Film and Television
- The saloon appeared in the film The Four Feathers starring Heath Ledger.
- The exterior appeared as Lord Graves's house in the film King Ralph.
- John Legend's 2006 music video for Heaven Only Knows features the castle.
- Totleigh Towers, in the TV version of Jeeves and Wooster, was represented by Highclere Castle.
- Shots from both the interior and exterior were used as the imposing Mistlethwaite Manor in the Hallmark Hall of Fame's 1987 version of The Secret Garden.
- The saloon provided a main interior location for Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut.
- It is the main setting for the British television period drama Downton Abbey, as a result of which The Tatler referred to the area around Highclere as "Downtonia".
- It was portrayed as the home of the 23rd Earl of Leete in Jim Broadbent and Mike Leigh's 1992 mock biopic "A Sense of History".
- It was seen as the home of a wealthy Englishman that Mr. Fortescue visited seeking money in the 1982 film starring Michael Palin, The Missionary. The castle exterior appears about 19 minutes and 30 seconds into the film.
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