Joss Ackland: movies and TV shows
Joss Ackland has 217 credits in the archive: 135 films and 82 TV series, from 1949 to 2014. Highest rated: A Woman Named Jackie (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1949 – 2014 · busiest year: 1965 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Katherine of Alexandria | Rufus | Film | 2.7 | 86 |
| 2014 | The Portrait | Henry Winter | Film | — | 86 |
| 2013 | Prisoners of the Sun | Professor Mendella | Film | 3.9 | 85 |
| 2011 | The Boy with Chocolate Fingers | Narrator | Film | 5.0 | 83 |
| 2010 | Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina | Narrator | Film | — | 82 |
| 2009 | Pinocchio | Mastro Ciliegia | TV | — | 81 |
| 2009 | Pinocchio | Mastro Ciliegia | Film | 6.1 | 81 |
| 2007 | Flawless | Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft | Film | 6.8 | 79 |
| 2007 | Kingdom | Mr. John Narbutowicz | TV | 7.1 | 79 |
| 2007 | Hogfather | Mustrum Ridcully | Film | 6.9 | 79 |
| 2007 | How About You... | Donald Vanston | Film | 6.3 | 79 |
| 2007 | In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley | Narrator | Film | 6.7 | 79 |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self | TV | 4.4 | 78 |
| 2006 | Hogfather | Mustrum Ridcully | TV | 7.6 | 78 |
| 2006 | These Foolish Things | Albert | Film | 5.8 | 78 |
| 2006 | Moscow Zero | Tolstoy | Film | 3.4 | 78 |
| 2006 | Above and Beyond | Winston Churchill | TV | 6.8 | 78 |
| 2005 | Asylum | Jack Straffen | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2005 | Icon | General Nikolayev | Film | 5.5 | 77 |
| 2005 | Defining a Style | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2004 | A Different Loyalty | Randolph Cauffield | Film | 4.8 | 76 |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Henry VII | TV | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2003 | I'll Be There | Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS | Film | 5.4 | 75 |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Marshal Zelentsov | Film | 6.6 | 74 |
| 2002 | No Good Deed | Mr. Quarre | Film | 5.4 | 74 |
| 2001 | Othello | James Brabant | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2000 | Passion of Mind | Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist | Film | 5.8 | 72 |
| 2000 | Lounge Act | Film | 10.0 | 72 | |
| 2000 | Easter Tales | Barabbas | TV | — | 72 |
| 2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo | Mayor Smith | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service | The Prussian | Film | 5.2 | 71 |
| 1999 | Milk | Vicar | Film | 4.0 | 71 |
| 1998 | Firelight | Lord Clare | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 1998 | Swept from the Sea | Mr. Swaffer | Film | 6.4 | 70 |
| 1998 | My Giant | Monsignor Popesou | Film | 5.4 | 70 |
| 1998 | Heat of the Sun | Max Van Der vuurst | TV | 6.2 | 70 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Sir Freddy Butler | TV | 7.5 | 69 |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Noah (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 68 |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Samuel (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 68 |
| 1996 | D3: The Mighty Ducks | Hans | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Henri Matisse | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 1996 | To the Ends of Time | King Francis | Film | 5.6 | 68 |
| 1996 | Deadly Voyage | Film | 5.6 | 68 | |
| 1996 | Hidden in Silence | German Factory Manager | Film | 7.2 | 68 |
| 1995 | Citizen X | Bondarchuk | Film | 7.2 | 67 |
| 1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | King Arthur | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 1995 | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Insp. Sam Stringer | Film | 4.0 | 67 |
| 1995 | Daisies in December | Gerald Carmody | Film | 6.2 | 67 |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street | Victor Landbergh (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street | Victor Landbergh | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1994 | Giorgino | Father Glaise | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 1994 | Jacob | Isaak | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1994 | Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry | Self | Film | 10.0 | 66 |
| 1994 | Julius Caesar | Caesar | Film | — | 66 |
| 1994 | OcchioPinocchio | Brando Della Valle | Film | 4.3 | 66 |
| 1994 | Citizen Locke | Lord Ashley | Film | 10.0 | 66 |
| 1993 | Nowhere to Run | Franklin Hale | Film | 6.5 | 65 |
| 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Brigand (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 65 |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys | Lansing, Jude's Attorney | Film | 5.4 | 65 |
| 1993 | Simulacrum | The Chemist | Film | — | 65 |
| 1993 | Voices in the Garden | Sir Charles Peverall | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | The Prussian | TV | 6.5 | 64 |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Caesar (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1992 | The Mighty Ducks | Hans | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 1992 | Once Upon a Crime | Hercules Popodopoulos | Film | 5.7 | 64 |
| 1992 | Project: Shadowchaser | Kinderman | Film | 4.3 | 64 |
| 1992 | White Bear's Secret | Brown Bear (voice) | Film | — | 64 |
| 1992 | Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls | King Edward | Film | 5.1 | 64 |
| 1992 | The Bridge | Smithson | Film | 4.5 | 64 |
| 1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | De Nomolos | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Aristotle Onassis | TV | 8.8 | 63 |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Terence Fielding | Film | 5.6 | 63 |
