| Movie | 2000 | Dancer in the Dark | Doctor | |
| Movie | 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner | |
| Movie | 1996 | Breaking the Waves | Jan Nyman | |
| Movie | 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Bootstrap Bill | |
| Movie | 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Gerald Lambeau | |
| Movie | 2003 | Dogville | Chuck | |
| Movie | 1998 | Savior | Peter | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Glass House | Terence Glass | |
| Movie | 2011 | Thor | Erik Selvig | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Hunt for Red October | Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov) | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | The Engineer | |
| Movie | 2002 | No Good Deed | Tyrone | |
| Movie | 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Father Lankester Merrin | |
| Movie | 2005 | Beowulf & Grendel | Hrothgar | |
| Movie | 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Francisco Goya | |
| Movie | 2010 | A Somewhat Gentle Man | Ulrik | |
| Movie | 2002 | Taking Sides | Wilhelm Furtwängler | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Simple-Minded Murderer | Sven | |
| Movie | 2001 | Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) | Felix | |
| Movie | 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Bill Anderson | |
| Movie | 1997 | Amistad | Tappan | |
| Movie | 1989 | Code Name Coq Rouge | Carl Hamilton | |
| Movie | 2008 | God on Trial | Baumgarten | |
| Movie | 1998 | Ronin | Gregor | |
| Movie | 2002 | City of Ghosts | Joseph Kaspar | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Avengers | Selvig | |
| Movie | 2004 | King Arthur | Cerdic | |
| Movie | 1997 | Insomnia | Jonas Engström | |
| Movie | 2000 | Aberdeen | Tomas | |
| Movie | 2006 | Kill Your Darlings | Erik's Father | |
| Movie | 2005 | Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist | Father Lankester Merrin | |
| Movie | 2009 | Angels & Demons | Commander Richter | |
| Movie | 2007 | Arn: The Knight Templar | Birger Brosa | |
| Movie | 2008 | Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End | Birger Brosa | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Slingshot | Fritiof Schütt | |
| Movie | 2009 | Metropia | Ralph Parker (voice) | |
| Movie | 2007 | WΔZ | Eddie Argo | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery | Herman Melvin | |
| Movie | 2011 | Melancholia | Jack | |
| Movie | 1978 | Det är din boll, Jim | Journalist | |
| Movie | 1985 | Peter-No-Tail in Americat | Pelle Swanson | |
| Movie | 2024 | What Remains | Sören Rank | |
| Movie | 1973 | Anita, Swedish Nymphet | Erik | |
| Movie | 2001 | Signs & Wonders | Alec | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Democratic Terrorist | Carl Hamilton | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Martin Vanger | |
| Movie | 2007 | Guilty Hearts | Stangl | |
| Movie | 1990 | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | Raoul Wallenberg | |
| Movie | 2010 | King of Devil's Island | Bestyrer Håkon | |
| Movie | 2010 | Frankie & Alice | Oz | |
| Movie | 1987 | Jim and the Pirates Blom | Gustav, Jim's father | |
| Movie | 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Glass-Blower's Children | Albert | |
| Movie | 2022 | Soul of a Man | Bon-Bon | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Interrogation | Carl Hamilton | |
| Movie | 1995 | Zero Kelvin | Randbæk | |
| Movie | 1972 | Raid in the Summer | Erik | |
| Movie | 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Erik Selvig | |
| Movie | 2007 | Wrath of Gods | Self | |
| Movie | 1983 | P & B | Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson | |
| Movie | 1985 | False as Water | Stig | |
| Movie | 2008 | Schrader's Exorcism | Self | |
| Movie | 1984 | Åke and His World | Ebenholtz | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Railway Man | Finlay | |
| Movie | 1987 | Hip Hip Hurrah! | Sören Kröyer | |
| Movie | 2004 | Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Serpent's Way | Karl Orsa Markström | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Last Dance | Host in Norrköping | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Making of King Arthur | Self | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Office Party | Peter | |
| Movie | 1977 | Tabu | Jan-Erik | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Women on the Roof | Willy | |
| Movie | 1985 | Noon Wine | Olaf Helton | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Physician | Barber | |
| Movie | 2000 | Harlan County War | Warren Jakopovich | |
| Movie | 1989 | S/Y Joy | Klas Larsson | |
| Movie | 1977 | Hemåt i natten | Kurt Sjöberg | |
| Movie | 2014 | In Order of Disappearance | Nils | |
| Movie | 1996 | Harry & Sonja | Harry Olsson | |
| Movie | 1987 | Friends | Matt | |
| Movie | 2014 | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Edward | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Dogs of Riga | Magnus Björk | |
| Movie | 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Dima | |
| Movie | 1997 | My Son the Fanatic | Schitz | |
| Movie | 2013 | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | Seligman | |
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| Movie | 1992 | Wind | Joe Heiser | |
| Movie | 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | Selvig | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy | | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Perfect Murder | Axel Svensson | |
