| 2025 | The House Was Not Hungry Then | Father | ★ 3.8 |
| 2024 | Arthur's Whisky | Henry | ★ 6.0 |
| 2024 | Children of the Wicker Man | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2024 | A Bear Named Wojtek | Zoo Director (voice) | ★ 10.0 |
| 2021 | The Colour Room | Gordon Forsythe | ★ 6.5 |
| 2020 | Rebecca | Dr. Baker | ★ 6.3 |
| 2020 | Marionette | Dr. Mandelbaum | ★ 6.3 |
| 2020 | Love Sarah - Liebe ist die wichtigste Zutat | Felix | ★ 6.3 |
| 2019 | The Day Mountbatten Died | Narrator (voice) | ★ 10.0 |
| 2018 | Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | Gordon Burstead | ★ 6.4 |
| 2018 | Wonderdate | Kolodon | ★ 8.0 |
| 2017 | Charles Dickens - Der Mann der Weihnachten erfand | Mr. Grimsby | ★ 6.8 |
| 2016 | Churchill's Secret | Lord Moran | ★ 6.3 |
| 2016 | Dad's Army | Private Frazer | ★ 5.0 |
| 2015 | High-Rise | Mercer | ★ 5.6 |
| 2015 | The Vote | Simon Featherstone | ★ 8.4 |
| 2014 | Documenting John Grierson | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 2013 | Die Todesliste - Nr. 1 stirbt | Reg Troughton | ★ 4.3 |
| 2012 | Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 2011 | Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me | Judge Underwood | ★ 5.5 |
| 2011 | The Man who Crossed Hitler | Kurt Ohnesorge | ★ 6.2 |
| 2011 | The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema | Narrator (Voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2009 | Ghosts in the Machine | Himself | ★ 0.0 |
| 2009 | Creation | Dr. Gully | ★ 6.4 |
| 2009 | Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen | Dr James Niven | ★ 7.3 |
| 2009 | Blut, Schweiß und Tränen | Clement Attlee | ★ 6.4 |
| 2009 | 1929: The Great Crash | Narrator | ★ 6.7 |
| 2008 | New York für Anfänger | Richard Young | ★ 6.0 |
| 2008 | The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen | Self - 'Henry Salt' | ★ 8.3 |
| 2008 | The Man Who Lives with Bears | Self - Narrator (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2007 | Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars | Dr Watson | ★ 6.9 |
| 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2007 | Intervention | Dr. Martin | ★ 0.0 |
| 2006 | Miss Potter | Rupert Potter | ★ 6.6 |
| 2006 | Amazing Grace | Lord Dundas | ★ 6.9 |
| 2006 | A War on Science | Narrator (voice) | ★ 9.0 |
| 2006 | Fascism in Colour | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.5 |
| 2005 | Rag Tale | Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd | ★ 3.8 |
| 2005 | Königreich der Himmel | Bishop (director's cut) | ★ 7.0 |
| 2004 | Lie with Me | DCI Collman | ★ 5.7 |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Sir James Brown | ★ 6.3 |
| 2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | DI Nick Biddiss | ★ 0.0 |
| 2002 | Heiraten für Fortgeschrittene | Gerald | ★ 5.7 |
| 2002 | Home Road Movies | Father | ★ 6.3 |
| 2002 | The Entity | | ★ 8.0 |
| 2001 | Othello | Sinclair Carver | ★ 6.6 |
| 2001 | The Whistle-Blower | D.I. Neil Sleightholme | ★ 8.0 |
| 2001 | Behind Bars | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 2000 | Complicity | Wallace Byatt | ★ 5.9 |
| 1999 | Chrono-Perambulator | Professor Teddy Knox | ★ 0.0 |
