Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | The Camomile Lawn | Oliver | Based on the book The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley |
| 1996 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Gilbert Markham | Based on the book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë |
| 2000 | The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | Based on the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 2001 | Perfect Strangers | Charles | |
| 2002 | Napoléon | Tsar Alexander I | Based on the book by Max Gallo |
| 2003 | Essential Byron | Reader | Dramatised documentary focusing on poet Lord Byron's work |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Kim Philby | |
| 2003 | Agatha Christie's Poirot Five Little Pigs | Philip Blake | Based on the book Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie |
| 2004 | London | Casanova | |
| 2005 | Waking the Dead | Dr Nick Henderson | Season 5, Episodes 5 and 6 (Subterraneans, Parts I and II) |
| 2005 | The Queen's Sister | Anthony Armstrong-Jones | |
| 2006 | The Best Man | Peter Tremaine | |
| 2006 | Secrets of the Dead:The Umbrella Assassin | Narrator | Season 5, Episode 5; an account of the murder of Georgi Markov |
| 2006 | Sharpe's Challenge | William Dodd | Based on Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series |
| 2006 | Jane Eyre | Edward Fairfax Rochester | Based on the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |
| 2007 | The Wild West - Custer's Last Stand | General George Armstrong Custer | Dramatised documentary |
| 2008 | Wired | Crawford Hill | Mini-Series |
| 2009 | The Best Job In The World | Narrator | Documentary based on Tourism Queensland's publicity stunt for a barrier islands' 'caretaker' |
| 2009 | Robin Hood - Series 3 | Prince John of England | |
| 2010 | Strike Back | Arlington | Based on the book by Chris Ryan |
| 2010 | Lost: The Mystery of Flight 447 | Narrator | Documentary on Air France Flight 447 |
| 2010 | The Blue Geranium | George Pritchard | A Miss Marple mystery based on the Agatha Christie short story (first published in The Thirteen Problems |
| 2010, 2012 | Vexed | Jack Armstrong | Written by Howard Overman |
| 2012 | Law & Order: UK | Prof. Martin Middlebrook | |
| 2012 | Inspector Lewis | David Connelly | Series 6 episode 2 (Generation of Vipers) |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)