| 1991 | Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors | Lewis Serrocold | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1991 | The Object of Beauty | Mr. Mercer | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 1991 | The Princess and the Goblin | King Papa (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 63 |
| 1991 | Ashenden | TV | 6.0 | 63 | |
| 1991 | Brown Bear's Wedding | Brown Bear (voice) | Film | — | 63 |
| 1991 | The Sheltering Desert | Film | 10.0 | 63 | |
| 1990 | The Hunt for Red October | Ambassador Andrei Lysenko | Film | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1990 | The Secret Life of Ian Fleming | Gen. Gerhard Hellstein | Film | 4.5 | 62 |
| 1990 | The Palermo Connection | il boss | Film | 6.2 | 62 |
| 1990 | Tre colonne in cronaca | Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere | Film | 6.4 | 62 |
| 1990 | Jekyll & Hyde | Dr. Charles Lanyon | Film | 5.9 | 62 |
| 1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Arjen Rudd | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1989 | First and Last | Alan Holly | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1989 | A Quiet Conspiracy | Theo Carter | TV | — | 61 |
| 1988 | It Couldn't Happen Here | Priest/Murderer | Film | 5.9 | 60 |
| 1988 | Codename: Kyril | 'C' | TV | 6.0 | 60 |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Colonel | Film | 6.1 | 60 |
| 1988 | Olympus Force: The Key | George Grossopoulos | Film | 2.5 | 60 |
| 1988 | The Man Who Lived at the Ritz | Hermann Goering | Film | 4.3 | 60 |
| 1988 | Codename: Kyril | 'C' | Film | — | 60 |
| 1987 | White Mischief | 'Jock' Delves Broughton | Film | 6.1 | 59 |
| 1987 | Queenie | Sir Burton Rumsey | TV | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1987 | The Sicilian | Don Masino Croce | Film | 5.2 | 59 |
| 1987 | A Killing on the Exchange | Sir Max Sillman | TV | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1987 | When We Are Married | Henry Ormonroyd | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1986 | Lady Jane | Sir John Bridges | Film | 6.9 | 58 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall | TV | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Captain | TV | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1985 | A Zed & Two Noughts | Van Hoyten | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1985 | Shadowlands | CS Lewis | Film | 7.4 | 57 |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Jephro Rucastle | TV | 8.2 | 56 |
| 1984 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Jephro Rucastle | TV | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1984 | Shroud for a Nightingale | Stephen Courtney-Briggs | TV | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1984 | The Leather Boys | Narrator | Film | — | 56 |
| 1984 | The Tragedy of Coriolanus | Menenius | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1983 | Natural World | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 55 |
| 1983 | Dalgliesh | Stephen Courtney-Briggs | TV | 6.9 | 55 |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self | TV | 5.3 | 54 |
| 1982 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1981 | Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective | Chief Insp. Yardbird | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1981 | Findings on a Late Afternoon | Father | Film | — | 53 |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Alone | Major Orpen | Film | — | 53 |
| 1980 | The Gentle Touch | Ivor Stocker | TV | 7.2 | 52 |
| 1980 | A Question of Guilt | Samuel Kent | TV | — | 52 |
| 1980 | Closing Ranks | Victor Rogachev | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1980 | Rough Cut | Insp. Vanderveld | Film | 5.9 | 52 |
| 1980 | The Apple | Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader | Film | 4.5 | 52 |
| 1980 | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | Prison Warden | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1980 | The Love Tapes | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Colonel George Peregrine | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Jack Cutler | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1979 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Jerry Westerby | TV | 7.6 | 51 |
| 1979 | Saint Jack | Yardley | Film | 6.7 | 51 |
| 1979 | Turtle's Progress | Benny D-Day | TV | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1978 | Return of the Saint | Gunther | TV | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1978 | Enemy at the Door | Major General Laidlaw | TV | 8.2 | 50 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Menenius | TV | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Black Rabbit (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1978 | The Greek Tycoon | Naval officer (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 50 |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Cantrell | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Henry Foreman | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 1977 | The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It | President | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1976 | You Talk Too Much | Doctor | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1976 | The Crezz | Charles Bronte | TV | — | 48 |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Alan Ember | TV | 8.1 | 47 |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Janák | Film | 6.9 | 47 |
