2027
The Thomas Crown Affair
2026
Mayday
as Nikolai Ustinov
2025
The King of Kings
as Charles Dickens (voice)
2025
Tea with Judi Dench
as Self
2025
The American Revolution
as (voice)
(6 episodes)
2023
A Haunting in Venice
as Hercule Poirot
2023
Oppenheimer
as Niels Bohr
2023
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
as Abijah Fowler (voice)
(8 episodes)
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
Denzel Washington: A Model American
as Self
2022
Death on the Nile
as Hercule Poirot
2022
Fireheart
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
2022
This England
as Boris Johnson
(6 episodes)
2022
Remembers…
as Self
(1 episode)
2020
Tenet
as Sator
2020
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
as Self
2019
Lost Lives
as Narrator
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
(1 episode)
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2018
All Is True
as William Shakespeare
2017
Dunkirk
as Commander Bolton
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
as Archie Rice
2016
Mindhorn
as Himself
2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Leontes
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
(1 episode)
2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
as Viktor Cherevin
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(1 episode)
2013
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Macbeth
2012
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2012
Stars in Shorts
as Mark Snow
2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
as Self
2011
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Laurence Olivier
2011
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
as Self
2011
Prodigal
as Mark Snow
2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self
2009
The Boat That Rocked
as Dormandy
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Narrator (voice)
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
as Self
2008
Valkyrie
as Henning von Tresckow
2008
Alien Love Triangle
as Steven Chesterman
2008
10 Days to War
as Colonel Tim Collins
(1 episode)
2008
Wallander
as Kurt Wallander
(12 episodes)
2007
Sleuth
as Other Man on T.V.
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Himself
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
(6 episodes)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
(1 episode)
2006
As You Like It
as Self (voice)
2006
El hormiguero
as Self
(1 episode)
2005
Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Warm Springs
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2005
The Goebbels Experiment
as Narrator (voice)
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
(2 episodes)
2005
Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)
(3 episodes)
2004
Five Children and It
as Uncle Albert
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Himself / Narrator
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
(1 episode)
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
(1 episode)
2003
World War 1 in Colour
as Narrator
(6 episodes)
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Gilderoy Lockhart
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as A. O. Neville
2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Peter McGowan
2002
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
2002
Shackleton
as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
(2 episodes)
2001
Conspiracy
as Reinhard Heydrich
2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage
as Joseph Barnett
2001
The Beasts Within
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Triumph of the Beasts
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Walking with Beasts
as Narrator
(6 episodes)
2000
The Road to El Dorado
as Miguel (voice)
2000
Love's Labour's Lost
as Berowne
2000
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator
2000
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
as Self / Narrator
2000
The Book That Wrote Itself
as Kenneth Branagh
2000
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
Big Al
as Narrator
(2 episodes)
1999
Wild Wild West
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
as Narrator
1999
The Periwig-Maker
as Periwig-maker (voice)
1999
The Theory of Flight
as Richard
1999
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
as Self
1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
as Himself
1999
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
as Himself
1999
Walking with Dinosaurs
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(6 episodes)
1998
Celebrity
as Lee Simon
1998
The Gingerbread Man
as Rick Magruder
1998
Universal Horror
as Narrator
1998
The Proposition
as Father Michael McKinnon
1998
The Dance of Shiva
as Colonel Evans
1998
Cold War
1998
Parkinson
as Self
(1 episode)
1997
The View
as Self
(1 episode)
1997
Leute heute
as Self
(1 episode)
1996
Hamlet
as Prince Hamlet
1996
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1995
Othello
as Iago
1995
Shadow of a Gunman
as Donal Davoren
1995
Anne Frank Remembered
as Narration (voice)
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Victor Frankenstein
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
1993
Swing Kids
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
(1 episode)
1992
Peter's Friends
as Andrew Benson
1992
Symphony for the Spire
1991
Dead Again
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1991
Performance
as Donal Davoren
(1 episode)
1990
Discovering Hamlet
as Himself / Hamlet
1989
Henry V
as Henry V
1989
Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter
1988
Thames Wallah
as Narrator
1988
Thompson
as Self
(6 episodes)
1988
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
(1 episode)
1988
Strange Interlude
as Gordon Evans
(3 episodes)
1987
A Month in the Country
as James Moon
1987
High Season
as Rick
1987
Ghosts
as Oswald Alving
1987
The Lady's Not For Burning
as Thomas Mendip
1987
Lorna
as Billy Martin
1987
Fortunes of War
as Guy Pringle
(7 episodes)
1985
Coming Through
as D.H. Lawrence
1985
Theatre Night
as Oswald Alving
(1 episode)
1984
A Coming to Terms for Billy
as Billy Martin
1984
The Boy in the Bush
as Jack Grant
(4 episodes)
1983
A Matter of Choice for Billy
as Billy Martin
1983
To the Lighthouse
as Charles Tansley
1982
Easter 2016
as Student
1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy
as Billy Martin
1982
Wogan
as Self
(1 episode)
1981
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1970
Play for Today
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
as Self
(1 episode)
1953
The Oscars
as Self
(2 episodes)
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
(2 episodes)
—
Atonement
as Michael Reid
—
The Goblin
as (voice)
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