| 2026 | The Magic Faraway Tree | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2025 | Downton Abbey: Das große Finale | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2024 | Firebrand | Stephen Gardiner | ★ 6.4 |
| 2024 | Home! Home! | Self (narrator) | ★ 10.0 |
| 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | Dionysus | ★ 6.4 |
| 2022 | Die Täuschung | Winston Churchill | ★ 6.5 |
| 2022 | The Outfit - Verbrechen nach Maß | Roy Boyle | ★ 7.1 |
| 2021 | Benediction | Robbie Ross | ★ 6.2 |
| 2020 | A Christmas Carol | Scrooge's voice (voice) | ★ 7.4 |
| 2020 | The Hour | Himself | ★ 0.0 |
| 2020 | Marie Curie - Elemente des Lebens | Professor Lippmann | ★ 6.6 |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy | Henry Lehman | ★ 8.7 |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second | Richard II | ★ 10.0 |
| 2018 | Maria Stuart, Königin von Schottland | Robert Beale | ★ 6.6 |
| 2018 | Operation Finale | David Ben-Gurion | ★ 6.7 |
| 2018 | Museo | Frank Graves | ★ 6.6 |
| 2017 | The Death of Stalin | Lavrenti Beria | ★ 7.0 |
| 2017 | Meine Cousine Rachel | Couch | ★ 5.7 |
| 2017 | RSC Live: The Tempest | Prospero | ★ 7.0 |
| 2016 | Legend of Tarzan | Mr. Frum | ★ 5.9 |
| 2016 | Cunk on Shakespeare | Self - Actor | ★ 7.5 |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Richard II | ★ 7.5 |
| 2015 | Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers | presenter | ★ 0.0 |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Baker's Father | ★ 5.8 |
| 2014 | The Mysterious Mr Webster | Self - Interviewee | ★ 6.0 |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | Lear, King of Britain | ★ 7.1 |
| 2013 | Legacy | Hookey | ★ 5.1 |
| 2013 | Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Hamlet | ★ 6.3 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | ★ 6.5 |
| 2012 | National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens | Timon | ★ 0.0 |
| 2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2011 | A Musical Nativity with John Rutter | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: Collaborators | Joseph Stalin | ★ 0.0 |
| 2011 | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | ★ 5.9 |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Cotes-Preedy | ★ 6.7 |
| 2011 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House) | The Duchess / Introduced by | ★ 7.7 |
| 2010 | A Christmas History | Presenter | ★ 0.0 |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Sir Harcourt Courtly | ★ 7.0 |
| 2010 | BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday | Himself - Performer | ★ 10.0 |
| 2008 | An Easter Celebration | presenter | ★ 0.0 |
| 2006 | Deep Water | Donald Crowhurst (voice) | ★ 7.3 |
| 2003 | The Young Visiters | Prince of Wales | ★ 5.4 |
| 2003 | The Gathering | Luke Fraser | ★ 5.5 |
| 1999 | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Wellington | ★ 7.0 |
| 1999 | Alice im Wunderland | King Cedric of Hearts | ★ 6.2 |
| 1999 | Ein perfekter Ehemann | Sir Edward | ★ 6.5 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Second Gravedigger | ★ 7.3 |
| 1995 | Jane Austen's Verführung | Charles Musgrove | ★ 7.1 |
| 1992 | Orlando | Earl of Moray | ★ 6.9 |
| 1985 | Time and the Conways | Party Guest | ★ 0.0 |
| The Choral | | ★ 0.0 |
| De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre | Winston Churchill | ★ 0.0 |
| De Gaulle – Partie 2 | Winston Churchill | ★ 0.0 |