| 1975 | Heading For Glory | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1975 | Royal Flash | Sapten | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1975 | One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | B.J. Spence | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1975 | The Magic Dream | Narrator | Film | — | 47 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Maj. Orpen | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Father | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1974 | The Four Musketeers | D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 46 |
| 1974 | The Little Prince | The King | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 1974 | The Black Windmill | Chief Supt. Wray | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1974 | Great Expectations | Joe Gargery | Film | 6.8 | 46 |
| 1974 | S*P*Y*S | Martinson | Film | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1974 | Miss Nightingale | Lord Palmerston | Film | — | 46 |
| 1973 | Centre Play | Doctor | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1973 | Orson Welles' Great Mysteries | Detective Inspector Hud | TV | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1973 | The Three Musketeers | D’Artagnan’s Father | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | General Burgdorf | Film | 6.2 | 45 |
| 1973 | England Made Me | Haller | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1973 | Penny Gold | Jones | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1973 | Access to the Children | Malcolmson | Film | 8.5 | 45 |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Arthur Gordon | TV | 6.1 | 44 |
| 1972 | Shirley's World | TV | 6.0 | 44 | |
| 1972 | Country Matters | Potter-Jones | TV | 4.6 | 44 |
| 1972 | Late Night Theatre | Martens | TV | — | 44 |
| 1972 | Crippled Bloom | Potter Jones | Film | — | 44 |
| 1972 | The Mind Snatchers | Dr. Frederick | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1972 | King's Cross Lunch Hour | The Man | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1972 | The Bankrupt | Ellis Cripper | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1971 | The Persuaders! | Felix Meadowes | TV | 7.6 | 43 |
| 1971 | Justice | Sir Robert Beste | TV | 7.3 | 43 |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Grubber | TV | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1971 | Getting In | An Applicant | Film | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1971 | The House That Dripped Blood | Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks") | Film | 6.4 | 43 |
| 1971 | Villain | Edgar Lowis | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1971 | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Head of Board | Film | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Albert | TV | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Ellis Cripper | TV | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Malcolmson | TV | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1970 | The Three Sisters | Chebutykin | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1970 | Crescendo | Carter | Film | 5.2 | 42 |
| 1970 | The Lie | Albert | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Councillor Horne | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1969 | W. Somerset Maugham | Harold Bannon | TV | — | 41 |
| 1969 | Canterbury Tales | Host | TV | — | 41 |
| 1967 | The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | d'Artagnan | TV | 7.7 | 39 |
| 1967 | One Pair of Eyes | TV | 7.0 | 39 | |
| 1967 | Trapped | Pritchy | TV | — | 39 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Herr Scavenius | TV | 5.8 | 38 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Mr Smedhurst | TV | 5.8 | 38 |
| 1966 | David Copperfield | Daniel Peggotty | TV | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1966 | Rasputin: The Mad Monk | The Bishop | Film | 5.8 | 38 |
| 1966 | Death of a Salesman | Charley | Film | — | 38 |
| 1966 | Lord Raingo | Tom Hogarth | TV | — | 38 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Chebutykin | TV | 5.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Charley | TV | 5.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | The Applicant | TV | 4.2 | 37 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | The Man | TV | 4.2 | 37 |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Mr. Gibbon | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Sam Jardine | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Considine | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Lewis | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1965 | Londoners | Angus Grahame | TV | — | 37 |
| 1965 | Tomorrow, Just You Wait | Tom Gorbet | Film | 4.0 | 37 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Tom Gorbet | TV | 5.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Cornelius | TV | 5.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Hockey Jagger | TV | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Fred | TV | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | John Hinks | TV | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | Sherlock Holmes | Hon. Philip Green | TV | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1964 | Maggie | Norman | Film | — | 36 |
| 1964 | The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling | William Stevens | TV | — | 36 |
| 1962 | In Search of the Castaways | Yacht Seaman | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Brigadier Hansing | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | TV | 4.8 | 31 | |
| 1958 | Next to No Time | Turkish Bath Attendant | Film | 7.7 | 30 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Frank Penfold | TV | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Mr Green | TV | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1952 | Ghost Ship | Ron, 2nd Fisherman | Film | 5.4 | 24 |
| 1950 | Seven Days to Noon | Station Policeman | Film | 6.8 | 22 |
| 1949 | Landfall | O'Neil | Film | 7.6 | 21 |