Known For
Filmography
Hounds of War
2024
as President Lane
Tetris
2023
as Mikhail Gorbachev
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023
Django
2023
as Col. William Fourier
The Contractor
2022
as Gray (uncredited)
The Mauritanian
2021
as General Miller
The Nevers
2021
as Major
The Informer
2019
as Warden Leinart
Mr. Jones
2019
as William Randolph Hearst
Whiskey Cavalier
2019
as Director Casey
West of Liberty
2019
as Clive 'GT' Barner
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Ballentine Morgan
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
as General Kuznetsov
Dunkirk
2017
as Rear Admiral
Unlocked
2017
as Frank Sutter
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Gernot (voice)
Taboo
2017
as Exorcist
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Lord Beaverbrook
The Crown
2016
as President Eisenhower
Arthur & George
2015
as Chief Constable Anson
Capital
2015
as Lothar
Humans
2015
as Lord Dryden
The Coroner
2015
as Sidney Sutton
Hafen der Düfte
2013
as Kommissar Braddock
Jo
2013
Father Brown
2013
as Lord Arthur Hawthorne
The Other Child
2013
as Stephen Cramer
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
as Peter
Epithet
2012
as Richard
Red Tails
2012
as Brigadier General Hauser
Shirley
2011
as Jack Hylton
The Iron Lady
2011
as Alexander Haig
Hidden
2011
as James Morpeth
Vera
2011
as Phil Kingston
The Special Relationship
2010
as Foreign Policy Advisor
Luther
2010
as Russell Cornish
Endgame
2009
as F.W. de Klerk
The Turning Point
2009
as Winston Churchill
How Not to Live Your Life
2008
as Glen Menford
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
as Alec Hurley
Lewis
2007
as Henry McEwan
Land of the Blind
2006
as Papa Max
O Jerusalem
2006
as Sir Gordon
Century City
2006
Lead Balloon
2006
Hotel Babylon
2006
as Vladimir
An American Haunting
2005
as James Johnston
.357
2005
as Campbell
The Thick of It
2005
as Simon Hewitt
Belonging
2004
as Peter Fox
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Giuseppe Larsson
Hawking
2004
as Dr. John Holloway
Wall of Silence
2004
as Goldberg
New Tricks
2004
as Harry Gallo
Quicksand
2003
as Michel Cote
Real Men
2003
as DCI Norton
The Commander
2003
Bad Company
2002
as Dragan Adjanic
Miranda
2002
as Charles
Spooks
2002
as Bob Hogan
Spy Game
2001
as Dr. Byars
The Cazalets
2001
as Otto Rose
Murder in Mind
2001
as Brian Balfour
Murphy's Law
2001
as Bishop Noonan
Lock, Stock...
2000
as Attila
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Getting Hurt
1998
as Steven Gore
A Respectable Trade
1998
as Stephen Waring
A Certain Justice
1998
as Drysdale Laud
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Detective
Into the Blue
1997
as Alan Dysart
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Tony Carter
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Jack Braxton
Death of a Salesman
1996
as Howard
Famous Fred
1996
as Dad (voice)
Madson
1996
as DI Rourke
Piccadilly Circus by Night
1995
as Greg
The Turnaround
1995
as Tony Hogan
Sharman
1995
as Tony Hogan
Bugs
1995
as Hurry
Game On
1995
as Brian Kennedy
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
as Captain Hercule Platini
Dirty Weekend
1993
as Bascombe
Genghis Cohn
1993
as Herr Kruger
Peak Practice
1993
as Mr. Lockwood
Heartbeat
1992
as Keith Hibbert
Heartbeat
1992
as Edgar Faussett
As Time Goes By
1992
as Alex Duncan
A Touch of Frost
1992
as DCI Hawkes
Barbed Wire
1991
as Wilson
Mountains of the Moon
1990
as William
Diamond Skulls
1990
as Raul
Flying in the Branches
1989
as Michael
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
as Mark Golan
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
as Warder
An Affair in Mind
1988
as Detective Inspector Brodd
Red Dwarf
1988
as Captain Hercule Platini
A Taste for Death
1988
as Dominic Swayne
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Warder
The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Barry Banks
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Angus Norris
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
as Thomas Walshingham
Casualty
1986
as Geoff Marks
Casualty
1986
as Russell Miller
Casualty
1986
as Brian Carroll
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
as Elton John
In the Secret State
1985
as James Quitman
Screen Two
1985
as James Quitman
Screen Two
1985
as Herr Kruger
Dalgliesh
1983
as Dominic Swayne
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Naples Street Kid
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
as Sydney
Sweet Wine of Youth
1979
Strangers
1978
as Prisoner
Van der Valk
1972
as Willem Maas