David Calder: movies and TV shows
David Calder has 125 credits in the archive: 54 films and 71 TV series, from 1970 to 2024. Highest rated: Enemy at the Door (8.2/10).
Career timeline
1970 – 2024 · busiest year: 1991 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rivals | Rev. Fergus Penney | TV | 7.5 | 77 |
| 2024 | The Last Front | Father Michael | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2021 | Time | John Cobden | TV | 7.6 | 74 |
| 2021 | The Trick | Sir David King | Film | 5.0 | 74 |
| 2020 | Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret | Archbishop George Carey | TV | 8.0 | 73 |
| 2019 | Jerk | Great Uncle Thomas | TV | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2018 | Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators | Harold Hamworthy | TV | 7.2 | 71 |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | Film | 7.5 | 71 |
| 2017 | The Lost City of Z | Secretary Bryce | Film | 6.4 | 70 |
| 2017 | Motherland | Geoff | TV | 7.2 | 70 |
| 2017 | Emerald City | King Ev | TV | 6.6 | 70 |
| 2017 | The Hatton Garden Job | Terry Perkins | Film | 5.5 | 70 |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Hugh Bell | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 2015 | The Lady in the Van | Mr. Fairchild | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2015 | The Scandalous Lady W | Lord Chief Justice Mansfield | Film | 6.6 | 68 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Percy | TV | 8.1 | 67 |
| 2014 | Houdini | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | TV | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Sir Aaron Armstrong | TV | 7.6 | 66 |
| 2013 | Rush | Louis Stanley | Film | 7.7 | 66 |
| 2013 | Utopia | Dobri Gorski | TV | 7.9 | 66 |
| 2013 | Plebs | Senator Varus | TV | 7.3 | 66 |
| 2013 | Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King | Cosmo Gordon Lang | Film | — | 66 |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Donald | TV | 7.5 | 65 |
| 2012 | Cuckoo | Charles | TV | 6.7 | 65 |
| 2012 | Titanic | Captain Smith | TV | 5.9 | 65 |
| 2011 | Vera | Frank McAffee | TV | 7.4 | 64 |
| 2011 | Trollied | TV | 6.5 | 64 | |
| 2011 | United | Harold Hardman | Film | 6.9 | 64 |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Polonius | Film | 7.8 | 63 |
| 2010 | On Expenses | Stuart Bell | Film | — | 63 |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Sir John Marsden | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Roger Wilson | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy | Lord Cawston | TV | 6.7 | 61 |
| 2007 | Lewis | Andrew Lipton | TV | 7.6 | 60 |
| 2006 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Bishop of Grasse | Film | 7.4 | 59 |
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Monk 1 | Film | 6.6 | 59 |
| 2006 | The Cult of Star Cops | Film | 9.0 | 59 | |
| 2005 | Cold Blood | Professor Robert Kerr | TV | 7.5 | 58 |
| 2005 | Wallis & Edward | Winston Churchill | Film | 5.6 | 58 |
| 2005 | Friends Reunited | Denny Flemyng | Film | — | 58 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | Sid Lestade | TV | 7.3 | 57 |
| 2004 | Hustle | Victor Maher | TV | 7.7 | 57 |
| 2004 | Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder | TV | — | 57 | |
| 2004 | Lawless | DCI Pete Chambers | TV | 10.0 | 57 |
| 2004 | The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 2003 | The Commander | TV | 6.4 | 56 | |
| 2003 | Death in Holy Orders | Sir Alred Treeves | TV | 6.9 | 56 |
| 2003 | Family | Ted Cutler | TV | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Sergei Lermov | TV | 7.7 | 55 |
| 2002 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Richard Martin | TV | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Commander Bill Drake | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 2001 | The Mists of Avalon | Uriens | TV | 6.7 | 54 |
| 2001 | Mr In-Between | Tattooed Man | Film | 5.7 | 54 |
| 2001 | Love or Money | Mario | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 2001 | Anybody's Nightmare | Anthony Glass QC | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 2000 | Jason and the Argonauts | Argos | TV | 6.4 | 53 |
| 2000 | The King Is Alive | Charles | Film | 5.5 | 53 |
| 1999 | The World Is Not Enough | Sir Robert King | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1999 | The Murder of Stephen Lawrence | Sir Paul Condon | Film | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | George Hamilton | TV | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1997 | Drovers' Gold | Vaughan | TV | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | Harold Snelling | Film | 6.4 | 50 |
