
Filmography

The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self

Nature
1982 · Narrator (voice)

American Experience
1988 · Narrator

The Cosby Show
1984 · Jonathan Lawrence

The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest

Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
Film '72
1971 · Self

American Playhouse
1982 · Alfred Stieglitz

Studio One
1948 · Dick

Omnibus
1967 · Narrator

Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter, Self - Winner

BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Don Juan

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self

Up
2009 · Charles Muntz (voice)

The Oscars
1953 · Self

Omnibus
1952 · Actor, Oedipus

Knives Out
2019 · Harlan Thrombey

Suspense
1949 · Actor

A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Dr. Rosen

Departure
2019 · Howard Lawson

Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Dr. Goines

National Treasure
2004 · John Adams Gates

The Sound of Music
1965 · Captain Georg von Trapp

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · Henrik Vanger

Counterstrike
1990 · Alexander Addington

9
2009 · #1 (voice)

Inside Man
2006 · Arthur Case

Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Herod Antipas

The Thorn Birds
1983 · Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

Madeline
1988 · Narrator (voice)

Alexander
2004 · Aristotle

SuperTed
1983 · Actor

DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · Sir Miles Hendon

General Electric Theater
1953 · Walter Shelley

Priest
2011 · Monsignor Orelas

Malcolm X
1992 · Chaplain Gill

Nuremberg
2000 · Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Doctor Parnassus

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991 · Chang

The Star
2017 · King Herod (voice)

The Lake House
2006 · Simon Wyler

The Insider
1999 · Mike Wallace

All the Money in the World
2017 · Jean Paul Getty

An American Tail
1986 · Henri (voice)
The Sunday Drama
1977 · Sherlock Holmes

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Dr. Jack Pelletier, Torvald Helmer

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · Commodus

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The New World
2005 · Captain Newport

The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Sir Charles Litton

The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Scrooge

Dolores Claiborne
1995 · John Mackey

Dracula 2000
2000 · Matthew Van Helsing

Somewhere in Time
1980 · William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson

Syriana
2005 · Dean Whiting

Waterloo
1970 · Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

The Night of the Generals
1967 · Field Marshal Rommel

Hanover Street
1979 · Paul Sellinger

Battle of Britain
1969 · Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959 · Actor

Wolf
1994 · Raymond Alden
Kraft Television Theatre
1953 · Actor

Danny Collins
2015 · Frank Grubman

The Last Full Measure
2020 · Frank Pitsenbarger

Must Love Dogs
2005 · Bill

Murder by Decree
1979 · Sherlock Holmes

Dragnet
1987 · Reverend Jonathan Whirley

Dreamscape
1984 · Bob Blair

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · Roscoe Heyward

The Exception
2017 · Kaiser Wilhelm II

Rock-A-Doodle
1991 · Grand Duke (voice)

Remember
2015 · Zev Guttman

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · John Marshall Harlan

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · (archive footage)

Young Catherine
1991 · Sir Charles

Cold Creek Manor
2003 · Mr. Massie

The Forger
2014 · Joseph Cutter

The Silent Partner
1978 · Reikle

Beginners
2011 · Hal Fields

Crossings
1986 · Armand DeVilliers

Starcrash
1978 · The Emperor

The Last Station
2009 · Leo Tolstoy

The Gospel of John
2003 · Narrator (voice)

The Summit
2008 · P.J. Aimes

Triple Cross
1966 · Freddie Chapman

The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Col. Herbert Kappler

Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · Reggie Vanderbilt

Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Ralph Nickleby

Closing the Ring
2007 · Jack

The Arrow
1997 · George Hees

A Hazard of Hearts
1987 · Sir Giles Staverley

The Boy in Blue
1986 · Knox

The Legend of Sarila
2013 · Croolik (voice)

Nosferatu in Venice
1988 · Professor Paris Catalano

Miracle Planet
2005 · Himself - Host

Elsa & Fred
2014 · Fred

Ordeal by Innocence
1984 · Leo Argyle

Eyewitness
1981 · Joseph

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017 · Dr. West (voice)

Prototype
1983 · Dr. Carl Forrester

A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990 · The Grand Duke Ivan

Crackerjack
1994 · Ivan Getz

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018 · Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)

Harrison Bergeron
1995 · John Klaxon

Blizzard
2003 · Santa Claus

Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Walt Murdock

The Boss' Wife
1986 · Mr. Roalvang

Babes in Toyland
1997 · Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

Aces High
1976 · Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

Boundaries
2018 · Jack

Highpoint
1984 · James Hatcher

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Narrator (voice)

Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023 · Rizzo (voice)

Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Self

Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 · Professor Coreman

Ararat
2002 · David

The First Emperor of China
1989 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Man in the Chair
2007 · Flash Madden

Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999 · Narrator (voice)

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016 · Dr. West (voice)