| 1999 | Ein Hauch von Sonnenschein | Minister of Justice | ★ 6.5 |
| 1999 | The Match | Tommy | ★ 6.2 |
| 1999 | Heart - Wem gehört dein Herz? | Mr. Kreitman | ★ 5.5 |
| 1998 | Hilary und Jackie | Cello Teacher | ★ 6.7 |
| 1997 | Mr White Goes To Westminster | Ben White | ★ 2.0 |
| 1997 | Spice World - Der Film | Brian | ★ 4.9 |
| 1996 | Victory | Capt. Davidson | ★ 5.1 |
| 1996 | Operation Schmetterling | Bull | ★ 2.8 |
| 1996 | Chaplin's Goliath | Narrator (voice) | ★ 6.5 |
| 1995 | Richard III | Sir Richard Ratcliffe | ★ 6.7 |
| 1995 | The Pen | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1995 | The Turnaround | James Webb | ★ 7.0 |
| 1995 | The Riddle of the Sands | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 1994 | Hard Times | Stephen Blackpool | ★ 7.0 |
| 1993 | Wall of Silence | Howard Mullen | ★ 0.0 |
| 1992 | God on the Rocks | Kenneth Marsh | ★ 0.0 |
| 1992 | In Dreams | Dr Gold | ★ 7.0 |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Stage Manager | ★ 7.4 |
| 1992 | Tell Tale Hearts | Anthony Steadman | ★ 0.0 |
| 1991 | Wie verrückt und aus tiefstem Herzen | Sandy | ★ 6.9 |
| 1991 | Object of Beauty - Verliebt, verwöhnt und abgebrannt | Victor Swayle | ★ 5.3 |
| 1990 | Yellowbacks | Alex McPherson | ★ 7.0 |
| 1990 | Hexen hexen | Mr Jenkins | ★ 6.9 |
| 1989 | Ausgespielt – Bearskin | Jordan | ★ 7.5 |
| 1989 | Er? Will! Sie nicht? | Gordon Highway | ★ 5.1 |
| 1989 | Die Rückkehr der Musketiere | Charles I | ★ 6.2 |
| 1988 | Die Abenteuer des Baron Münchhausen | Henry Salt | ★ 7.0 |
| 1988 | Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' | Titorelli | ★ 0.0 |
| 1988 | Die Malteser des Falken | Chief Inspector Snape | ★ 4.3 |
| 1988 | Byrne About Byrne | Father/F.S. McDade | ★ 0.0 |
| 1987 | The Interrogation of John | Det. Supt. Chase | ★ 0.0 |
| 1987 | Friendship's Death | Sullivan | ★ 6.8 |
| 1987 | Lily My Love | Colin | ★ 0.0 |
| 1987 | Hidden City | Anthony | ★ 5.1 |
| 1987 | Rhosyn a Rhith | Mr. Valentine | ★ 6.6 |
| 1986 | God's Chosen Car Park | Victor Rosen | ★ 0.0 |
| 1986 | Button - Im Sumpf der Atommafia | Jack Macleod | ★ 6.5 |
| 1985 | Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1985 | Dutch Girls | Mr Mole | ★ 4.4 |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land | Dr. MacEntire | ★ 7.5 |
| 1984 | Magere Zeiten - Der Film mit dem Schwein | Wormold | ★ 6.3 |
| 1984 | Comfort and Joy | Alan | ★ 6.6 |
| 1983 | The Ploughman's Lunch | Lecturer | ★ 4.7 |
| 1981 | United Kingdom | Tony | ★ 0.0 |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Lopakhin | ★ 0.0 |
| 1979 | One Fine Day | Third Man in Lift | ★ 2.0 |
| 1978 | The Vanishing Army | Girling | ★ 0.0 |
| 1978 | Jackie McCafferty's Romance | Bus Conductor | ★ 0.0 |
| 1978 | The Odd Job | Sergeant Mull | ★ 5.9 |
| 1978 | Licking Hitler | Archie MacLean | ★ 0.0 |
| 1977 | The Thin End of the Wedge | Luke | ★ 0.0 |
| 1977 | The Garden Beyond | Jim Finlayson | ★ 0.0 |
| 1974 | The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil | Various | ★ 0.0 |
| 1974 | Clydescope | Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited) | ★ 7.0 |
| The White Room | Jackie Jordan | ★ 0.0 |
