| 2024 | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (9) (archive footage) | ★ 10.0 |
| 2024 | Die junge Frau und das Meer | Jabez Wolffe | ★ 7.9 |
| 2024 | An Angel on Oxford Street | Saul (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2023 | The Kemps: All Gold | Luke Dunmore | ★ 0.0 |
| 2023 | Dodger Special: Coronation | Fagin | ★ 10.0 |
| 2023 | Dodger Special: Bad Egg | Fagin | ★ 0.0 |
| 2022 | Dodger Special: Christmas | Fagin | ★ 0.0 |
| 2022 | Dodger Special: Train | Fagin | ★ 0.0 |
| 2022 | My Name Is Leon | Mr. Devlin | ★ 2.5 |
| 2021 | Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story | Self | ★ 6.5 |
| 2021 | Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2020 | The Hour | Himself | ★ 0.0 |
| 2020 | The Kemps: All True | Self | ★ 9.0 |
| 2020 | Endless | | ★ 8.0 |
| 2020 | A Year in the Life of a Year 2019 | Himself | ★ 0.0 |
| 2018 | Spanische Grippe - Das Geheimnis des Killer-Virus | Narrator | ★ 6.3 |
| 2018 | Where Hands Touch | Heinz | ★ 7.9 |
| 2018 | Dead in a Week (oder Geld zurück) | Harvey | ★ 6.3 |
| 2018 | King Lear | Oswald | ★ 6.0 |
| 2018 | RSC Live: Macbeth | Macbeth | ★ 9.3 |
| 2017 | Manchester: 100 Days After The Attack | Voice | ★ 8.4 |
| 2016 | The Last Miners | Narrator (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: Besuch bei River Song | The Doctor (9) (picture) (uncredited) | ★ 8.0 |
| 2015 | Legend | Leonard 'Nipper' Read | ★ 7.1 |
| 2014 | Richard III: The New Evidence | Narrator | ★ 6.0 |
| 2013 | Lucan | John Aspinall | ★ 6.0 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Der Tag des Doktors | The Doctor (9) (archive footage) | ★ 8.2 |
| 2013 | When Coal Was King | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | | ★ 7.0 |
| 2013 | Thor - The Dark Kingdom | Malekith | ★ 6.5 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | ★ 6.5 |
| 2013 | Emily | James | ★ 5.0 |
| 2012 | National Theatre Live: Antigone | Creon, King of Thebes | ★ 10.0 |
| 2012 | When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies | Narrator | ★ 7.2 |
| 2012 | Song for Marion | James | ★ 6.9 |
| 2011 | Die Borger | Pod Clock | ★ 5.8 |
| 2010 | Lennon Naked | John Lennon | ★ 5.6 |
| 2010 | The Happiness Salesman | Salesman | ★ 9.0 |
| 2009 | Amelia | Fred Noonan | ★ 5.7 |
| 2009 | G.I. Joe - Geheimauftrag Cobra | McCullen / Destro | ★ 5.8 |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Der andere Doctor | The Doctor (9) (archive footage) | ★ 7.4 |
| 2008 | New Orleans, Mon Amour | Henry | ★ 10.0 |
| 2007 | Wintersonnenwende - Die Jagd nach den sechs Zeichen des Lichts | The Rider | ★ 5.4 |
| 2006 | Perfect Parents | Stuart | ★ 5.5 |
| 2006 | Best Ever Muppet Moments | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: Born Again | The Doctor (9) (archive footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2005 | E=mc² – Einsteins große Idee | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.2 |
| 2005 | The Dark Side of Porn: Porn Shutdown | | ★ 5.5 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2003 | The Importance of Being Morrissey | Narrator | ★ 6.6 |
| 2003 | The Second Coming | Stephen Baxter | ★ 0.0 |
| 2002 | 28 Days Later | Major Henry West | ★ 7.2 |
| 2002 | Flesh and Blood | Joe Broughton | ★ 5.7 |
| 2002 | Tony Adams - Drunk And Dry | Narrator | ★ 10.0 |
| 2002 | Revengers Tragedy | Vindici | ★ 5.4 |
| 2002 | The King and Us | Anthony | ★ 0.0 |
| 2002 | Dina - Meine Geschichte | Leo Zhukovsky | ★ 5.5 |
| 2002 | 24 Hour Party People | Boethius | ★ 7.0 |
| 2002 | Sunday | Major Gen. Robert Ford | ★ 7.4 |
| 2001 | Othello | Ben Jago | ★ 6.6 |
| 2001 | The Others | Charles Stewart | ★ 7.6 |
| 2001 | Strumpet | Strayman | ★ 5.3 |
| 2001 | The Invisible Circus | Wolf | ★ 5.3 |
| 2000 | Nur noch 60 Sekunden | Raymond Calitri | ★ 6.4 |
| 1999 | With or Without You | Vincent Boyd | ★ 5.5 |
| 1999 | Dockers: Writing the Wrongs | Narrator (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | Seminar Leader | ★ 6.8 |
| 1999 | Heart - Wem gehört dein Herz? | Gary Ellis | ★ 5.5 |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Duke of Norfolk | ★ 7.2 |
| 1998 | Teurer als Rubine | Sender Horowitz | ★ 5.5 |
| 1996 | Hillsborough | Trevor Hicks | ★ 7.0 |
| 1996 | Herzen in Aufruhr | Jude Fawley | ★ 6.3 |
| 1994 | Kleine Morde unter Freunden | David Stephens | ★ 7.0 |
| 1993 | Anchoress | Priest | ★ 6.0 |
| 1992 | Roots | Frankie Bryant | ★ 0.0 |
| 1992 | Continental Drift | (Business with Friends) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1992 | Death and the Compass | Schartach / Zunz / Gryphius | ★ 5.8 |
| 1992 | Rachel's Dream | Man in Dream | ★ 4.5 |
| 1991 | Gib's ihm Chris | Derek Bentley | ★ 6.6 |
| Hear Me Roar | Michael Bellinger | ★ 0.0 |
