| Movie | 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Governor Weatherby Swann | |
| Movie | 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Weatherby Swann | |
| Movie | 1985 | Brazil | Sam Lowry | |
| Movie | 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Governor Weatherby Swann | |
| Movie | 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | Elliot Carver | |
| Movie | 2008 | Bedtime Stories | Marty Bronson | |
| Movie | 1999 | Stigmata | Cardinal Daniel Houseman | |
| Movie | 2003 | An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | David | Saul | |
| Movie | 2003 | What a Girl Wants | Alistair Payne | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Rivière | |
| Movie | 1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Jack | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Brothers Grimm | Delatombe | |
| Movie | 2008 | Leatherheads | CC Frazier | |
| Movie | 2023 | Soul of the Ocean | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1986 | Haunted Honeymoon | Charles Abbot | |
| Movie | 1998 | Ronin | Seamus O'Rourke | |
| Movie | 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Mr. Dark | |
| Movie | 1996 | Evita | Juan Perón | |
| Movie | 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross | James Lingk | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | | |
| Movie | 1980 | Breaking Glass | Ken | |
| Movie | 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate | Henry Kravis | |
| Movie | 1994 | A Troll in Central Park | Alan (voice) | |
| Movie | 2002 | Taliesin Jones | Da | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Rachel Papers | Norman | |
| Movie | 2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | U.S. President | |
| Movie | 2004 | De-Lovely | Gabriel | |
| Movie | 2001 | Very Annie Mary | Jack Pugh | |
| Movie | 2009 | Echelon Conspiracy | Mueller | |
| Movie | 2011 | City State | Jimmy | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Moon and the Stars | James Clavel / Scarpia | |
| Movie | 1995 | Carrington | Lytton Strachey | |
| Movie | 1997 | Regeneration | Capt. William Rivers | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Cardinal Louis de Rohan | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Doctor and the Devils | Robert Fallon | |
| Movie | 1994 | A Business Affair | Alec Bolton | |
| Movie | N/A | Flavia de Luce | | |
| Movie | 2005 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards | The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | U.S. President | |
| Movie | 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Joseph Manasse | |
| Movie | 2011 | Hysteria | Dr. Robert Dalrymple | |
| Movie | 2001 | Bride of the Wind | Gustav Mahler | |
| Movie | 2008 | My Zinc Bed | Victor | |
| Movie | 2012 | Patience (After Sebald) | Voiceover | |
| Movie | 1981 | Loophole | Taylor | |
| Movie | 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation | Duncan Stewart | |
| Movie | 1992 | Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Trilby (voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Quest for the Giant Squid | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2004 | Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane | Self | |
| Movie | 1983 | The Ploughman's Lunch | James Penfield | |
| Movie | 1999 | Titanic: Answers From The Abyss | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1988 | Consuming Passions | Mr. Farris | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Man from the Pru | William Wallace | |
| Movie | 1998 | Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon | Self - 'The Engineer' | |
| Movie | 2014 | Listen Up Philip | Ike | |
| Movie | 1994 | Deadly Advice | Dr. Ted Philips | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Suicide Club | Bourne | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Witness is a Whale | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1999 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death | The Master | |
| Movie | 2025 | William Tell | Attinghausen | |
| Movie | 1987 | Man on Fire | Michael | |
| Movie | 2014 | Under Milk Wood | Mr. Pugh | |
| Movie | 1993 | Selling Hitler | Gerd Heidemann | |
| Movie | 2022 | Scrooge: A Christmas Carol | Jacob Marley (voice) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Salvation | Mayor Nathan Keane | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking | Self - Narrator | |
| Movie | 2023 | One Life | Martin Blake | |
| Movie | 2015 | Dough | Nat | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Penguin Lessons | Headmaster Buckle | |
| Movie | 2002 | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Master Schoemacker | |
| Movie | 1979 | Comedians | Gethin Price | |
| Movie | 2002 | Mad Dogs | Supreme Being | |
| Movie | 2015 | Narcopolis | Sidorov | |
| Movie | 2006 | Brothers of the Head | Henry Couling | |
| Movie | 1996 | A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Healer | Raymond Heacock | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Wife | Joe Castleman | |
| Movie | 2012 | King Lear | King Lear | |
| Movie | 2002 | Best Ever Bond | Self / Elliot Carver | |
