Year | Title | Roles | Director | Notes |
1956 | Panic in the Parlour | Sailor | Gordon Parry | Uncredited |
1956 | A Hill in Korea | Private Lockyer | Julian Amyes | Also titled Hell in Korea |
1957 | Steel Bayonet, TheThe Steel Bayonet | Caine | Michael Carreras | Uncredited |
1957 | How to Murder a Rich Uncle | Gilrony | Nigel Patrick | |
1958 | Woman of Mystery, AA Woman of Mystery | Minor Role | Ernest Morris | Uncredited |
1958 | Carve Her Name with Pride | Thirsty Prisoner on Train | Lewis Gilbert | Uncredited |
1958 | Key, TheThe Key | Bit part | Carol Reed | Uncredited |
1958 | Blind Spot | Johnny Brent | Peter Maxwell | |
1958 | Two-Headed Spy, TheThe Two-Headed Spy | Gestapo Agent | Andre De Toth | |
1958 | Passport to Shame | Bridegroom | Alvin Rakoff | Also titled Room 43 |
1959 | Danger Within | Prisoner with Pin-Up[1] | Don Chaffey | Uncredited |
1960 | Foxhole in Cairo | Weber[2][3][4] | John Llewellyn Moxey | |
1960 | Bulldog Breed, TheThe Bulldog Breed | Sailor in Cinema Fight[5] | Robert Asher | Uncredited |
1961 | Day the Earth Caught Fire, TheThe Day the Earth Caught Fire | Checkpoint Policeman[6] | Val Guest | Uncredited |
1962 | Solo for Sparrow | Paddy Mooney | Gordon Flemyng | |
1963 | Wrong Arm of the Law, TheThe Wrong Arm of the Law | Police Station PC | Cliff Owen | Uncredited[7] |
1964 | Zulu | Lt. Gonville Bromhead | Cy Endfield | |
1965 | Ipcress File, TheThe Ipcress File | Harry Palmer | Sidney J. Furie | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best British Actor |
1966 | Alfie | Alfie Elkins | Lewis Gilbert | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best British Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
1966 | Wrong Box, TheThe Wrong Box | Michael Finsbury | Bryan Forbes | |
1966 | Gambit | Harry Tristan Dean | Ronald Neame | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1966 | Funeral in Berlin | Harry Palmer | Guy Hamilton | |
1967 | Hurry Sundown | Henry Warren | Otto Preminger | |
1967 | Woman Times Seven | Handsome Stranger | Vittorio De Sica | Segment: Show |
1967 | Billion Dollar Brain | Harry Palmer | Ken Russell | |
1968 | Deadfall | Henry Stuart Clarke | Bryan Forbes | |
1968 | Magus, TheThe Magus | Nicholas Urfe | Guy Green | |
1969 | Italian Job, TheThe Italian Job | Charlie Croker | Peter Collinson | |
1969 | Play Dirty | Captain Douglas | Andre De Toth | |
1969 | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Canfield | Guy Hamilton | |
1970 | Too Late the Hero | Pvt. Tosh Hearne | Robert Aldrich | |
1970 | The Last Valley | The Captain | James Clavell | |
1970 | Simon, Simon | Himself | Graham Stark | Short film |
1971 | Get Carter | Jack Carter | Mike Hodges | |
1971 | Kidnapped | Alan Breck | Delbert Mann | |
1972 | Zee and Co. | Robert Blakeley | Brian G. Hutton | |
1972 | Pulp | Mickey King | Mike Hodges | |
1972 | Sleuth | Milo Tindle | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
1974 | Black Windmill, TheThe Black Windmill | Maj. John Tarrant | Don Siegel | |
1974 | Marseille Contract, TheThe Marseille Contract | John Deray | Robert Parrish | Released in the U.S. as The Destructors |
1975 | Wilby Conspiracy, TheThe Wilby Conspiracy | Jim Keogh | Ralph Nelson | |
1975 | Romantic Englishwoman, TheThe Romantic Englishwoman | Lewis Fielding | Joseph Losey | |
1975 | Man Who Would Be King, TheThe Man Who Would Be King | Peachy Carnehan | John Huston | |
1976 | Peeper | Leslie C. Tucker | Peter Hyams | |
1976 | Harry and Walter Go to New York | Adam Worth | Mark Rydell | |
1976 | Eagle Has Landed, TheThe Eagle Has Landed | Col. Kurt Steiner | John Sturges | |
1977 | Bridge Too Far, AA Bridge Too Far | Lt. Col. John Ormsby Evelyn Vandeleur | Richard Attenborough | |
1978 | Silver Bears | Doc Fletcher | Ivan Passer | |
1978 | Swarm, TheThe Swarm | Dr. Bradford Crane | Irwin Allen | |
1978 | California Suite | Sidney Cochran | Herbert Ross | |
1979 | Ashanti | Dr. David Linderby | Richard Fleischer | |
1979 | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Captain Mike Turner | Irwin Allen | |
1980 | Dressed to Kill | Dr Robert Elliott | Brian De Palma | Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor |
1980 | Island, TheThe Island | Blair Maynard | Michael Ritchie | Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor |
1981 | Hand, TheThe Hand | Jonathan Lansdale | Oliver Stone | |
1981 | Escape to Victory | Captain John Colby | John Huston | |
1982 | Deathtrap | Sidney Bruhl | Sidney Lumet | |
1983 | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant | Lewis Gilbert | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (tied with Dustin Hoffman for Tootsie) Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor |
1983 | Honorary Consul, TheThe Honorary Consul | Charley Fortnum, Consul | John Mackenzie | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
1983 | Jigsaw Man, TheThe Jigsaw Man | Philip Kimberly Sergei Kuzminsky | Terence Young | |
1984 | Blame It on Rio | Matthew Hollins | Stanley Donen | |
1985 | Water | Governor Baxter Thwaites | Dick Clement | |
1985 | Holcroft Covenant, TheThe Holcroft Covenant | Noel Holcroft | John Frankenheimer | |
1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Elliot | Woody Allen | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated—Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
1986 | Sweet Liberty | Elliott James | Alan Alda | |
1986 | Mona Lisa | Mortwell | Neil Jordan | Nominated—Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
