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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
The Penguin Lessons 04/18/25 The Headmaster 77
William Tell 01/10/25 77
One Life 12/21/23 Martin Blake 76
Soul of the Ocean 01/25/23 Narrator (voice) 75
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol 11/18/22 Jacob Marley (voice) 75
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking 05/12/22 Self - Narrator 74
All the Old Knives 04/08/22 Bill Compton 74
The Witness is a Whale 04/02/22 Self - Narrator (voice) 74
Save the Cinema 01/14/22 Mr. Morgan 74
Stories of You and I 01/01/21 Narrator 73
The Two Popes 11/27/19 Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis 72
He Dreams of Giants 11/16/19 Himself 72
Piney: The Lonesome Pine 09/26/19 Grandpa Sid 72
The Wife 08/02/18 Joe Castleman 71
To Provide All People 06/28/18 Retired Neurosurgeon 71
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 05/19/18 Don Quixote 70
The Man Who Invented Christmas 10/12/17 Mr. John Dickens 70
Becoming Cary Grant 05/23/17 Cary Grant (voice) 69
The Healer 02/17/17 Raymond Heacock 69
To Walk Invisible 12/26/16 Patrick Brontë 69
Aberfan: The Green Hollow 10/21/16 69
Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance 09/22/16 Special Finale Guest Star 69
The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe 08/04/16 Shylock 69
The White King 06/18/16 Colonel Fitz 69
Shylock's Ghost 10/27/15 Self 68
Narcopolis 09/25/15 Sidorov 68
Dough 04/14/15 Nat 67
Woman in Gold 03/20/15 Chief Justice Rehnquist 67
Sluizer Speaks 12/09/14 67
Under Milk Wood 06/01/14 Mr. Pugh 67
The Salvation 05/22/14 Mayor Nathan Keane 66
Listen Up Philip 05/07/14 Ike 66
The Ghost and the Whale 03/03/14 Whale 66
G.I. Joe: Retaliation 03/27/13 U.S. President 65
King Lear 11/01/12 King Lear 65
Dark Blood 09/27/12 Harry Fletcher 65
Patience (After Sebald) 01/27/12 Voiceover 64
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching 11/19/11 Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice) 64
Borgríki 10/14/11 Jimmy 64
Hysteria 06/06/11 Dr. Robert Dalrymple 64
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins 01/01/10 62
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 08/03/09 U.S. President 62
Echelon Conspiracy 02/27/09 Mueller 61
Bedtime Stories 12/24/08 Marty Bronson 61
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began 10/19/08 Ian Fleming (voice) 61
My Zinc Bed 08/27/08 Victor 61
What Is Brazil? 04/16/08 Self 60
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen 04/08/08 Self / Horatio Jackson 60
Leatherheads 03/24/08 CC Frazier 60
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 05/19/07 Weatherby Swann 59
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars 03/25/07 Sherlock Holmes 59
The Moon and the Stars 02/02/07 James Clavel / Scarpia 59
Brothers of the Head 07/28/06 Henry Couling 59
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 07/06/06 Weatherby Swann 59
The New World 12/25/05 King James 58
The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life 12/20/05 Self 58
The Brothers Grimm 08/26/05 Delatombe 58
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 08/07/05 The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage) 58
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane 10/11/04 Self 57
De-Lovely 07/02/04 Gabriel 57
An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 12/02/03 Self 56
David Bowie - Sound and Vision 11/12/03 Narrator 56
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 07/09/03 Weatherby Swann 56
Quest for the Giant Squid 07/09/03 Narrator 56
What a Girl Wants 03/27/03 Alistair Payne 55
Mad Dogs 12/05/02 Supreme Being 55
Best Ever Bond 11/22/02 Self / Elliot Carver 55
Unconditional Love 08/23/02 Victor Fox 55
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 03/10/02 Master Schoemacker 54
Taliesin Jones 02/01/02 Da 54
The Affair of the Necklace 11/30/01 Cardinal Louis de Rohan 54
Victoria & Albert 08/26/01 King Leopold I of Belgium 54
Bride of the Wind 06/08/01 Gustav Mahler 54
Very Annie Mary 05/25/01 Jack Pugh 53
Il gioco 04/20/01 Mark 53
Tales from the Madhouse 04/16/00 The Thief 52
The Suicide Club 01/13/00 Bourne 52
Stigmata 09/02/99 Cardinal Daniel Houseman 52
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death 03/26/99 The Master 51
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss 01/05/99 Narrator 51
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh 11/07/98 Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer 51
Ronin 09/25/98 Seamus O'Rourke 51
Highly Classified: The World of 007 01/01/98 50
Tomorrow Never Dies 12/11/97 Elliot Carver 50
The Secrets of 007 12/04/97 Self 50
Regeneration 08/27/97 Capt. William Rivers 50
David 03/23/97 Saul 49
Evita 12/14/96 Juan Perón 49
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' 06/13/96 Self 49
Carrington 05/25/95 Lytton Strachey 47
Shopping 12/06/94 Conway 47
A Troll in Central Park 10/07/94 Alan (voice) 47
Great Moments in Aviation 05/01/94 Duncan Stewart 46
Deadly Advice 04/29/94 Dr. Ted Philips 46
A Business Affair 03/16/94 Alec Bolton 46
The Age of Innocence 09/10/93 Rivière 46
Thicker Than Water 07/29/93 Sam 46
Barbarians at the Gate 03/20/93 Henry Kravis 45
Glengarry Glen Ross 09/15/92 James Lingk 45
Freddie as F.R.O.7. 08/14/92 Trilby (voice) 45
A Child's Garden of Verses 04/03/92 Narrator / Father (voice) 44
Selling Hitler 06/11/91 Gerd Heidemann 44
The Man from the Pru 06/30/90 William Wallace 43
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon 12/20/89 Self - 'The Engineer' 42
The Rachel Papers 05/12/89 Norman 41
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 12/07/88 The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson 41
Consuming Passions 04/06/88 Mr. Farris 40
Man on Fire 09/04/87 Michael 40
Jumpin' Jack Flash 10/09/86 Jack 39
Haunted Honeymoon 07/25/86 Charles Abbot 39
The Doctor and the Devils 10/04/85 Robert Fallon 38
Brazil 02/20/85 Sam Lowry 37
An Audience with Mel Brooks 02/04/84 Self (uncredited) 36
Martin Luther, Heretic 11/08/83 Martin Luther 36
The Ploughman's Lunch 05/30/83 James Penfield 35
Something Wicked This Way Comes 04/29/83 Mr. Dark 35
Murder Is Easy 01/02/82 Mr. Ellsworthy 34
Praying Mantis 01/01/82 Christian Magny 34
Loophole 06/25/81 Taylor 34
The Caretaker 06/07/81 Mick 34
Timon of Athens 04/16/81 Timon 33
Breaking Glass 10/01/80 Ken 33
The Day Christ Died 03/26/80 Herod 32
Comedians 10/25/79 Gethin Price 32
For Tea on Sunday 03/29/78 Nicholas 30
Voyage of the Damned 12/22/76 Joseph Manasse 29
Play Things 05/07/76 Playleader 28
The Death of a Young Young Man 01/30/75 Tommy 27
Flavia de Luce None 77
The Thursday Murder Club None Stephen Best 77