Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Flynn | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| The Fixer | Grubeshov | ||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck, or Robin Goodfellow | ||
| 1969 | Oh! What A Lovely War | President Poincaré | |
| 1970 | A Severed Head | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Commissar Yakovlev | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | David Rizzio | ||
| 1972 | Young Winston | George E. Buckle | |
| 1973 | The Homecoming | Lenny | |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love | Napoleon I | (TV) |
| Juggernaut | Nicholas Porter | ||
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | King John | |
| Shout at the Devil | Mohammed | ||
| 1977 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Duval | |
| March or Die | El Krim | ||
| Jesus of Nazareth | Zerah | ||
| 1978 | Les Misérables | Thénardiers | |
| Do You Remember? | (TV) Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
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| The Lost Boys | J. M. Barrie | (TV) Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
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| Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler | (TV) | |
| 1979 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Himmelstoss | (TV Film) |
| Alien | Ash | ||
| S.O.S. Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | ||
| 1980 | We, the Accused | Paul Pressett | (TV) |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Cannes Film Festival Award Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — American Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Time Bandits | Napoleon | ||
| 1982 | The Bell | Michael Meade | (TV) |
| The Return of the Soldier | Doctor Anderson | ||
| Inside the Third Reich | Goebbels | ||
| 1984 | Laughterhouse | ||
| Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Capitain Philippe D'Arnot | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |
| Terror in the Aisles | |||
| 1985 | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris | CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special |
| Dreamchild | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson/Lewis Carroll | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Fantasporto's International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
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| Wetherby | Stanley Pilborough | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actor |
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| Brazil | Mr Kurtzmann | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actor |
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| Dance with a Stranger | Desmond Cussen | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actor |
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| Mr and Mrs Edgehill | Eustace Edgehill | ||
| 1986 | Murder by the Book | Hercule Poirot | (TV) |
| 1988 | Game, Set and Match | Bernard Samson | (TV) Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
| Another Woman | Ken | ||
| 1989 | Henry V | Fluellen | |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Polonius | |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | Tom Frost | |
| Kafka | Doctor Murnau | ||
| 1992 | Blue Ice | Sir Hector | |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Albertus | Also known as The Advocate |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | |
| The Madness of King George | Dr. Willis | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |
| 1996 | Big Night | Pascal | |
| Loch Ness | Water Bailiff | ||
| 1997 | Night Falls on Manhattan | Liam Casey | |
| The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor |
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| The Fifth Element | Father Vito Cornelius | ||
| A Life Less Ordinary | Naville | ||
| Incognito | John | ||
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | White Knight | |
| King Lear | Lear | Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor Evening Standard Award for Best Actor Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie |
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| 1999 | Animal Farm | Squealer | Voice |
| Shergar | Joseph Maguire | ||
| eXistenZ | Kiri Vinokur | ||
| Simon Magus | Sirius/Boris/The Devil | ||
| The Match | Big Tam | ||
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Gould | |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Patrick | Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
| Esther Kahn | Nathan Quellen | ||
| Beautiful Joe | George The Geek | ||
| Bless the Child | Reverend Grissom | ||
| 2001 | From Hell | Sir William Gull | |
| The Emperor's New Clothes | Napoleon/Sergeant Eugene Lenormand | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Bilbo Baggins | Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
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| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Bilbo Baggins | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Professor Terry Rapson | |
| Garden State | Gideon Largeman | ||
| The Aviator | Professor Fitz | Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | |
| Monsters we Met | Narrator | (TV Documentary) | |
| The Last Dragon | Narrator | (TV) | |
| 2005 | Strangers with Candy | Dr. Putney | |
| Chromophobia | Edward Aylesbury | ||
| Lord of War | Simeon Weisz | ||
| The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Narrator | (TV documentary) | |
| 2005-2008 | Horizon | Narrator | (TV Documentary) |
| 2006 | Renaissance | Jonas Muller | |
| O Jerusalem | Ben Gurion | ||
| The Treatment | Dr. Ernesto Morales | ||
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Skinner | Voice Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production |
| 2009 | 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth | Narrator | (TV) |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Old Bilbo Baggins | Due for theatrical release December 2012. |
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