episodes |
|
1994 |
The Secret Garden |
Archibald Craven |
Voice, TV Movie |
|
1996 |
Breaking the Code |
Alan Turing |
TV movie |
|
2000 |
The Wyvern Mystery |
Squire Fairfield |
TV movie |
|
Jason and the Argonauts |
Phineus |
TV movie |
|
2001 |
Frasier |
Jackson Hedley |
Episode: The Show Must Go Off |
|
2002 |
The Jury |
George Cording QC |
6 episodes |
|
The Edwardian Country House |
The Narrator |
All episodes |
|
The Gathering Storm |
Stanley Baldwin |
TV movie |
|
2003 |
Henry VIII |
Narrator |
Voice, TV Serial |
|
2004 |
London |
Tacitus |
TV movie |
|
The Long Firm |
Lord Edward Thursby |
2 episodes |
|
Marple |
Colonel Protheroe |
Episode: The Murder at the Vicarage |
|
2007 |
Doctor Who |
The Master / Professor Yana |
Episode: "Utopia" |
|
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Grandfather |
TV movie |
|
2007–09 |
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy |
Narrator |
38 episodes |
|
In the Night Garden... |
100 episodes |
|
2011 |
The Borgias |
Cardinal Orsini |
2 episodes |
|
2012 |
Titanic: Blood and Steel |
William Pirrie |
12 episodes |
|
2012–20 |
Last Tango in Halifax |
Alan Buttershaw |
5 series - 24 episodes, BBC |
|
2013–16 |
Vicious |
Stuart Bixby |
2 series - 14 episodes, PBS |
|
2014, 2016 |
The Amazing World of Gumball |
Narrator/Moon |
Episodes: "The Lie", "The Night" |
|
2016 |
Inside No. 9 |
Dennis Fulcher |
Episode: The Devil of Christmas |
|
2017 |
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong |
Scrooge / Self |
TV movie |
|
2018 |
Les Misérables |
Bishop |
Episode: #1.1 |
|
2019–23 |
Good Omens |
Metatron |
2 episodes |
|
2019 |
The Crown |
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor |
Guest role (Season 3) Episode: Dangling Man |
|
2021 |
Inside No. 9 |
Mr Webster |
Episode: How Do You Plead? |
|
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
|
Narrator
|
TV series Docudrama
|
2022 |
The Sandman |
Erasmus Fry |
Episode: "Calliope" |
|
2024 |
Extraordinary |
Himself (voice) |
Episode: "Meet the Parent" |
|
Ludwig |
Mr. Todd |
Episode: #1.5 |
[3]
|
Family Guy
|
Rupert (voice)
|
Episode: "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater"
|