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Super Troopers 3 (2026) as Capt. John O’Hagan |
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Glenrothan (2026) as Sandy |
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The Marbles (2025) as Self - Interviewee |
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Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction (2025) as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice) |
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The Parenting (2025) as Frank |
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AMR: Dying to Change the World (2025) as AMR |
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The Electric State (2025) as Popfly (voice) |
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) as Helm Hammerhand (voice) |
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That Christmas (2024) as Santa (voice) |
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Skelly (2024) as Grandpa |
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Little Wing (2024) as Jaan Vari |
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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend (2023) as Narrator (voice) |
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Prisoner's Daughter (2023) as Max |
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Mending the Line (2023) as Ike Fletcher |
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Quasi (2023) as Narrator (voice) |
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An Interview with Brian Cox (2023) as Himself |
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Ooh the Banter! (2022) as Self |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022) as Self |
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Bonnie (2022) as Self |
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The Independent (2022) as Nick Booker |
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Ukraine: Answering the Call (2022) as Self |
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Separation (2021) as Rivers |
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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Bay of Silence (2020) as Milton |
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John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues (2020) as John Rebus |
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Lawrence After Arabia (2020) as Father (Voice) |
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Last Moment of Clarity (2020) as Gilles |
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The Last Right (2019) as Father Reilly |
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Strange but True (2019) as Bill |
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Pretenders (2019) as Henry |
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Remember Me (2019) as Shane |
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Kubrick by Candlelight (2018) as The Narrator |
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Widdershins (2018) as voice |
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Super Troopers 2 (2018) as John O'Hagen |
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The Etruscan Smile (2018) as Rory MacNeil |
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An Evening with Brian Cox (2017) as Himself |
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Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie (2017) as Conrad / Crunch (voice) |
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Churchill (2017) as Winston Churchill |
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Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation (2017) as Narrator |
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Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC (2016) as Self |
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) as Tommy Tilden |
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Morgan (2016) as Jim Bryce |
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The Carer (2016) as Sir Michael |
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016) as Self |
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Killing Thyme (2015) as Norman |
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Forsaken (2015) as James McCurdy |
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Pacific Warriors (2015) as Narrator |
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Pixels (2015) as Admiral Porter |
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Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace (2015) as Andrew Carnegie (voice) |
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The Gospel of John (2014) as Narrator (voice) – King James Version |
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Scotland In A Day (2014) as |
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The Anomaly (2014) as Dr. Langham |
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Her (2013) as Alan Watts (voice) |
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An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) as Sydney Newman |
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La Malédiction d'Edgar (2013) as Edgar Hoover |
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Anna (2013) as Sebastian |
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Believe (2013) as Matt Busby |
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Blumenthal (2013) as Harold Blumenthal |
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RED 2 (2013) as Ivan |
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Blood (2012) as Lenny Fairburn |
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The Campaign (2012) as Raymond |
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All at Sea (2012) as Wally |
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I Missed My Mother's Funeral (2012) as Old Man |
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Exit Humanity (2011) as Malcolm Young (voice) |
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Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011) as Glover |
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as John Landon |
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The Veteran (2011) as Gerry |
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Ironclad (2011) as Albany |
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The Key Man (2011) as Irving |
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Coriolanus (2011) as Menenius |
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RED (2010) as Ivan Simanov |
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On Expenses (2010) as |
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As Good As Dead (2010) as Reverend Kalahan |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Action 12 Reporter (voice) |
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Brian Cox's Jute Journey (2009) as Self |
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The Good Heart (2009) as Jacques |
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Tell-Tale (2009) as Van Doren |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009) as Green Dragon (voice) |
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Red (2008) as Avery Ludlow |
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The Escapist (2008) as Frank Perry |
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Agent Crush (2008) as Spanners (voice) |
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The Water Horse (2007) as Old Angus |
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The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007) as Drosselmeyer |
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Shoot on Sight (2007) as Daniel Tennant |
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Trick 'r Treat (2007) as Mr. Kreeg |
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Battle for Terra (2007) as General Hemmer (voice) |
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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A Woman in Winter (2007) as Dr. Hunt |
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Zodiac (2007) as Melvin Belli |
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Running with Scissors (2006) as Dr. Finch |
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The Outsiders (2006) as Gabriel |
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The Flying Scotsman (2006) as Douglas Baxter |
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Carry On Ken (2006) as Self |
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The Ringer (2005) as Gary Barker |
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Match Point (2005) as Alec Hewett |
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005) as Joseph Bell |
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Red Eye (2005) as Joe Reisert |
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Hitler in Colour (2005) as Narrator |
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Blue/Orange (2005) as Dr. Robert Smith |
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Japan's War in Colour (2005) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Other Voices (voice) |
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004) as Ward Abbott |
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Troy (2004) as King Agamemnon |
