Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1934 | Evensong | Extra (World War I soldier in audience) | uncredited |
| 1946 | Great Expectations | Herbert Pocket | |
| 1948 | Oliver Twist | Fagin | |
| 1949 | Kind Hearts and Coronets |
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National Board of Review Award for Best Actor |
| 1949 | Run for Your Money, AA Run for Your Money | Whimple | |
| 1950 | Last Holiday | George Bird | |
| 1950 | Mudlark, TheThe Mudlark | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| 1951 | Lavender Hill Mob, TheThe Lavender Hill Mob | Henry Holland |
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| 1951 | Man in the White Suit, TheThe Man in the White Suit | Sidney Stratton | |
| 1952 | Card, TheThe Card | Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin | released in the United States as The Promoter |
| 1953 | Square Mile, TheThe Square Mile | narrator | short subject |
| 1953 | Malta Story | Flight Lt. Peter Ross | |
| 1953 | Captain's Paradise, TheThe Captain's Paradise | Capt. Henry St. James | |
| 1954 | Father Brown | Father Brown | |
| 1954 | Stratford Adventure, TheThe Stratford Adventure | Himself | short subject |
| 1955 | Rowlandson's England | narrator | short subject |
| 1955 | To Paris with Love | Col. Sir Edgar Fraser | |
| 1955 | Prisoner, TheThe Prisoner | Cardinal, TheThe Cardinal | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1955 | Ladykillers, TheThe Ladykillers | Professor Marcus | |
| 1956 | Swan, TheThe Swan | Prince Albert | |
| 1957 | Bridge on the River Kwai, TheThe Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Nicholson |
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| 1957 | Barnacle Bill | Captain William Horatio Ambrose | released in the United States as All at Sea |
| 1958 | Horse's Mouth, TheThe Horse's Mouth | Gulley Jimson |
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| 1959 | Our Man in Havana | Jim Wormold | |
| 1959 | Scapegoat, TheThe Scapegoat | John Barratt/Jacques De Gue | |
| 1960 | Tunes of Glory | Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1962 | Majority of One, AA Majority of One | Koichi Asano | |
| 1962 | H.M.S. Defiant | Captain Crawford | |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Prince Faisal | |
| 1964 | Fall of the Roman Empire, TheThe Fall of the Roman Empire | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 1965 | Pasternak | Himself | short subject |
| 1965 | Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious | Wilhelm Frick | |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago | |
| 1966 | Hotel Paradiso | Benedict Boniface | |
| 1966 | Quiller Memorandum, TheThe Quiller Memorandum | Pol | |
| 1967 | Comedians in Africa, TheThe Comedians in Africa | Himself | uncredited, short subject |
| 1967 | Comedians, TheThe Comedians | Major H.O. Jones | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1970 | Cromwell | King Charles I | |
| 1970 | Scrooge | Jacob Marley's ghost | |
| 1972 | Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Pope Innocent III | |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Adolf Hitler | |
| 1976 | Murder by Death | Jamesir Bensonmum | |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Obi-Wan Kenobi |
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| 1979 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | George Smiley | British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
| 1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | Obi-Wan Kenobi | |
| 1980 | Raise the Titanic | John Bigalow | |
| 1980 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Earl of Dorincourt | |
| 1982 | Smiley's People | George Smiley |
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| 1983 | Lovesick | Sigmund Freud | |
| 1983 | Return of the Jedi | Obi-Wan Kenobi | |
| 1984 | Passage to India, AA Passage to India | Professor Godbole | |
| 1985 | Monsignor Quixote | Monsignor Quixote | |
| 1988 | Little Dorrit | William Dorrit |
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| 1988 | Handful of Dust, AA Handful of Dust | Mr. Todd | |
| 1991 | Kafka | chief clerk, TheThe chief clerk | |
| 1993 | Foreign Field, AA Foreign Field | Amos | |
| 1994 | Mute Witness | Reaper, TheThe Reaper | |
| 1996 | Eskimo Day | James |
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