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969 · Atahualpa

Berlin Lady
1991 · Wilhelm Speer

Red Blooded American Girl
1990 · Dr. John Alcore

Conduct Unbecoming
1975 · Major Alastair Wimbourne

The Clown at Midnight
1999 · Mr. Caruthers

Already Dead
2007 · Dr. Heller

Inside Daisy Clover
1966 · Raymond Swan

Dial M for Murder
1981 · Tony Wendice

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982 · Self

Spearfield's Daughter
1986 · Lord Jack Cruze

Where the Heart Is
1990 · Shitty

Titans of the Ice Age
2013 · Narrator

On Golden Pond
2001 · Norman Thayer

Possessed
2000 · Archbishop Hume

Nobody Runs Forever
1968 · Sir James Quentin

The Amateur
1981 · Professor Lakos

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006 · Narrator (voice over)

Winchell
1998 · Franklin D. Roosevelt

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021 · Self

Kali, the Little Vampire
2012 · Narrator (english version)

Shadow Dancing
1988 · Edmund Beaumont

International Velvet
1978 · John Seaton

Lily in Love
1984 · Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

Stage Struck
1958 · Joe Sheridan

A Stranger in the Mirror
1993 · Clifton Lawrence

The Captains: Still Kicking
2013 · Self

Pixies
2015 · Pixie King (voice)

Our Fathers
2005 · Cardinal Bernard Law

Mindfield
1989 · Doctor Satorius

Cliffs of Freedom
2019 · Thanasi

Hidden Agenda
1999 · Ulrich Steiner

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self

The Day That Shook the World
1975 · Archduke Ferdinand

The Conspiracy of Fear
1996 · Wakeman

Bondarchuk. Battle
2021 · self

Rumpelstiltskin
1985 · Narrator

The Arrow
1997 · George Hees

Secrets
1992 · Mel Wexler

Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979 · Self

Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965 · Self

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993 · Narrator

The River of My Dreams
2017 · Himself

The Pyx
1973 · Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

Lock Up Your Daughters
1969 · Lord Foppington

The Shadow Box
1980 · Brian

When the Circus Came to Town
1981 · Duke Royal

Lucky Break
2001 · Graham Mortimer

Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Self
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963 · Self

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002 · Self

Impolite
1992 · Naples O'Rorke

I Love N.Y.
1987 · John Robertson Yeats

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · Narrator (voice)

Souvenir
1989 · Ernst Kestner

Desperate Voyage
1980 · Jacques Burrifous

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Self

Madeline and the Gypsies
1991 · Narrator (voice)

Money
1991 · Martin Yahl

The Life of Jesus
2003 · Narrator

Full Disclosure
2001 · Robert Lecker

The Spiral Staircase
1975 · Dr. Joe Sherman

Agent of Influence
2002 · John Watkins

The Happy Prince
1974 · The Happy Prince (voice)

Riel
1979 · Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

The Disappearance
1977 · Deverell

Skeletons
1997 · Reverend Carlyle

Little Moon of Alban
1958 · Kenneth Boyd

Blackheart
1998 · Holmes

Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Hamlet
Night Flight
2002 · 'Flash' Harry Peters
Madeline at the Ballet
TBA · Narrator (voice)

The Dinosaur Hunter
2000 · Hump Hinton

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994 · Self (archive footage)

Hamlet {Solo}
2007 · Self

Madeline's Christmas
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022 · Self

The Tempest
2010 · Prospero
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960 · Captain Brassbound

Liar's Edge
1992 · Harry Weldon
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991 · Narrator (voice)

My Dog Tulip
2010 · J.R. Ackerley (voice)

After the Fall
1974 · Quentin

Oedipus the King
1968 · Oedipus

Being Different
1981 · Self (Narrator) (voice)

Emotional Arithmetic
2008 · David Winters

American Tragedy
2000 · F. Lee Bailey

Firehead
1991 · Col. Garland Vaughn

Madeline
1988 · Narrator (voice)

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996 · Self

Silver Blaze
1977 · Sherlock Holmes

The Assignment
1977 · Kaptain Behounek

Caesar and Cleopatra
2009 · Caesar

A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011 · Actor

A Doll's House
1959 · Torvald

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012 · Self

Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000 · Self

We the Jury
1996 · Wilfred Fransiscus

Nabokov on Kafka
1989 · Vladimir Nabokov

The First Christmas
1998 · Narrator (voice)

Four Minutes
2005 · Archie Mason
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
2015 · Self

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990 · Narrator

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Madeline in London
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
TBA · Narrator (voice)

Mooseltoe
2021 · Mooseking
Johnny Belinda
1958 · Dr. Jack Pelletier

The Velveteen Rabbit
1985 · Narrator (voice)

Barrymore
2012 · John Barrymore, Executive Producer
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962 · Cyrano de Bergerac

The First Circle
1992 · Viktor Abakumov

The Tin Soldier
1986 · Narrator (voice)
Trans-Canada Journey
1963 · Narrator (voice)

The Nightingale
1987 · Narrator (voice)
Portraits of Canada
1987 · Narrator (voice)