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Bridget Jones's Diary

2001
as Bridget's Dad

Bridget Jones's Baby

2016
as Mr. Colin Jones

Moulin Rouge!

2001
as Harold Zidler

The Legend of Tarzan

2016
as Prime Minister

Cloud Atlas

2012
as Timothy Cavendish

Hot Fuzz

2007
as Inspector Frank Butterman

Robots

2005
as Madame Gasket (voice)

Dolittle

2020
as Lord Thomas Badgley

Paddington 2

2017
as Samuel Gruber

War & Peace (2016)

2016
as Prince Bolkonsky

Paddington

2015
as Samuel Gruber

Valiant

2005
as Sergeant (voice)

Gangs of New York

2002
as William "Boss" Tweed

Brooklyn

2015
as Father Flood

Arthur Christmas

2011
as Santa (voice)

Inkheart

2008
as Fenoglio

London Spy

2015
as Scottie

Eddie the Eagle

2016
as BBC Commentator

The Young Victoria

2009
as King William IV

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1987
as Jean Pierre Dubois

Brazil

1985
as Dr. Jaffe

The Great Train Robbery

2013
as Tommy Butler

Filth

2013
as Dr. Rossi

The Iron Lady

2011
as Denis Thatcher

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

1993
as (segment "A Sense of History")

Gone to the Dogs

1991
as Larry Patterson

Bullets Over Broadway

1994
as Warner Purcell

The Last Art Film

2012
as Various

Nicholas Nickleby

2002
as Mr. Wackford Squeers

King Lear

2018
as Earl of Gloucester

A Sense of History

1992
as Written & Performed by

Bird of Prey

1982
as Det Insp Richardson

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997
as Dr. Lagermann

Happy Families

1985
as Delacroix

Free Jimmy

2006
as Stomowskij (voice)

Any Human Heart

2010
as Logan Mountstuart (Older)

The Insurance Man

1986
as Gutling

Perrier's Bounty

2009
as Jim McCrea

The Duke

2022
as Kempton Bunton

Walter

1982
as Joseph - Orderly

Vanity Fair

2004
as Mr. Osborne

Paddington in Peru

2024
as Samuel Gruber

The Gathering Storm

2002
as Desmond Morton

The Avengers

1998
as Mother

Erik the Viking

1989
as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)

Get Santa

2014
as Santa Claus

Time Bandits

1981
as Compere

Little Voice

1998
as Mr. Boo

Prince Cinders

1993
as Ugly Brother

Einstein and Eddington

2008
as Sir Oliver Lodge

Intensive Care

1982
as Mr Horsfall

Wide Eyed and Legless

1993
as Deric Longden

The King's Beard

2002
as The Wizard (voice)

Widows' Peak

1994
as Con Clancy

Vera Drake

2004
as Judge

Black '47

2018
as Kilmichael

The Young Visiters

2003
as Alfred Salteena

Birds Like Us

2017
as Horozovich (voice)

Lost and Found

2008
as Narrator (voice)

Walter and June

1983
as Orderly

Brambly Hedge

1996
as Basil Brightberry/Old Vole

The Sense of an Ending

2017
as Tony Webster

The Secret Agent

1996
as Chief Inspector Heat

Rough Magic

1995
as Doc Ansell

New Town Utopia

2017
as Lewis Silkin MP

Magik

2016
as Garret

Breaking Glass

1980
as Station Porter

The Good Father

1985
as Roger Miles

The Shout

1978
as Fielder in cowpat

Bright Young Things

2003
as The Drunken Major

Ethel & Ernest

2016
as Ernest Briggs (voice)

The Street

2006
as Stan McDermott

Tooth

2004
as The Rabbit (voice)

Longford

2006
as Lord Longford

Princess Caraboo

1994
as Mr. Worrall

The Lady in the Van

2015
as Underwood

Closed Circuit

2013
as Attorney General

Vroom

1988
as Donald

The Last Englishman

1995
as Col. Alfred D. Wintle

Tales of the Riverbank

2008
as G.P. (voice)

Richard III

1995
as The Duke of Buckingham

Postman Pat: The Movie

2014
as CEO (voice)

Le Week-End

2013
as Nick Burrows

The Borrowers

1997
as Pod Clock

Birth of a Nation

1983
as Geoff Figg

Silas Marner

1985
as Jem Rodney

Topsy-Turvy

1999
as W. S. Gilbert

Exile

2011
as Sam

Big Game

2014
as Herbert

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

1982
as (Archive Material)

The Go-Between

2015
as Old Leo

Black Narcissus

2020
as Father Roberts

Enchanted April

1991
as Frederick Arbuthnot

The Phone Call

2013
as Stan (voice)

Iris

2001
as John Bayley

The Weather Inside

2015
as Britischer Botschafter

King of Thieves

2018
as Terry Perkins

Pride

2004
as Eddie (voice)

Gone To Seed

1992
as Monty

The Damned United

2009
as Sam Longson

The Hit

1984
as Barrister

Writer

Movie A Sense of History 1992

Guest Star

Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 18
2022
Episode Game of Thrones
The Queen's Justice
2017
Episode Would I Lie to You?
At Christmas (2021)
2021
Episode Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (4)
1999
Episode Game of Thrones
Eastwatch
2017
Episode Comic Relief
Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
Episode Game of Thrones
Dragonstone
2017
Episode Screen One
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
Episode The Grumpy Guide To
Food
2007
Episode Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Russell Brand, Rafe Spall, Warwick Davis, Jim Broadbent, David Guetta
2014
Episode Blackadder
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Episode BBC Drama
King Lear
2018
Episode Downton Abbey
Text Santa 2015
2015
Episode Performance
Nona
1991
Episode BBC Drama
The Go-Between
2015
Episode Channel 4 (UK) Drama
Longford
2006
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
The Facts of Life
1988
Episode BBC Drama
Ethel & Ernest
2016