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Murder by Numbers (2004) as Self |
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The Reckoning (2004) as Tobias |
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 (2003) as Self |
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003) as Self |
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X2 (2003) as William Stryker |
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Sin (2003) as Captain Oakes |
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25th Hour (2002) as James Brogan |
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Adaptation. (2002) as Robert McKee |
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Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World (2002) as Narrator |
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The Ring (2002) as Richard Morgan |
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) as Self |
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The Biographer (2002) as Michael O'Mara |
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The Bourne Identity (2002) as Ward Abbott |
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Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch (2002) as Narrator |
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The Rookie (2002) as Jim Morris Sr. |
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Bug (2002) as Cyr |
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Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh (2002) as Narrator |
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Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002) as Narrator |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) as Minister Breteuil |
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L.I.E. (2001) as Big John Harrigan |
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Strictly Sinatra (2001) as Chisolm |
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Super Troopers (2001) as Captain O'Hagen |
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Inside 'Manhunter' (2001) as Himself |
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Saltwater (2000) as George Beneventi |
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Nuremberg (2000) as Herman Wilhelm Goering |
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Complicity (2000) as Inspector McDunn |
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A Shot at Glory (2000) as Martin Smith |
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Mad About Mambo (2000) as Sidney McLoughlin |
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The Invention of Dr. Morel (2000) as Dr. Morel |
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The Making of 'Rushmore' (2000) as Self |
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Longitude (2000) as Lord Morton |
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The History of the British Police Force (1999) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Minus Man (1999) as Doug |
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For Love of the Game (1999) as Gary Wheeler |
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The Corruptor (1999) as Sean Wallace |
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Rushmore (1998) as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim |
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Poodle Springs (1998) as Clayton Blackstone |
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Battle of the Clans (1998) as Narrator |
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Merchants of Venus (1998) as Uncle Vladimir |
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Desperate Measures (1998) as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy |
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The Boxer (1997) as Joe Hamill |
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Food for Ravens (1997) as Aneurin Bevan |
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Sharpe: The Legend (1997) as Hogan |
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Kiss the Girls (1997) as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) as Dr. Nathan Waldman |
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The Glimmer Man (1996) as Mr. Smith |
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Chain Reaction (1996) as Lyman Earl Collier |
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Witness Against Hitler (1996) as Judge Freisler |
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Braveheart (1995) as Argyle Wallace |
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Rob Roy (1995) as Killearn |
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The Maltese Double Cross (1994) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Negotiator (1994) as Charlie King |
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Grushko (1994) as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko |
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Prince of Jutland (1994) as Aethelwine |
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Iron Will (1994) as Angus McTeague |
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Sharpe's Eagle (1993) as Major Michael Hogan |
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Sharpe's Rifles (1993) as Major Michael Hogan |
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Six Characters in Search of An Author (1992) as The Director |
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The Cutter (1992) as |
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The Lost Language of Cranes (1992) as Owen Benjamin |
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The Cloning of Joanna May (1992) as Carl May |
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Deceptions (1992) as Carlton Heard |
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Red Fox (1991) as Geoffrey Harrison |
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Hidden Agenda (1990) as Peter Kerrigan |
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The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' (1990) as self |
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Secret Weapon (1990) as Andrew Neil |
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Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy (1989) as Self |
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The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989) as Rev. Wallace (voice) |
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Murder on the Moon (1989) as Voronov |
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Regi Andrej Tarkovskij (1988) as Voiceover Narrator |
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988) as Jack Purves |
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Shoot for the Sun (1987) as Dunny |
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Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People (1987) as Narrator |
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Rat in the Skull (1987) as Detective Inspector Nelson |
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Home Cooking (1986) as Vic |
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Manhunter (1986) as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor |
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The Cantor of St Thomas's (1985) as Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Florence Nightingale (1985) as Dr. McGregor |
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Pope John Paul II (1984) as Father Góra |
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King Lear (1983) as Burgundy |
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A Cotswold Death (1982) as Dr. Gillespie |
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The Privilege (1982) as Young Laird |
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Dalhousie's Luck (1980) as Dalhousie |
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976) as George Simpson |
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In Celebration (1975) as Steven Shaw |
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The Changeling (1974) as Alsemero |
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) as Trotsky |
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The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) as Lasar Opie |
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A Knight in Tarnished Armour (1965) as Nelson |
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A Modern Magician () as The Voice |
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The Glove () as |
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Old Pals () as Jimmy |
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Wittgenstein's Poker () as Bertrand Russell (voice) |
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The Sunrise File () as Oded Ailam (voice) |
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The Planets () as |
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Glenrothan (2026) Director |
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Glenrothan (2026) Producer |
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Seven Jewish Children (2025) Executive Producer |
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Little Wing (2024) Executive Producer |
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Red (2008) Associate Producer |
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The Escapist (2008) Executive Producer |