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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 05/15/23 96
Nothing Like a Dame 05/02/18 Self (archive footage) 96
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film 07/18/16 Self 96
Discovering Hamlet 11/01/11 King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage) 96
Revisiting Brideshead 10/15/05 Self (archive footage) 96
Catastrophe 09/01/01 The Protagonist 96
Elizabeth 09/13/98 The Pope 94
The Tichborne Claimant 08/01/98 Cockburn 94
Quest for Camelot 05/15/98 Merlin (voice) 94
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow 01/01/98 93
David 03/23/97 Stimme Gottes 92
Hamlet 12/25/96 Priam 92
The Portrait of a Lady 10/17/96 Mr. Touchett 92
Looking for Richard 10/11/96 Self / Interview 92
The Leopard Son 09/27/96 Narrator 92
Shine 08/15/96 Cecil Parkes 92
DragonHeart 05/31/96 King Arthur (voice) (uncredited) 92
Haunted 10/27/95 Doctor Doyle 91
First Knight 07/07/95 Oswald 91
The Thomas The Tank Engine Man 02/25/95 Himself (Voice) 90
A Summer Day's Dream 11/26/94 90
The Power of One 03/27/92 St. John 87
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward 03/01/92 Self 87
Shining Through 01/31/92 Sunflower 87
Swan Song 01/01/92 Svetlovidov 87
A Walk Through Prospero's Library 01/01/92 Prospero 87
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 10/28/91 Self (archive footage) 87
Prospero's Books 08/30/91 Prospero 87
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) 03/06/91 Virgil (voice) 86
The Best of Friends 01/01/91 Sydney Cockerell 86
The Strauss Dynasty 01/01/91 Drechsler 86
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond 10/22/90 Self 86
A TV Dante 06/13/90 Virgil 86
Strike It Rich 01/26/90 Herbert Dreuther 85
Getting It Right 05/05/89 Sir Gordon Munday 85
A Man for All Seasons 12/21/88 Cardinal Wolsey 84
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton 09/20/88 Self 84
Arthur 2: On the Rocks 07/08/88 Hobson 84
Appointment with Death 04/15/88 Colonel Carbury 84
Quartermaine's Terms 03/29/87 Eddie Loomis 82
The Canterville Ghost 12/31/86 Sir Simon de Canterville 82
The Whistle Blower 11/21/86 Sir Adrian Chappie 82
Theban Plays: Antigone 09/19/86 Tiresias 82
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King 09/16/86 Tieresias 82
Time After Time 01/26/86 Jasper Swift 81
Plenty 09/20/85 Sir Leonard Darwin 81
Leave All Fair 06/24/85 John Middleton Murry 81
Romance on the Orient Express 03/04/85 Theodore Woodward 80
The Shooting Party 02/01/85 Cornelius Cardew 80
To Be Hamlet 01/19/85 John Gielgud 80
Camille 12/11/84 Duke de Charles 80
Frankenstein 06/17/84 De Lacey 80
The Master of Ballantrae 01/31/84 Lord Durrisdeer 79
Scandalous 01/29/84 Uncle Willie 79
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate 01/01/84 Archive Footage 79
The Wicked Lady 04/21/83 Hogarth 79
The Scarlet and the Black 02/02/83 Pope Pius XII 78
Invitation to the Wedding 01/01/83 78
Gandhi 12/01/82 Lord Irwin 78
The Critic 08/28/82 Lord Burleigh 78
Inside the Third Reich 05/09/82 Albert Speer Sr. 78
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 02/02/82 Charmolue 77
Priest of Love 10/11/81 Herbert G. Muskett 77
Arthur 07/17/81 Hobson 77
Chariots of Fire 05/15/81 Master of Trinity 77
Lion of the Desert 04/17/81 Sharif El Gariani 77
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery 03/08/81 Marquis of Caterhan 76
Sphinx 02/11/81 Abdu-Hamdi 76
The Formula 12/19/80 Dr. Abraham Esau 76
The Elephant Man 10/09/80 Carr Gomm 76
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 03/30/80 Reverend Jones 75
Dyrygent 02/27/80 John Lasocki 75
The Human Factor 12/18/79 Brigadier Tomlinson 75
Caligola 08/14/79 Nerva 75
Murder by Decree 02/01/79 Prime Minister Lord Salisbury 74
Les Misérables 12/27/78 Gillenormand 74
Richard II 12/10/78 John of Gaunt 74
Romeo & Juliet 12/03/78 Chorus 74
No Man's Land 10/03/78 Spooner 74
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 09/01/77 The Preacher 73
Heartbreak House 05/19/77 Captain Shotover 73
The Grand Inquisitor 04/10/77 Inquisitor 72
Joseph Andrews 03/09/77 The Doctor 72
Providence 01/25/77 Clive Langham 72
Peter Pan 12/12/76 Narrator 72
The Picture of Dorian Gray 09/19/76 Lord Henry Wotton 72
Aces High 05/19/76 Headmaster 72
Galileo 01/27/75 The Old Cardinal 70
Murder on the Orient Express 11/22/74 Mr. Beddoes 70
11 Harrowhouse 09/26/74 Meecham 70
Frankenstein: The True Story 09/19/74 Chief Constable 70
Gold 06/08/74 Farrell 70
Lost Horizon 03/14/73 Chang 68
William: The Life, Works, And Times Of William Shakespeare 01/03/73 Various 68
Probe 02/21/72 Harold L. Streeter 67
Eagle in a Cage 01/09/72 Lord Sissal 67
Home 01/06/72 Harry 67
Julius Caesar 06/04/70 Julius Caesar 66
Oh! What a Lovely War 03/10/69 Count Leopold Von Berchtold 64
The Shoes of the Fisherman 11/14/68 The Elder pope 64
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski 05/10/68 Rich Man 64
Assignment to Kill 05/01/68 Curt Valayan 64
The Charge of the Light Brigade 04/10/68 Lord Raglan 63
Sebastian 01/24/68 Head of Intelligence 63
Romeo and Juliet 12/03/67 Chorus 63
Révolution d'octobre 10/11/67 Narrator (voice) 63
Alice in Wonderland 12/28/66 Mock Turtle 62
The Mayfly and the Frog 12/21/66 Gabriel Quantara 62
Ages of Man 01/23/66 61
Campanadas a medianoche 12/23/65 Henry IV 61
The Loved One 10/11/65 Sir Francis Hinsley 61
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 09/23/64 Ghost (voice) 60
Becket 03/11/64 King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France 59
Mourir à Madrid 04/18/63 Narrator (English version) (voice) 59
The Cherry Orchard 04/17/62 Gaev 58
The Immortal Land 01/01/58 53
Saint Joan 05/08/57 Earl of Warwick 53
The Barretts of Wimpole Street 01/16/57 Edward Moulton-Barrett 52
Around the World in Eighty Days 10/17/56 Foster 52
Richard III 12/13/55 George, Duke of Clarence 51
Romeo and Juliet 09/01/54 Chorus 50
Hamlet: The Actor's View 05/16/54 Self 50
Julius Caesar 06/04/53 Cassius 49
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five 01/01/53 Narrator 48
A Diary for Timothy 12/31/45 Hamlet 41
An Airman's Letter to His Mother 06/05/41 Narrator 37
The Prime Minister 03/04/41 Disraeli 36
Heredity in Man 01/01/37 Self 32
Secret Agent 05/31/36 Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie 32
The Good Companions 02/28/33 Inigo Jollifant 28
Insult 07/27/32 Henri Dubois 28
The Clue of the New Pin 03/01/29 Rex Trasmere 24
Who Is the Man? 09/01/24 Daniel 20