Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Anton Zoref | |
| 1977 | Roots | Sir Eric Russell | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Judas Iscariot | ||
| 1978 | Will Shakespeare | Christopher Marlowe | |
| Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| The Pirate | Rashid | ||
| 1981–82 | Magnum, P.I. | David Norman / Edwin Clutterbuck | |
| 1982 | Marco Polo | Ali Ben Yussouf | |
| 1983 | Grace Kelly | Prince Rainier of Monaco | |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Paul Lerner | |
| A.D. | Sejanus | ||
| 1986–94 | Lovejoy | Lovejoy | Also director of 4 episodes |
| 1987 | Miami Vice | Esteban Montoya / Gen. Manuel Borbon | |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Philip Rule | |
| 1989 | Dallas | Don Lockwood | |
| Minder | Jack Last | ||
| 2002 | The West Wing | Russian Negotiator Nikolai Ivanovich | Episode: "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" |
| In Deep | Jamie Lamb | Episode: "Untouched" | |
| 2003 | Trust | Alan Cooper-Fozzard | |
| 2004–06 | Deadwood | Al Swearengen | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2004) TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2004), also nominated in 2005 Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2005) Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2005) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (2005) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2006) Nominated - TV Land Award for Character You REALLY Don't Want to Make Angry (2008) |
| 2008 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Gordon | Episode: "Dear Vikings" |
| 2009 | Kings | King Silas Benjamin | |
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Waleran Bigod | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated - Monte Carlo TV Festival: Golden Nymph for Mini-Series - Best Performance by an Actor Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
| Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special | Tai Lung | Made for television Voice |
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| 2012 | American Horror Story: Asylum | TBA |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)