| Movie | 2009 | Boogie Woogie | Bob Maclestone | |
| Movie | 2008 | Birthing Mamma Mia! | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Erik Selvig | |
| Movie | 1973 | Five Days in August | Christer | |
| Movie | 2000 | Timecode | Alex Green | |
| Movie | 2022 | Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1991 | The Ox | Helge Roos | |
| Movie | 1992 | Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2012 | Liten Skär och alla små Brokiga | | |
| Movie | 1999 | Deep Blue Sea | Jim Whitlock | |
| Movie | 2013 | Romeo & Juliet | Prince of Verona | |
| Movie | 2001 | Powder Keg | Harvey Jacobs | |
| Movie | 2004 | Dogville Confessions | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | Parker Kane | Nathan Van Adams | |
| Movie | 1983 | Alf Sjöberg - mästaren | | |
| Movie | 1983 | The School of Wives | Horace | |
| Movie | 2024 | Who's who? | Narrator | |
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| Movie | 2017 | Borg vs McEnroe | Lennart Bergelin | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | The Boss | |
| Movie | 1993 | Murder at the Savoy | Security Manager | |
| Movie | 2000 | Passion of Mind | William Granther | |
| Movie | 2000 | D-Day | Lise's Mand | |
| Movie | 2012 | Room 1112 | | |
| Movie | 2017 | Return to Montauk | Max Zorn | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Hotel | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Bill Anderson / Kurt Anderson | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Kingdom II | Stig Helmers advokat | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Painted Bird | Hans | |
| Movie | 1985 | Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark | Hamlet | |
| Movie | 2012 | Our Need for Consolation | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1975 | The Intruders | Peter Delaney | |
| Movie | 2017 | Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt | Self | |
| Movie | 1971 | Den byxlöse äventyraren | | |
| Movie | 2017 | Gordon & Paddy | Gordon (voice) | |
| Movie | 2019 | Out Stealing Horses | Trond | |
| Movie | 1997 | Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier | | |
| Movie | 2018 | Filmworker | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Volcano Man | English voice (voice) | |
| Movie | 2014 | Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia' | Himself | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Wedding | Roffe Eriksson | |
| Movie | 2021 | Dune | Baron Vladimir Harkonnen | |
| Movie | 2004 | Eiffel Tower | Jakob | |
| Movie | 2019 | I'll Find You | Benno Moser | |
| Movie | 2003 | To Kill a Child | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2019 | Hope | Tomas | |
| Movie | 2010 | Dimension | | |
| Movie | 2006 | Svenska ord i bild och tal | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria | Self | |
| Movie | 2000 | I Remember Lena Svedberg | Narrator (Eng) | |
| Movie | 2010 | Behind the Moomins | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | Time of the Wolf | Peder Ulfstand | |
| Movie | 2020 | Last Words | Zyberski | |
| Movie | 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Baron Harkonnen | |
| Movie | 2021 | The Ape Star | Tord Fjordmark (voice) | |
| Movie | 2020 | 11 Colours of the Bird | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Cinderella | Grand Duke | |
| Movie | 2010 | As If I Am Not There | Doctor | |
| Movie | 2025 | Bo Being Bo Widerberg | Self | |
| Movie | 2025 | Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor | Narrator | |
| TV Show | 2004 | Entourage | | 3 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Smash | Finansministerns sekreterare | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | American Playhouse | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Report to Heaven | Gary | 4 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Playhouse Presents | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | August Strindberg: Ett liv | Verner von Heidenstam | 6 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Erik Selvig (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | River | John River | 6 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Skavlan | Self - Guest | 2 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Bombi Bitt och jag | Bombi Bitt | 5 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Hundarna i Riga | Magnus Björk | 2 |
| TV Show | 2001 | The Hire | Harvey Jacobs | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Rouge Brésil | Villegagnon | 2 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Helen of Troy | King Theseus of Athens | 2 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Vildanden | Gregers Werle | 3 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Chernobyl | Boris Shcherbina | 5 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Honest Trailers | Erik Selvig (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Arn: The Knight Templar | Birger Brosa | 6 |
| TV Show | 1981 | The Guldbagge Awards | Self - Best Actor winner | 2 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Kulturplatz | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Kingdom | Stig Helmers advokat | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Andor | Luthen Rael | 19 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Stellan Skarsgård (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 1 |
