| Movie | 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Théoden | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Théoden | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Boys & Girl from County Clare | John Joe | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | Dr. David Hawthorne | |
| Movie | 2006 | Joy Division | Dennis | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Heart of the Earth | Sr. Crown | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Bounty | William Cole | |
| Movie | 2003 | Gothika | Phil Parsons | |
| Movie | 1977 | Daft Mam Blues | Billy | |
| Movie | 2006 | Ocean Odyssey | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2004 | Wimbledon | Edward Colt | |
| Movie | 2008 | Franklyn | Esser | |
| Movie | 2000 | Going Off Big Time | Murray | |
| Movie | 1999 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Scorpion King | Philos | |
| Movie | 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Dr. Livingstone | |
| Movie | 1988 | Drowning by Numbers | Madgett | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Kid | Uncle David | |
| Movie | 1985 | Restless Natives | Will's father | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Susan's Father | |
| Movie | 2008 | Titus: The Gorilla King | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Wind in the Willows | The Engine Driver | |
| Movie | 1990 | Shoot the Revolution | Octavian Barbu | |
| Movie | 2005 | Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony | | |
| Movie | 1989 | Shirley Valentine | Joe Bradshaw | |
| Movie | N/A | The Crumblegiant | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2007 | Exodus | Pharoah Mann | |
| Movie | 2018 | Segunda oportunidad | Peter | |
| Movie | 2012 | ParaNorman | Judge Hopkins (voice) | |
| Movie | 1976 | Trial by Combat | Blind Freddie | |
| Movie | 2007 | Save Angel Hope | Oscar Kurz | |
| Movie | 1985 | No Surrender | Bernard | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Criminal | Det. Insp. Walker | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Moor | Thornley | |
| Movie | 1987 | Bellman and True | Hiller | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Chain | Nick | |
| Movie | 1995 | Madagascar Skin | Flint | |
| Movie | 2010 | Canoe Man | John Darwin | |
| Movie | 2024 | Forever Young | Oscar Smith | |
| Movie | 2016 | Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1983 | Henry VI Part 1 | Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans | |
| Movie | 1983 | Henry VI Part 2 | Duke of York | |
| Movie | 1983 | Henry VI Part 3 | Duke of York | |
| Movie | 1983 | The Tragedy of Richard III | First Murderer | |
| Movie | 1993 | Shepherd on the Rock | Tam Ferrier | |
| Movie | 2012 | Titanic: Case Closed | | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Spongers | Sullivan | |
| Movie | 2005 | A Very Social Secretary | David Blunkett | |
| Movie | 2012 | Outpost 11 | Cranleigh | |
| Movie | 1999 | True Crime | Warden Luther Plunkitt | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Last Tommy | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2012 | Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | Captain EJ Smith | |
| Movie | 2006 | JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1981 | Say No to Strangers | Teresa's Dad | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Black Stuff | Yosser Hughes | |
| Movie | 1977 | Professional Foul | Broadbent | |
| Movie | 1994 | Dirtysomething | Larry | |
| Movie | 1998 | Titanic: Secrets Revealed | Host | |
| Movie | 1990 | From Moscow to Pietushki | Readings (voice) | |
| Movie | 1992 | Double X: The Name of the Game | Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith | |
| Movie | 2015 | North v South | John Claridge | |
| Movie | 2008 | Bombay Railway | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1982 | Gandhi | Sergeant Putnam | |
| Movie | 1993 | Olly's Prison | Mike | |
| Movie | 1994 | Speaking In Tongues | Joe | |
| Movie | 1977 | Pit Strike | Tom | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Sorrows | | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Art of Tripping | | |
| Movie | 1995 | First Knight | Knight (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1984 | Squaring the Circle | Lech Walesa | |
| Movie | 1992 | A Question of Identity | Erwin van Haarlem | |
| Movie | 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | |
| Movie | 2016 | Golden Years | Arthur | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Law Lord | Martin Allport | |
| Movie | 1983 | Runners | Trevor Field | |
| Movie | 1980 | Fox | Vin Fox | |
| Movie | 2017 | Interlude: City of a Dead Woman | Richard | |
| Movie | 2008 | Valkyrie | General - Desert Sequence | |
| Movie | 1973 | Hard Labour | Edward Thornley | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Mill on the Floss | Edward Tulliver | |
| Movie | 1976 | It Could Happen to You | Syph | |
| Movie | 2000 | Eisenstein | The voice of Stalin | |
| Movie | 1987 | Boy Soldier | Officer | |
| Movie | 2000 | A Question of Faith | Frederick | |
| Movie | 2006 | No Go: The Free Derry Story | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2008 | Exodus | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1994 | Skallagrigg | John | |
| Movie | 1986 | Theban Plays: Antigone | Messenger | |
| Movie | 2006 | Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1977 | Our Flesh and Blood | Bernard Blincoe | |
| Movie | 1978 | She Fell Among Thieves | Carson | |
| Movie | 2004 | Beatles Biggest Secrets | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1976 | Housewives' Choice | Eric | |
| Movie | 1978 | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | Mick | |
| Movie | 1981 | A Turn for the Worse | Simon Simpson | |
| Movie | 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | King William III | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Burston Rebellion | Tom Higdon | |
| Movie | 2012 | Reflections on Titanic | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Inside CERN | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Peddler | Graham | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Titanic Chronicles | (voice) | |
| Movie | 1997 | Titanic | Captain Smith | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Making of The Two Towers | | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Making of the Return of the King | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | $200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video) | Self / Edward Smith (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2005 | Titanic: Behind The Scenes | Self / Edward Smith (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2012 | Titanic: Southampton Remembers | | |
| TV Show | 1982 | Boys from the Blackstuff | Yosser Hughes | 5 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Five Days | Gerard Hopkirk | 10 |
| TV Show | 1976 | I, Claudius | Gratus | 2 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Sunshine | George Crosby | 3 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Fox | Vin Fox | 13 |
| TV Show | 2004 | The Grid | | 6 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Fairy Tales | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | One Life | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Natural World | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Surviving Disaster | Himself - Narrator | 7 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Bombay Railway | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Wild China | Himself - Narrator | 6 |
| TV Show | 2014 | From There to Here | Samuel | 3 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves | 6 |
| TV Show | 1992 | HBO First Look | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Village Hall | Policeman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Once Upon A Time In The North | Len Tollit | 6 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Indian Hill Railways | Self - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Screen Two | John | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | The Gambling Man | Frank nickle | 3 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Surviving Disaster | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | India's Frontier Railways | Narrator - (Voice) | 3 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Bottom (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Between the Lines | Chief Constable Harmsworth | 2 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Graham | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Bernard Blincoe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Edward | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Eric | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Sullivan | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Mick | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Simon Simpson | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Hope and Wire | Len Russell | 3 |
| TV Show | 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Carson | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The Responder | Tom Carson | 5 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Lipstick on Your Collar | Uncle Fred | 6 |
| TV Show | 1964 | Horizon | Narrator | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk | 6 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 2 |
| TV Show | 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Broadbent | 1 |
