
Filmography

The Simpsons
1989 · Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice), Quilloughby (voice)

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest

The Daily Show
1996 · Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest

Conan
2010 · Self - Guest

Sherlock
2010 · Sherlock Holmes

The Colbert Report
2005 · Smaug (voice)

Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)

The View
1997 · Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self, Self - Guest

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self

Leute heute
1997 · Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest

Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Doctor Strange

Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self - Host

The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest

Top Gear
2002 · Self

Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Doctor Strange

GMTV
1993 · Self

Silent Witness
1996 · Warren Reid

The South Bank Show
1978 · Actor

Heartbeat
1992 · Toby Fisher, Charles

Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Doctor Strange

Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TBA · Self - Presenter

What If...?
2021 · Doctor Strange (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)

Spooks
2002 · Jim North

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Luke Fitzwilliam

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Doctor Stephen Strange

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self

The Imitation Game
2014 · Alan Turing

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Smaug / Sauron (voice)

Glastonbury
1997 · Self

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Self

The Grinch
2018 · The Grinch (voice)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Necromancer

Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Doctor Strange

Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Oscars
1953 · Self

Doctor Strange
2016 · Dr. Stephen Strange

Good Omens
2019 · Satan (voice)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Smaug / Sauron

Cunk on Cinema
2026 · Self - Actor

Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Classified (voice)

1917
2019 · Colonel MacKenzie

Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025 · Self - Guest

Why did you come to Japan?
2012 · Self

Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · Khan

12 Years a Slave
2013 · William Ford

Atonement
2007 · Paul Marshall

The Hollow Crown
2012 · Richard, Richard III

Timeshift
2002 · self

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Peter Guillam

Patrick Melrose
2018 · Patrick Melrose, Executive Producer

The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Uncle Nubar

The Roses
2025 · Theo Rose, Executive Producer

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
2022 · Self

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018 · Shere Khan (voice)

Eric
2024 · Vincent, Executive Producer

War Horse
2011 · Maj. Jamie Stewart

The Other Boleyn Girl
2008 · William Carey

The Courier
2020 · Greville Wynne, Executive Producer

Black Mass
2015 · Billy Bulger

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · Sherlock Holmes

The Power of the Dog
2021 · Phil Burbank

The Mauritanian
2021 · Lt. Stuart Couch, Producer

Zoolander 2
2016 · All

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist

Nathan Barley
2005 · Robin

Minions & More Volume 1
2022 · The Grinch (voice)

Super/Natural
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)

August: Osage County
2013 · Little Charles Aiken

To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · Edmund Talbot

Tipping the Velvet
2002 · Freddy

The End We Start From
2023 · AB, Executive Producer

Parade's End
2012 · Christopher Tietjens

Small Island
2009 · Bernard

The Fifth Estate
2013 · Julian Assange

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 · Louis Wain, Executive Producer

Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019 · Benedict Cumberbatch

The Last Enemy
2008 · Stephen Ezard

The Current War
2018 · Thomas Edison

Poison
2023 · Harry Pope

The Thing with Feathers
2025 · Dad
Wife & Dog
2027 · Actor

Four Lions
2010 · Negotiator

Broken News
2005 · Will Parker

South Pacific
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Cambridge Spies
2003 · Edward Hand

Amazing Grace
2007 · William Pitt

The Whistleblower
2010 · Nick Kaufman

The Book of Clarence
2024 · Benjamin

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024 · Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022 · Self (archive footage)

Fortysomething
2003 · Rory Slippery

Dunkirk
2004 · Lt Jimmy Langley

Creation
2009 · Joseph Dalton Hooker

Confessions II – The Film
2026 · Self

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Self - Doctor Stephen Strange

Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007 · Alexander Masters

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010 · Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012 · Narrator (voice)

Starter for 10
2006 · Patrick Watts

Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019 · Dominic Cummings

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011 · The Creature / Victor Frankenstein

The Child in Time
2018 · Stephen Lewis, Executive Producer

Hawking
2004 · Stephen Hawking

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Self

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026 · Self

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022 · Daddy (voice)

To Kill a King
2003 · Royalist
Blood on Snow
TBA · The Fisherman

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010 · Vincent Van Gogh

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014 · Agent Classified (voice)

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · Hamlet

Unlocking Sherlock
2014 · Himself / Sherlock Holmes

Third Star
2010 · James

Mog's Bad Thing
2026 · Mr. Thomas (voice)

The Dog Days of Winter
2019 · The Grinch (voice)

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Rosencrantz

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Self - Performer

Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014 · Narrator

WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
2012 · Narrator (Voice)

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014 · Narrator (Voice)

Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022 · Self (archive footage)

Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023 · Narrator

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023 · Self (archive footage)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 · Actor

Girlfriend in a Coma
2012 · Dante (voice)

Mog's Christmas
2023 · Mr. Thomas (voice)

How to Live on Earth
2026 · Self

Wreckers
2011 · David

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013 · Sherlock Holmes

Together for Palestine
2025 · Self

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Self

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012 · Self / Frankenstein / The Monster

Morning
TBA · Frank, Executive Producer

Walk with Me
2017 · Narrator (voice)

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014 · Self
The Dreams of William Golding
2012 · Reader

The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005 · Narrator (voice)

Jerusalem
2013 · Narrator (voice)

9 Kisses
2014 · Man at Costume Party

Hills Like White Elephants
2002 · The Man

Becoming Zendaya
2026 · Self (archive photo)

Antarctica
2020 · Self - Narrator

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016 · Himself

Naples '44
2016 · Norman Lewis (voice)

Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022 · Actor

Little Favour
2013 · Wallace, Producer
Fields of Gold
2002 · Jeremy
Untitled Doctor Strange Movie
TBA · Doctor Stephen Strange

Burlesque Fairytales
2010 · Henry Clark

Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025 · Self

Inseparable
2007 · Joe / Charlie
Last Flight
TBA · Kirk Wallace Johnson, Executive Producer

The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011 · Actor

Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019 · The Grinch

Sherlock: Uncovered
2012 · Sherlock, Self

Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024 · Self

Unlocking Sherlock
2010 · Himself

The Turning Point
2009 · Guy Burgess