Known For
Complete Filmography
Hounds of War
2024
as President Lane
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
Tetris
2023
as Mikhail Gorbachev
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a danger...
National Theater Live: The Crucible
2023
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen...
The Contractor
2022
as Gray (uncredited)
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organiz...
The Mauritanian
2021
as General Miller
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a ...
Mr. Jones
2019
as William Randolph Hearst
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the S...
The Informer
2019
as Warden Leinart
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambit...
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Gernot (voice)
Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!...
Dunkirk
2017
as Rear Admiral
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army...
Unlocked
2017
as Frank Sutter
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a c...
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Lord Beaverbrook
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Arthur & George
2015
as Chief Constable Anson
In 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, having lost his first wife, was overcome with grief; even Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson refused his call. It was only...
Hafen der Düfte
2013
as Kommissar Braddock
Hong Kong, 2012: The former British crown colony has been part of the People's Republic again for 15 years. To mark the anniversary, the Haiman Collec...
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
as Peter
Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilap...
Epithet
2012
as Richard
Epithet: a short film starring Patrick Stewart. Inspired by the Young Vic theatre's recent production of Edward Bond's play Bingo.
Red Tails
2012
as Brigadier General Hauser
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
The Iron Lady
2011
as Alexander Haig
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Shirley
2011
as Jack Hylton
Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splo...
The Special Relationship
2010
as Foreign Policy Advisor
A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister sta...
The Turning Point
2009
as Winston Churchill
In The Turning Point, written by Michael Dobbs, Benedict Cumberbatch takes the role of Guy Burgess while Matthew Marsh plays the part of Winston Churc...
Endgame
2009
as F.W. de Klerk
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat...
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
as Alec Hurley
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at...
O Jerusalem
2006
as Sir Gordon
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Land of the Blind
2006
as Papa Max
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
Century City
2006
The murder of an actress prompts an illogical, circular phone conversation between a detective in Cape Town and a movie director in Los Angeles. 'Cent...
An American Haunting
2005
as James Johnston
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History wh...
Hawking
2004
as Dr. John Holloway
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend...
Belonging
2004
as Peter Fox
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relativ...
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Giuseppe Larsson
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town ...
Wall of Silence
2004
as Goldberg
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Real Men
2003
as DCI Norton
A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's d...
Quicksand
2003
as Michel Cote
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a dow...
Bad Company
2002
as Dragan Adjanic
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
Miranda
2002
as Charles
A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears he travels down to London to s...
Spy Game
2001
as Dr. Byars
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in B...
Getting Hurt
1998
as Steven Gore
The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate a...
A Certain Justice
1998
as Drysdale Laud
The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record...
Into the Blue
1997
as Alan Dysart
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, i...
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Detective
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...
Famous Fred
1996
as Dad (voice)
Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his ...
Death of a Salesman
1996
as Howard
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...
The Turnaround
1995
as Tony Hogan
Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
Piccadilly Circus by Night
1995
as Greg
European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tany...
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
as Captain Hercule Platini
Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf.
Genghis Cohn
1993
as Herr Kruger
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co...
Dirty Weekend
1993
as Bascombe
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Final...
Barbed Wire
1991
as Wilson
Harvey, an old man from Scotland lives with his young son and daughter in an isolated house in Patagonia. Upon arrival of the emissaries of a develop...
Mountains of the Moon
1990
as William
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...
Dark Obsession
1990
as Raul
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problem...
Flying in the Branches
1989
as Michael
Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the...
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
as Warder
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
An Affair in Mind
1988
as Detective Inspector Brodd
A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The wri...
The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Barry Banks
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
as Thomas Walshingham
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re...
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
as Elton John
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
In the Secret State
1985
as James Quitman
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own...
Sweet Wine of Youth
1979
A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems
Albatross
N/A
as Father
A pianist haunted by memories of a troubled past, strives to find his way back to life through music.