1986 | Half Moon Street | Lord Sam Bulbeck | Bob Swaim | |
1986 | Whistle Blower, TheThe Whistle Blower | Frank Jones | Simon Langton | |
1987 | Fourth Protocol, TheThe Fourth Protocol | John Preston | John Mackenzie | Also executive produced |
1987 | Jaws: The Revenge | Hoagie Newcombe | Joseph Sargent | Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |
1987 | Surrender | Sean Stein | Jerry Belson | |
1988 | Without a Clue | Sherlock Holmes Reginald Kincaid | Thom Eberhardt | |
1988 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Lawrence Jamieson | Frank Oz | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1990 | Shock to the System, AA Shock to the System | Graham Marshall | Jan Egleson | |
1990 | Mr. Destiny | Mike Mr. Destiny | James Orr | |
1990 | Bullseye | Sidney Lipton Doctor Hicklar | Michael Winner | |
1992 | Noises Off | Lloyd Fellowes | Peter Bogdanovich | |
1992 | Blue Ice | Harry Anders | Russell Mulcahy | Also producer |
1992 | Muppet Christmas Carol, TheThe Muppet Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge | Brian Henson | |
1994 | On Deadly Ground | Michael Jennings | Steven Seagal | |
1994 | Then There Were Giants | Joseph Stalin | Joseph Sargent | |
1995 | Bullet to Beijing | Harry Palmer | George Mihalka | |
1996 | Blood and Wine | Victor 'Vic' Spansky | Bob Rafelson | San Sebastián International Film Festival Best Actor Award |
1996 | Midnight in Saint Petersburg | Harry Palmer | Douglas Jackson | |
1998 | Shadow Run | Haskell | Geoffrey Reeve | |
1998 | Curtain Call | Max Gale | Peter Yates | |
1998 | Little Voice | Ray Say | Mark Herman | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actor of the Year Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (with cast) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1999 | Cider House Rules, TheThe Cider House Rules | Dr. Wilbur Larch | Lasse Hallström | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated—Empire Award for Best British Actor Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (with cast |
1999 | The Debtors | | Evi Quaid | |
2000 | Quills | Dr. Royer-Collard | Philip Kaufman | Nominated—London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actor of the Year |
2000 | Shiner | Billy 'Shiner' Simpson | John Irvin | |
2000 | Get Carter | Cliff Brumby | Stephen Kay | |
2000 | Miss Congeniality | Victor Melling | Donald Petrie | |
2001 | Last Orders | Jack | Fred Schepisi | National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Nominated—European Film Award |
2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Nigel Powers | Jay Roach | |
2002 | Quiet American, TheThe Quiet American | Thomas Fowler | Phillip Noyce | Bangkok International Film Festival Award for Best Actor London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (tied with Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Actor |
2003 | Quicksand | Jake Mellows | John Mackenzie | |
2003 | Actors, TheThe Actors | O'Malley | Conor McPherson | |
2003 | Secondhand Lions | Garth | Tim McCanlies | |
2003 | Statement, TheThe Statement | Pierre Brossard | Norman Jewison | |
2004 | Around the Bend | Henry Lair | Jordan Roberts | |
2005 | Batman Begins | Alfred Pennyworth | Christopher Nolan | |
2005 | Bewitched | Nigel Bigelow | Nora Ephron | |
2005 | Weather Man, TheThe Weather Man | Robert Spritzel | Gore Verbinski | |
2006 | Children of Men | Jasper | Alfonso Cuarón | |
2006 | Prestige, TheThe Prestige | John Cutter | Christopher Nolan | London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actor of the Year |
2007 | Flawless | Mr. Hobbs | Michael Radford | |
2007 | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke | Kenneth Branagh | Remake of Sleuth (1972) |
2008 | Dark Knight, TheThe Dark Knight | Alfred Pennyworth | Christopher Nolan | Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble People's Choice Award for Favorite Cast Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated—Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2008 | Is Anybody There? | Clarence | John Crowley | |
2009 | Harry Brown | Harry Brown | Daniel Barber | Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actor |
2010 | Inception | Professor Stephen Miles | Christopher Nolan | Nominated—Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Scream Award for Best Cameo Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble |
2011 | Gnomeo & Juliet | Lord Redbrick | Kelly Asbury | Voice only |
2011 | Cars 2 | Finn McMissile | John Lasseter |
2012 | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | Alexander Anderson | Brad Peyton | |
2012 | Dark Knight Rises, TheThe Dark Knight Rises | Alfred Pennyworth | Christopher Nolan | |
2013 | Now You See Me | Arthur Tressler | Louis Leterrier | |
2013 | Mr. Morgan's Last Love | Matthew Morgan | Sandra Nettelbeck | |
2014 | Stonehearst Asylum | Dr. Salt | Brad Anderson | |
2014 | Interstellar | Professor Brand | Christopher Nolan | |
2015 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Arthur/Chester King | Matthew Vaughn | |
2015 | Youth | Fred Ballinger | Paolo Sorrentino | Detroit Film Critics Society for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Actor |
2015 | The Last Witch Hunter | Father Dolan | Breck Eisner | |
2016 | Now You See Me 2 | Arthur Tressler | Jon M. Chu | |
2017 | Going in Style | Joe | Zach Braff | Post-production |
2017 | Coup D'etat | General Anton Vincent | Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse | Post-production |