Selected career chronology
Credits Index
Major screen, stage, music, sport or broadcast work. This is a selected public-career index, not a complete employment history.
| Year | Title | Medium | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The White Bus | Film | — |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Film | — |
| 1969 | Hamlet | Film | — |
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Film | — |
| 1972 | Young Winston | Film | — |
| 1972 | War and Peace | TV miniseries | Pierre Bezukhov |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Film | — |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | TV film | — |
| 1977 | Audrey Rose | Film | — |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Film | — |
| 1978 | International Velvet | Film | — |
| 1978 | Magic | Film | — |
| 1980 | A Change of Seasons | Film | — |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Film | — |
| 1981 | The Bunker | TV film | — |
| 1984 | The Bounty | Film | — |
| 1985 | The Good Father | Film | — |
| 1985 | Pravda | West End play | Lambert Le Roux |
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Film | — |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Film | — |
| 1989 | M. Butterfly | West End play | — |
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Film | — |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Film | Hannibal Lecter |
| 1992 | Freejack | Film | — |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Film | — |
| 1992 | Howards End | Film | — |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Film | — |
| 1993 | The Trial | Film | — |
| 1993 | The Innocent | Film | — |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Film | Stevens |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Film | C. S. Lewis |
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Film | — |
| 1995 | Nixon | Film | — |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Film | — |
| 1996 | August | Film | — |
| 1996 | August | Film | — |
| 1997 | Amistad | Film | — |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Film | — |
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | Film | — |
| 1999 | Instinct | Film | — |
| 1999 | Titus | Film | — |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Film | — |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Film | — |
| 2002 | Bad Company | Film | — |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Film | — |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Film | — |
| 2004 | Alexander | Film | — |
| 2005 | Proof | Film | — |
| 2005 | The World’s Fastest Indian | Film | — |
| 2007 | Fracture | Film | — |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Film | — |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Film | — |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Film | — |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Film | — |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Film | — |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Film | — |
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Film | — |
| 2011 | Thor | Film | Odin |
| 2011 | 360 | Film | — |
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Film | — |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Film | — |
| 2013 | RED 2 | Film | — |
| 2014 | Noah | Film | — |
| 2015 | Solace | Film | — |
| 2015 | The Dresser | TV film | Sir |
| 2016 | Westworld | TV series | Dr. Robert Ford |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Film | — |
| 2018 | King Lear | TV film | Lear |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Film | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2020 | The Father | Film | Anthony |
| 2021 | Mythic Quest | TV series | Narrator |
| 2022 | Armageddon Time | Film | — |
| 2023 | One Life | Film | — |
| 2023 | Freud’s Last Session | Film | — |
| 2023 | Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire | Film | Jimmy (voice) |
| 2024 | Mary | Film | King Herod |
| 2024 | Those About to Die | TV series | — |
| 2024 | Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver | Film | Jimmy (voice) |
| 2025 | Locked | Film | — |
| — | 2048 | Film | Bryant (announced; pre-production) |