| Movie | 1993 | Thicker Than Water | Sam | |
| Movie | 2016 | The White King | Colonel Fitz | |
| Movie | 2008 | What Is Brazil? | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Shylock's Ghost | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Woman in Gold | Chief Justice Rehnquist | |
| Movie | 1981 | Timon of Athens | Timon | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Thursday Murder Club | Stephen Best | |
| Movie | 1994 | Shopping | Conway | |
| Movie | 1982 | Praying Mantis | Christian Magny | |
| Movie | 2016 | Aberfan: The Green Hollow | | |
| Movie | 2014 | Sluizer Speaks | | |
| Movie | 2016 | To Walk Invisible | Patrick Brontë | |
| Movie | 2000 | Tales from the Madhouse | The Thief | |
| Movie | 1982 | Murder Is Easy | Mr. Ellsworthy | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mr. John Dickens | |
| Movie | 2017 | Becoming Cary Grant | Cary Grant (voice) | |
| Movie | 1983 | Martin Luther, Heretic | Martin Luther | |
| Movie | 2016 | Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance | Special Finale Guest Star | |
| Movie | 1984 | An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Day Christ Died | Herod | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Don Quixote | |
| Movie | 2018 | To Provide All People | Retired Neurosurgeon | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Two Popes | Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Caretaker | Mick | |
| Movie | 2008 | Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began | Ian Fleming (voice) | |
| Movie | 2002 | Unconditional Love | Victor Fox | |
| Movie | 2003 | David Bowie - Sound and Vision | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2019 | He Dreams of Giants | Himself | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Ghost and the Whale | Whale | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen | Self / Horatio Jackson | |
| Movie | 1992 | A Child's Garden of Verses | Narrator / Father (voice) | |
| Movie | 1975 | The Death of a Young Young Man | Tommy | |
| Movie | 2001 | Il gioco | Mark | |
| Movie | 2022 | All the Old Knives | Bill Compton | |
| Movie | 2019 | Piney: The Lonesome Pine | Grandpa Sid | |
| Movie | 1998 | Highly Classified: The World of 007 | | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Secrets of 007 | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Save the Cinema | Mr. Morgan | |
| Movie | 2005 | The New World | King James | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe | Shylock | |
| Movie | 2012 | Dark Blood | Harry Fletcher | |
| Movie | 2021 | Stories of You and I | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1976 | Play Things | Playleader | |
| Movie | 2011 | Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching | Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice) | |
| Movie | 1978 | For Tea on Sunday | Nicholas | |
| Movie | 2001 | Victoria & Albert | King Leopold I of Belgium | |
| Movie | 2015 | Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | The World Within Us | Voice | |
| Movie | N/A | Sleeping Lions | | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Spirit of 1926 | Narrator | |
| TV Show | 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Doomwatch | Police Constable | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | The Storyteller | King | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Clone | Dr Victor Blenkinsop | 6 |
| TV Show | 2016 | The Crown | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 20 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Taboo | Stuart Strange | 8 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Cranford | Mr. Buxton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Game of Thrones | High Sparrow | 15 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner/Performer | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Documentary Now! | Owen Teale-Griffith | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Bill Brand | Jamie Finn | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | ChalkZone | The Quicksand Man (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Mr. Wroe's Virgins | John Wroe | 4 |
| TV Show | 2024 | 3 Body Problem | Mike Evans | 5 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Praying Mantis | Christian Magny | 2 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Selling Hitler | Gerd Heidemann | 5 |
| TV Show | 1953 | The Oscars | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Tales from the Loop | Russ | 4 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Himself | 3 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Wolf Hall | Cardinal Wolsey | 8 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | N/A | Under Salt Marsh | | 6 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Slow Horses | David Cartwright | 11 |
| TV Show | 1997 | David | Saul | 2 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Davide | Saul | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Playhouse | Playleader | 1 |
| TV Show | 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Nicholas | 1 |