| 1995 | Bramwell | TV | 4.2 | 48 | |
| 1995 | Dangerous Lady | Film | — | 48 | |
| 1995 | Henry IV | Falstaff | Film | 8.5 | 48 |
| 1993 | Cracker | Father Michael Harvey | TV | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1993 | Cracker | Michael Harvey | TV | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Saul Arkwright | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | DI Ludlow | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Kenneth Shaw | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | TV | 5.5 | 45 | |
| 1992 | Friday on My Mind | Donahue | TV | 4.3 | 45 |
| 1992 | A Doll's House | Nils Krogstad | Film | 5.5 | 45 |
| 1992 | The Count of Solar | Abbé de L'Epée | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1991 | Performance | Nils Krogstad | TV | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1991 | Chimera | Dr. Jenner | TV | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1991 | Sleepers | Victor Chekhov | TV | 7.3 | 44 |
| 1991 | American Friends | Pollitt | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 1991 | The War That Never Ends | Cleon | Film | 5.0 | 44 |
| 1991 | A Question of Attribution | Chubb | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1991 | Sleepers | Victor Chekhov | Film | — | 44 |
| 1990 | Shoot to Kill | DCS John Thorburn | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1990 | Shoot to Kill | DCS John Thorburn | Film | — | 43 |
| 1989 | Nice Work | Stuart Baxter | TV | 6.7 | 42 |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Douglas | TV | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1988 | Tumbledown | John Lawrence | Film | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1988 | Unreported Incident | Douglas | Film | — | 41 |
| 1987 | The New Statesman | Le Cul | TV | 7.5 | 40 |
| 1987 | Star Cops | Commander Nathan Spring | TV | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1987 | Star Cops | Box (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1987 | The Trial of Klaus Barbie | Maitre Verges | Film | — | 40 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Phillip Perry | TV | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Roy Parks | TV | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1986 | Defence of the Realm | Harry Champion | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1986 | Good As Gold | Dennis Barker | Film | — | 39 |
| 1985 | Wynne and Penkovsky | Greville Wynne | TV | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1985 | Wynne and Penkovsky | Greville Wynne | Film | — | 38 |
| 1985 | Urban Jungle | Insp. Burton | Film | — | 38 |
| 1984 | Mr. Palfrey of Westminster | Sgt. Margetson | TV | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1984 | Love and Marriage | Ralph Blenchard | TV | 9.0 | 37 |
| 1984 | Mitch | Ben Hall | TV | 5.0 | 37 |
| 1983 | Widows | D.I. George Resnick | TV | 7.4 | 36 |
| 1983 | Widows | DI George Resnick | TV | 7.4 | 36 |
| 1983 | No Excuses | Stanmore | TV | — | 36 |
| 1982 | Moonlighting | Supermarket Manager | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1982 | The Disappearance of Harry | Bracey | Film | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Sir Clive Hamer | TV | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1981 | Get Lost! | DS Tomlin | TV | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1981 | Bread or Blood | Benson | Film | — | 34 |
| 1980 | Fox | Detective Inspector Davin | TV | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1980 | Fox | Detective Inspector Davin | Film | 1.0 | 33 |
| 1980 | The Black Stuff | McKenna | Film | 7.4 | 33 |
| 1979 | Minder | Micky 'The Fish' Metcalfe | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1979 | Gossip from the Forest | General Von Heldorff | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1979 | Casting the Runes | John Marriott | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1978 | Superman | 3rd Crewman | Film | 7.2 | 31 |
| 1978 | Enemy at the Door | Hoffman | TV | 8.2 | 31 |
| 1977 | The Professionals | Insp. Shannon | TV | 7.6 | 30 |
| 1974 | Napoleon and Love | Marmont | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1972 | Crown Court | Donald Dowd | TV | 5.7 | 25 |
| 1972 | Crown Court | Man In Corridor | TV | 5.7 | 25 |
| 1972 | Crown Court | Gordon Sibley | TV | 5.7 | 25 |
| 1970 | Sentimental Education | Deslauriers | TV | — | 23 |
| 1970 | Edward II | Young Spencer | Film | 4.9 | 23 |
| 1970 | The Tragedy of King Richard II | Lord Ross / Groom | Film | 7.0 | 23 |