Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | The Mill on the Floss | Philip Wakem | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Oresteia | Orestes | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | TV film |
| Troilus & Cressida | Troilus | TV film | |
| 1982 | Crown Court | TV series (1 episode: "Fair Play: Part 1") | |
| King Lear | Edgar | TV film | |
| The Missionary | Young Man | ||
| 1983 | Good and Bad at Games | Cox | TV film |
| 1984 | Sakharov | Valery Chalidze | TV film |
| Freud | Wilhelm Fleiss | TV series (5 episodes) | |
| 1985 | Anna of the Five Towns | Willie Price | TV series (2 episodes) |
| The Assam Garden | Mr. Sutton | ||
| 1987 | London Embassy | Robert Bronhouse | TV series |
| Great Performances | Robber | TV series (1 episode: "Monsignor Quixote") | |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Feste | TV film |
| Screen Two | Stanley Spencer | TV series (1 episode: "Stanley Spencer") | |
| A Vote for Hitler | A. L. Rowse | TV film | |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Karl | TV film |
| 1990 | Traitors | TV film | |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Levi | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.1") |
| 1992 | Downtown Lagos | Mungo Dawson | TV series |
| 1994 | Guinevere | Envoy | TV film |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Leontes | TV series (1 episode: "The Winter's Tale") | |
| 1995 | The Politician's Wife | Mark Hollister | TV series |
| Bugs | Patrick Marcel | TV series (1 episode: "Pulse") | |
| Moses | Eliav | TV film | |
| 1996 | Sharman | Galilee | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.4") |
| Testament: The Bible in Animation | Joseph | TV series (1 episode: "Joseph") | |
| 1997 | Into the Blue | Dr. John Ockleton | TV film |
| Bodyguards | Dusan Mezic | TV series (1 episode: "A Choice of Evils") | |
| FairyTale: A True Story | Wounded Corporal | ||
| The Moonstone | Ezra Jennings | TV film | |
| 1998 | Invasion: Earth | Lt. Charles Terrell | TV series (4 episodes) |
| Vanity Fair | Mr. Pitt Crawley | TV series (5 episodes, of 6 total) | |
| The Echo | Billy Blake | TV film | |
| 1999 | Trial by Fire | Brian Redwood | TV film |
| Pure Wickedness | Dr. Andrew Ward | TV film | |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Herod | TV film |
| Esther Kahn | Sean | ||
| Safe as Houses | Mr. Dunn | TV series | |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Antoine Picard | TV series (1 episoe: "Friends & Enemies") | |
| Lorna Doone | Counsellor Doone | TV film | |
| 2001 | Perfect Strangers | Stephen | TV series (3 episodes) |
| Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Vidas Merlinis, Research Scientist | TV film | |
| Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes | Milburn | TV series (1 episode: "The White Knight Stratagem") | |
| Uprising | TV film | ||
| Charlotte Gray | Renech | ||
| Swallow | Paul Valley | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| 2002 | Dickens | Charles Dickens | TV series (3 episodes) |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Sir Gawain | TV film | |
| Waking the Dead | Professor Ray Levin | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| The Project | Stanley Hall | TV film | |
| Foyle's War | Austin Carmichael | TV series (1 episode: "Eagle Day") | |
| 2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | Batten | TV film |
| Y Mabinogi | Teyrnon | TV series | |
| Imagining Argentina | General Guzmán | ||
| Eroica | Sukowaty | TV film | |
| Midsomer Murders | Eddie Darwin | TV series (1 episode: "Birds of Prey") | |
| 2004 | London | Charles Dickens | TV film |
| Silent Witness | Marcus Gwilym | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| Dirty Filthy Love | Charles | TV film | |
| Spooks | Nicholas Ashworth | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.3.4") | |
| 2005 | Ahead of the Class | Graham Ranger | TV film |
| The Girl in the Cafe | George | TV film | |
| E-mc2 | Voltaire | TV film | |
| River Queen | Baine | ||
| Class of '76 | Martin Gibson | TV film | |
| Nova | Voltaire | TV series (1 episode: "Einstein's Big Idea") | |
| 2006 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Paul Goodman | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Vital Signs | Dr. Lindsay | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| New Tricks | Pete Mackintyre | TV series (1 episode: "Bank Robbery") | |
| The Outsiders | Maurice Heston | TV film | |
| A Touch of Frost | Dennis Prior | TV series (1 episode: "Endangered Species") | |
| Miss Potter | Harold Warne | ||
| 2008 | Messiah: The Rapture | Samuel Waite | TV series |
| The Palace | Archbishop of Canterbury | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| Midsomer Murders | Reverend Wallace Stone | TV series (1 episode: "Talking to the Dead") | |
| Agatha Christie: Poirot | Inspector Kelsey | TV series (1 episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons") | |
| Einstein and Eddington | Fritz Haber | TV film | |
| Little Dorrit | Mr. Merdle | TV series (7 episodes) | |
| 2009 | Deep Sleep | short | |
| Casualty 1909 | Dr. Henry Head | TV series (4 episodes) | |
| 2010 | Primeval: Webisodes | Gideon | |
| Holby City | Sol Caplin | TV series (1 episode: "Faith No More") | |
| Five Daughters | Dr. Nat Cary | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| Garrow's Law | John Farmer | TV series (4 episodes) | |
| Flutter | Bruno | completed | |
| 2011 | Primeval | Gideon | TV series (5 episodes) |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Lord John Carteret | ||
| The Hour | Clarence Fendley | TV series (5 episodes) | |
| The Man Who Crossed Hitler | Rudolf Olden | TV film | |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Exeter | TV film (1 episode: Henry V) |
| 2013 | Game of Thrones | Qyburn | TV Series |
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