Selected Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | The Dybbuk | Second Batlon | TV movie |
| 1952 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Corporal | TV series (episode: Arrow to the Heart (I)) |
| 1954 | The Beachcomber | Tromp | |
| 1954 | Montserrat | Juan Alvarez | TV movie |
| 1954 | The Face of Love | Alex | TV movie |
| 1954 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Chamberlain | TV series (episode: Such Men Are Dangerous) |
| 1954 | Orders Are Orders | Corporal Martin | Credited as Donald Plesance |
| 1954 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Syme | TV series (episode: Nineteen Eighty-Four) |
| 1955 | Value for Money | Limpy | |
| 1955 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Foreign Minister | TV series (episode: The Moment of Truth) |
| 1956 | 1984 | R. Parsons | |
| 1956 | The Black Tent | Ali | |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Prince John | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Bailiff Baldwin | TV series (episode: A Village Wooing) |
| 1956 | ITV Television Playhouse | William | TV series (episode: Ever Since Paradise) |
| 1956 | ITV Television Playhouse | Albert | TV series (episode: Chance Meeting) |
| 1957 | The Man in the Sky | Crabtree | (titled Decision Against Time in the U.S.) |
| 1957 | Assignment Foreign Legion | Commandant | TV series (episode: The Coward) |
| 1957 | Manuela | Evans | |
| 1957 | Barnacle Bill | Cashier | (titled All at Sea in the U.S.) |
| 1958 | I Spy | Mr. Frute | TV movie |
| 1958 | ITV Television Playhouse | Captain Browne | TV series (episode: Fate and Mister Browne) |
| 1958 | A Tale of Two Cities | John Barsad | |
| 1958 | Heart of a Child | Spiel | |
| 1958 | The Wind Cannot Read' | Doctor | |
| 1958 | The Man Inside | Organ-grinder | |
| 1958 | The Two-Headed Spy | General Hardt | |
| 1959 | The Scarf | Detective Inspector Harry Yates | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 1959 | Look Back in Anger | Hurst | |
| 1959 | ITV Television Playhouse | Leonard Browne | TV series (episode: Mr. Browne Comes Home) |
| 1959 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Doctor | TV series (episode: The Millionairess) |
| 1959 | ITV Television Playhouse | Robert Robertson | TV series (episode: The Silk Purse) |
| 1959 | The Adventures of William Tell | The Spider | TV series (episode: The Spider) |
| 1959 | The Traitor | Grantley Caypor | TV movie |
| 1959 | Killers of Kilimanjaro | Captain | |
| 1959 | The Battle of the Sexes | Irwin Hoffman | |
| 1960 | The Shakedown | Jessel Brown | |
| 1960 | Hell Is a City | Gus Hawkins | |
| 1960 | The Four Just Men | Paul Koster | TV series (episode: The Survivor) |
| 1960 | Interpol Calling | Karl Haussman | TV series (episode: The Absent Assassin) |
| 1962 | The Inspector | Sergeant Wolters | |
| 1963 | The Great Escape | RAF Flight Lieut. Colin Blythe, "The Forger" | |
| 1965 | The Hallelujah Trail | Oracle Jones | |
| 1966 | Fantastic Voyage | Dr. Michaels | |
| 1966 | Cul-de-sac | George | |
| 1967 | You Only Live Twice | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | |
| 1968 | The Other People | Clive | |
| 1970 | Soldier Blue | Isaac Q. Cumber | |
| 1971 | THX 1138 | SEN 5241 | |
| 1971 | Wake in Fright | Doc Tydon | |
| 1972 | Death Line | Inspector Calhoun | |
| 1972 | Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Thomas Cromwell | |
| 1972 | The Jerusalem File | Major Samuels | |
| 1972 | Wedding in White | Jim Dougall | |
| 1973 | Columbo | Adrian Carsini | TV series (episode: Any Old Port in a Storm) |
| 1974 | Watch Out, We're Mad | The Doctor | |
| 1974 | From Beyond the Grave | Jim Underwood | Segment: "An Act of Kindness" |
| 1975 | Escape to Witch Mountain | Lucas Deranian | |
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | Himmler | |
| 1976 | The Passover Plot | Pontius Pilate | |
| 1977 | Telefon | Nikolai Dalchimsky | |
| 1978 | Halloween | Dr. Loomis | |
| 1978 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | B.D. Hoffler/B.D. Brockhurst | |
| 1978 | Power Play | Blair | |
| 1979 | Dracula | Dr. Jack Seward | |
| 1980 | The Pumaman | Dr. Kobras | |
| 1981 | Halloween II | Dr. Loomis | |
| 1981 | Race for the Yankee Zephyr | Gilbert "Gibbie" Carson | |
| 1982 | Escape from New York | Mr. President | |
| 1982 | Alone in the Dark | Dr. Leo Bain | |
| 1982 | The Barchester Chronicles | Reverend Septimus Harding | TV series |
| 1983 | Warrior of the Lost World | Prossor | |
| 1983 | The Devonsville Terror | Dr. Warley | |
| 1984 | A Breed Apart | J.P. Whittier | |
| 1985 | Phenomena | John McGregor | |
| 1987 | Django 2 | Gunn | |
| 1987 | Prince of Darkness | Priest | |
| 1988 | Hanna's War | Captain Thomas Rosza | |
| 1988 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | |
| 1989 | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | |
| 1989 | Ten Little Indians | Judge Lawrence Wargrave | |
| 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Phido the Vulture (voice) | |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Pincheon | |
| 1995 | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | |
| 1996 | Fatal frames: Fotogrammi mortali | Professor Robinson |
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