Mr. Holmes 2015
Sherlock Holmes
Cats 2019
Gus, the Theatre Cat
The Critic 2024
Jimmy Erskine
Apt Pupil 1998
Kurt Dussander
Doctor Who: The Snowmen 2012
The Great Intelligence (voice)
All Is True 2018
Earl of Southampton
Gods and Monsters 1998
James Whale
Six Degrees of Separation 1993
Geoffrey
The Dresser 2015
Norman
Neverwas 2005
Gabriel Finch
Richard III 1995
Richard III, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Bent 1997
Uncle Freddie
Asylum 2005
Dr. Peter Cleave
Hamlet 2024
Hamlet
Restoration 1995
Will Gates
And the Band Played On 1993
Bill Kraus
Swept from the Sea 1998
Dr. James Kennedy
Scandal 1989
John Profumo
Rasputin 1996
Tsar Nicholas II
Jack & Sarah 1995
William
National Theatre Live: King Lear 2018
King Lear
I'll Do Anything 1994
John Earl McAlpine
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land 2016
Spooner
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man 2000
Narrator (voice)
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982
Chauvelin
Plenty 1985
Sir Andrew Charleson
King Lear 2008
King Lear
The Ballad of Little Jo 1993
Percy Corcoran
Eighteen 2005
Jason Anders (voice)
Émile 2003
Emile
A Touch of Love 1969
George
Macbeth 1979
Macbeth
Priest of Love 1981
D.H. Lawrence
Walter 1982
Walter
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU 2020
Zina 1985
Kronfeld
Edward II 1970
King Edward
Countdown to War 1989
Adolf Hitler
The Egg Trick 2013
Magician
To Die For 1994
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)